Frottements, an exhibiton dedicated to the exploration of sounding objects and surfaces, is shown at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City) September 1 to Novembre 28, 2004. The exhibition’s curator, Nicole Gingras — who also directed the book S:on, Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art, gathered several artists such as Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Raymond Gervais, Jocelyn Robert, the Skoltz_Kolgen duo as well as Martin Tétreault. Tétreault will perform Passages sur illustration sur vinyle on the first night, September 1, 2004 at 7 pm in the museum’s auditorium. On September 17, Skoltz_Kolgen will give a live performance at 9pm.

Drummer Dylan Van der Schyff, who can be heard on the latest release The Unexpected One, will be in Lisboa (Portugal) from ,August 1 to 5, 2004, for the Jazz em Agosto festival, where he will play with The Peggy Lee Band, George Lewis and François Houle’s electroacoustic quintet. He will then give concerts in Vancouver (BC) on ,August 6,, Seattle (WA) on ,August 7, and Portland (OR) on ,August 9, alongside Wayne Horvitz and Briggan Krauss.

Martin Tétreault will give two concerts in Europe. First, ,August 7, 2004, he will present a turntable duo with Otomo Yoshihide in Lisboa (Portugal) for the Jazz em Agosto event. The next day, ,August 8,, he will move to the Fruits de Mhere festival in Brassy (France) to play with Nikos Veliotis (cello) and Burkhard Beinz (percussions).

Several artists from DAME will be in concert for the next Festival international de jazz de Montréal. Rouge ciel will be live ,July 1, 2004, at Montréal’s museum of contemporary arts, Marilyn Lerner ,July 2, at Gesù, L’Ensemble Pierre Labbé ,July 4,, Noma ,July 9, and The Unexpected ,July 10, will all play at Montréal’s museum of contemporary arts and last but not least Antoine Berthiaume will play live ,July 11, at the festival’s main stage in front of Place des Arts.

Montréal’s own L’OFF Festival de jazz starts June 25, 2004. Don’t miss the live performances of DAME artists, Tim Brady on June 28 and Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay on June 30 both will be held at Le Va-et-Vient.

Les Poules will end their season with two concerts in North-America, ,June 17, at Buffalo’s Big Orbit Gallery (NY) and ,June 18, 2004, at ArrayMusic’s space in Toronto (ON) for the Leftover Daylight concert series.