Spolecnost pro elektroakustickou hudbu (Society for Electro-acoustic Music of the Czech Republic) announces an International Electro-acoustic Music Composition Competition MUSICA NOVA 2008.
- The competition MUSICA NOVA was for the first time realized in 1969.
- Composers, irregardless of their age and nationality are invited to submit their works of electro-acoustic music created after 1st January 2005.
- Category A is open to compositions of autonomous art electro-acoustic music (tape music), or only one independent movement.
- Category B is open to compositions of autonomous art electro-acoustic music, or only one independent movement, for acoustic instrument/voice/ensemble plus electronic media. Send one of realized complete version of the composition, sent only electro-acoustic without the instrumental or voice part will be excluded.
- Each composer may submit only one entry to each category in duration of no longer than 20 minutes, and the work may not have been awarded a prize in another competition, nor been submitted to previous MUSICA NOVA competitions.
- Competition entries in both categories must be submitted with the name of the composer specified.
- Members of the jury cannot take part in the competition.
- The jury of the competition shall be appointed by the leadership of the Society for Electro-acoustic Music and composed of leading composers of electro-acoustic compositions, musicologists, critics, and recording engineers specializing in the electro-acoustic music field.
- Entries must be sent to the following address postmarked:
MUSICA NOVA 2008,
HIS, Besedni 3, 118 00 PRAHA 1,
Czech Republic
no later than 10 October 2008.
a. Entries into category A and B, recorded on a sophisticated technical level and in stereo, must be submitted in the medium of CD or DVD, and indexed by absolute time
b. Entries into categories A and B shall be accompanied by a score (if necessary), technical and artistic description, name of studio where work was produced, their durata, graphs, etc., to be judged by the jury
c. Entries into categories A and B shall be accompanied by a brief artist statement, short biography, nationality, address, telephone number, fax, and e-mail (attached form), see attached form
N.B: You can register electronically and upload your composition on the FTP server http://musicanova.nipax.cz for better preparation working of jury. Your composition will be accessible only for you and jury. Sending the CD rests obligatory. - The entry fee for each composition is 20 EURO (or equivalent).
Way of payment: IBAN: CZ48 0800 0000 0000 14045349/0800, BIC: GIBACZP, address of the bank: Ceska sporitelna,a.s., Konevova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, CR
Please, hold the distinction of address postal (HIS Besedni) and address official that could be write on the bank order or checks. If your transfer charges would be to expensive, write to lenka.dohnalova@divadlo.cz, please. - The audio recordings entered in the competition shall not be returned to the composers and shall remain in the Society for Electro-acoustic Music archives.
- By entering his/her work in the competition, the composer consents to public performances of his/her work in concerts and/or radio broadcasting. The composer retains the copyright.
- Prizes shall be awarded for the winning entries after the jury has announced its verdict, which cannot be appealed. The jury can decide to either combine, divide or not award some of the prizes.
- Prizes in Categories A and B include: First Prizes, Honorable Mentions and Special Prizes for Czech composers and for young composers (until 30 years).
- All entrants shall be notified of the verdict by the jury on the awarding of prizes and honorable mentions by 15 November 2008
- Prizes will be presented during the award concert in December 2008 in Prague.
- The awarded compositions will be performed in concerts organized by the Society for Electro-acoustic Music and broadcast by radio. The outcome of the competition will be published in the network of International Music Council too.
INFORMATION
Director of the competition: Lenka Dohnalova, Ph.D - tel. +420/603584218, tel&fax +420/222540809, http://www.musica.cz/musnova/index.html
FORM
Personal data:
Surname
Name
Date of birth
Nationality
Address
Email, Phone, Fax
Style:
Characterization of your personal style and aesthetics
Composition:
Technical description of the composition (used material, hardware, software)
Aesthetical description of the composition