Winners of the Competition
Section I. Electroacousitc Music
Nomination “Acousmatic”
Category «A» (students)
I place shares between the two participants:
Caroline Profanter (Austria). Ciclo.
Caroline Profanter is a composer / performer in the fields of electroacoustic and electronic music: tape music, acousmatic music, soundscape works, live electronics, no-input-mixing and sound installation. Born 1985 in Bolzano (Italy), studied Computer Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and is currently studying Acousmatic Composition at the “Conservatoire Royal de Mons” (Belgium). Several collaboration in the fields of improvised music and public sound intervention (Vienna Noise Orchestra). Active member of VELAK (Viennese Association of Electroacoustic Music) and Elektronik Teatime.
The technical idea of ‘Ciclo’ is based on an aleatory process to accumulate and deaccumulate sounds temporally and spatially and creating movements inherent in the motphology of the sounds. Art idea: sounds and noises of objects from everyday life and from vocal experiments were the basis for creating special textures and unusual rhythmical structures.
The special diploma “For preparation of the student” – to teachers Katharina Klement (Austria), Annette Vande Gorne (BE).
Pavel Chigarskih (Russia). Landscape.
Paul Chigarskih studies on musical theory and composition branch of Sverdlovsk musical college. He takes a great interest in an electro-acoustic composition, is interested in programming languages, especially in Pure Data.
The special diploma “For preparation of the student” – to teacher TatianaV. Komarova (Russia).
Category «B» (professionals)
I place
Felipe Otondo (United Kingdom). Night Study # 1.
Felipe Otondo studied acoustics in Chile where he started composing and performing music for experimental theatre developing several performance projects with actors and musicians. In 1999 he moved to Denmark to do post-graduate studies in sound perception at Aalborg University focusing on spatial sound and timbre perception. He studied composition at the Carl Nielsen Academy with Anders Brødsgaard where he composed and premiered various compositions and took part in several interdisciplinary projects with visual artist. In 2005 he pursued his composition studies at the University of York in England with Ambrose Field and Roger Marsh focusing in electroacoustic composition and music theatre. His music has been widely played in festivals across Europe, North and South America, as well as in Australia. He composed the music for the BAFTA-award winning radio drama The glassman in collaboration with Neil Sorrell and has received awards in competitions in Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, England, France and Italy. Felipe is currently a lecturer at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University in England and his music is released by the British label Sargasso.
The work “Night Study # 1” was composed mostly using environmental recordings captured in various urban and rural locations in the North West of England and synthesized rhythmic sequences generated using samples of gamelan sounds. The synthesized material for the piece was created using the software Metasynth and Max/MSP. The piece was assembled using Logic Pro.
II place
Nadezhda Sumina (Russia). Tremoli & Glissandi.
Nadezhda Sumina has finished the Ural conservatory on two specialities: "composition" and “electronic and computer music”. After that it has continued training in postgraduated-training, also on two specialities. She works as the teacher on faculty musical sound-producers of the Ural state conservatory. She works also in the Ekaterinburg ElectroAcoustic Music Studio.
Nadezhda participated in various Russian both foreign festivals and competitions of electroacoustic music.
Three sections of the composition «Tremoli and Glissandi» are three different stages of progress of the same images which unity is emphasized by uniformity of a sound material. Glissando and tremolo is a way of creation pitch and emotionally unstable sound texture.
III place
Frederick Szymanski (USA). TENSUS.
Frederick Szymanski is a multi-discilinary artist who has most recently been investigating relations between sound and image through multi-screen installations with multi-channel sound diffusion. He has also worked for many years as a composer and sound designer for film and television in New York City.
Szymanski’s image and sound works have been performed at many festivals, including the Mutik Festival’s CineChamber 2012 (Montreal), Club Transmediale 2011 (Berlin), SYNC.2010 (Ekaterinburg, Russia), the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the ICMC Festival, SonicLIGHT (Amsterdam), Abstraction Now (Vienna), the European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck, Germany), the 9th Biennale of the Moving Image (Geneva), and the VideoRom program at the Valencia Biennial. His pieces have been exhibited at the Diapason Gallery for Sound (New York), the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology (New York), and the Whitney Museum of Art.
Szymanski has releases with Asphodel Recordings, JDK Productions, Soleilmoon, and Staalplaat (Netherland). His piece “Flume” was included in the third a-chronology “An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music” released by Sub Rosa (Belgium).
The piece ‘TENSUS’ requires system for 8-channels diffusion set for octophonic – equal distribution of loudspeakers. Art idea: TENSUS is a multichannel piece for extended strings and percussion. The title is derived from “Tensile”, which means to stretch, to spread, to extend. The piece was created using material taken from recordings of stringed instruments being bowed, scraped, hit and rubbed. It also includes percussive piano effects.
Diploma
Igor Lutkov (Russia). Virus.
Igor Lutkov has finished the Ural conservatory on a speciality « musical sound-producer » in 2011. After the termination of a conservatory he works in a studio as the sound producer, arranger and composer. Igor works as the concert sound producer from time to time, too.
Section II. Electroacousitc Music & Multimedia
Nomination “Multimedia”
The Jury has united age categories in this nomination
I place
Daniel DominguezTeruel (Germany). Untitled-7
Daniel studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. His teacher is professor Dr. Georg Najdu, Head of the Masters Program Multimedia Composition.
Electroacoustic soundart, interactive installations, videoworks, scenography. Concerts and exhibitions a.o. New York, Shanghai, Paris, Lisbon and Barcelona.
Original recording of Marinetti’s “La Battaglia di Adrianopoli” should be reinterpreted. The performer heard the recording for the first time via headphones and tried to imitate it in real-time. This was recorded on video and audio
Then he imitatet recordings of Russolo’s intona rumori and sang the first bar of Stravinsky’s “Le sacre du printemps”. All of these were realized originally around the year 1913
The idea of the futurists to destroy all existing in contrast to the beauty of the first phrase of Stravinsky’s bassoon
Additionally I recorded fragments of Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing”
What remains when everything is destroyed? We get certainly a new idea of what we understand as “nothing” and “silence” and “chaos” and “noise”.
Special Diploma “For preparation of the student” to – Georg Najdu (Germany).
II place
Yang Xiting (China). Planes and sounds hover in the air
Yang Xiting has finished the Ural conservatory on two specialities: "piano" and "electronic and computer music" in 2004. Then she has continued post-graduated training in the Ural conservatory on the same specialities.
The sound etude « Planes and sounds hover in air » is created in program language CSOUND.
The basic artistic image of a composition – the sounds moving space, simulating weeds airplanes and sounds of the Chinese ethnic instruments.