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The Foundation will regularly call for competition on electroacoustic music, acousmatic, life electronics and visual music. The Foundation will create appropriate assessment panels from the international communities in the different categories. Winning work in each of the categories will be widely publicized and diffused through the Foundation international network.

Basilio del Boca

Diana Simpson

Diana Simpson Chikashi Chikashi Miyama Stansbie Adam Stansbie Hindmarch David Hindmarch Kokoras Panyiotis Kokoras

christianHelm

Christian Helm

MaximeC.Perron

Maxime Corbeil-Perron

visa kuoppala

Visa Kuoppala

gobeil

Gilles Gobeil

Stijn Govaere

Cliche

Guillaume Cliche

D.Judkovsky

Daniel Judkovski (Argentine) TimothyRoy Timothy Roy (USA)

Roeland Roeland LuytenABabcock
Andrew Babcock Demian

Demian Rudel Rey

 

 

Prizes Destellos 2008

Beginning with its activities for the season 2008-2009, the Foundation Destellos is pleased to announce the winners of the first Competition of Electroacoustic Composition, for argentin composers.

  • The prize Destellos: "Viscuap" of the composer Basilio del Boca
  • There were two mentions for the pieces "Intihuatana" by Gabriel Gendin and "Extraño" by Juan Sorrentino respectively.

The jury for Destellos prize was composed by Christian Clozier (France), Jens Hedman (Sweden), Alejandro Viñao (Argentine), Ingrid Drese (Belgium) et Benjamin Thigpen (United States).

  • The Motus prize was given, in ex æquo, to the pieces "Lo inefable" by Maria Cristina Kasem and "Psiclos" by Nicolás Ordiales.

The jury Motus was composed by Denis Dufour and Thomas Brando (France).

There were selected also the pieces "Asedioespurio" by Luciano Giambastiani, "Mythème" by Gustavo Alvaro Garcia Novo, "Germinal" by Pablo Loudet and "Bajo lamento" by Mariano Alfredo Rupil.

Prizes Destellos 2009

The results of the Second Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music were:

  • First prize: "Papyrus" by Diana Simpson (United Kingdom)
  • Special prize for Visual-music: "Piano Chimera" by Chikashi Miyama (USA/Japon)
  • There were three mentions for the pieces "Altered materials" by David Hindmarch (UK), "Photogene" by Choi/Kyong Mee (Corea),   "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 orgaization Motus of France, which gave a second prize to the piece "Tormenta de campos fértiles " by Fernando Iazzetta (Brazil). The jury Motus was composed by Vincent Laubeuf and Guillaume Contré (France).
There were 76 works entered by 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).

Prizes Destellos 2010

The Foundation Destellos is pleased to announce the results of the Third International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music.

  • First prize: "Escapade" by Adam Stansbie (UK)
  • Second Prize (Phonos Foundation) "El espejo de Alicia" by Federico Schumacher (CL), and
  • Second Prize (Motus) : "Métal en bouche" by Georges Forget (FR)
  • There were three mentions for the pieces : "Fragot" by Franco Alberto Pellini (AR), "Rouge sang" by Eric Broitmann (FR),  "10-35-70" by Ambrose   Seddon (UK)
  • Special Mention for videos : "Trayecto ø- baby en llamas" by Luciano Giambastiani (AR) and "2BTextures" by Elainie Lillios (USA)

The members of the jury were: Ake Parmerud (Sweden), Horacio Vaggione (Argentine), Elzbieta Sikora (Poland), Andrés Lewin Richter (Spain – Phonos Foundation) and Régis Renouard Larivière (France)

There were 177 works entered by 29 different countries. In addition to those awarded prizes and mentions, the following works were selected:
"Bataille(s)" Laurent Ballester (FR) / "Seeking Druses" Lukas Tobiassen (DE) /  "Hardcore" Christopher Preissing   (USA) / "Turbulent blue" Jon Christopher Nelson (USA) / "Voicing the substance" David Hindmarch (UK) / "Analogia e identidad" Daniel Sergio Cervantes (AR) / "Paisajes Ocultos" Raúl Minsburg (AR)  /      "Bourrasques électriques" Nicolas Bernier (ca) / "Vulgus Veritatis" Carlos Suárez Sánchez (ve) / "Karita Oto" Manuella Blackburn (UK) / "Rarezas" Leonardo Secco (uy) / "Allora, in questo momento" Marco Tentori (it) / "El papel del vidrio" Alejandro Albornoz (CL) / "The movement of the mass" Ofer Pelz (IL) / "Saxyi" Oliver   Carman (UK) / "En spirale" Adolfo Kaplan (CL) /

Prizes Competitions 2011

The Forth International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music.

The First Prize was given in ex-æquo to : "Magic" by Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece) and "Golden bowls" by David Hindmarch (United Kingdom).

