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January 7 – February 1, 2016: empreintes DIGITALes Turns 26, Offers a 26% Online Rebate For 26 Days!
26 years ago, on January 30, 1990, empreintes DIGITALes launched its very first disc. To celebrate our 26th anniversary, we are offering a 26% rebate for 26 days (until February 1, 2016) on all of our 123 available empreintes DIGITALes titles!
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February 7, 2016: Turcotte, Gobeil Nominated for Opus Prizes
Roxanne Turcotte’s Fenêtres intérieures and Gilles Gobeil’s Les lointains are both nominated for the 2014-15 Opus Prize in the category “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics”. The 19th Opus Prize Gala will take place on February 7, 2016 at Salle Bourgie of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.
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Anderson is First Prize at Musica Nova 2015
The acousmatic work Solar Winds… and Beyond by Elizabeth Anderson was awarded First Prize in the Musica Nova 2015 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (Prague, Czech Republic); Nebula Sequence by Adrian Moore, Isomorphic by James O’Callaghan, and Sattva by Robert Scott Thompson were awarded mentions.
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Fenêtres intérieures is “Top 3” on CKUT
The disc Fenêtres intérieures by Roxanne Trucotte is in 3rd position on Montréal-radio CKUT “Top 30” this week.
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And the Winners of the 8th Destellos Competition Are…
The Foundation Destellos announced today the results of the 8th edition of its electroacoustic composition competition. The first prize of both categories were not awarded. Thus, in the acousmatic category, two ex æquo second prizes were awarded to works by Gilles Gobeil and Andrew Babcock, and, in the mixed category, the second prize was awarded to Demian Rudel Rey. Mentions were also attributed to David Hindmarch, Daniel Blinkhorn, Louise Rossiter, Nikos Stavropoulos, and Keita Matsumiya.
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Berezan Wins at the Klang 2015
Yesterday at the 2nd Klang competition (Montpellier, France, 2015) Lightvessels by David Berezan was awarded the 1st prize and Hydatos by João Pedro Oliveira was awarded the 2nd prize.