Ars Electronica Forum Valais 2024
The results of the 9th Ars Electronica Forum Valais competition for acousmatic music have been announced. The winning works will be performed in Münster/Goms in March.
301 composers from 51 countries and all continents submitted a total of 327 works, more than ever before. It is remarkable that the proportion of works by female composers in the submissions is less than 20 percent, but amounts to almost 30% in the selected works. Compared to previous years, there was also a significantly higher proportion of selected works by composers from Latin American and Asian countries (45%).
Into the ranks of the Ars Electronica Forum Valais 2024 Concert Selection included a total of 23 works. In addition, there were 18 further pieces with Special Mention.
Concert Selection (in alphabetical order)
Gabriel Araújo, Saw (BRA)
Bariya Studio (Pratyush Pushkar & Riya Raagini), Delhi Polyphones (IND/IND)
Natasha Barrett, Impossible Moments from Venice 2 (NOR/GBR)
Beau Beaumont, No Input (GBR)
Sébastien Béranger, Superflu(x) (BEL)
Alex Buck, Otherness (BRA)
Mikel Kuehn, Unlocking The Keys (USA)
Léo Magnien, un relief suspendu par transparence (FRA)
Paolo Montella, Cairo Backwards (ITA)
Cameron Naylor, Spent (GBR)
Naxal Protocol (Piero Stanig), Microinsurrezioni (ITA/SGP)
Paul Oehlers, Automaton (USA)
Lucie Prod'homme, Tu es démasqué (FRA)
Luis Quintana, Junkyard Construction (PRI)
Francesco Santagata, Overthinking - listening to music and not talking is the best, I think (ITA)
Dimitris Savva, Tranglitchuilizer (CYP)
Bernd Schumann, Canon for 4 loudspeakers (GER)
Sylvain Souklaye, invisible body (FRA/USA)
Mehmet Ali Uzunselvi, Iklık Park (TUR)
Frida Vasquez de la Sota / Kathia Rudametkin, Climbing (MEX/MEX)
Jorge Vicario, Poltergeist II (ESP)
Bihe Wen, unfold (CHN)
Yunjie Zhang, Le Caméléon (CHN)
Special Mention (in alphabetical order)
Giuseppe De Benedittis, sottosuolo (ITA)
Manuella Blackburn, Cupboard Love (GBR)
Maria Fernanda Castro, Arbóreo (COL)
Mauro Diciocia, Rygerfjord (ITA)
Christian Eloy, Dans les jardins de Cybèle (FRA)
Juro Kim Feliz, Kinalugarán (PHL)
Nicole Fior-Greant, un-Form 3 (CHE)
John Fireman, Lacis (USA)
Mariam Gviniashvili, Free Flow (GEO)
Andrew Lewis, Two Lakes (GBR)
Yannis Loukos, 3D Meditation (GRC)
Manolo Müller, emblematic identities (CHE)
Rodrigo Pascale, Discontinuous Meditation I (BRA)
Lucie Prod'homme, Comme un malentendu (FRA)
Paul Rudy, From one drop an ocean (USA)
Nicolas Vérin, Méditation sur l'Ukraine (FRA)
Chen Wang, Cyberspace Paradox (CHN)
Otto Wanke, Cycling (CZE)
The pieces of the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024 Concert Selection will be performed on March 8, 9 and 10 on the 16-channel accusmonium of the MEbU (Münster Earport) as part of the Festivals for New Music Forum Wallis was played by Simone Conforti (IRCAM Paris). The jury consisted of the Japanese Kotoka Suzuki (UTSC Toronto), the Peruvian Jaime Oliver La Rosa (Waverly Labs NYU New York), the New Zealander Reuben de Lautour (Canterbury University NZ) and the Swiss Javier Hagen (ISCM Switzerland, Forum Wallis, jury president).
The Forum Valais is the annual festival for new music organized by the IGNM-VS, the Valais chapter of the International Society for New Music. It will take place for the 17th time in 2024.