A Special mention was given to the visual music work "Hors champs" by Adolfo Kaplan (Chile)

Two second prizes given by Motus (France) and Phonos (Spain) to: "Caída, memoria y restitución" by Ezequiel Ezquenazi (Argentine) and   "Dans le ventre de la machine" by Nicolas Bernier (Canada).

A Special mention given by Musiques et Recherches (Belgium), was granted to : "Les lointains noir et rouge" by Gilles Gobeil (Canada).

Were nominated by the Grand Jury the works : "Grand dehors" by Martin Bedard (Canada),   " Reise" by Pei-Yu Shi (Taiwan), "Convergences" by Khosravi/Peiman (United Kingdom/Iran), "Rhizome" by Lautaro Vieyra (Argentine), "ConcertinoTwistedMetal" by Chester Udell (United States), "Ilinx" by Andy Dolphin (United Kingdom), "Playground" by Charles Nichols (United States), "Caja de sueños" by Sergio Santi (Argentine).

The members of the jury were: Annette Vande Gorne (Musiques et Recherches, Belgium), Francis Dhomont (France), Gabriel Brnçic (Phonos, Spain), Joao Pedro Oliveira (Portugal), Elainie Lillios (United States), Ricardo Mandolini (Argentine) and Vincent Laubeuf (France- Motus). All the pieces were judged anonymously.

There were 96   works entered from 26   different countries. The following works were selected : "Trio" by Gustavo Garcia Novo (Argentine), "Expansion" by Eric Broitann (France), "Gaza" by Guillaume Côté (Canada), "Vineta" by Elke Swoboda (Germany), "+Deepüré" by Franco Piccirilli (Argentine), "Requiem" by Alexander Volodin (Russia), "A Distensão dos Grãos" by Danilo Rossetti (Brasil), "The Footsteps Piece" by Donal Sarsfield (Ireland), "Zobeliana" vidéo musique by José López Montes (Spain), "El sueño de la razón produce monstrous" by Ricardo de Armas (Argentine).

The Foundation is thankful for the disinterested collaboration of the members of the Grand Jury and to the composers Graciela Castillo, Gonzalo Biffarella and Daniel Schachter who collaborated in the task of selection. Also congratulates to all the prizewinners and thanks to all participants for their interest in the competition.

Prizes Competitions 2012

The First Prize was given to "Aporie" by Christian Helm.

Second Prize attributed by Motus organization (France) to "Fragments" by Maxime Corbeil- Perron.

Second Prize to "Bol Hydre" by Gilles Gobeil given by the Foundation Phonos (Spain)

Second Prize to "Outspread" by Visa Kuoppala, given by Musiques et Recherches (Belgium).

Three honorary Mentions were granted to : "Saxophonique" by Govaere Stijn, "Empachado" by Simón Pérez and "Tape" by Guillaume Cliche.

 

Were Nominated by the Grand Jury the works : "Aukera" by Bjarni Gunnarsson, "The sun warms the memory" by Sam Salem, "Nomos Delta" by Dan Tramte, "Elektronie" by Griselda Labbate, "MintCascade" by Andrew Dolphin, "Pastorale" by Karathanasis, "patha" by Diego Garro (video música), "Irama" by Felipe Otondo, "Noche castellana" by Adolfo Núñez,

"Still i" by Ben Thigpen, "Inert" by Roeland Luyten, "To foglets" by David Arango Valencia

 

     The members of the jury were: Trevor Wishart (UK), Luigi Ceccarelli (it), Elizabeth Hoffman (UE), Luis Naon (AR-fr), José Manuel Berenguer (Spain), Eric Broitman and Vincent Laubeuf (France). This year the high level of works has made difficult the task of the jury. Otherwise, the visual music pieces presented  sparse interest so there were not distinctions in that category.

 

     There were 130 works entered by 25 different countries. Have been selected : "Switched on" by Manuella Blackburn, "Sueño lúcido" by Ricardo De Armas, "Granatum" by Nicos Stavropoulos, "Perspectives en tours" by Cirille Arndt, "Vertiges de l'image dos anjos" by Antonio  Sousa Días (video música), "Trozos para el fin de lo mismo" by Federico Barabino, "Concrete GuildV1" by Claudio Eiriz, "Zorn" by Sebastian Peter, "How you know" by Marco Liuni, "Monde Océan" by Christophe Boissiere, "Un dia común" by Nicolás Yozia, "Silica" by Jake Rundall, "Matière contre vide" by Emilie Payeur, "El asadito" by Franco Pellini, "Primtemps 2011" by Gabriel Poulard, "Un ave cae" by Gonzalo Macias - (video música), "Like radio" by Robert Normandeau, "Si loin cet horizon" by Pierre-Axel Izérable, "Etude Hyperñodernisste" by Guillaume Cot, "Invitation à prendre le temps" by Rafael Muñoz Gómez , "(8-8)" by García Berardi (video música) ,"Le point où la voix tournoie" by  Marie-Claire Bernard.

