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Sun Dec 23 22:12:49 CET 2018

Whoop whoop!!

Congrats Jaime, nice one!

Seasons greets to all,

Julian

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From: Juraj Kojs <juraj at kojs.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 12:36
Subject: [cec-c] FETA Prize in Sound Art 2018 Awarded to Jaime Oliver La
Rosa
To: Juraj Kojs <j.kojs at miami.edu>

Dear friends,

I am delighted to congratulate Jaime Oliver La Rosa, the winner of this
year’s FETA Prize in Sound Art.

Please, see the full release bellow.

Wishing you a joyful holiday season,

Juraj

*FETA Prize in Sound Art*

For Immediate Release

December 19, 2018 in Miami, FL

*FETA Prize in Sound Art 2018 Awarded to **Jaime Oliver La Rosa*

With 40 blind submissions from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Peru and the US, Jaime
Oliver La Rosa was selected as the 2018 winner of the FETA Prize in Sound
Art for his work *Caracoles IV*.

The FETA Prize in Sound Art was established in 2013 to promote a broad
range of contemporary American sound and installation arts. Through a
two-stage blindfold evaluation process, the judges Jenny Olivia Johnson,
Michael Boyd and Joo Won Park chose a small pool of finalists: Brian
House’s *Urban Intonation*, Wendy Steiner’s *Traces on the Farther Side*,
Stephen Lilly’s *Background* and Jaime Oliver La Rosa’s *Caracoles IV*. For
the sixth edition of the prize, our honorable master judge Gustavo
Matamoros selected the winning work *Caracoles IV* by Jaime Oliver La Rosa,
who will receive a 1,000 USD monetary prize, presentation of *Caracoles IV* at
the Emerson Dorsch Gallery in Miami, FL and a spread on the FETA web.

*About Caracoles IV:*

“*Caracoles IV* is an installation that uses interactive feedback systems
to sonically explore modified conch shells known as a pututus, Andean
musical instruments fashioned out of a conch shell by cutting the apex of
its spire and shaping it like a cornet embouchure. This musical instrument
is thus co-created by both a human maker and the non-human large snail
which once inhabited it. In this installation, I place a microphone in the
embouchure and a speaker at the end of the spiral canal and connect it
through a software-mediated feedback system running on a micro-computer
that hangs above the shell.

Instead of performing these instruments and hearing their sounds as blown,
we instead hear the spectral components of each shell over time. Through a
pitch tracker, the system detects resonant feedback frequencies and
temporarily cancels them, thereby pushing the system to lock onto a new
frequency, and so on. The result is a sequence of resonant frequencies that
derive from the shape of the shell and properties of the system; the
shell’s shape is sung by feedback. Each shell-system is a collaboration
between humans, conch-shells, and interactive systems, but also an
interaction between all the shell-systems in the room, each with its own
set of resonances.” JOLR

*About Jaime Oliver La Rosa*

Jaime Oliver La Rosa is a computer music composer, performer, sound artist,
and researcher working at the intersection between musical instruments,
installations, and open works. Oliver La Rosa’s music and research explores
the concept of musical instrument in electronic and computer music,
designing instruments that listen, understand, remember and respond. His
open source Silent Drum and MANO controllers use computer vision techniques
to continuously track and classify hand gestures; his [notes]
library  explores computer assisted notation and generative music in Pure
Data and LilyPond.

His work has been featured in international festivals and conferences,
collaborating with several composers, improvisers and artists in a field of
action that spans sound performance and installation, composing and
performing music, both for concerts and for theater and dance, creating
sound installations and programming open source software.  He obtained a
PhD in Computer Music from the University of California, San Diego, where
he studied with Miller Puckette, and was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at
Columbia University & the CMC in New York. He is currently Assistant
Professor of Composition at NYU and co-director of the Waverly Labs.

For additional information about* Caracoles IV*, please visit:

http://www.jaimeoliver.pe/caracoles-iv-2018

Read an interview with our last year’s winners Jean Piché and Patrick
Saint-Denis here:

http://www.fetafoundation.org/

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With the support of Foundation of Emerging Technologies and Arts, Emerson
Dorsch Gallery, Harold Golen Gallery and the Miami-Dade County Department
of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County
Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

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