GHOST NOTE COMPETITION 2008
Composition Competition for the Bösendorfer Computer Grand Piano
Welcome to the first Ghost Note Competition!
Award for Piano-Compositions for Computer-Grand-Piano
This may be the first composition-competition for the Boesendorfer Computer Grandpiano CEUS. KOFAKTOR will perform selected works.
Prizes
1. Prize is a state of the art Vst-plugin (sampling piano)
2.-6. Prize: public performance at the Bösendorfer Hall Vienna (Located at the famous piano-factory)
The award-winning pieces will be recorded. An audio CD from the recording will be sent to the composers.
Deadline:
The pieces must arrive until the first of December 2008 at Kofaktor, Liechtensteinstraße 73-3, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Fee: 10 Euro or 15 Us-Dollar
Entry:
MIDI-File and entry-form.
Artistic Directors:
Michael Mikolasek, Mario Rosivatz
More...
The KOFAKTOR society will present a selection of your submissions in public performance at the KOFAKTOR - chamber music festival (Fr. December 12th 2008 at the Bösendorfer piano factory, located close to the Center of Vienna).
First Price of the Competition is a state of the art vst-plugin with piano sounds - that must not be mixed up with the high tech instrument at the performance.
The selected works will be played on a traditional world class grand piano which is triggered by complex robotics.
The Bösendorfer Computer Grand Piano Ceus
is a sophisticated musical instrument. The Ceus Piano embodies a combination of traditional know-how and modern computer technology. Besides the possibility of listening simply to the midi-files of your compositions on a world class grand piano (perfect interpretation granted) the Ceus can even more:
it allows you to record any imaginable piano-mechanical movement produced by a piano player. Not only as a tool for perfect reproduction of piano-music but also as a lab for artistic experiments this instrument indeed seems to be one of the most exciting developments in music-technology.
What kind of music are we looking for?
The pieces may have been previously released (performed or published in any other way).
The compositions should not exceed a length of 7 minutes.
A winner will be selected solely by one core criterion, which is embodied by the aesthetic necessity for the piece to be performed on a Computer Grand Piano.
As far as possible, general style aspects, aesthetic-ideological aspects or matters of taste will be excluded as criteria for selecting a winner.
In other words:
It does not mean that we do not like the music, if a piece will not be selected!
But the exclusivity for computer grand performance should be obvious.
In the concert, the pieces will be played via Standard-MIDI-Files!
(Members of KOFAKTOR are excluded from the competition. Compositions by KOFAKTOR members will be performed in a 2nd part of the concert.)
Submission
The Submission is not anonymous – due to our personal opinion that anonymous assessment is hard to realise.
Fee and multiple submissions
For each submission the composer encloses 15 US $ (US-Dollar) or 10 € (Euro) cash (bank notes). Multiple submissions per composer are permitted, but for each submission a fully completed submission form MUST be sent to KOFAKTOR (ready for download at www.kofaktor.com/ghost_note_competition/form/form_eng.pdf).
!!!IMPORTANT!!!
!!!The submission is only valid if the submission-form is signed, the date and place of the submission is indicated and the submission fee is enclosed!!!
Postal submission only!!!
DEADLINE
Valid submissions that arrive until December the 1st 2008 will be considered.
The fee must be paid for each composition submitted.
Refund of the submission fee is inapplicable.
Who is?
The organiser of the concerts and the Ghost Note Competition is
KOFAKTOR – Gesellschaft für Kompositionsforschung und Verbindung der Künste
Organisation & artistic direction by:
Michael Mikolasek & Mario Rosivatz
For detailed information and the submission form please refer to the PDF–files (German or English) under: www.kofaktor.com/ghost_note_competition/form |
