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Announcing the Winners of the 8th Annual TCF/ Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation Competition!!!

Entries poured in from ten countries and five continents, but in the
end the TCF judges chose just nine works as this year’s winners
in the categories of best documentary, best new artist, radio impact
and, for the very first time, best news feature. The winning
stories range in style from investigative journalism to "composed
documentary" to personal stories to a podcast...together presenting
the best of the best in audio storytelling from the past year.

Check out the 2008 TCF winners , hear excerpts of these stellar stories
and read all about the producers behind this this prize-winning work.
Then stay tuned to find out the results - who won what - in just
a few weeks.


Happy listening, people!

Jury decision after Hörmarathon

Die Karl-Sczuka-Preisträger 2008: Thomas Meinecke und David Moufang

read full report HERE (German)

or

read in 'English' -translated by Google- HERE

Hello everyone!

We are proud to announce the launch of 'Soundscape Forever', an ambitious collaboration with Kunstradio. 'Soundscape Forever' commences now with the on-line publication of ten original pieces and  tonight's broadcast of Chris Watson's 'Luskentyre' on the celebrated  weekly program of the Austrian National Radio cultural channel. The  collaboration will continue until December 13th with the broadcast of  5 subsequent works by Els Viaene, Xavier Fassion, Jean-Philippe  Renoult, Murmer and eRikm, who were given carte blanche to create new  works for 'Soundscape Forever'.

'Soundscape Forever' is a reference to Raymond Murray Schafer,  credited with being the "inventor" of the soundscape in the 1960s.  First and foremost it's a contemporary questioning of this notion  which is both ambiguous and often quoted, and still plays a central  role in contemporary sound-art and music.

When at SilenceRadio we question the notion of soundscape, we come up against the problem of speaking about sound with sound: we do not  know what to listen to! A little disorientated, we find our way out  
by choosing a mobile framework, which arrives at uncovering certain chosen pieces in the whole. From the remainder left in the dark,  there emanates nevertheless some ghosts...

As "any landscape is a state of mind", these creations remain  naturally only projections of spaces in space, of air within air, of  human beings towards other human beings. Landscapes exist only as far  as human or animal beings create them by their activities, their  relations and their perceptions.

We live in sound.

link

http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/CURATED_BY/SILENCE_RADIO/index.html

 

 

NEWS ALERT:

Prix Italia 2008
Radio Documentaries
 
LEON AND KATA
By Nikica Klobucar
 
Croatian Radio
 
Leon and Kata documents the difficult relationship between a 25year old man, thrown onto the streets by  the unfortunate events of life, and Kata,  a 43 year old woman who also lives under
very hard financial conditions. This program impressed the jury greatly with its close-up, real-life scenes. It is not just another report from the margins of society. The listener becomes part of this story, drawn by the almost invisible hand of the program maker into the trauma and crises of the characters’ difficult lives. The rough recordings which elaborate and symbolise the dramaturgy of these troubled lives drew the jury into a closer understanding of poverty and life on the edge.
 
 
Prix Italia Special Prize
 
MY FATHER TAKES A VACATION
By Martin Johnson
Swedish Radio
 
This programme moves across landscapes drawn from postcards sent by a father who has abandoned his children. When the author was a teenager, his mother died of cancer and his father, unable or unwilling to shoulder the responsibility for three young children, left home to cycle through Ireland. Martin Johnson casts a cool eye on this story of unforgivable desertion as he retraces his father’s steps through Ireland. The jury was impressed by the restraint and the sophisticated dramaturgy of this piece which never collapses into sentimentality. They also commend the technical production of this very difficult quest into the past.
 
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And a feature that many of us know from the IFC in Varna has won Prix Italia in the "works on music" category
 
A MINOR
By Philip Scheiner
Austrian Radio ORF

Maybe a good idea?!

A YouTube channel for the IFC (why not)

'IFCmedia'

Nothing to lose, Let's see what happens...

