2020 – Phonurgia Nova

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2020

And the winners are…

This year, 305 productions coming from 30 different countries were entered, and 40 were nominated. During a whole weekend these 40 works from all around the world were presented to a demanding and appreciative audience. The jury members, underlined that this competition was one more time “a genuine sound art observatory”.

Palmarès 2020

5 awards to celebrate radio art and sound expression

« Field recording » Award
with 1000€ from the Musée Réattu / City of Arles

Pablo Sanz
strange strangers
production R{A}DIO{CUSTICA},
Czech Radio Vltava (Czech Republic)

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Jury’s Mention
Presage by Mark Ferguson (Great-Britain)

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« Human Word Archives » Award
with 1000€ from the BnF,
Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Matthieu Cornélis
Ainsi brament-ils
44 min, production Otuscops – RTBF, Belgique

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Mention of the jury

Aurélia Balboni & Nicolas François
Frères
57’37, Cineke, Belgique

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« Découverte Pierre Schaeffer » Award
with 1000€ from Phonurgia Nova and Centre Wallonie Bruxelles

Johann Philippe
Chien ailé
13’40, autoproduction, (France)

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Mention of the jury and “Coup de coeur” du Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles

Hayley Suviste
Lôka
27’16, autoproduction, Grande-Bretagne

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« Sound Art » Award
with 2000€
from the SACEM

Mark Vernon
Magneto Mori : Vienna
46’45, Kunstradio, ORF, Autriche.

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Mention du jury

Gabriela & Christian Fierbinteanu,
Nothingnesslessness
7 min, autoproduction (Romania)

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Mention du jury

Manon Prigent
L’oreille aux portes
57’46, L’Expérience, France Culture, France

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« Sound Fictions » Award
with 2000€

Florent Barat & Sebastien Schmitz,
Dans les creux dangereux où la louve abîmée
26 min, autoproduction collectif Wow ! (Belgique)

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Selection Ars Acustica EBU
from the European Broadcasting Union

José Igès, 15’40, autoproduction, Espagne
Johann Philippe, 13’40, autoproduction, France
Mark Vernon Magneto Mori : Vienna (Austria)

Phonurgia Nova 2020
Residences / Scholarships

2020 / GRM de l’INA
2020 / Euphonia
2020 / GMEM

The nominees are

Claire Frachebourg at GRM de l’INA (for her projet PUPAE)

Marie-Philippe Joncheray et Amélie Guyot at Euphonia Marseille (for their project Déborder l’eau sale)

Myriam Pruvot at GMEM Marseille (for her projet Un Opéra modeste)

Program

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2020 Juries

Marie Barbier
As a journalist specializing in justice issues, I worked for thirteen years for the daily L'Humanité. Today, I am a freelance journalist who works with Reporterre and Mediapart.
Olivier Kaeppelin
Curator of exhibitions, art critic, radio producer and writer, I was deputy director in charge of programmes at France Culture and then advisor to the president of Radio France for cultural programmes from 1999 to 2004, Director of Plastic Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Communication from 2004 to 2010,
Alexandre Castant
I’m an essayist, an art critic, and a National Art Schools Professor. I have published Planète sonores, radiophonie, arts, cinema (Monografik), Journal audiobiographique, radiophonie, arts, cinema (Nouvelles Éditions Scala, 2016) and recently, Les Arts sonores (Transonic, Charleroi).

Jean-Loup Graton
After musical studies in the class of Pierre Schaeffer at the CNSM, I entered as a radio Producer at France Musique and France Culture. I became the assistant of the Director of this station and later managed the communication of Radio France (1977 - 2000). Since 2005, I am responsible for the cultural programming at the BnF.
Antoine Chao
Radio is a popular emancipation sport. I practiced it in street theatre with the friends of the ``Royal de Luxe``, in ``Over there if I am there with`` Daniel Mermet, in ``Comme un bruit qui court`` and from now on ``It’s soon tomorrow`` on France Inter and I could go on...
Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux
As a researcher, I am a research director emeritus at the CNRS. My research themes focus on the sound history of theatre.

Elise Racque
I am a journalist. For more than three years, I have been listening to Telerama’s radio/podcasts. Listen to radio documentaries, fictions, surveys. Listen to those who make them, too. Sound creation in all its forms.
Kaye Mortley
Trained in contemporary literature, coming from Australia, I started writing with the sounds of reality in the 70s, at the ACR of France Culture, a time when radio writers (like some filmmakers) left the studio for the street, looking for another way of doing things.
Benoît Hické
Je suis programmateur au sein du service culturel du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, à Paris, avec entre autres champs artistiques une prédilection pour les projets sonores à la croisée du field recording et de la bio-acoustique.

Pascal Cordereix
General curator of libraries, I am in charge of the audio documents department at the Bnf Audiovisual Department. In addition to legal deposit, I’m in charge of the department’s historical sound holdings.
Francois Nida
Former publisher, I am now Assistant Director for the cultural programming at the BnF.
Lionel Viard
Founder of Elektrophonie, I designed and organized with this association numerous musical events in various remarkable architectural sites (Chapel of Ronchamp, Citadel of Besançon, …). I am responsible for the cultural season of the Saline Royale of Arc-et-Senans.

Marc Namblard
I live in Lorraine and have been working since the late 2000s as a naturalist guide, audio-naturalist and sound artist. Recently, Stéphane Manchematin and Serge Steyer devoted to my work a documentary film, “The Spirit of Places”, star of SCAM 2019.
Anne Gillot
Clarinettist and flutist, Anne Gillot pursues her work of creation and representation of the contemporary music repertoire and, more generally, intend to explore sound in all its facets. She was born in Lausanne in 1972.
Stéphanie Pécourt
Graduate in sociology, I am Director of the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris since 2019. Since 2015, I have been acting as an independent commissioner in Belgium and abroad (Hong Kong, France, Portugal, China, etc.)

Juliette Volcler
I’m an independent researcher, an author and a sound critic. I work on the history of sound creation, social criticism of sound, sound design. I contribute to Syntone, and the collective The Sirens.