CONCERT PROGRAM

Part 1
08 MAR 2024
8pm
MEbU Münster

curated by Simone Conforti

Francesco Santagata
Overthinking - listening to music and not talking is the best, I think
06:46, SP

Mehmet Ali Uzunselvi
Iklık Park
10:45, EP

Naxal Protocol (Piero Stanig)
Micro-insurrezioni
06:19, WP

Natasha Barrett
Impossible Moments
from Venice 2, 07:42, SP

Sébastien Béranger
Superflu[x]
08:31, SP

Beau Beaumont
No Input
11:06, WP

Jorge Vicario
Poltergeist II
09:53, WP

Mikel Kuehn
Unlocking The Keys
07:57, SP

Part 2
09 MAR 2024
8pm
MEbU Münster

curated by Simone Conforti

Bernd Schumann
Kanon für 4 Lautsprecher
04:02, SP

Frida Vasquez de la Sota /
Kathia Rudametkin
Climbing
15:16, SP

Léo Magnien
un relief suspendu par transparence
04:15, SP

Paul Oehlers
Automaton
06:09, SP

Paolo Montella
Cairo Backwards
10:24, WP

Lucie Prod’homme
Tu es démasqué
15:20, SP

Gabriel Araújo
SAW
07:12, EP

Bihe Wen
unfold
07:51, SP

Part 3
10 MAR 2024
6pm
MEbU Münster

curated by Simone Conforti

Cameron Naylor
Spent
07:00, SP

Sylvain Souklaye
invisible body
10:01, SP

Alex Buck
Otherness
08:28, SP

Bariya
Delhi Polyphones
13:09, EP

Dimitris Savva
Tranglitchuilizer_sabe_28523
08:43, SP

Yunjie Zhang
Le Caméléon
06:41, WP

Luis Quintana
Junkyard Construction:
Why Stop The Swing?
08:15, SP



SP — Swiss Premiere
EP — European Premiere
WP — World Premiere

PROGRAM BOOK

IX. CALL FOR ACOUSMATIC WORKS

Swiss Contemporary Music Festival
Forum Wallis announces
a call for acousmatic works
to be programmed during our 2024 festival.

The selected pieces will be performed
by Simone Conforti (IRCAM Paris)
at MEbU in Münster/Goms during Forum Wallis 2024.

The Call opened Nov 13th 2023
and closed Dec 31st 2023.

24 JAN 2024 - Resultate (final results)

The Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024
Call for Acousmatic Works jury members
are very happy to announce 
that the following works 
have been chosen for the
Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024 Selection Concerts:

Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Concert Selection 2024 (23 pieces)

(in alphabetical order)
Gabriel Araújo, SAW (BRA)
Bariya (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), Micro-insurrezioni (ITA/SGP)
Paul Oehlers, Automaton (USA)
Lucie Prod'homme, Tu es démasqué (FRA)
Luis Quintana, Junkyard Construction: Why Stop The Swing? (PRI)
Francesco Santagata, Overthinking - listening to music and not talking is the best, I think (ITA)
Dimitris Savva, Tranglitchuilizer_sabe_28523 (CYP)
Bernd Schumann, Kanon für 4 Lautsprecher (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)

Highly commended (18 pieces)

(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)
Yiannis 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)

Many thanks to all submitters
for sharing their works and
congratulations to all
selected composers!

Photo credits: Nicolas Vérin (by Jean Ber), Juro Kim Feliz (by Prince Requino), Mauro Diciocia (by Sonia Martina), Luis Quintana (by Mai Toyama)

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Jury Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024

Dr. Kotoka Suzuki (JPN), composer
University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Dr. Reuben de Lautour (NZL), composer
Head of New Music at the School of Music, University of Canterbury

Dr. Jaime E. Oliver La Rosa (PER), composer
New York University (NYU)

Javier Hagen (CHE), composer
ISCM Switzerland, Forum Wallis, Jury President

Concert Curator Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024

Simone Conforti. Composer, computer music designer, sound designer and software developer, born in Winterthur, graduated in Flute and Electronic Music. Computer Music Designer professor at IRCAM and Co-founder and CTO of MUSICO. Formerly co-founder of MusicFit and MUSST, has worked for ArchitetturaSonora, and as researcher for the Basel University, the HEM Geneva, the HEMU in Lausanne and the MARTLab research center in Florence. Specialised in interactive and multimedia arts, his work passes also through an intense activity of music oriented technology design, in this field he has developed many algorithms which ranges from sound spatialisation and space virtualisation to sound masking and to generative music. He has been professor in Electroacoustic Composition and Computer Music at the Conservatoire of Cuneo and Florence and worked as computer music designer at CIMM of Venice Biennale. https://simoneconforti.eu/?page_id=8


Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024 loudspeaker setup at MEbU (by Simone Conforti)

MEbU (Münster Earport by UMS'nJIP) at the foot of the Finsteraarhorn and the Rhone Glacier is Swiss Contemporary Music Duo UMS’nJIP's autonomous rehearsal and performance space, in the middle of the Swiss Alps and at the same time centrally connected to the most important European transport axes. MEbU includes a permanently installed 16-channel acousmonium to perform electroacoustic (acousmatic) music – one of the few publicly accessible of its kind in Europe.

Playlists Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Selections 2015-2023 (excerpts)