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Robert Seaback Prize Winner 23RD INTERNATIONAL ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION MÚSICA VIVA 2022

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23rd International Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2022

Jury of the 2022 Jonty Harrison, Kees Tazelaar, Miguel Azguime

116 works from 34 Countries

RULES

Robert Seaback

Prize Winner 2022

23RD INTERNATIONAL ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION MÚSICA VIVA 2022

Jury of the 2022 edition Jonty Harrison, Kees Tazelaar, Miguel Azguime

RECEIVED 116 WORKS OF 30 COUNTRIES

Robert Seaback 1985, is a composer and sound artist from the US currently based in Oslo, NO. His music expresses corporeality, the hyperreal, digital stasis, and continuums between—integrating voices, instruments, soundscapes, and synthetic sources through digital techniques. He has worked in different mediums including spatial audio, mixed music for ensemble, electroacoustic improvisation, and sound installation.

Robert has a PhD in composition from the University of Florida and degrees in music from Mills College (MA) and Northeastern University (BS). He is currently an Artistic Research Fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music, working with Natasha Barrett. His music has been presented at international events such as ICMC, NYCEMF, Sonorities, MA/IN, and the ISCM World New Music Days, and has been recognized with awards from IEM & VDT 3D Audio Production Competition, Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition, ASCAP/SEAMUS, University of Florida, and Mills College.

Lightness in Transit (2021-22) | for High Order Ambisonics | 10:10

 

Lightness in Transit derives sound archetypes from subway and commuter train recordings made in Oslo. The sonic residue of metal, wind, engines, and movement contribute to the sensual, corporeal experience of the music. Against this backdrop, a voice continually emerges and recedes, oscillating between song-like utterance and digital stasis. Sources were recorded from Nationaltheatret Station, Holstein, and mezzo-soprano, Marika Schultze.

 

After an initial period of experimentation, my intention for Lightness in Transit became to mirror the visual and vibrational pulses of trains from different sonic perspectives—as an observer and as a traveler: enclosed, underground, or emerging—and in ways that traverse between fantasy and hyperreality. In the latter case, sound field recordings are presented in raw states, with subtle additions to enhance the scenes.

 

Another association which came to mind at the outset was the similarity of the raw sounds of trains in a steady state of movement to the bleak noise-scapes of some industrial music. This inspired the opening motive and other parts of the work.

 

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22th International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition – Música Viva 2021

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O Júri do Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2021, constituído pelos compositores Flo Menezes(Brasil) , Todor Todoroff (Bélgica) e Miguel Azguime (Portugal), decidiu atribuir duas Menções Honrosas: a Hyunsuk Jun (Coreia do Sul) pela peça “Anatomy I” e a Jorge Ramos (Portugal) pela peça “Paysage”. Nesta edição do Concurso não foi atribuído o 1.º Prémio.

The Jury of the Música Viva 2021 International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, constituted by Flo Menezes(Brasil) , Todor Todoroff (Belgium) and Miguel Azguime (Portugal), has decided to distinguish the two composers with Honourable Mentions: Hyunsuk Jun (South Korea) for the piece “Anatomy I” and Jorge Ramos (Portugal) for the piece “Paysage”. This year the Jury hasn't awarded any work with the 1st Prize.

 
 

Zhaoyu Zhang, “Inheritance” Prize International Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2020

Concurso Música Viva 2020 · Resultados

1.º Prémio: Zhaoyu Zhang, “Inheritance” · Menções Honrosas: Simone Conforti, “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy"; David Q. Nguyen, “Adumbrations”
1st Prize: Zhaoyu Zhang, “Inheritance” · Honourable Mentions: Simone Conforti, “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy"; David Q. Nguyen, “Adumbrations”

O Júri do Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2020, constituído pelos compositores Claude Cadoz (França), James Dashow (EUA) e Miguel Azguime (Portugal), decidiu atribuir o 1.º Prémio ao compositor Zhaoyu Zhang (China) pela obra “Inheritance”; e distinguiu ainda com Menções Honrosas as obras  – “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy” de Simone Conforti (Suíça/ Itália) e “Adumbrations” de David Q. Nguyen (EUA).  

Nascido na China e residente no Canadá, Zhaoyu Zhang cresceu na Mongólia, cuja herança cultural exerce uma influência relevante na sua criação musical. O conceito de “herança” é a chave na percepção do desenvolvimento sonoro da obra “Inheritance”, em que os materiais são replicados e animados a partir de um ponto de partida comum.  A música de Zhaoyu Zhang será apresentada na 27.ª edição do Festival Música Viva, em 2021.

