Forum Wallis Ars Electronica Selection 2019
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Francis Dhomont Bernard Parmegiani Andrew Lewis Phonurgie Incidences/Battements Scherzo Étude Élastique Joao Pedro Oliveira Conjugaison Du Timbre James Andean La Mer Émeraude Valdrada Paolo Pastorino Emma Margetson Tempus fugit Robert McClure Distorted Illusions Lingering garden JP Lempke Jonty Harrison This is not a drill John Chowning Unsound Objects Phoné Trevor Wishart performed by Imago performed by Simone Conforti Simone Conforti performed by Simone Conforti
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Forum Wallis Ars Electronica Selection 2019 Highly Commended
(in alphabetical order) (in alphabetical order)
James Andean (Canada) Ermir Bejo (Albania) Valdrada op.8
JP Lempke (USA) Kyong Mee Choi (Korea) This is not a drill Train of Thoughts
Emma Margetson (UK) Epa Fassianos (Greece) Distorted Illusions ElectroSantouri
Robert McClure (USA) Dave Gedosh (USA) lingering garden Train Song
Joao Pedro Oliveira (Port/Br) Ivonne Hernandez (Mexico) La Mer Éméraude Transmutación
Paolo Pastorino (Italy) Dimitris Savva (Cyprus) Tempus Fugit Balloon Theories
Chatori Shimizu (Japan) Shinkaigyo
Nadir Vassena (Switzerland) archeologie future
Yiqing Zhu (China) The Forgotten Seagull
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James Andean (Can) JP Lempke (USA) Emma Margetson (UK) Valdrada This is not a drill Distorted Illusions Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere
‚Valdrada’, 2018, 15:29 “the traveler, This is not a drill. Two slightly mismatched Distorted Illusions - A series of dreams ... arriving, sees two cities: one erect above friends accidentally leave on a device that Awake? Or still dreaming? The sensations the lake, and the other reflected, upside destroys the world. It's funny. It's chaotic. It's of falling, walking, moving vehicles, flowing down. Nothing exists or happens in the one FUNNOTIC! Also, a cucumber (as you may water ... what does this symbolise in our Valdrada that the other Valdrada does not have guessed, and which I am certain that I dreams? What images and thoughts does repeat, because the city was so constructed do not need to say to you) is without a doubt this evoke as we meander through the that its every point would be reflected in its most definitely not a drill. This work is 8:10 conscious-unconscious states of our minds? mirror…” - Italo Calvino, ‘Invisible Cities’ long and was composed in 2018. It's Awake? Or still dreaming? This work surges ‘Valdrada’ is about memory - but, then performance at the Forum Wallis Festival is between field recordings and close again, perhaps the same is true of all its Swiss premiere. microphone recordings; blurring and shifting acousmatic works… between abstract and real sound worlds. JP Lempke (USA, b. 1993) creates works The textures highlight the complexity of James Andean (b. 1972, Canada) is a that unashamedly embody the absurd, the these states, warping and distorting to musician and sound artist. He is active as out-of-place, and the purely bizarre. At times provide an insight into our deepest selves. both a composer and a performer in a range his penchant for extremes creates a of fields, including electroacoustic music, humorous atmosphere, but other times the Emma Margetson (1993) is a composer of improvisation, sound art, and audiovisuals. unexpected changes in otherwise static acousmatic music based in Birmingham He is a founding member of several groups material invoke anxiety and nervousness. and is currently studying for a PhD in and ensembles, including Rank Ensemble, Unphased by his quirky style, renowned Electroacoustic Composition at the LOS duo, and VCA. He has performed performers and groups like Philippe University of Birmingham under the throughout Europe and North America, and Spiesser, Juanjo Llopico, Kanae Mizobuchi, supervision of Annie Mahtani and Scott his works have been presented around the Unassisted Fold, and Oh My Ears have Wilson funded by the AHRC world. He is Senior Lecturer at Music, brought his strange soundscapes to life. His Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Technology and Innovation – Institute for works have been performed throughout Partnership. This follows an MA Music Sonic Creativity at De Montfort University. Europe, Asia, and the United States at in Electroacoustic composition/sonic art events like the SEAMUS National pathway (2015); and BMus with honours Conference, the Delian Academy for New (2014) from the University of Birmingham. Music, the VIPA Festival, the highSCORE Her works