As part of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, you are invited to a performance featuring digital painter Jean Detheux and composer Jean Derome (saxophones, flutes, various wind instruments). This is a unique chance to take part to a fascinating improvised dialogue. With the participation of Joane Hétu (saxophone, voice) and Pierre Tanguay (percussions). This event is preceded at 5 pm by Jean Detheux’s workshop “Vers Liaisons et Ruptures.” This is happening Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 8 pm at the Temple du Musée Juste pour rire.

The Vancouver New Music Festival produces Interférence: statique x-statique / static x-static and presents, on Wednesday Octobre 19, 2005, Fred Frith, Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay. And on Thursday October 20, it’s Diane Labrosse, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and The Unexpected. Then, on Friday October 21, the festival presents Joane Hétu, Magali Babin and Klaxon Gueule. Finally, on Saturday October 22, morceaux_de_machines will be making their first Vancouver appearance at the festival.

Following a series of shows that took place this summer in Canada, Queen Mab, with Marilyn Lerner (piano), Lori Freedman (clarinets) and Ig Henneman (viola), brings their tour to Europe throughout Fall. Queen Mab will be performing on September 29, 2005 at Flora Theater in Delft, The Netherlands; on October 2, 2005 at Loft in Keulen, Germany; on October 3, 2005 at Overtoom 301 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; on October 4, 2005 at Zaal 100 in Amsterdam; on October 5, 2005 at Rote Fabrik in Zürich, Switzerland, on October 7, 2005 at Stiftung Musikkultur in St Johann in Tirol, Austria; on October 8, 2005 at Jazzgalerie, Nickelsdorf, Austria; on October 9, 2005 at Metelkova/Club Gromka in Ljubljana, Slovenia; on October 10, 2005 at the Student Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; on October 12, 2005 at Studio RAI RadioTre (live concert) of Rome in Italy, on October 14, 2005 at Iato il Cantiere in Rome; and on October 15 octobre, 2005 at Bleu Boeuf Toulon in Puget-Ville, France. The trio concludes this tour in The Netherlands: on October 20, 2005, Queen Mab will be at Studio Grasland in Haarlem and on October 21, at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.

Futurist audio art duet morceaux_de_machines is touring the Pacific in October 2005. The duet will perform at the Electrofringe New Media Arts Festival in Newcastle (Australia) on October 1 — 3, 2005, at the Disorientation event in Sydney (Australia) on October 5, 2005, and the 7th Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth (Australia) on October 6 — 16, 2005. Finally, morceaux_de_machines will play at the Vancouver New Music Festival (BC) on October 22, 2005.

Electroacoustic music duo Kristoff K.Roll and writer Anne-James Chaton selected a wide variety of artists for the upcoming Sonorités festival, dedicated to contemporary writings in poetry, improvised music and sound art, to be held in Montpellier (France) from October 6 — 8, 2005. Amongst the invited artists, composers Jean Pallandre will play on October 7, 2005, and Francisco López on October 8, 2005.

Many musicians and ensembles from the Ambiances Magnétiques label will take part in the 12th Guelph Jazz Festival (Ontario), to be held from September 7 — 11, 2005. Acts featured in this forthcoming edition include L’Ensemble Pierre Labbé on September 7; the trio of André Duchesne, Jean René and Pierre Tanguay as well as the Pierre Cartier Ensemble on September 8; Lori Freedman solo and the trio Évidence on September 9; and finally, the Fanfare Pourpour will parade through the city on September 10.