The Jury of the Música Viva 2020 International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, constituted by the composers Claude Cadoz (France), James Dashow (USA) and Miguel Azguime (Portugal), has decided to give the 1st Prize to the composer Zhaoyu Zhang (China) for the work “Inheritance”, as well as two Honourable Mentions – to Simone Conforti (Switzerland/ Italy) for the work  “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy” and to David Q. Nguyen (USA) for the work “Adumbrations”.

Born in China and residing in Canada, Zhaoyu Zhang grew up in Mongolia, whose cultural heritage has significantly influenced his music. The concept of “inheritance” is the key to follow the sonic development of his awarded work, where the materials are replicated and animated from a common starting point. Zhaoyu Zhang’s music will be presented at the 27th edition of the Música Viva Festival, in 2021.



Leo Magnien Prize   20th International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition – Música Viva 2019

Prémio • Sutures de Leo Magnien 

Júri do Concurso 2019: Trevor Wishart, Gilles Gobeil, Miguel Azguime

Sutures (2019)
this piece explores the memory that sounds carry from the moment they were taped. In stitching together candid recordings made years apart, it attempts to conjure the relative events as well as to cast them in a sonic amulet.
The tension between the acoustic sources, the digital projections and their inmost content draw a network of remanences, a multiplex of signs. The work becomes a pool of possibles, never to be decoded but open for all to wander.

Leo Magnien  has been working with sounds for more than a decade. During night shifts in a radio station, he discovered the poetic nature of acousmatic sound and transmission. He has since developed a practice of listening that results in the use of phonography as a basis of all his works. His focus is on the subtle variations, the tenuous perceptions, and how to present these to the listener. He lives in a natural zone in northern France. 

19º Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2018

Música Viva 2018 -19º Electroacoustic Composition Competition

On the 25th and 26th of May 2018 at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, took place the jury meetings for the final selection and decision for the prize winner of the Música Viva 2018 Electroacoustic Composition Competition.

The jury members were Horacio Vaggione, António de Sousa Dias and Miguel Azguime and it was unanimously decided that due to the insufficient quality of the candidate’s works, no prize should be awarded.



Chris Bevan Prize 18th International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition – Música Viva 2017

Concurso Música Viva 2017

O vencedor do 18.º Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2017 é o compositor britânico Chris Bevan (1992), com a sua obra Ceramos.

 

O júri decidiu ainda distinguir com menções honrosas duas outras obras: Mute Sirens, de Giulio Aldinucci (1981), de Itália, e Tunnel Azur, de Robert Normandeau (1955), do Canadá.

Os membros do júri deste ano foram Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes e Miguel Azguime.

18th Electroacoustic Composition Competition - Música Viva 2017

The prize winner of this year’s Musica Viva International Electroacoustic Composition Competition is the british composer Chris Bevan (1992), with his work Ceramos.

Additionally the jury decided to distinguish with honourable mentions two other works: Mute Sirens, by Giulio Aldinucci (1981), from Italy, and Tunnel Azur, by Robert Normandeau (1955), from Canada.



Roberto Palazzolo Prize 17th INTERNACIONAL DE COMPOSIÇÃO ELECTROACÚSTICA MÚSICA VIVA 2016

Vencedores do concurso Música Viva 2016 

O vencedor do Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva de 2016 é o compositor italiano Roberto Palazzolo, com a sua obra Materia.

O júri decidiu ainda distinguir com menções honrosas duas outras obras: Ode to Kitchen, de Konstantinos Karathanasis, da Grécia e Foundry Flux, de Adam Stansbie, do reino Unido.

 

Os membros do júri deste ano foram Rui Dias, Adrian Moore e Miguel Azguime.

17th Electroacoustic Composition Competition - Música Viva 2016

The prize winner of this year’s Musica Viva International Electroacoustic Composition Competition is Italian composer Roberto Palazzolo with his work Materia.


Additionally the jury decided to distinguish with honourable mentions two other works: Ode to Kitchen by Konstantinos Karathanasis from Greece and Foundry Flux by Adam Stansbie from UK.


The jury members were Rui Dias, Adrian Moore and Miguel Azguime.



Sound Walk 2014 - Revolution and Metamorphosis

Miso Music Portugal is pleased to announce the selection of the electroacoustic miniatures, which make part of the sound installation, Sound Walk 2014 - Revolution and Metamorphosis, Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution.

