Prix Ton Bruynèl 2010 for Åke Parmerud and Horacio Vaggione.
The Foundation Ton Bruynèl aims to stimulate electronic music in every possible way. Every two years the foundation awards the Prix Ton Bruynèl, created by the heritors and friends of this important Dutch composer of electronic music.
The prize is awarded to the best submitted work composed after 2005, this year for the fifth time.The jury has chosen from more than 150 submissions from all around the world. The prize consists of € 3000.
The Prix Ton Bruynèl is the most important prize for electronic music in The Netherlands.
The jury consisted this year of Hans Timmermans, Anthony Fiumara and Roderik de Man.
The Prix Ton Bruynèl 2010 was today awarded (8 May 2010) ex aequo to the Swedish composer Åke Parmerud for his work Chrystal Counterpoint and the Argentinian/French composer Horacio Vaggione for his work Préludes Suspendus III , both for tape solo.
The jury also awarded four honorary mentions to Ricardo de Armas (Argentinia), Strijbos & Van Rijswijk (The Netherlands) in category C, Martin Bédard (Canada) in category A and Jacob ter Veldhuis (The Netherlands) in category B.
©Janna Verhoeven
2008
Kubusproject 1969-1971
Presentation in Kröller-Müller Museum 5 July 2008 - 4 January 2009At the end of 2007 the Kröller-Müller Museum was offered a remarkable work of art: the Kubusproject by composer Ton Bruynèl (1934-1998) and sculptor Carel Visser (1928). The work – an environment in which music and sculpture form an inseparable unity and the visitor also is invited to take part – was created between 1969 and 1971 in the studio of Ton Bruynèl. In 1971 it was presented for the first time in a context of experimental music and visual art in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and experienced as an exceptional happening by young as well as older people. In 1976 it was exhibited in a slightly modified setting in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. Thereafter it disappeared.
Now, in 2008, exactly 10 years after the death of the composer and in the year of Vissers' 80th birthday it re-emerges. Friends of Bruynèl kept the work for years in and around their house, first in The Netherlands and later on in France, to be exact: the two impressive soundmachines and the corresponding tapes with the composition by Bruynèl, and the steel cubes by Visser. More information...
Thursday 15 May 2008 the festival Listening Landscape sets out in the Nicolaïkerk in Utrecht. The opening night features the organ works Reliëf (1964), Arc (1966), Kolom (1987) and Dust (1992) by Ton Bruynèl. Organist Willem Tanke performs on the organs of the Nicolaïkerk and René Uijlenhoet, a former student of Ton Bruynèl, runs the tapes.
Friday 16 May: Early Works - Latest Works
with a.o. Sonsoles Alonso, Ainhoa Miranda Gimenez, Carlos Galvez Taroncher, Goska Isphording, students of the HKU Faculty KMT and the Conservatory of Utrecht.
Students of the department of Art, Media & Technology will present new works inspired byTon Bruynèl. The earliest pieces by Bruynèl, from 1959 on, will be performed additionally. After his first abstract compositions a number of intermediate works will be played, in which Bruynèls' music becomes more and more lyrical and after those his last works from the early nineties will be performed.Saturday 17 May: DVD-presentation Foundation Ton Bruynèl and concert by a.o. Frances Elliott
From the seventies on Bruynèls' works represented more and more so-called ‘landscapes’. Bruynèl used sounds from nature for his tapes. Acoustical instruments also were asked to produce nature-like sounds. The scenery of France and Spain, where he resided often, 'resonated' in his compositions. Passionate pieces to be savoured as landscapes. Performances of a.o. Serene (1978) by Frances Elliott, Soft Song (1974) by Dorine Schoon and Save The Whale (1989/91) by Carlos Galvez Taroncher.
Before the concert the Foundation Ton Bruynèl will present the DVD The Art of Ton Bruynèl, with a.o. the video-opera Non sono un uccello, released by Attacca Records.