After several solo concerts, residencies and collaborations in Italy, Austria, Czech Republic and Germany, percussionist, improviser, instrument builder Ganesh Anandan is back in Montréal until mid-June. He is presently mixing a CD he did in Wuppertal (Germany) with daxophonist Hans Reichel. The CD entitled Self Made focuses on two instruments builders and their respective instrument, namely the Daxophone and Shruti Stick. Afterwards, Ganesh Anandan will return to Prague, his home base in Europe for the summer, with concerts and collaborations in various places.

Look out for the “red labels” and find a 25% discount on selected albums during the month of May! There will be many major musicians of Ambiances Magnétiques/DAME playing during 25th edition of FIMAV. And we we want to highlight this event by offering you discounts on some of these musicans’s CDs. Note that 17 musicians of Ambiances Magnétiques/DAME take part in the festival: Gordon M Allen, Pierre Cartier, Guillaume Dostaler, Bernard Falaise, Lori Freedman, Joane Hétu, Jean René, Pierre Tanguay, Tom Walsh, Jean Derome, Tim Brady, Jean Martin, Jesse Levine, Alexander MacSween, Michel F Côté, Martin Tétreault, and Otomo Yoshihide. Don’t miss it!

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MaryClare Brzytwa has just moved to Switzerland to curate an online radio station of experimental sound art, “village nomade radio.” She is also performing in a musical written by Kevin Blechdom — entitled Recantata — “which addresses America’s widespread obsession with cults and satanic activity during the eighties as seen through the eyes of a small town.”

Productions SuperMusique invites you to enjoy yourself while gambling — and raising the biddings of the silent auction again and again… — as part of its benefit event taking place on Tuesday May 6, 2008 at La Sala Rossa. There, you’ll discover all kind of items, charmingly quaint objects that will make you laugh or make you drool. Food-tasting and performances with musicans of the Ensemble SuperMusique are also on programme.

Magali Babin will present Onion Router (audio interactive performance with projection) on March 20, 2008 as part of the Studio XX’s Salon Femmes br@nchées at Galerie B-312 in Montréal, whereas Tara Rodgers will present Butterfy Effects (multichannel sound performance).

Finally! The albums of our best artists appearing in the Coda Magazine’s “Top 10” are now announced: Mike Chamberlain (Montréal) has included Phon-O-Victo by Martin Tétreault and Kid Koala, and in the Performance Highlights category Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay. As for Ken Waxman (Toronto), he has included Visions fugitives op. 22 by Quartetski. Yeah!