From among around 100 miniatures received from 26 different countries, Miso Music Portugal has selected 12 works:

Trigonometría by Alejandro Casales (Mexico)
Déferlante by Blas Payri (Spain)
ofmikio´ by Daniel Steiner (Switzerland)
Ισπαχάν (ISPAHAN) by Dimitris Maronidis (Greece)
Publica Res by Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis (Italy)
Re_carnation by Gerald Fiebig (Germany)
Banalità del male by Giuseppe Gavazza (Italy)
Celeste by Juan María Solare (Argentina)
Rivoluzione dei garofani by Matteo Bertolina (Italy)
Liquid Metamorphosis by Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece)
Rivière Noire by Paul Ramage (France)
Red Carnations by Sondre Bryntesen (Norway)

The Sound Walk 2014 - Revolution and Metamorphosis was presented in the form of a sound installation during the Música Viva 2014 Festival, on November 23 and 24, from 6h00 p.m. to 11h00 p.m., at O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. 

Sound Walk / Close, Closer 2013

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Miso Music Portugal and the Música Viva Festival 2013 convoked composers to send electroacoustic miniatures to be part of a sound installation of the Triennale. This year's edition under the theme Close, Closer. 

"Nastymouf" by Andrew Babcock
"Stereotomics" by António Ferreira
"BabyBirdBeat" by Bejamin O'Brien
"Divertimento in Eb" by Christopher Bailey
"Estuve demasiado tiempo fuera" by David Mantecon
"intra muros" by Denise Ritter
"icygrape" by Diana Simpson Salazar
"Stous Theous" by Dimitrios Savva
"Oiseaux Électroniques" by Gilberto Filho
"Aqua Modulah" by Girilal Baars
"Music for Film" by Goni Peles
"Henry's Cowbell" by Gonzalo Varela
"Caged One" by Hamish Hossain
"DNA" by Hans Parment
"... proksime, pli proksime" by Hiroyuki Saeki
"Va e Viene" by João Fernandes
"Violins of Summer" by Konstantinos Karathanasis
"Black Shred" by Lin Culbertson
"ROAR Myopia" by Maggi Payne
"ANTI part3" by Maxime Corbeil-Perron
"Boids Noise" by Motoki Ohkubo
"... s'extirpe, lointaine résonance" by Nils Potet
"Mnmonic Generator" by Panayiotis Kokoras
"Giros II" by Rafael Gutierrez Gandia
"Spectrum" by Roberto Zanata

The Sound Walk / Close, Closer took place between 6th and 13th of December in Palácio Sinel de Cordes in Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, in the context of the Música Viva 2013 Festival.

15th Electroacoustic Composition Competition - Música Viva 2014

Cristina Dignart

prize winner of the 15th edition of the International Composition Competition of Electroacoustic Music


This year the Música Viva Competition has received a record number of proposals - 187 electroacoustic works from 34 countries.

The jury of the 15th edition of the Música Viva International Composition Competition of Electroacoustic Music constituted by Elzbieta Sikora, Andre Bartetzki and Miguel Azguime, has awarded the work Cerberus created by the Brazilian young composer, Cristina Dignart.




Sound Walk 2012

From October 1 to 10, 2012, the 5th edition of the Sound Walk / Sound Garden, collective and original sound installation, gave the visitors of the Goethe-Institut Garden an oppotunity to immerse in 25 sounscapes, that year joined by the "sound-text composition" theme.

  

"Micromaa" by Anna Korsun
"La Luna ha perso il suo occhio" by Anne-Claude Iger
"Tempus Fugit" by António Ferreira
"Digressione Ipertestuale Nr.10" by Cesare Saldicco
"Letzte Gebarde offener Munder" by Christian Banasik
"Is This Real?" by Christos Alexopoulos
"The Spell" by Christos Zachos
"Ever Decreasing Circles" by Damian O’Riain
"sphaira01_remix_2012" by Denise Ritter
"Emotion Machine" by Donika Rudi
"Stochasticity" by Emma O’Halloran
"Emptied Words" de Gerald Fiebig
"Griechenland: Ich liebe dich!" by Herbert Baioco
"F" by João Fernandes
"Growing Verse" by Junya Oikawa
"Sing at 83.33Hz" by Luis Marques
"Interference" by Matías Couriel
"Word of Mouth" by Nichola Scrutton
"Transfert" by Rosa Parlato
"Glittering Fragments" by Ruud Roelofsen
"Take a Winter Walk in the Garden with Jean-Jacques Rousseau" by Sirpa Jokinen
"Ideomas (2nd and 3rd movement)" by Stephen McCourt
"Cecilia" by Thomas McConville
"Alpha State Suggestions" by Vedran Mehinovic
"2 Days in the Tank" by William Price