have been performed across Festival, and the International Computer the UK and internationally including Music Conference. He is a winner of the performances at BEAST (University of American Guild of Organists Student Birmingham, UK), [ ex_nihilo ] Festival Commissioning Project, as well as a (Mexico), MA/IN Festival (Italy), Sound nominee for the Destellos Foundation Junction (University of Sheffield, UK), Electroacoustic and Video-Music Musica Electronic Nova (Poland), Noisefloor Competition. Mr. Lempke earned his Festival (Staffordshire University, UK) and Bachelor of Music in Composition and Piano more. Emma also works as an assistant Performance with Pedagogy at the for BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic University of Nebraska – Kearney and his Sound Theatre). Master of Music in Composition at Arizona www.emmamargetson.co.uk State University, where he operated as the co-director of the laptop orchestra. Currently, he is completing a Ph.D. in music theory at the University of Oregon. His instructors are Darleen Mitchell, Anthony Donofrio, Jody Rockmaker, Garth Paine, and Kotoka Suzuki.
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Robert McClure (USA) Joao Pedro Oliveira (Port/Br) Paolo Pastorino (Italy) lingering garden La Mer Éméraude Tempus Fugit Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere World Premiere lingering garden (2015) was written in La Mer Émeraude, 2018 - 11'40" . Let us Tempus fugit (7’ 06’’) - 2019. Sed fugit conceptual collaboration with choreographer imagine a small invented world, a micro interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, with this Lydia Hance for a series of performances at universe where everything exists... matter, phrase Virgilio describes the temporal the Texas Center Asia Society in Houston, energy, spirit, telluric movements, mysteries, condition to which the man is subjected. It is TX. The title refers to the specific Chinese natural and supernatural forces. That world a phrase that comes from a context of life classical garden in Suzhou, China where is whole and from afar, whoever watches, very different from that of modern man but many of the sounds were recorded and sees it as a living ocean. This work was still calls a very delicate question as whose shapes served as visual inspiration composed at the Musiques-Recherches interesting and current, life as a function of for both music and dance. One of the most studio and is dedicated to Annette Vande time. "Tempus fugit" comes from a series of striking features of the Lingering Garden (留 Gorne and Francis Dhomont. It received the personal reflections on the perception of 园) is the multitude of “Scholar Stones” (供⽯), second prize at SIME Competition 2019. time. A time that escapes and devours all which are large rocks that have been carved the things it has created. A time as a state of by nature to make unique shapes. These João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal, 1959) consciousness and perception that expands stones exist in all of the Suzhou gardens. completed a PhD in Music at the University and contracts itself. A time observed on the These stones were transported to the of New York at Stony Brook. His music faces of others, on my city, on my nearests gardens and were chosen based on certain includes one chamber opera, several and dearests. That time which influences us aesthetic qualities dating back to the Tang orchestral compositions, a Requiem, 3 in our choices and which constantly fills our Dynasty. These are thinness, openness, string quartets, chamber music, solo present in imagining the future and perforations, and wrinkling. These four instrumental music, electroacoustic music remembering the past. qualities are the basis for how many of the and experimental video. He has received sounds in lingering garden are processed. over 50 international prizes and awards for Paolo Pastorino (Italy - 1983) is an Another important quality for the stones was his works, including three Prizes at Bourges electroacoustic composer and music the resonance or ringing when struck and Electroacoustic Music Competition, the technologies professor in high school. He texture, which enter into the piece via prestigious Magisterium Prize in the same studied and graduated in electronic music sounds of stones or rocks being struck, competition, the Giga-Hertz Special Award, and sound technologies at the Conservatory scraped, or rubbed. Other sounds include 1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition, 1st of Sassari and he is specialized in the same those taken