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 opens Nov 8th 2024
and closes Dec 31st 2024.

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)