Concours de Composition Acousmatique
petites formes 2024
10th Anniversary
Canada – France – Japon – Taiwan
The Final Selection and Audience Prize of petites formes 2024 Acousmatic Composition Competition was held on Saturday April 13, 2024 at La Matrice, Paris in public. The Panel of Judges composed of: Andréa Cohen, André Serre-Milan, Laurence Bouckaert, Christian Eloy, Violeta Cruz and Gérard Pape has named its winners:
– 6 Winners of Category A –
CHEN Yi-Xuan : Altered states of … (Taiwan)
MOISAN Alexis : Promenade à Montréal (Canada)
BONIFAS Elise : Moisissure (France)
LI Vivian : Memory Playback (Canada)
TU Yen-Hao : A Piano Experiment (Taiwan)
SISMANN Valentin : Loinaître (France)
– Audience Prize – Category A –
LI Vivian : Memory Playback (Canada)
—————
– 6 Winners of Category B –
GOHIN Ulysse : Swarm (France)
DE CECCO Alessandro : Résurgences (France)
WATANABE Rui : Migraine (Japan)
CHENG Ya-Tzu : Stripped away from… (Taiwan)
LEE An-Ting : Shaded · Light (Taiwan)
CHEN Yi-Xuan : Your call will be forwarded to … (Taiwan)
– Audience Prize – Category B –
ex aequo WATANABE Rui : Migraine (Japan)
ex aequo HSIAO Hsiang-Yu : Creative Ebb : Café Rêverie (Taiwan)
_________________________
petites formes 2024 Finalists
(after proportional adjustments)
CANADA – Category A
1 BLAIS Alexis : SKAND
2 YAN Yulin : Apropos of Thrownness
3ex LI Vivian : Memory Playback
3ex MOISAN Alexis : Promenade à Montréal
CANADA – Category B
0
________
FRANCE – Category A
1 FINCK Ludovic : Ramage
2 BONIFAS Elise : Moisissure
3 SISMANN Valentin : Loinaître
FRANCE – Category B
1 REGNIER Jonas : Cartographie du silence
2 Raphaël Amour Corniglion Faccioli : Abductio MMeta III
3ex DE CECCO Alessandro : Résurgences
3ex GOHIN Ulysse : Swarm
________
JAPAN – Category A
1 HAN Zhi : If I were an insect
2 LU Yongsong : Communication
JAPAN – Category B
1 WATANABE Rui : Migraine
________
TAIWAN – Category A
1 WANG Chih-Yun : The Misreading of Penrose
2 CHEN Yi-Xuan : Altered states of …
3 LEE An-Ting : The Suite of Prometheus
4 TU Yen-Hao : A Piano Experiment
TAIWAN – Category B
1 CHEN Yi-Xuan : Your call will be forwarded to …
2 HSIAO Hsiang-Yu : Creative Ebb : Café Rêverie
3 LEE An-Ting : Shaded · Light
4 CHENG Ya-Tzu : Stripped away from…
____________
CONCERT and FINAL SELECTION of petites formes 2024
Announcement of Laureats and Public Prize
Saturday 13 April 2024 l 14:00-18:30 l La Matrice (11 rue des Martyrs, 75009 Paris)
M° 7: Le Peltier & M° 12 Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
President of International Competition petites formes 2024: Christian Eloy
Composer and sound engineer for Acousmonium: Florent Colautti
Production – Realization: TPMC – Tout Pour al Musique Contemporaine, France
Co-Realization:
McGill University, Canada
Nagoya City University, Japan
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Partnerships: CIDMA – La Matrice – Théâtre du Petit Miroir
____________
Rules
1. This contest is held within the framework of cultural exchanges between Taiwan, Japan, Canada and France, and aims to promote acousmatic music, also to encourage young composers of this music in Taiwan, Japan, Canada and France.
During the 2023-2024 season, the musical compositions of the Final prizewinners will be included in the programmes of several concerts in France, Taiwan, Japan, Canada, etc.
2. The Concours de Composition en Musique Acousmatique petites formes 2024 is organised by Tout Pour la Musique Contemporaine (France), Nagoya City University (Japan), McGill University (Montréal, Canada) and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan).
3. The Concours de Composition en Musique Acousmatique petites formes 2024 is open to composers of French, Taiwanese, Canadian and Japanese nationality, born after 31 December 1983.
Composers from other countries than Taiwan Japan Canada and France, can apply, in the same conditions of age, if
– they have a legal residence permit (one year minimum) at the date of their registration,
– if they are following a superior cursus in music in one of the 4 countries.
4. The works must be of the genre: electronic music or electroacoustic acousmatic music.
The panel will encourage pieces in line with the concept of experimental electronic music.
