<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>AWARD WINNERS PHONURGIA NOVA </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">The Phonurgia Nova competition is a land of acoustic discovery: an international event which rallies sound and radio artists from all over the world. In 2008, 289 productions from 20 different countries were entered, and 36 of those were selected for an award. The jury was open, for the very first time, to the general public, and its president, producer Daniel Deshays, underlined that this competition became “a genuine sound art observatory and not a conservatory”.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">An environment that left no room for those formulated recipes that categorize sounds, no prefabricated assessments, just attentive ears and thought provoking debates. As usual, many called but few chosen… </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>Andreas BICK (Germany), win the first radio and sound art prize </b>with <i>Fire Pattern - Frost Pattern</i>. Produced by Deutschlandradio Kultur 2007 (2 x 26 min.) (Endowment: 3 000 euros awarded by the SACD)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">Andreas Bick’s work distinguishes itself by the remarkable sound recording quality. Coming within reach of the phenomenon’s he wants to evoke (sublimation of water, fire, frost, the crackling of ice), he derives from it a powerful acoustic substance. These two works place the listener in the position of a serene observer mesmerized by all these natural processes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>Bernadette JOHNSON (Switzerland), win the second radio and sound art prize</b> with <i>Summer Fragments </i>(5 min.) (Endowment: 1 500 euros, awarded by the SACEM)</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">Bernadette Johnson has had multiple nominations at the Phonurgia Nova Competition but this is the first time she wins a prize. Her work is characterized by an exploration -and a successful articulation- of interiority. The sophisticated and bold editing work, the choice of sounds and their treatment, enable the author to flesh out an echo-form, a magnificent metaphor of the memory, an instable assembly of recollections.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 12); min-height: 13px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>LISTENING TO THEM</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">The two winners have been invited by RADIO CAMPUS PARIS during 2 nights of free broadcasting. You can discover their univers and listen to their playlist on the website of our partner</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>Bernadette JOHNSON </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">http://<a href="http://www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=6050"><font color="#0001ea" style="color: #0001ea"><u>www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=6050</u></font></a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>Andreas BICK </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#0001ed" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #0001ed"><a href="http://www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=6018"><u>http://www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=6018</u><u></u></a></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 12); min-height: 13px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">No prize awarded in the “New media/ interdisciplinary media” category, but the jury was unanimous in awarding 2 distinctions:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>Christoph KORN and Lasse-Marc RIEK (Germany)</b> for their album of chosen silences...</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">This small book is a conceptual proposal, pointing pages after pages, towards a location, an event, enabling the reader to reflect and imagine the sounds “that are taking place”. The silence as a void, as a manifestation, as a pointer to a disappearance, as an “apparition”.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>Laura MALACART (UK/Italy)</b>, for her film, <i>Voicings.</i></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">By asking English-speaking actors to read immigrants testimonies about their language learning process, <i>Voicings</i> manages to generate a whole array of interpretations in a very short time span and with very simple means. This illustration from which the scar (the limited command of the language) has been expunged is an invitation to tolerance and compassion.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; min-height: 12.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c"><b>3 residencies</b> have been given to <b>Erick BULLOT, Allessandro BOSETTI and Nicole MARMET</b>. The 3 authors have the opportunity to developp new sound projects in 2009 in our 3 studios partners INA-GRM (Paris), IMEB (Bourges) and GMVL (Lyon).</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; min-height: 12.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">We warmely thank the 289 candidates for their attending !</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; min-height: 12.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00000c" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #00000c">More info : <a href="http://www.phonurgia.org/"><font color="#0001ea" style="color: #0001ea"><u>www.phonurgia.org</u></font></a></font></p>
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