Excellente idée de départ: à partir de deux concerts de musique improvisée en duo (Fred Frith: guitare électrique, traitements et voix — Danielle Palardy Roger: percussions et voix), on a superposé les enregistrements, puis raffiné le mix en studio. Le résultat est lui aussi excellent. Très abstrait, bien entendu, comme les improvisations de départ, et davantage encore avec l’ingrédient aléatoire ajouté par la superposition. Les pièces sont courtes et l’ensemble varié, tant sur le plan du jeu (surtout à la guitare, superbe) que dans l’étendue du spectre sonore. Prises de son excellentes (Bernard Grenon à la Sala Rossa et Lucien Villeneuve au Festival des musiques de création de Saguenay).

Blube (Jean-François Blouin, Benoit Rolland) as well as Philippe Lauzier, Thom Gossage and Jean René will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday November 8, 2008 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.

Following the release of Collection QB’s sixth volume, Arbor Vitæ, a homage to the Canadian-American composer James Tenney, Bozzini Quartet continues its busy schedule with eight concerts in Europe.

• November 16, 2008: Open Music, Graz (Austria)
• November 17: Fast Forward, Vienna (Austria)
• November 19: Shift — A Festival of Dutch and Canadian Music, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• November 22: Portrait Aldo Clementi, Borås (Sweden)
• November 24: HCMF: James Tenney 1 — In a Large, Open Space, Huddersfield (England)
• November 25: HCMF: James Tenney 2 — Arbor Vitæ, Huddersfield (England)
• November 26: HCMF: James Tenney 3 — Koan, Huddersfield (England)
• November 28: Bludenzer Tage für zeitgemaesse Musik, Bludenz (Austria)

Queen Mab, the trio of Marilyn Lerner (piano), Lori Freedman (clarinets) and Ig Henneman (viola), is touring Europe this November, playing 9 concerts in 6 countries.

• November 14, 2008: Gradisca d’Isonzo (Italy)
• November 16: Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg (France)
• November 18: Instants chavirés, Montreuil (France)
• November 20: LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen (Denmark)
• November 21: Prague (Czech Republic)
• November 24: Zaal 100, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• November 25: The Cluny, Newcastle upon Tyne (England, UK)
• November 26: The Blucoat, Liverpool (England, UK)
• December 6: Le Petit Faucheux, Tours (France)

Following Disparition de l’usine éphémère, his first release on Ambiances Magnétiques, Norwegian guitarist Kim Myhr will be touring Europe with Sébastien Roux.

• November 15, 2008 at the Fri Resonans Festival, Trondheim (Norway)
• November 24 at Cinéma Oblo, Lausanne (Switzerland)
• November 25 at Wim, Zurich (Switzerland)
• November 26 at Cave 12, Geneva (Switzerland)
• November 27 at STEIM, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• November 28 at QO2, Brussels (Belgium)

Bored with the future, Michel F Côté and Isaiah Ceccarelli meet and ask each other: what to do when we’re just two drummers? “We can be vulgar” was the answer. In short, this CD features the sound of objects being struck and stroked.