Englert Prize 2017 goes to Graber and Pecquet
This year's Prix Giuseppe Englert, a "contribution to projects that raise awareness and improve the quality of our acoustic environment", goes to Nicole Graber and Frank Pecquet.
The prize of 5,000 Swiss francs has been awarded annually since 2011 in memory of the Swiss composer and pioneer of electroacoustic music Giuseppe Englert (1927-2007). This year, it was awarded to the joint project "Phonotopie du sol: Dynamique de la topographie sur l'acoustique du lieu" by Nicole Graber (Hintermann & Weber Lausanne) and Frank Pecquet (Sorbonne Paris) at the start of the Rencontres Architecture Musique Ecologie (R.A.M.E.) at Leuk Castle.
The jury was made up of Jean-Marie Rapin, Guillaume Billaux, Sara Maino, all three for the R.A.M.E., and Javier Hagen for the IGNM-VS, the Valais chapter of the International Society for New Music, which hosted the award ceremony and the R.A.M.E. in Leuk.
The Rencontres Architecture Musique Ecologie R.A.M.E. bring together an international group of architects, urbanists, acousticians, philosophers, composers, musicologists and musicians for lectures, discussions, performances and excursions on current issues in environmental acoustics.