from my collection of singing Prize in Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras course at the Conservatory of Cagliari. He bowls, gongs, and small metal instruments, Competition, 1st Prize in Musica Nova has participated in several master classes a large Chinese drum, digging in dirt, and competition, etc.. He is Professor at Federal held by artists such as Jean Claude Risset, field recordings taken directly from the University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and Curtis Road, Bernard Fort, John Chowning, Lingering Garden in the summer of 2015. Aveiro University (Portugal). He published Yann Robin, Eckart Altenmüller, several articles in journals, and has written a Michelangelo Lupone, Tolga Tüzün, Denis Robert McClure’s music attempts to book about analysis and 20th century music Smalley, Simon Emmerson and Trevor discover beauty in unconventional places theory. www.jpoliveira.com Wishart. He also attended an artistic training using non- traditional means. Visual art, internship at the Rome Music Research poetry, the natural world, neurological and Center under the guidance of Michelangelo mathematical concepts are elements that Lupone. His compositions have been influence McClure’s works. His work has presented in several contemporary and been featured at festivals including electroacoustic music festivals in different NYCEMF, the Beijing Modern Music countries of the world. Festival, the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, SEAMUS, ISCM, and ICMC. His works may be found through ADJ•ective New Music LLC, Bachovich Music Publications, Imagine Music Publications, Innovative Percussion, Media Press, Inc., Resolute Music Publications, and Tapspace Publications as well as on the ABLAZE and Albany Record labels. Robert received his doctorate from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where his primary mentors were Shih-Hui Chen, Arthur Gottschalk, and Kurt Stallmann. Robert has previously held positions at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Soochow University in Suzhou, China. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Composition/Theory at Ohio University.
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Ermir Bejo (Albania) of Thoughts describes how our mind travels Dr. Epameinondas P. Fassianos (Epa op.8 through our present moment via sonic Fassianos) is a Greek Composer of Highly Commended events. Electroacoustic Music. He was born in Athens in 1982. He has attended both the op.8. Writing, according to Italo Calvino, Kyong Mee Choi (1971, S. Korea), University of York (MA in Music Technology) presented him with two branches, “two composer, organist, painter, poet, and visual under the supervision of Professor Andy different drives toward exactitude that will artist, received several prestigious awards Hunt and the University of Sussex (MA in never attain complete fulfillment: 1) The and grants including John Simon Composition for Media and Film and MPhil reduction of events to abstract patterns and Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in Musical Composition) under the forms, bodiless rationality, where one may Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron supervision of Professor Ed Hughes. His BA trace lines that converge, projections, Copland Award, John Donald Robb Musical in Greece was in Informatics and Computer abstract forms, vectors of force; 2) The Trust Fund Commission, Illinois Arts Council Technology. He has also obtained his Piano tangible aspect of things presented as Fellowship, First prize of ASCAP/SEAMUS Diploma in 2003 with Professor Dimitris precisely as possible; a space crammed Award, Second prize at VI Concurso Toufexis. In parallel, he has obtained the with objects and attempts to create a verbal Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de Diplomas in Harmony, Counterpoint and [but also aural] equivalent of that space.” São Paulo among others. Her music was Fugue respectively. He holds a PhD Degree Opus 8 similarly concerns with the opening published at Ablaze, CIMESP (São Paulo, in Acousmatic Music Composition. He and closing of these two different types of Brazil), SCI, EMS, ERM media, SEAMUS, obtained his PhD from the University of oneiric doors. Its material dates from 2014, and Détonants Voyages (Studio Forum, Manchester (NOVARS Research Centre), and was initially intended as a monstrously France). She is the Head of Music under the supervision of Professor David long opening to what eventually became Composition at Roosevelt University in Berezan. His area of interest was: