Composer Michelle Boudreau is a guest of the next New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization (NWEAMO) Festival. She will present her work Ma magie at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, in Portland (OR) on October 2, 2004 and also at the Smith Recital Hall, in San Diego (CA) on October 9.

The first concert of the 27th Multiphonie series, Akousma 1 will be presented in Paris (France) on November 27, 2004 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France by the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales)). This concert will be dedicated to GRM works from the ’70s and will feature works by Guy Reibel, Ivo Malec, Jean Schwarz, François Bayle and also the works Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d’Orphée (1972) by Bernard Parmegiani and Requiem (1973) by Michel Chion.

The Groupe de musiques vivantes de Lyon (GMVL) welcomes Marcelle Deschênes. The composer will give a concert of her acousmatic works on September 15, 2004 at Lyon’s Théâtre de la Villa Gillet (France).

Both a huge sound installation and a concert in which the nocturnal sounds of nature create a vast symphony, Bernard Fort’s Safari dans le noir (“Safari in the dark”) will be presented September 17 and 18, 2004 in the park of Villa Gillet (Lyon, France). In this acousmatic safari, the listener walks across a wide soundscape with the help of his or her flashlight. The sounds heard, of birds, frogs, insects and mammals, come from many years of night recording in France and Europe.

John Oswald’s latest “time-based chronophotic images and stills” will be exhibited at the Edward Day Gallery in Toronto (ON) from September 9 to October 4, 2004.

This fall, the audio works of Louis Dufort and Nancy Tobin will be featured in two choreographies presented at Agora de la danse (Montréal). Louis Dufort composed the music for Dans le silence des bambous (In the silence of the bamboos) by choreographer Jocelyne Montpetit, presented from October 27 to 30, 2004. As for Nancy Tobin, she created the sound design for Duos pour corps et instruments (Duos for bodies and instruments) by choreographer Danièle Desnoyers, on stage from November 16 to 20, 2004.