La pièce acousmatique Still Voices de Pete Stollery — pièce qui fait partie du projet Gordon Soundscape — est finaliste aux concours Sounds Electric ’07 (Irlande) et Musica Nova 2007 (République tchèque).

Prolongement de la série Rien à voir, l’événement Akousma (4), présentant l’électro sous toutes ses formes, aura lieu du 28 novembre au 1^er décembre 2007, au Monument-National, à Montréal. Seront présents: Miguel Azguime, Natasha Barrett, Nicolas Bernier, Georges Forget, Gilles Gobeil, Laurie Radford, Robert Normandeau, ainsi que les lauréats du Prix Hugh-Le Caine du Concours des jeunes compositeurs de la Fondation SOCAN 2007. Un événement unique, à Montréal. À ne pas manquer!

Des grands noms de la guitare — Andrew York, Eduardo Isaac, Luis Orlandini, Ana Vidovic — mais aussi de l’électro — Francis Dhomont, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau, Stéphane Roy, Mauricio Bejarano — seront présents au 2^e Festival Internacional de Guitarra Clásica qui se déroulera du 6 au 10 novembre 2007 à Santafé de Bogotá (Colombie). Arturo Parra y présentera l’intégrale de Parr(A)cousmatique le 9 novembre à la Escuela de música y audio Fernando Sor.

Is it possible to have personality and character in electronic music these days? Sure, as I’m sure it will be possible (not just in electronic music) to have both these qualities till this planet won’t be frozen by the next glaciation. After this opening remarking of the fact “everything has been said before” make sense, but it’s not a good reason to sit down and think like you’re ten thousand years old, let’s speak about this cd. A_dontigny mixes many electronic styles with a great and unusual skillfulness and also shows he’s really able both in discerning interesting samples but he’s chosen the right collaborations to enrich this or that passage. I’ve just heard a few releases on this label (and Meta_xu is still one of my personal faves), but I’ve had the impression they’re into electronic music almost at the edge of being experimental for what regards artists work on the tracks. This Canadian musician sometimes cuts the tracks by skiping and using glitches, sometimes he breaks everything fragmenting and manipulating a sample in order to make it workable with the superimposition of a second or even third layer. He’s a “perverted” propension for putting together melodies with unnatural electronic manipulations closer to a dj tradition than “contemporary classic electronic.” While we’re far from one of those wishy-washy Afx Twin clones, I’m sure dear ol’ Richard D James would start nodding having an hard-on with these post-jungle, post-classical, post-electronics, lost in acid, fragmented tracks. I think the fact a composer / musician like Paul Dolden is among the guests of this release says a lot concerning the fact Geisteswissenschaften is filled with songs made with heart and brain and not trying to be part of this or that subgenre of music. Sometimes you have chaotic tracks, sometimes rhythmical irregular tempo changes, sometimes it all sounds like your cd player is skipping randomly stroke by a digital tornado, but in the most of the songs you’ve a solid construction and above all after having survived the first blasts big part of the release approaching toward the end becomes softer an more quiet… almost “easy.”