Magali Babin will present a ritualized audio performance, Solo #13, at La Chambre blanche (Québec City) on Friday October 1, 2004. Sound amplification and transformation will interact with performative actions by artist Marie-Claude Bouthillier. For the occasion, Bouthillier will read excerpts from novels whose subject is painters. These actions will stress the phenomenological aspect of the diffusion of audio elements in an architectural space.

Do not miss Finnish duo Pan Sonic and Canadian duo Coin Gutter in concert at Richard’s on Richards in Vancouver (BC) on September 23, 2004.

Klaxon Gueule (Michel F Côté, Alexandre St-Onge, Bernard Falaise) will meet head on with morceaux_de_machines (Érick Dorion, A_dontigny) at La Sala Rossa (Montréal) on September 1, 2004 for a night of massive electronic improvisation!

Frottements, an exhibiton dedicated to the exploration of sounding objects and surfaces, is shown at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City) September 1 to Novembre 28, 2004. The exhibition’s curator, Nicole Gingras — who also directed the book S:on, Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art, gathered several artists such as Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Raymond Gervais, Jocelyn Robert, the Skoltz_Kolgen duo as well as Martin Tétreault. Tétreault will perform Passages sur illustration sur vinyle on the first night, September 1, 2004 at 7 pm in the museum’s auditorium. On September 17, Skoltz_Kolgen will give a live performance at 9pm.

The 11th L’Espace du son International Acousmatic Festival will be held in Brussels (Belgium) from October 20 to 24, 2004 along with the composition competition finals and the spatialization performance competition. Concerts by guests composers (Patrick Ascione, Bernard Fort, Natasha Barrett, Bernard Parmegiani, François Bayle) will complete the celebration’s offerings.

Don’t miss “Dhomontmos,” featuring: Matmos (USA), Francis Dhomont (Québec/France), Richard Chartier (US), Jean-François Denis (Québec), on June 25 and 26, 2004 at the Recombinant Labs Compound, San Francisco. On June 25, Francis Dhomont diffuses Lettre de Sarajevo (1995–96), Les moirures du temps (1999–2000), En cuerdas (1998) et Phonurgie (1998). Jean-François Denis diffuses Style de bougalou (Michel A Smith), Mi bémol (Yves Daoust), Bédé (Robert Normandeau), Zénith [ex] (Louis Dufort), Study in Ink [ex] (Adrian Moore), Point-virgule (Jean-François Denis), Bell Speeds (John Oswald), Breathing Room (Hildegard Westerkamp), Associations libres (Gilles Gobeil), and Mambo à la Braque (Javier Álvarez).

On June 26, Dhomont diffuses Corps et âme (2002), Chiaroscuro (1987), Objets retrouvés (1996), and Points de fuite (1982). Denis diffuses Le vidoir (Jacques Tremblay), … et ainsi de suite… [ex] (Jonty Harrison), Résonances d’arabesques (Stéphane Roy), Portrait d’un visiteur [ex] (Christian Calon), Aquaéra 1 (Stephan Dunkelman), Cut 1, 2, 3 Progress (Åke Parmerud), Skweeit-Chupp (Zack Settel), Pufferfish (Mark Wingate), Racing Through, Racing Unseen (Natasha Barrett), Squeaky Reel (Katharine Norman). and Mambo à la Braque (Javier Álvarez).