The following selected works were broadcasted in Arte Electroacústica in July 6th, 2013- LISTEN HERE
"Tempus Fugit" by António Ferreira 
"Growing Verse" by Junya Oikawa
"F" by João Fernandes
"Griechenland: Ich liebe dich!" by Herbert Baioco
"Emptied Words" de Gerald Fiebig

The following selected works were broadcasted in Arte Electroacústica in July 20th, 2013 - LISTEN HERE
"Emotion Machine" by Donika Rudi
"Digressione Ipertestuale Nr.10" by Cesare Saldicco
"Micromaa" by Anna Korsun
"Ever Decreasing Circles" by Damian O’Riain
"Transfert" by Rosa Parlato
"La Luna ha perso il suo occhio" by Anne-Claude Iger
"Letzte Gebarde offener Munder" by Christian Banasik
"Sing at 83.33Hz" by Luis Marques
"The Spell" by Christos Zachos
"Glittering Fragments" by Ruud Roelofsen

The following selected works were broadcasted in Arte Electroacústica in August 3rd, 2013- LISTEN HERE
"Ideomas (2nd and 3rd movement)" by Stephen McCourt
"Take a Winter Walk in the Garden with Jean-Jacques Rousseau" by Sirpa Jokinen
"Is This Real?" by Christos Alexopoulos
"sphaira01_remix_2012" by Denise Ritter
"2 Days in the Tank" by William Price
"Alpha State Suggestions" by Vedran Mehinovic
"Cecilia" by Thomas McConville
"Interference" by Matías Couriel
"Stochasticity" by Emma O’Halloran
"Word of Mouth" by Nichola Scrutton

The Sound Walk / Sound Garden took place between October 1st and 10th, 2012, in the Garden of the Goethe-Institut Lisboa, in the context of the Música Viva 2012 Festival. 

The Sound Walk / Sound Garden was also presented between November 16th 2013 and January 5th 2014 in Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura , in the context of the Música Viva 2012 Festival. 

Sound Walk 2009 - Electroacoustic Miniatures

As result of a international call to composers of all ages and nationalities, Sound Walk collective and original sound installation, gave the visitors of the Belém Arts Centre an oppotunity to immerse in 35 sounscapes.

Khamsin" by António Ferreira
"Far" by Akiko Hatakeyama
"Hannibal" by David Berezan
"bachsbaby" by Danny de Graan
"Focus" by Junya Oikawa
"Nuit Vernale" by Alain Lithaud
"Outgribing" by James Andean
"Amadinda" by Madjid Tahriri
"AnechoicSpin" by Panayiotis Kokoras
"Momento-Paisagem" by Cândido Lima
"The Bolduc Sound" by Hervé Déjardin
"El Blanco Negro" by Daniel Dominguez
"Bologna" by Paul David Thomas
"in situ" by Hugo Paquete
"BubbleUp" by Maggi Payne
"Biopsy" by Sílvia Mendonça
"Le mouvement d'un murmure" by Jean-François Blouin
"Kestelli EarthWorks" by Sair Sinan
"Transcending Time" by Orlando Jacinto Garcia 
"Joyce's Vision" by Robert Mackay
"Órnis" by André Ruiz
"Memento Homo" by Carlos Súarez Sánchez
"WT0: Feedback" by Benjamin O'Brien
"Ezogiku" by Shinichi Morita
"Palabras vacias" by Ricardo de Armas
"Invocatio - ascribing soundimages into silence" by João Castro Pinto
"Phreximus" by Paul Oehlers
"Jewel" by Juraj Kojs
"Voyage au fond de l'ocean cerebral" by Jorge Antunes
"Sound Walk" by Gerald Fiebig
"African Rhythms" by Joan La Barbara
"Lame Lucenti... Tacerai per sempre" by Massimo Davi
"Iluna eta gero" by Jean Louis Hargous
"Harbour" by Rui Chaves
"Devenir" by Agapito Galan

 

The Sound Walk 2008 took place between September 13 and 20 in Belém Arts Centre.

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