The electro:thèque app presents a retrospective of the 8 empreintes DIGITALes discs launched in 2011, one work per disc. electro:thèque streams electroacoustics on demand to your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. It’s free! Tap or click, and listen!
The finalists discs for Opus Prize 2010-11 (Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustic Music) are:
The 15th gala will take place on January 29, 2012 at Salle Bourgie of the Pavillon Claire et Marc Bourgie of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.
The Électro-chocs concert series presented by the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal continues its celebration of the 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes with a concert of Jacques Tremblay’s music on December 8, 2010.
The Électro-chocs concert series presented by the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal continues its celebration of the 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes with a concert of Christian Bouchard’s music on November 25, 2010.
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festical (HCMF) is also celebrating the 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes with not one but two concerts on November 24, 2010. One focuses on “Cinema for the Ears” while the second is titled “Music for Dark Spaces”…
The Électro-chocs concert series presented by the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal systematically celebrates the 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes. The first concert of 5 is dedicated to the music by Martin Leclerc and will be presented on November 10, 2010.
Réseaux presents Akousma (7), Electroacoustic Musics Festival, on October 27 - 30, 2010 at Monument-National in Montréal. 4 evenings with Pauline Oliveros, Alexander Schubert / Sinebag, Mathew Adkins (a concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of empreintes DIGITALes), Mitchell Akiyama, Martin Bédard, Martin Messier, Félix-Antoine Morin, and Nicolas Bernier.
The 17th international acousmatic festival L’espace du son will take place from October 20 to 24, 2010 at Théâtre Marni in Brussels (Belgium). The guest composers are Régis Renouard Larivière, Federico Schumacher Ratti, and Michel Chion. Also on the programme one concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of empreintes DIGITALes.
The festival Sonoimágenes 2010 will take place on October 19 - 21, 2010 in Buenos Aires and Remedios de Escalada (Argentina). Robert Normandeau will present a concert on October 21 — a concert part of the 20th anniversary of empreintes DIGITALes — and a seminar on Timbral Spatialization. Amongst the selected works are those by Gilles Gobeil, Inés Wickmann / Francis Dhomont, Hans Tutschku, Julien-Robert Legault Salvail, and Suk-Jun Kim. The other speakers are Ianina Canalis, Petra Bachratá, Anna Zielinska, Fabián Esteban Luna, and Martín Devoto.
On March 10, 2010 empreintes DIGITALes will release a triplet of discs — 2 new releases, and 1 reissue — by exceptional women composers.
Founded in Montréal in 1989 by Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer — directed by Jean-François Denis since 1991 — the label empreintes DIGITALes focuses on electroacoustics, acousmatics, musique concrète… In 2005 empreintes DIGITALes innovates and jumps from CD to DVD-Audio, bringing the sound’s richness and spaciousness from concert halls to the living room of music lovers. DVD-A offers sound in very high definition (HD) in 24-bit and immersive sound spatialization with the multichannel 5.1 Surround sound of home theatre systems.