 

Prizes Competition 2013

First Prize Category Acousmatic : "El exilio infinito" by Daniel Judkovski (Argentine)

First Prize Mixed Media:"Wunderkind" (for toy piano and electronics) by Timothy Roy (EU)

Second prizes, given by Motus (France), Phonos (Spain), Musiques & Recherches (Belgium), Amee (Spanish association of electroacoustic music) and Espacio Cero (Colombia) : "Beastiary" by Jonty Harrison (UK), "Gates" by John Nichols (EU), "Respire, marche pars va-t-en" by Sophie Delafontaine (Switzerland), "Vox sum vitae" by Joao Pedro Oliveira (Portugal).

Honorary mentions : "Toreutique" by Vanessa Sorce-Lévesque (Canada-France), "Sen no kioku" by Sato Ayako, (Japón), "Only voice" by Dominique Chevaucher (France), "Catachresis" by Xavier Bourassa (Canada), "Sitruuna Ja Meduusa" James Andean (UK). Nominated : "Esquisse d'un pulsion Blanche" Jules Wysocki (France),  "Klaviersamlung" by Hans Tutchku (Germany), "Spire IV" Cesare Saldicco (Italy), "Bridged on bach" by Daniel Dominguez Teruel (Spain), "La orilla secreta" by Mario Mary (Argentine-France), "Liturgie" by Carlos David Perales (Spain).

The Jury was integrated by Agostino DiScipio (Italy ), Barry Truax (Canada), Christian Eloy (France), Carlos Grätzer (Argentine), Ludger Brümmer (Germany), chair: Elsa Justel (Argentine-France).

We received 130 works of 21 countries. Were selected: "Electric Strings" Oliver Carman, "Les poulpes" Lucien Gaudion,  "Gignomai" Claudio Grabriel Eiriz, "Radio Activity" Alexander Derben, "Martin put that gun away" Alden Jenks,   "Diciembre 2001 "Desde el 9° piso" Sergio Santi,   "El principio de los principios" Eduardo Kacheli, "Cabras, grandes aves y gente electrica" Agustin Alvarez,  "Zhong" Claudia Robles, "Bau" Nicoló Terrasi, "Dynamique de l'enfance"  Guillaume Côté, "Después de la lluvia"  Jorge Sad, "Maror"  Jorge Sad "Liquid Strings and Pebble keys" Stijn Govaere, "Ningun puerto"    Hugo Druetta, "SubSoonus Supra"   Thomas Gerwin, "Three cities" Pete Stollery, "Far…" Madeleine Isaksson, "Thauma" Giulio Colangelo , "Movi-Mientos" Jana Kluge-Javier Alvarez, "Aeru Aurea" Victor Vallés Fornet,   "La dictée" Mathieu Marcoux, "Machin de machine" Francis Dhomont, "De la fenêtre" Roxanne Turcotte , "Simulacra" Joao Castro Pinto, "Replica" Marie Hélène Breault , "Paf Gravitas" Cédric Camier , "Invisible Jungle"Lin/ Kuei-Fan, "Mettalmiette" Guillaume Cliche, "Voiles vitres" Ariadna Alsina, "Trumpet player" Sebastian Peter, "Surrogata" Rodrigo Cádiz.

Prizes Competition 2014

First Prize Acousmatic Category : “Helena” by Roeland Luyten (Belgium)

First Prize mixed media: “Jet” by Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece)

Second Prizes : "Impacts discrets" by  Pierre-Luc Lecours (Canada); « Shapeshifter” by Alexis Langevin-Tétrault (Canada); “Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind”by Elainie Lillios (EU);"Organismo Aperto No.1" by Giulio Colangelo (Italy).

Honorary Mentions: "Collisions rédemption” by Loriane Takla (Canada); « Nibelheim” by Nicolas Marty (France) ; “come morso in corpo”by Valerio de Bonis (Italy); “Le train de la vie II: Doris" by Liao Lin Ni (Taiwan).

The jury was composed of : Gilles Gobeil (Canada), Eric Chasalow (EU), Gregorio Jiménez (Spain), Federico Schumacher (Chile) and chaired by Elsa Justel.

