FORUM WALLIS 2021 ::::: Swiss Contemporary Music Festival ::::: Festival für Neue Musik ::::: Festival de Musique Contemporaine

10 AUG 2021, 10pm - Schloss Leuk, Part 1 (40m)
10 AUG 2021, 11pm - Schloss Leuk, Part 2 (40m)
10 AUG 2021, 12pm - Schloss Leuk, Part 3 (40m)

ARS ELECTRONICA FORUM WALLIS 2021

CONCERT PROGRAM

Part 1
10 Aug 2021
10pm
Schloss Leuk
Spritzuhüs

curated by Simone Conforti

Thibault Madeline
Le murmure de Bombus
World Premiere
Simone Franco

Panayiotis Kokoras
AI Phantasy
Swiss Premiere
Nicole Lovera

Nicolas Medero Larrosa
nightblooming-genera
World Premiere
Diego Pelissero

Lee Gilboa
Redacted
European Premiere
Letizia Ambrosetti
 

Part 2
10 Aug 2021
11pm
Schloss Leuk
Spritzuhüs

curated by Simone Conforti

Bernadette Johnson
Summer Fragments
Simone Franco

Juan Carlos Vasquez
Channel Zero
European Premiere
Letizia Ambrosetti

Richard Scott
Thunder actually bycicles
World Premiere
Amedeo Ripa Buschetti di Meana

Sylvain Souklaye
Soliloquy in motion
World Premiere
Domenico Bosio

Part 3
10 Aug 2021
12pm
Schloss Leuk
Spritzuhüs

curated by Simone Conforti

Manuella Blackburn
Microplastics
European Premiere
Nicole Lovera

David Nguyen
Whale Song Stranding
European Premiere
Diego Pelissero

Thibault Madeline
Enfant Sauvage
World Premiere
Amedeo Ripa Buschetti di Meana
 

CONCERT PERFORMERS

Simone Franco
Nicole Lovera
Diego Pelissero
Letizia Ambrosetti
Amedeo Ripa Buschetti di Meana
Domenico Bosio

Simone Conforti (dir)

PROGRAM BOOK

VII. CALL FOR ACOUSMATIC WORKS

Swiss Contemporary Music Festival
Forum Wallis announces
a call for acousmatic works
to be programmed during our 2021 festival.

The selected pieces will be performed
by Simone Conforti (Biennale Musica Venezia/IRCAM Paris)
in Schloss Leuk during Forum Wallis 2021.

The Call is now closed.
The Jury results are expected by July 1st 2021.

1 JUL 2021 - Results

Forum Wallis and the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Selection Jury
are very happy to announce
that the following works
have been chosen for the
Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Selection concerts

Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Selection 2021

(in alphabetical order)

Manuella Blackburn, Microplastics
Lee Gilboa, Redacted
Bernadette Johnson, Summer Fragments
Panayiotis Kokoras, AI Phantasy
Thibault Madeline, Enfant Sauvage
Thibault Madeline, Le murmure de Bombus
Nicolas Medero Larrosa, nightblooming-genera
David Nguyen, Whale Song Stranding
Richard Scott, Thunder actually bycicles
Sylvain Souklaye, Soliloquy in motion
Juan Carlos Vasquez, Channel Zero

The program sheet
and exact concert order
will be published
by Aug 10th.

Highly commended

(in alphabetical order)

Renzo Filinich Orozco, Convergent Points
Elliot Hernandez, Ritual
Lisa-Maria Hollaus, Brut
Helge Meyer, Noise Music
Paul Oehlers, Flux Hammer
Christopher Poovey, Forged Effervescence
Leah Reid, Reverie
Richard Scott, Music floats upwards
Ryne Siesky, Wanton Hush
Pierre-Henri Wicomb, Evenly hovering

Jury Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2021

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

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

Dr. Jaime E. Oliver (Peru), composer
Waverly Labs for Computing and Music, New York University (NYU)

Javier Hagen (CH), composer
Jury President, pres. ISCM Switzerland, art. dir. Forum Wallis

Concert Curator Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2021

Simone Conforti. Composer, computer music designer, sound designer and software developer. Born in Winterthur, he is graduated in Flute and Electronic Music and teaches in the pedagogy department at IRCAM in Paris and works as computer music designer at CIMM Venice. 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. Co-founder and CTO of MUSICO, formerly co-founded MusicFit and MUSST, has worked for Architettura Sonora, and as researcher for the Basel university, the MARTLab research center in Florence, the HEM Geneva and the HEMU in Lausanne. He has been professor in Electroacoustic at the Conservatoires of Florence and Cuneo.

Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2021 loudspeaker setup (by Simone Conforti)