X. CALL FOR ACOUSMATIC WORKS

Swiss Contemporary Music Festival
Forum Wallis announces
a call for acousmatic works
to be programmed during our 2025 festival
and concert series.

The selected pieces will be performed
by Simone Conforti (IRCAM Paris)
at MEbU in Münster/Goms during Forum Wallis 2025
and/or within the MEbU Ars Acusmatica
electronic music concert series.

The Call opened Nov 8th 2024
and closed Dec 31st 2024.

Many thanks to all submitters!
The jury's selection will be announced
on this page by Jan 31st 2025.

31 JAN 2025 - Resultate (final results)

The 10. Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2025
Call for Acousmatic Works jury members
are very happy to announce 
that the following works 
have been selected:

Concert Selection (26 pieces)

(in alphabetical order)
Alvarez Tobias, Paralelismos (MEX)
Bangun Setyawan Candra, Idrak (IDN)
Behrens Marc, L’écrit fantome (GER)
Bordin Matteo, Symbols (ITA)
Borrel Stéphane, The Favourites (FRA)
Cappelletti Nicola, Parallaxe.Parataxe (ITA)
Castro Pinto Joao, Circumsphere: to bounce and rebounce (PRT)
Cheung Chris, Casting light (HKG)
Curgenven Robert, Across Country (AUS)
Dall'Ara-Majek Ana, Mare Buchlae (FRA)
Delgado Gustavo, Strin[G]i(n)[Mi] (ARG)
Duchenne Jean-Marc, L’énigme des objets (FRA)
Fumo Frattegiani Nicola, Hybris (ITA)
Karkatselas Theodoros, Lacuum (GRC)
Koszolko Martin, Tympan (AUS)
Kubaczek Benjamin-Alan, Impromptu 8 (AUT)
Kuehn Mikel, Dancing In The Ether (USA)
Nguyen David Quang-Minh, Texture Arc The Points (USA)
Oliveira Joao Pedro, Pulses (BRA)
Orlandini Valerio, Jeu de Bruits (ITA)
Perez Simon, Las cifras y las palabras (ARG)
Sambucco Dominic, Versenkung (ITA)
Sintaratana Tanid, Fragments (THA)
Sismann Valentin, Morphaime (FRA)
Talebi Shahrzad, WatchTheOnlyWayHomeDisappear (IRN)
van der Loo Ernst, Void Population (NLD)

Highly commended (14 pieces)

(in alphabetical order)
Argento Cristian, Diviso in Due (ITA)
Gintas K, Crunchy (LTU)
Guzman Roy, Guasábara (PRI)
Harper Nathan, Nutria No. 4 (USA)
Hernández Elliot, Leviathan (MEX)
Hernandez Omar, de tu piel supura… tristeza /from your skin exudes… sadness (MEX)
Huerta Concepción, somos de los lugares… (MEX)
Magnien Léo, dans la plaine incertaine (FRA)
Moyers Timothy, On the Rim of Conciousness (USA)
Polymeneas-Liontiris Thanos, Tettix 'A (GRC)
Quint Ursel, Es (GER)
Sintaratana Tanid, Phi Fa (THA)
Soria Edmar, PostAnthroposRecord1 (MEX)
Turcotte Roxanne, Alibi des voltigeurs (FRA)

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

The exact concert programs
will be published by 1.5.2025.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Jury Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2025

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 2025

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 2025 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 2015-2024 (excerpts)