Creating opus 4—piano. Opus 8 was composed in Chicago where she teaches composition works of Acousmatic Music based on 2018 and it is 15 minutes long. and electro-acoustic music. Samples of her aspects of Greek Culture (Religion, works are available at http:// Traditional Greek Instruments, Mythology). Ermir Bejo, born in 1987 in Tirana Albania, www.kyongmeechoi.com. Between 2014 and 2018, his works have is a composer working primarily in the been performed in eight MANTIS Festivals contemporary classical and electronic music of Electroacoustic Music, organised every tradition. Both within and apart from his six months by the NOVARS Research Centre of the University of Manchester music, Bejo draws significant influence from Epa Fassianos (Greece) visual art, cinema, classic literature, (Manchester, UK). In addition, his works ElectroSantouri have been performed in the following mathematics, and philosophy. Bejo’s Highly Commended approach is grounded in an interdisciplinary festivals: MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival study of time, particularly the exploration of 2017 (Matera, Italy), MISE-EN_Place ElectroSantouri (2017): (9 minutes - 56 Electroacoustic Music Festival 2018 in the hierarchies and conflicts arising from the seconds) is an acousmatic work which treatment of musical time as a non-linear Bushwick Studios (Brooklyn, New York City, includes transformed soundworlds emerging USA), Ecos Urbanos Electroacoustic Music concept. Since 2015, he has served as from a traditional Greek instrument called director of the Score Follower organization. Festival 2018 (Mexico City, Mexico), santouri. The santouri is mainly used for WOCMAT 2018 Conference: In collaboration with composers, performers, traditional ceremonies such as weddings or publishers, and recording labels alike, the Electroacoustic Music Concert (Hsinchu Hellenic islands’ local feasts. I decided to City, Taiwan), Dialogues Festival 2019 organization develops new music curatorial make use of this instrument in a totally projects with a wide international reach and (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom), different way; by exploring its pitch and Diffrazioni Firenze Multimedia Festival 2019 participation, through a meeting place on gestural possibilities and by using its the internet that is accessible to all. During (Firenze, Italy) and EASTN-DC 2018: idiomatic sound as a basis for transformed European Art-Science-Technology Network 2016-17, he served as president of the soundworlds. A number of electronic works Composers Forum organization at the for Digital Creativity (Manchester, UK). featuring the santouri have been composed Epa Fassianos's work Chromatocos- University of North Texas. Currently Bejo but through detailed research I found out teaches music composition and audio mos (2015) has been awarded the First that in these works, the instrument was Prize in Category A in MUSICA NOVA 2018 technology in Dallas, TX USA. http:// used in its natural form whereas other ermirbejo.com Competition of Electroacoustic Music in electronic sounds were added in the Prague, Czech Republic, as well as the background. In opposition to these works, Third Prize in MUSICWORKS 2018 my work features new sound textures Electroacoustic Music Competition in emerging from the instrument itself as the Toronto, Canada. In 2019, Epa Fassianos's Kyong Mee Choi (Korea) main compositional tool. work ElectroSantouri (2017) was accepted Train of Thoughts in ICMC (International Computer Music Highly Commended Performances: Conference 2019) – NYCEMF (New York • MANTIS Sonification Festival and City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2019), Train of Thoughts (2017, Duration: 6’47”, Symposium 2018, Martin Harris Centre, New York City, United States of America. European premiere) is based on the Manchester, March 4th 2018 experience of sitting on a train and having • MANTIS Festival, Beer Nouveau, various thoughts evoked by the sounds of Manchester, October 28th 2018 the environment. In the piece, the initial train • DIFFRAZIONI Multimedia Festival, Le Dave Gedosh (USA) sound morphs into various sonic gestures Murate PAC | Progetti arte contemporanea, Train Song that represent thoughts. Over time, thoughts Firenze, March 27th 2019 Highly Commended are intruded upon and triggered by ambient • ICMC / NYCEMF 2019, New York sounds such as a siren and city noise. Train University, New York, June 17th 2019. TrainSong . TrainSong, a stereo
