The CD launch of Bebe Donkey by Antoine Berthiaume is planned for next week. A short performance with composer, flutist et “laptopist” MaryClare Brzytwa (who is coming in Montréal for this special occasion) will take place Tuesday May 29, 2007 at Laïka in Montréal; this event is followed by a concert given in New York (USA) at The Stone on May 30. Audio excerpts are already online on the page of Bebe Donkey!

This recording starts with a countdown to blastoff, which morphs into a news report of Yuri Gagarin’s first trip in a spaceship, then a rendition of The Tennessee Waltz, a snatch of dialogue from Star Trek and a sales pitch for a how-to guide to playing the organ. That’s just the first minute or so of this very witty travelogue through the fevered recombinant imagination of Martin Tétreault. Snipettes! began life as a 250-copy limited edition cassette in 1992 and is now being reissued on its 15th anniversary, and if you missed it the first time around, you don’t have an excuse now. Then, as now, anything Tétreault does is of great interest.

Daniel Heïkalo will play with Fred Frith and Pierre Tanguay on June 22, 2007 during the Sonic Courage International Festival (SCIF) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Earlier this spring, on May 27, you can meet the Duo Arthur Bull-Daniel Heikalo in concert at ARTsPLACE gallery in Annapolis Royal. Audio clips of Concentrés et amalgames are online waiting for you.

The CD launch of L’autre by Jean-Marc Hébert — with Marie-Soleil Bélanger playing violin; Christophe Papadimitriou, doublebass; and Pierre Tanguay, drums — will take place on May 29, 2007 at Le Divan orange in Montréal.

Composer and sampler virtuoso, explorer of short-lived lists and gifted displayer of audio states of mind, Diane Labrosse is now focusing on the last breath of obsolete tools, so we can hear their final utterances. A dilettante anthropologist searching for ancient sonic traces — those left by these endangered species, Diane Labrosse will be studying appliances on the brink of extinction: percolator, typewriter, rotating-dial telephone, spring-winded alarm clock… and she will be revealing the poetry of these declining objects. The installation/performance Espèces en voie de disparition will take place from June 6 to 9, 2007 at L’Oblique, Montréal.

You may want to take advantage of the good exchange rates, fly your way to New York as free birds, and listen to Nicolas Caloia, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Jean Derome, Lori Freedman, Joane Hétu, and Danielle Palardy Roger from May 25 to 27, 2007 at The Stone, New York (USA). This event is worth a visit… Rediscover their musical spirit listening to some audio clips on the page of Canevas «+».