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This year is of course the year that we celebrate 100 years of The Art Of Noise. not the band. but the manifesto from Luigi Russolo. If that line doesn't mean anything. stop reading here and google it first. Somewhere you can win an award 'Luigi Russolo-Rossana Maggia' for 'young composers under 35' (I think I ranted before about being young vs being old in this world) and the prize winners are on this compilation. the 1st. 2nd and 3rd prize. as well as the audience awards and mentions by Ginafranco Maffina. Rossana Maggia and Dmitry Vasilyev (the jury perhaps?). All of these works are between 8 and 11 minutes. perhaps a restriction for entering this competition? Steven Snethkamp (2nd prize) has a weird piece for percussion. wind instruments and organ. maybe representing the orchestral noise as outlined by Russolo. whereas the third prize (for Carlos David Perales Cejudo) is more conventional electro-acoustic music. Not bad. but perhaps not special enough. Which I may also think of Theodore Karkatselas and Esteban Zuniga Dominguez. Vasilyev's mention goes to Andrei Lisin who delivers actually a very nice and somewhat cruder collage of sound. more fitting these pages. The two audience awards are also nice pieces. especially by Sam Salem. Prize winner is Timothy Schmele whose 'The Common Perkins Scream' is indeed a great piece combing cleverly electro-acoustic sounds. spoken word and electronics into a fine small piece with great radio play quality. Perhaps it would have been my winner too. (Says Frans De Ward)
