Englert Prize

2017

the Price Giuseppe Englert, a “contribution to projects to raise awareness and improve the quality of our acoustic environment,” goes to Nicole Graber and Frank Pecquet.

The prize of 5,000 francs has been awarded annually since 2011 in memory of the Swiss composer and pioneer of electroacoustic music Giuseppe Englert (1927-2007). This year, at the start of the Rencontres Architecture Musique Ecologie (RAME) at Leuk Castle, it was awarded to the joint project "Phonotopie du sol: Dynamique de la topographie sur l'acoustique du lieu" by Nicole Graber (Hintermann & Weber Lausanne) and Frank Pecquet (Sorbonne Paris).

The jury was composed of Jean-Marie Rapin, Guillaume Billaux, Sara Maino, all three for the RAME, as well as Javier Hagen for the IGNM-VS, the Valais local group of the International Society for New Music, which is hosting the award ceremony and the RAME in Leuk.

The Rencontres Architecture Musique Ecologie RAME brings together an international group of architects, urbanists, acousticians, philosophers, composers, musicologists and musicians for lectures, discussions, performances and excursions on current issues in environmental acoustics.