Schloss Leuk, 7, 8 & 9 June 2019 www.ForumWallis.ch Forum Wallis Ars Electronica Selection 2019 acousmatic work, has been programmed the processes of conversion of elements in under the supervision of Adrian Moore and nationally and internationally, and was alchemy, converting one element into Adam Stanovic. During his studies he had awarded first prize in the Greater Denton another. At first the sounds are pure, almost contemporary composition courses with Arts Council Composition Competition 2008, like sine waves, these sounds are Joseph Papadatos and Dimitra Trypani and and Finalist in the Bourges International transformed and dirtied with small beat electroacoustic composition courses with Composition Competition Electro-acoustic caused by the interference between the Andreas Mniestris, Theodore Lotis and Music 2009, residency category. The different sounds, creating strange David Berezan. He has attended to majority of the sound sources were atmospheres that collide with each other. electroacoustic composition seminars with recorded in Denton TX, and range from the The sound is distorted to such an extent that Steven Miller, Leigh Landy , Tim Ward, ubiquitous sound of the train, the industrial it returns to what it was, however, it is no Andrew Bentley and Simon Emmerson. He sound wash of the factories near the longer the same sound that used to be, has also participated in live electronic railroad tracks, to power tools, traffic, there is a transformation, a cycle of concerts with the EPHMME student concerts, and weather. The sounds are transformation. ensemble. His compositions have been removed from their original context, performed in Greece, Cyprus, United processed in various ways, and re- Ivonne Hernández (Mexico, 1998) Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, contextualized, moving the listener through She is a Mexican composer. She began her Mexico, Chile, Brazil and USA. His various locations, and creating an studies in music in 2010 at the State School acousmatic composition Erevos won the abstraction of the sound of the city. of Fine Arts of Nayarit. In 2016 she enrolled first prize ex aequo in the student category at the Conservatorio de las Rosas. Her of acousmatic composition competition David Gedosh is a composer, guitarist, music is characterized by the search of Metamorphoses 2012 and his composition audio engineer, and educator. His stereo musical narratives from the exploration of Balloon Theories has been awarded with and multi-channel works include acousmatic atmospheric sounds, the contrast of textures the Franz List residency-scholarship and the music, electroacoustic music with live and the timbral appreciations. She has public prize at the composition competition performance, and intermedia. Much of his complemented her training by attending Metamorphoses 2014. music reflects an interest in atemporality various courses, workshops and master and aspatiality, timbre, and spatialization, classes, such as the master classes in combining lively gesture, soundmass, and orchestral direction with Jorge Pérez- physicality. His music has been performed Gómez, in composition with Manfred Chatori Shimizu (Japan) throughout North America, Europe, and in Werder and Sarah Bassingthwaighte, and in Shinkaigyo Latin America. at festivals including Ars acousmatic composition with Simon Highly Commended Electronica Forum Wallis, Bourges Festival Emmerson. She has premiered several Synthèse IMEB, Diffrazioni Multimedia contemporary pieces in different concert Shinkaigyo, which is translated into "deep Festival, Ecuentros de Esquina Musica seasons at the Conservatorio de las Rosas. sea fish", was written in fascination of the Electroacoustica, Electronic Music Midwest, Also, she has had a couple of presentations Mariana Trench in west Pacific Ocean; the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, in Morelia (Mexico), at the Festival Zeppelin deepest area of all seas in the world. I was Fresh Minds Festival, Holophon.ca., 2018 in Barcelona (Spain), at the concert always intrigued by the deep sea, which is International Computer Music Conference, series Crosswalks 2019 (Austria) initiated by still largely untouched and deeply IMMArts, Last Friday Listening Room, ÖGZM and a presentation with Ecco mysterious to mankind. This work has been Morely Gallery, New York City Electro- Chamber Ensamble in USA. She has used in "Nihonkai" (2014), installation by acoustic Music Festival, Society for Electro- composed music for dance choreographies, Ayaka Miyauchi, as well as its exerpts used Acoustic Music in the United States, Sound short films and collaborations with other as soundtrack in a short Korean film "Artists and