Society for Electroacoustic Music of Czech Republic

supported by

Ministry of Culture, Municipal Government, Foundation Czech Music Fund, Music Foundation OSA
in cooperation with Czech Music Council

FINAL PROTOCOL

International Electroacoustic Music Competition

MUSICA NOVA 2008

Jury: Rainer Bürck, Lenka Dohnalová, Juraj Ďuriš, Pavel Kopecký, Michal Košut, Rudolf Růžička

76 pieces were considered from 23 countries

Category A (compositions of autonomous art electroacoustic music)

First Prize: Elizabeth Anderson (Belgium/USA) Protopia/Tesseract

Honorary Mentions: Roderik de Man (Nederland) Hear, hear!

Kyong Mee Choi (Korea) &Timothy E.Johnson (USA) Tensile Strength

Richard Müller (Czech Republic) Bardo

Finalists: Martin Bedard (Canada) Excavations

Konstatinos Karathanasis (Greece) Pollock´s Dreams: Liquefield Sounds

Clara Maïda (France) Ipso Facto
Yutaka Makino (Japan) Amorphous
Dohi Moon (Korea) The Grey Smiles on an Empty Door
Fred Szymanski (USA) Eskers

Category B (compositions for acoustic instrument/voice/ensemble & electroacoustic media)

First Prize: Yota Kobayashi (Japan) Tensho

Honorary Mention: Michal Rataj (Czech Republic) SiIence Talking

Finalists: Takuto Fukuda (Japan) 2/2
Kyong Mee Choi (Korea) The line we can´t cross

Marie Samuelsson (Sweden) Eleven hundred and twenty degrees

Lisa Streich (Sweden/Germany) Näcken

Special Award for Composition by Young Composer: Jiří Ospalík (Czech Republic) L´Inegalité

Special Award for Czech Composition: Richard Müller Bardo

Finalists: Jiří Ospalík L´Inegalité
Petr Pařízek Missä Olet
Michal Rataj Machine-Hand-Mind-Memory

Michal Rataj SiIence Talking

Lenka Dohnalová, director of the competition Rudolf Růžička, president of the jury

MUSICA NOVA 2008, SEAH - Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.musica.cz/musnova

Prague, November 9, 2008