Prix Destellos 2009

The Foundation Destellos is pleased to announce the results of the Second 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/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).