Music Computing Conference, Sweet artists. Nowadays she is enrolled at are Always Hungry" (예술가는 항상 배고프 Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Thunder Music Festival, and Zeppelin 다, 2014). In the same year, it has been Juan Sebastián Lach. Festivals. David earned a Doctor of Musical selected in 60x60 Wave Farm Mix Arts degree from the University of North International Open Call, and was Texas in music composition with a broadcasted on Wave Farm 90.7FM, specialization in computer music and distributed as a Wave Farm Dispatch Series intermedia, where he was studied with Jon Dimitris Savva (Cyprus) download, and featured in a series of live C. Nelson, Andrew May, Butch Rovan, and Balloon Theories listening events. This work is 5 minutes and Phil Windsor. Highly Commended 12 seconds in length, and the performance in Leuk will be the European premiere. Balloon Theories. ’I was always enjoying squeezing balloons, pressing them with my Chatori Shimizu (b. 1990, Japan) is a Ivonne Hernandez (Mexico) fingers until they pop… It has not been up Germany based composer, shō performer, Transmutación until now that I realized why…’ Duration: 14’ and sound artist, who constructs his works Highly Commended Year of composition: 2013 , Swiss premiere for a wide range of mediums concerning the time identity in sound. As the First Prize Dimitrios Savva was born in Cyprus, 1987. Winner of the 2016 Malta International Transmutación (2017) . 7’30’’ , Swiss He received his Bachelor degree Composition Competition, Shimizu's works Premiere . This work is a sound landscape (distinction) in music composition from the have been performed and exhibited created from the edition of field recordings. Ionian University of Corfu and his Master throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and The main material are sounds of wine degree (distinction) in Electroacoustic North America by acclaimed ensembles and glasses with water tuned in different composition from the University of musicians such as AuditivVokal, Linea, temperaments, using mainly the “Just Manchester. In January 2015 he started his Multilatérale, mise-en, Mivos Quartet, intonation”. This musical idea arises from fully funded PhD in Sheffield University Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, among
Schloss Leuk, 7, 8 & 9 June 2019 www.ForumWallis.ch Forum Wallis Ars Electronica Selection 2019 others. His music scores are published from Since his early age, he started to play Bernard Parmegiani United Music & Media Publishing, Belgium. accordion, piano, bayan-accordion, violin, Incidences/Battements 1.43 Shimizu studied computer music and Chinese Pipa and classical guitar. He began Étude Élastique 6.42 composition at Kunitachi College of Music, composing in 2008 at Shanghai Conjugaison Du Timbre 5.15 Tokyo, graduating with the Arima Prize. He Conservatory of Music under the guidance https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ received his MFA from Columbia University, of Prof. Huang Lv and Prof. Guohui Ye; after Bernard_Parmegiani New York City, where he studied at the one year of Erasmus with Prof. Niels Computer Music Center. Currently, he Rosing-Schow at The Royal Danish studies composition with Mark Andre at Academy of Music, he became the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Konzertexamen Student at Staatliche Francis Dhomont in Dresden. Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Phonurgie 12.42 Kunst Stuttgart under the guidance of Prof. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Marco Stroppa from Oct. 2016 onwards. Francis_Dhomont His works were played in various Music Nadir Vassena (Switzerland) Festivals and Concerts, such as Manifeste archeologie future 2017, ilSuono contemporary Music Week Trevor Wishart Highly Commended 2017, Lucerne Festival 2018, Shanghai New Imago 25.40 Music Week 2018, Festival Archipel 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Wishart Questo lavoro, nella scia della tradizione Dyce project competition 2019 etc. He is the acusmatica europea, utilizza pochi materiali winner of Impuls competition 2019 and Dyce sonori ricavati in parte da una registrazione competition ”Search for young composer” di un mio pezzo per fisarmonica – project 2019. Apart from contemporary Jonty Harrison interpretato da Teodoro Anzellotti – a cui si music, he also works in the fields of Eastern Unsound Objects 13.09 aggiungono altri suoni strumentali traditional music (winning the third prize of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonty_Harrison (clavicembalo). Resta traccia della Singapore