COMPETITION RESULTS - Prix Destellos 2009

From: elsa justel
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:36 AM
Subject: Prix Destellos 2009
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The Foundation Destellos is pleased to announce the results of the Second
International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music.

First prize: "Papyrus" by Diana Simpson (United Kingdom)

Special prize for Visual-music: "Piano Chimera" by Chikashi Miyama
(USA/Japan)

There were three mentions, for the pieces "Altered Materials" by David
Hindmarch (UK), "Photogene" by Kyong Mee Choi (Chorea) and  "Still Voices"
by Pete Stollery (UK).

The members of the jury were: Cort Lippe (USA), Robin Minard (Canada),
Jonty Harrison (UK), Wilfried Jenztsch (Germany) and Daniel Teruggi
(Argentine). All the pieces were judged anonymously.

The competition is organized in collaboration with the association Motus
of France, which gave a second prize to the piece "Tormenta de campos
fértiles " by Fernando Iazzetta (Brazil). The members of the Motus jury
were Vincent Laubeuf and Guillaume Contré (France).

There were 76 works entered from 20 different countries. In addition to
those awarded prizes and mentions, the following works were pre-selected:
"Prologue" by Jean-Luc Degioanni (France), "Free Association" by Adam
Basanta (Canada), "Etude de sons" by Gregorio Gimenez Paya (Spain), "bits"
by Leonardo Secco (Uruguay), "2261" by Mario Mary (Argentine), "Mute, la
fabrique du silence" by Fabienne Pôm Bouvier B. (France), "Momento_1" by
Nahuel Sauza (Argentine), "Del papel al hecho hay mucho trecho" by
Alejandro Albornoz (Chile), "Floraison" by Florent Colautti (France),
"Fried rice, curried chips and a diet coke" by Karen Power (Ireland), and
"Nachtschatten" by Alexander Schubert (Germany).