Were selected the following pieces : "Les chants de la terre "- Gilles Fresnais; "MICROGRAPHÍE 1" – Griselda Labbate; "Night_study1" – Felipe Otondo; "A-Memoir of a Daydream" - David Ikard; "Alucinógeno Dali"́ - Ricardo de Armas; "Fragile Butterfly "- Irene Pacini; "esquive" - Regis Renouard Larivière; "Cantos_a_Nuni" – Gustavo Garcia Novo; "Remake" - Franco Pellini; "Ougch" - Victor Taboada; "Aiguillage (Switches & crossings)" - Line Katcho; "Le retour des oiseaux "- Jester Novello; "LokaleOrbits/Solo9"- Daniel Mayer; "Hekate" -Konstantinos Karathanasis; "BeyondTheEternalChaos" - Takuto Fukuda; "Ngc 290" - Carlos Fernandez; "Cristales discontinuos" _ - Federico Nuñez; "instante congelado en el tiempo" – Edith Alonso; "Baile Latido" – Hugo Druetta; "Suite Liquida" – Preludio – Lautaro Vieyra; "Gualichos" – Simon Perez; “Sin palabras" Patricia Martinez; "Omnipraesentia" de Fabian Luna; "M.forTymp" – Federico Ortica; "Costa" Rajmil Fischman; "far bollire piano per 8 minuti" Stijn Govaere ; "Sons de la Petite enfance" - Oliver Carman; "Epyphyllum Oxypetalum_Queen Of The Night" - Kotoka Suzuki; "Estuve demasiado tiempo afuera" - David Mantecon; "O buraco implacável" - Lucas Felipe; "Sacred_Voices" - Louise Rossiter; "Slipstream "- Simard-Poirier,Maximilien; "Summer of Fire"- Sebastien Lavoie; "Forclusión VII" - Ezequiel Esquenazi; "Les dimensions du reel" - Clemente Manfredi; "Tribu "- Jean-Luc Gergonne

Prix Competition 2015

First prizes in the two categories were not attributed.

Second Prizes in category Acousmatic : "Un cercle hors de l'arbre" by Gilles Gobeil "Ventriloquy" by Andrew Babcock

Second Prize in mixed media: "La sonrisa de una lágrima" by Demian Rudel Rey

Mentions in acousmatic music :   "The cup of plenty" by David Hindmarch; " frostbYte Wildflower" by Daniel Blinkhorn;   "Tout autour de la montagne" by Louise Rossiter;   "Ballistichory" by Nikos Stavropoulos;

Mention in Mixed media:"Soliton" by Keita Matsumiya

Nominations in acousmatic music: "Devorer l'espace" Alexis Langevin-Tétrault; "Neshamah" Joao Pedro Oliveira

Nomination in Mixed media: "Hiperestesia"  by Juan Mollo

The jury was integrated by: Pete Stollery, Panayiotis Kokoras, Ingrid Drese, Jens Hedman, and Mario Mary

They have participated 133 works from 26 countries *, being selected in acousmatic category:

"esquisse de silence" de Jules Wysocki "T.A.G" by Monique Jean  "Diaphanous Acarina" by Ana Dall'ara Majek "a staring idea" by Larry Gaab "Too late too far" by Sam Salem "Ode to kitchen" by Konstantinos Karathanasis "sen no kaikou" by Ayako Sato "Babel 4" by Eduardo Kacheli "The red isle" by Salvador Torre "Moons Around" by Irene Pacini "Allears" by Ursula Meyer-Konig  "Orphéose"  by Nicolas Nuyens "Metaal" by Stijn Govaere "En el ojo del tiempo" by Hugo Druetta "Contradanza"   by Pablo Aznarez "Metal Quartz"  by Hervé Delacouturiere "Poop"  by Federico Ortica "Autour d'un piano" by Roxanne Turcotte  "HyvatMatkustajat"_ by James Andean "Bahia city a 100dB" by Ricardo de Armas "Anadiplosia" para Tirso by Jorge Antunez "pour un battement"  by Dominique Chevaucher "Tierras insignes" by Damian Gorandi "Casi linea"  by Jean Philippe Pierre-Louis "el grito" by Nicolas Rodriguez "Rituals"  by Chin Ting Chan "Florilege" by Alexis Weaver "Pyxis" by Rocio Cano Valiño  "Hyperestesia" by Oliveira Levy "Cenizas del Tiempo" Demian Rudel Rey "La croisière se lâche" by Chloé Sanchez "Naufragos de la Medusa" by Federicho Schumacher "Single Combat"  by Jean Philippe Velu "piano fragments" by Oliver Carman " Los domingos de Daniel" by Sergio Santi "YouMustMelo" by Roger Doyle "Regression" by  Wen Bihe "Un regalito misterioso" by Alejandro Albornoz

Mixed media "Sparrow-Spero" by Leah Reid  "Operación Shylock" by Francisco Uberto "Striptease" by Luc Degioanni "tag und nacht" by Katharina Klement "Neumas" by Jose Betances Vargas "Uróboros"  by Joaquin Macedo "etendus libres: temps libre"  by Gael Tissot "Frammenti" by Nicolo Terrasi "Torre de Espelhos" by Thiago Diniz Gonzaga de Lima "la infancia revelada" by Sergio Santi "Venas" by Federico Camara Halac "arak saya"  by Bryan Holmes