Friday, November 28th, 2014, 19.30
SHUT UP AND LISTEN! AWARD 2014
Award ceremony and presentation of selected works
As in previous years, the SHUT UP AND LISTEN! AWARD has been held within the framework of this year’s
festival, inviting composers and sound artists to submit works in two categories.
Category 1)
Audiovisual Work
Category 2)
Work for Solo Percussion resp. Solo Percussion and Sound Projection/Electronics
Contributions should preferably show a reference to the festival theme TIME, AND AGAIN and have a
maximum duration of 10 minutes. The participation in the competition was free of charge. There was no
age limit and the entire selection process was anonymous.
Out of 42 submissions from all over the world, three works were selected and will be presented at
Echoraum, Vienna on November 28th, 2014. The award includes a purse of € 300.- each, as well as the
SHUT UP AND LISTEN! TROPHY 2014.
WINNERS AND AWARDED COMPOSITIONS
Marta Azparren & Sergio Blardony (E)
Tracto
Audiovisual Work
Abel Paúl (E/UK)
Wrong Answers to Robert B's Wrong Question
For solo metal sheet
Keisuke Yagisawa (J)
xtx to
Audiovisual Work
JURY
Category 1 (Audiovisual Work)
Bernhard Gál
Austrian artist, composer and musicologist Bernhard Gál is equally at home within the domains of
contemporary music, installation art and media art. He has created sound installations and intermedia art
projects, combining sound, light, objects, spatial concepts and video projections into intense and often
site-specific, multidimensional art works. He also composes music for acoustic instruments and electro-
acoustic music, as well as performing live as a (laptop) musician. Gál runs the record label Gromoga
Records and is director of the Austrian art organization ‘sp ce’. 2006-2007 he taught sound art at the
University of Arts in Berlin. 2010–13 Gál held a research position at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, in
conjunction with the interdisciplinary doctoral college ‘Art and the Public’.
Tina Frank
Tina Frank is a graphic designer and media artist as well as professor for graphic design at The University
for Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. The focus of her work lies in Print, Corporate Design, Signage
Systems and within the experimental field of music visualisations. Taschen Books listed Tina Frank in their
book »Graphic Design for the 21st Century« among the top 100 graphic designers worldwide. Many of her
coverdesigns have been published in numerous design reference works and are considered influential.
With generative tools she creates immersive works to visualize music, hotel rooms, etc. Since October
2008 Tina Frank is head of the department of graphic design and photography at the University for Art and
Industrial Design in Linz.
Category 2 (Work for Solo Percussion resp. Solo Percussion and Sound Projection)
Belma Bešlić-Gál
Born 1978 in Tuzla (BiH). Austrian composer, artist and pianist of Slovenian/Bosnian descent, living in
Vienna. First music studies (piano) with Planinka Jurisic-Atic in Tuzla. Piano studies at the Liszt School of
Music Weimar (1996–2001, a. o. with Gerlinde Otto and Lazar Berman). Studies of composition and music
theory at the University of Arts in Graz (a. o. with Bernhard Lang, and Klaus Lang). Master classes in
Darmstadt and Munich (Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders, Raphael Cendo, German Toro Perez,
Wolfgang Rihm). The fundament of her artistic reflection is time. Further issues include cultural
challenges of postwar/transitional societies, nihilism, futurism and manipulations of temporal perception
in (intermedia) music constellations.
Lukas Schiske
Born in Vienna in 1962, Lukas Schiske trained as a percussionist at the University of Music in Vienna, later
specialising in new music. He has been a founding member of Klangforum Wien since 1985. He has worked
with a variety of ensembles and orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the RSO-
Sinfonieorchester, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Wiener Staatsopernorchester, as well as various
chamber music formations. He has also worked in wider areas such as Jazz, Rock and Theatre and
participated as a soloist in prestigious music festivals at home and abroad. He has participated in
numerous television, radio and CD performances.
festival, inviting composers and sound artists to submit works in two categories.
Category 1)
Audiovisual Work
Category 2)
Work for Solo Percussion resp. Solo Percussion and Sound Projection/Electronics
Contributions should preferably show a reference to the festival theme TIME, AND AGAIN and have a
maximum duration of 10 minutes. The participation in the competition was free of charge. There was no
age limit and the entire selection process was anonymous.
Out of 42 submissions from all over the world, three works were selected and will be presented at
Echoraum, Vienna on November 28th, 2014. The award includes a purse of € 300.- each, as well as the
SHUT UP AND LISTEN! TROPHY 2014.
WINNERS AND AWARDED COMPOSITIONS
Marta Azparren & Sergio Blardony (E)
Tracto
Audiovisual Work
Abel Paúl (E/UK)
Wrong Answers to Robert B's Wrong Question
For solo metal sheet
Keisuke Yagisawa (J)
xtx to
Audiovisual Work
JURY
Category 1 (Audiovisual Work)
Bernhard Gál
Austrian artist, composer and musicologist Bernhard Gál is equally at home within the domains of
contemporary music, installation art and media art. He has created sound installations and intermedia art
projects, combining sound, light, objects, spatial concepts and video projections into intense and often
site-specific, multidimensional art works. He also composes music for acoustic instruments and electro-
acoustic music, as well as performing live as a (laptop) musician. Gál runs the record label Gromoga
Records and is director of the Austrian art organization ‘sp ce’. 2006-2007 he taught sound art at the
University of Arts in Berlin. 2010–13 Gál held a research position at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, in
conjunction with the interdisciplinary doctoral college ‘Art and the Public’.
Tina Frank
Tina Frank is a graphic designer and media artist as well as professor for graphic design at The University
for Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. The focus of her work lies in Print, Corporate Design, Signage
Systems and within the experimental field of music visualisations. Taschen Books listed Tina Frank in their
book »Graphic Design for the 21st Century« among the top 100 graphic designers worldwide. Many of her
coverdesigns have been published in numerous design reference works and are considered influential.
With generative tools she creates immersive works to visualize music, hotel rooms, etc. Since October
2008 Tina Frank is head of the department of graphic design and photography at the University for Art and
Industrial Design in Linz.
Category 2 (Work for Solo Percussion resp. Solo Percussion and Sound Projection)
Belma Bešlić-Gál
Born 1978 in Tuzla (BiH). Austrian composer, artist and pianist of Slovenian/Bosnian descent, living in
Vienna. First music studies (piano) with Planinka Jurisic-Atic in Tuzla. Piano studies at the Liszt School of
Music Weimar (1996–2001, a. o. with Gerlinde Otto and Lazar Berman). Studies of composition and music
theory at the University of Arts in Graz (a. o. with Bernhard Lang, and Klaus Lang). Master classes in
Darmstadt and Munich (Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders, Raphael Cendo, German Toro Perez,
Wolfgang Rihm). The fundament of her artistic reflection is time. Further issues include cultural
challenges of postwar/transitional societies, nihilism, futurism and manipulations of temporal perception
in (intermedia) music constellations.
Lukas Schiske
Born in Vienna in 1962, Lukas Schiske trained as a percussionist at the University of Music in Vienna, later
specialising in new music. He has been a founding member of Klangforum Wien since 1985. He has worked
with a variety of ensembles and orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the RSO-
Sinfonieorchester, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Wiener Staatsopernorchester, as well as various
chamber music formations. He has also worked in wider areas such as Jazz, Rock and Theatre and
participated as a soloist in prestigious music festivals at home and abroad. He has participated in
numerous television, radio and CD performances.
shut up and listen! 2014
Interdisziplinäres Festival für Musik und Klangkunst