Welcome!! (of course) and Leave a comment about this ...

http://www.youtube.com/user/IFCmedia

 

Follow the 'Prix Italia' this week by the (new) Prix-Italia-Weblog

Including a YouTube channel

check out the BLOG:

 http://blogprix.incomunicazione.com /

 

 

check out: The YOUTUBE Channel

http://nl.youtube.com/user/PrixItalia2008

~ Prix Italia 2008 Cagliari Presentazione Giurie ~

What's this?...

Visit LATEST UPDATE 'Third Coast Festival' website:

 

The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) was created by Chicago Public Radio in 2000 to support producers and other artists creating audio documentary and feature work of all styles... 

Hi,
my name is Carola Haupt and I'm one of the three radio producers of Radio Papesse, an audio project related to "sms-contemporanea", contemporary art center of Siena, Italy.

[here's our website: www.radiopapesse.org ]

I'd like to submit the news for a call for soundworks Radio papesse has launched (deadline: october 6th)
I hope you'll be interested in and you'll want to spread the word.

Thanks a lot,
carola

For further information write to info@radiopapesse.org
www.radiopapesse.org
 
Santa Maria della Scala - sms contemporanea
piazza Duomo 2
53100 Siena

tel +39 0577 224823

cell phones
ilaria gadenz  +39 380 7269 638
carola haupt   +39 333 3934 770
cristiano magi +39 339 4509 767

"Chisel, cut, mix, set in spaces.

ˇSound has the power of the cinema and is lighter"
Among the prizes awarded for acoustic creation, the  Phonurgia  Nova competition has, since 1986, occupied a special place by virtue of its recognition of artists whose work exploits sound as a medium for expressing the real and the imaginary.

In 2007, 152 productions from 15 different countries were entered in the prize.

The winners were Gilles Aubry (Suisse) Antje Wowinckel (Germany), Bernadette Johnson (Suisse), Léonore Mercier (France), Jean-Philippe SCELLIER (France).

This year's competition will once again distinguish authors whose work manifests a keen sense of sound and listening as means of expression, on two areas :
A) Radio Arts will privilige all forms of inventive radiophonic creation: feature, new documentary,?fiction, essay, radio mix, Hörspiel, Soundscapes, experimental forms, etc.?

B) InterMedia awards will go both to « sound installations » and to sonic works which have been specially created for "new media" ore new combination of media, to bring new experiences in sound to listeners.
In each category the jury will deliberate on two types of work :?

1)completed productions?

2)projects
 
The deadline for submission is 15th october.
The Jury is chaired this year by the french sound director Daniel Deshays.
The jury will deliberate the 14th and 15th december in Arles city (France) during two days of listening, open to all contributors.
 
To get more infos : http://www.phonurgia.org/index_us.html
More sounds : www.transradio.org (in french)

Hello All;

If you’re planning to attend the 2008 TCF Conference, the time to register is nigh!
The conference takes place October 9-11 in Evanston, IL and the FINAL registration deadline is this Friday, September 12 at midnight.

If you’re still on the fence…here’s some information that will make the decision lots  easier:

The schedule is rich with presentations by the likes of the Kitchen Sisters, Deborah George, Jonathan Goldstein, Adam Davidson, Noah Adams and Brooke Gladstone. AIR’s Neenah Ellis will be hosting this year’s pitch panel, Sarah Parker will be here from England to talk about the Radio Ballads of the 50’s (which led the TCF staff to see the whole world in a new light) and Greg Allen from the Neo-Futurists will show you how to use theater to rediscover your own battened down creativity.

As you guessed, there’s more: the first Gallery of More packed with audio installations; the first Listening Parlor, where you can find a comfortable seat and listen to the winning programs from  the TCF/ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition; and tech genius Jeff Towne will be on hand in the conference lobby to answer your nagging audio equipment questions.

And then there’s the parties…on Friday night hosted by PRX and on Saturday night the annual TCF Awards Ceremony…and the audio educators’ breakfast on Sunday morning.

Here’s where you’ll find the online registration form , and all the information you’ll need about the conference happenings and hotel.

See you in October!

Best;

Johanna Zorn
Third Coast Festival
www.thirdcoastfestival.org /