Chinese Orchestra competition in rielaborazione del brano di Rameau che mi 2011 f.e.), electronic music (Max era stata chiesta del fisarmonicista, e sono programming) as well as popular music Andrew Lewis evidenti i riferimenti al passato, un passato (composing a large amount of music for movies, singers and soloists). Scherzo 8.26 scavato, stratificato che si apre, come https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ archeologia, al futuro. His music was commissioned or performed by numerous soloists and, among others, Andrew_Lewis_(composer) Nadir Vassena, nato a Lugano nel 1970, Intercomtemporain, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Nadir Vassena ha studiato composizione a of Lucerne Festival Alumni, Klangforum Milano con Bruno Zanolini e a Feriburg i.B Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Mivos John Chowning con Johannes Schöllhorn. Nel 1993 Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Divertimento Phone 13.01 partecipa ai corsi di composizione di Ensemble, Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning Royaumont tenuti da Brian Ferneyhough. Wien, Ensemble Soundstreams, Ensemble Ha ricevuto diversi premi e riconoscimenti, Suono Giallo, Han String Quartet, tra i principali: Wettbewerb des Copenhagen Piano Quartet, Ensemble Westdeutschen Rundfunks, Hochschule der Echtzeit, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Künste-Berlin, Mozartwettbewerb Salzburg, Shanghai Philharmonic Symphony Christoph Delz-Stiftung, Stipendiat der Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, etc. Mitglied des Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Kompositionsstipendium der Stiftung Landis & Gyr. Dal 2004 al 2011 cura, insieme a Mats Scheidegger, la direzione artistica dei Tage für neue Musik di Zurigo. E’ professore di composizione al Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Scuola universitaria di musica). Nel 2015 è nominato finalista per il Gran Premio svizzero di musica.
Yiqing Zhu (China) The Forgotten Seagull Highly Commended
Length: 11:20 Year of composition: 2012
Born in Dec.1989, Shanghai, Yiqing Zhu is a Chinese composer, pianist and accordionist.
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Simone Conforti (sound engineer), born Jury Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2019 in Winterthur (Switzerland) in the 1979, has been graduated in Flute in 1999 at the Javier Hagen (Switzerland), composer Conservatory of Florence and in Electronic Jury President, President ISCM Switzerland, Music in 2004 obtaining the maximum artistic director Forum Wallis evaluation. He works as researcher since 2003 in the MARTLab, developed by the Dr. Kotoka Suzuki (JP), composer Conservatory of Music "L. Cherubini" of Arizona State University (ASU), Herberger Florence and the ISTI Institute (part of the Institute for Design and the Arts National Research Council CNR), center involved in research and production for the Dr. Reuben de Lautour (NZ), composer sound documents preservation and Head of New Music at the School of Music, restoration. As a teacher, he worked, for the University of Canterbury, New Zealand Music and New Technologies department (Bachelor and Master courses) of the Dr. Jaime E. Oliver (Peru), composer Conservatory of Music "L. Cherubini" of Waverly Labs for Computing and Music, Florence, since 2004. He also works New York University (NYU) regularly as a teacher for courses and workshops reguarding musical technologies, relationship between musicians and the contemporary music (especially in the field of relationship between acoustic and electronic sounds) and sound documents preservation and restoration. He works as electronic composer composing his own musics and collaborating, with many musicians and artists, in the development of the electronic music for their works. Between these we find: Ivan Fedele, Adriano Guarnieri, Daniele Lombardi, vocal ensemble L'homme armé, Maurizio Nannucci and Roberto Ciaccio, such activity has brought him to execute various jobs in important locations like Festival MANCA in Nice, the GAM of Turin, the MART of Rovereto, Festival Acanthes 2009, Teatro dal Verme, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. In 2003 he won the competition "Severino Gazzelloni". He published for AIB (Italian Library Association), ISTI Institute (part of the National Research Council CNR), Biennale Musica (Venice), Suvini Zerboni, Mudima Music, die Schachtel, Neos. Currently teaches at IRCAM Paris. http:// www.temporoom.net/en/ simone_conforti.php
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