| EBU ARS ACUSTICA NEWSLETTER NO. 2 - 2006 | ||
| No. 2 | - Radio - | 18 October 2006 |
Dear friends!
The winter and the darkness are slowly but surely approaching us and we are all vey busy producing ars acustica around Europe and I hope that you still have all the power that we need in order to plan and arrange a fantastic upcoming EBU Ars Acustica Special Evening on the 17th of January - the EBU Art's Birthday 2007. Up to now, the following radio-companies have informed me about their live-participation in our event; ORF (Vienna), Swedish Radio (Stockholm), Radio France (Paris), RTBF (Brussels), Czech Radio (Prague), Slovak Radio (Bratislava), Croatian Radio (Zagreb) and WDR (Cologne). I'm still waiting for confirmation around live-participation from: RAI (Rome), Radio Russia (Moscow) and Slovenian Radio (Ljubljana). Hopefully even more organisations will join us in the next weeks!
The following radio-companies have informed me that they will broadcast/remix our special evening; SWR (Baden-Baden), Hessischer Rundfunk, NRK (Oslo), Hungarian Radio (Budapest), DeutschlandRadio Kultur (Berlin), RNE Radio Clasica (Madrid).
Live-participation will of course also come from other free-networks via the internet or isdn-lines (for example from artist Ward Weis in Antwerpen and from other cities around the world). More info on this will follow in an upcoming newsletter.
I'm also trying to get other radio-companies involved in our special evening and hopefully we will be able to welcome new participants in our EBU Art's Birthday 2007.
Do not forget our next deadline - 10th of November - for providing me with url:s to new websites regarding Art's Birthday, photos, program notes etc about the content of your broadcast!
I will in the next weeks get back to you with more information regarding satellite-schedules etc and to where the live-participants are to send their contribution on isdn-lines (it will be to either the Radio Houses in Stockholm or Vienna which will take care of all uplinking to satellite-channels RAVEL and VERDI).
All the best,
Erik Mikael Karlsson - Swedish Radio Ltd.
Chairman EBU Ars Acustica
PS. Enclosed is a press-document from SWR regarding 2006 Karl Sczuka Award.
ARS ACUSTICA NEWS FROM BROADCASTING ORGANISATIONS:
NEWS FROM SWR BADEN-BADEN:
From Editor Hans Burkhard Schlichting;
Asmus Tietchens receives Karl Sczuka Prize 2006
Support grant not awarded / Award ceremony on 21 October at Donaueschingen
Festival
The Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art, awarded by the SWR, this year
goes to the sound artist Asmus Tietchens. Tietchens, born in Hamburg in
1947, receives the award which is endowed with a prize of 12 500 euros for his
sound composition "Trois Dryades" which was first broadcast on 25 March 2006
by the WDR (Studio Akustische Kunst). The Karl Sczuka support grant was not
awarded this year. The award ceremony with a laudation by jury member
Johann-Georg Schaarschmidt will take place on 21 October as part of the
Donaueschingen Festival. The winning work with excerpts from the award ceremony will be
broadcast on 26 October at 21.03 on SWR2. Asmus Tietchens previously won the
Karl Sczuka Prize in 2003 for his sound composition "Sechs Heidelberger Studien"
("Six Heidelberg Studies").
The independent jury - with the literary scholar Klaus Ramm in the chair -
based its decision on the following grounds: "In his radio piece "Trois
Dryades", Asmus Tietchens succeeds in creating an unusual interlinking between
calmness and tension. From quite unremarkable material - the microscopically
recorded sounds created inside a tree trunk as it splits - he develops an
evocative composition in three movements. The interaction between vibrating sound
surfaces and sharp-edged sound pulses, the change between concrete and
abstract, the shift between contemplative expansiveness and physical compression
creates a listening experience of particular appeal and quality."
Other members of the jury were: the writer Marcel Beyer, the media critic
Frank Kaspar, as well as the music expert and publicist Monika Lichtenfeld and
the opera director and former rector of the Academy of Music in Freiburg
Johann-Georg Schaarschmidt. The jury were asked to judge 74 works submitted by
102 contenders from 20 countries. Alongside commissioned productions for radio
stations in Germany and abroad, the submissions included 28 independent
productions by the authors themselves. As in previous years, the number of young
applicants has risen again: more than half of the artists submitting works
were born after 1960 and 22 percent even after 1970.
Founded in 1955 by the Suedwestfunk Baden-Baden, as it was then, the Karl
Sczuka Prize is named after the SWF resident composer at the start of the
post-war period and since 1972 has been awarded for "the best production of a work
of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic
performance." The award, which has been presented since 1972 as part of the
Donaueschingen Festival, is recognised internationally as one of the most important
prizes for acoustic art.
Asmus Tietchens was born in Hamburg on 3 February 1947. In 1965 he began
experimenting with tape recorders and electronic sound production (sine-wave
generators, rhythm machines) and concrete sound materials. Since then he has
released more than 50 LPs and CDs and has made numerous public appearances at
home and abroad. In 1986 and 1991 he undertook concert trips organised by the
Goethe Institute to Brazil and Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Since 1989 he
has held a lectureship for sound design, communication design and sound
research at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (HAW). He has won the Karl
Sczuka Prize for "Sechs Heidelberger Studien" in 2003 and for "Trois Dryades" in 2006.
Award ceremony: Saturday, 21 October 2006, 09.30
Award of the Karl Sczuka Prize 2006
Museum Lichtspiele, Brigachweg 2, 78166 Donaueschingen
(second public performance on 22 October, 09.30)
SWR2 broadcast: Thursday, 26 October, 21.03
SWR2 RadioArt: Hörspiel-Studio
The prize-winning work from 2006 and excerpts from the award ceremony
Photos for printing of Asmus Tietchens can be downloaded from
Further information about the Karl Sczuka Prize on the Internet at
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Erik Mikael Karlsson - Producer SR P2
Chairman EBU Ars Acustica
Sveriges Radio/Swedish Radio Ltd.
Postal adress: S-211 01 Malmö, Sweden
Office: Baltzarsgatan 16, Malmö, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0) 40 20 55 00
Tel direct: +46 (0) 40 20 55 32
Tel mobile: +46 (0)70 32 668 48
Email: erik_mikael.karlsson@sr.se
Website: http://www.sr.se/p2/monitor
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