5. A new category of musical work is open since the 5th edition in 2022 as “very short pieces“ (très petites formes), whose duration is less than 3 minutes. Each composer can submit two works in each category:
Category A – Work between 5 – 12 minutes (petites formes)
Category B – Work of less than 3 minutes (très petites formes)
6. In case of selection of 2 works from the same artist, the jury will have to choose only one for the final selection.
7. We ask for a 20 € fee for each registration of category A and a 10 € fee for each registration of category B. The fee has to be paid for each composition to validate the registration.
These fees will be used to encourage and help composers to organize and co-organize concerts to make their music better known and more widely distributed in each of the 4 countries.
8. The technical presentation standard for the acousmatic pieces is exclusively the format:
.wav or .aif – 48 KHz 24 bits – stereo
9. Each candidate must complete a Registration Form with the following documents:
1. photocopy of proof of identity (labelled with the composer’s NAME, first name – in .pdf, .jpeg) or legal residence permit for composers coming from other countries up to date school certificate for students coming from other countries (labelled with the composer’s NAME, first name)
2. a biography in English (labelled with the composer’s NAME, first name – max 1000 signs, in .doc, or .pdf)
3. a program note in English (labelled ONLY with the title of work – max 1000 signs, format .doc or .pdf)
4. the sound file (labelled ONLY with the title of work in .wav or .aif – 48 KHz 24 bits – stereo)
5. proof of payment – reference number (Paypal)
IMPORTANT: If you wish to take part in both categories or 2 works in same category, please send 2 individual files with composer’s name 1 or 2. Registration will be null and void if any of these documents is missing. Postal deliveries will not be considered by the organizers of the competition.
10. The Registration Form must be sent by 31 December 2023 at the latest. For any questions, please contact the following gmail address: petitesformes2024@gmail.com
11. The work submitted must have been composed in the three years preceding the deadline for submission of entries. Works having been played at concerts are permitted, but they must not have been published on CD, nor have been awarded a prize or any audience award at the deadline for entries.
12. Composers already having been finalists in the last petites formes competition (2022) are not permitted to enter.
13. Pre-selection: Pre-selection: The organisers from each country will constitute a panel of a minimum of 4 judges including 3 members from among the local specialists plus a prizewinner of the petites formes competition of a previous session (to be chosen by the organiser); in the absence of a former winner, a specialist from outside will replace him or her. Each panel will nominate its panel chairperson who will have the casting vote.
Every jury from the 4 countries will select 3 pieces in each of the 2 categories for the Final.
14. Selection for the Final: The 12 works of Category A and the 12 works of Category B resulting from the preselection will become the programme of a public concert in Paris during the spring of 2024.
The judges of the Final will choose the winners in each category of the Concours de Composition Acousmatique petites formes 2024, one piece from each country must be included in the Final Selection.
15. An Audience Prize will be awarded by a vote of the audience to one of the 12 finalists in each category of the Concours de Composition Acousmatique petites formes 2024.
The vote will take place during the deliberations of the panel; a representative from the audience and a representative of the panel will count the votes.
Prizewinners will not be allowed to vote for the audience prize.
16. The panel for the Final will be made up of 6 judges of international renown. The panel will nominate a Chairperson who will have the casting vote in the resolutions. The final selection of the 6 prizewinners in each category will be announced publicly at the end of the concert by Christian Eloy – the Chairman of the Concours de Composition Acousmatique petites formes 2024; the same will apply to the announcement of the Audience Prizes.
The decisions of the panel will not be justified or commented upon and there will be no right of appeal.
The results will be communicated within the following week to those competitors who were not able to attend the concert.
17. The prizewinners undertake to enter: Prizewinner of the Concours de Composition Acousmatique petites formes 2024 in programmes or publications that include their work played at concerts.
____________
____________
Concours de Composition Acousmatique petites formes 2024 is presented by:
Christian Eloy, President of Concours de Composition Acousmatique petites formes 2024
Lin-Ni Liao, Chair for Section in France (Tout Pour la Musique Contemporaine – IReMus, Paris)
Mikako Mizuno, Chair for Section in Japan (Nagoya City University, Nagoya)
Yoshihisa Suzuki, Co-chair for Section in Japan (Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, Nagoya)
Yu-Chung Tseng, Chair for Section in Taiwan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu)
Chia-Hui Chen, Co-chair for Section in Taiwan (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei)
Philippe Leroux, Chair for Canadian section (McGill University, Montréal)
Quentin Lauvray, Co-chair for Canadian section (ensemble éclat, Montréal)
Rules_petites formes 2024: EN / FR / JP / ZH-TW
____________
Information. http://www.tpmc-paris.com/competitions/
Email Contact. petitesformes2024@gmail.com
Tout Pour la Musique Contemporaine www.tpmc-paris.com
