New Forum Jeune Creation
International competition for young composers/sound artists
March 12th, 2012 – March 11th, 2014
Application Deadline for composers/sound artists: January 31st, 2012
Organized by :
Grame, national centre for musical creation (Lyon)
ensemble mosaik (Berlin)
Champ d’Action (Antwerp)
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (Lyon)
TOPIC
“One might say that the network tends to transform every boundary into a threshold. Networks are in this sense essentially elusive, ephemeral, perpetually in flight. Networks can thus at one moment appear to be universal and at another vanish into thin air.”
Antonio Negri, Multitude
CONDITIONS
Grame, ensemble mosaik, Champ d’Action and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain launch the new forum - jeune création, an international competition for young composers/sound artists that will be held in several European cities, from March 12th, 2012 to March 11th, 2014.
We invite composers to think out of the box, to start a creational process together with three very different ensembles with different backgrounds and an international reputation. Developing musical ideas supported by an international network under ideal conditions is the goal of this competition.
We invite young artists to hand in their ideas, their artistic approaches to “networks”. An international jury preselects 12 candidates who are invited to Biennale Musiques en Scène in Lyon to discuss their drafts of a project with the jury. Grame gets associated with Gmem (national center form musical creation in Marseille) to share these residencies in France. The six selected laureates have then the chance to work in residencies in Lyon, Marseille and Antwerp and to develop together with the ensembles in Lyon, Antwerp and Berlin their projects. The results, six compositions or multimedia works (including visual arts or mixed media installation) – commissioned by new forum - jeune création – will then be presented in Berlin, Antwerp or Lyon. One ensemble collaborates with two laureates.
JURY
4 Chairmen:
Enno Poppe, ensemble mosaik
Serge Verstockt, Champ d’Action
Daniel Kawka, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
James Giroudon, Grame
and composers, promoters of the European musical scene.
COMPOSITION SCHEDULE
January 31st, 2012: Application Deadline.
January, 31st to February 15th 2012: jury meetings, selection of 12 applicants.
March 13th & 14th, 2012: interviews of 12 preselected applicants in Lyon.
March 17th, 2012: nomination of 6 laureates.
Sept. 2012 to Dec. 2013: residencies in the studios of Grame, Gmem and Champ d’Action.
September 2013 to March 2014: rehearsals and performances.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
• Applicants born after January 1st, 1977 may apply.
• One project per applicant is allowed.
• Please complete the online form for application on www.ulysses-network.eu.
• Upload up to 3 scores (pdf), 3 audiofiles (mp3, aiff) and/or up to 3 videofiles (mpeg, avi), or pictures (jpg…).
• Please hand in a draft of a project which deals with the topic of the competition (maximum 3500 characters).
The laureates are invited to spend one working session of a maximum of 4 weeks in the studios: 4 laureates in the studios of Grame (Lyon) or Gmem (Marseille) and 2 laureates in the studio of Champ d’Action. The working sessions will be divided into periods after agreement with the studio. (The costs for the travel, the accommodation and a per diem as well as the technical assistance during the stay is covered by new forum - jeune création.
Part of the process of developing the piece is, that each laureate spends up to 3 days of rehearsals/working sessions with the ensemble he/she is collaborating with. The costs for the travel, the accommodation and a per diem as well as the technical assistance during the stay is covered by new forum - jeune création.
Each laureate is commissioned to write a piece of a duration of 10-20 minutes for the ensemble, he/she is selected for. Specifications regarding instrumentation, use of medias and electronics has to be agreed with new forum - jeune création. The piece will be performed in concerts in Berlin, Antwerp and/or Lyon. The laureate receives a fee for the commission covered by new forum - jeune création, through conditions specified by each partner.
Organized by GRAME in partnership with Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, ensemble mosaik, Champ d’Action