ECMC 25th Anniversary
International Electroacoustic Music Competition

During the spring of 2006, the ECMC sponsored an open competition designed to recognize recently completed electroacoustic compositions and performance and multimedia works of outstanding originality and quality. The competition judges, consisting of members of the Eastman Composition Department faculty and ECMC staff members, reviewed more than eighty submissions by composers and musicians from ten countries and awarded the following prizes:

• First prize: Juraj Kojs, Charlottesville, Virginia
  Revelations for circular toys, resonant plates and electronics, performed by 3 players and a MAX patch with 4 channel audio system
• Second prize: Luis Antunes Pena, Essen, Germany
  Anatomia de um Poema Sonoro for soprano, speaker, alto saxophone, percussion, piano, MAX/MSP, Evolution UC-33 processor and 4 channel audio system
• Third prize: Francis Dhomont and Ines Wickman, Avignon, France
  Moirures, a video/audio composition

Three additional works of exceptional quality were awarded honorable mention citations:

• John Gibson, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Elements, a DVD-video with 5.0 audio output
• Glechoma Dirk Specht and Gerriet K. Sharma, Aachen, Germany
  Aubaine, an audio compact disc
• Per Bloland, Palo Alto, California
  Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror for piano with electromagnets

The three prize-winning works and some or all of the honorable mention works will be performed for the 2006-2007 ECMC concert series.