SONX

Congratulations!
The Winners are:

1. Prize
Mischa Escher & Ra Fankhauser: ‘U-R’. This audio piece explores perceived gender roles and everything between. Words and sounds are used to search for identity. Are there boundaries? Are boundaries needed? In ‘U-R’, the young artists playfully combine different text and sound styles.

2. Prize
Eric Ehrhardt & Martin Reck: ‘Xyziped’. This installation and performance piece deals with the idea of a tool that, for all its functionality, weighs heavy on the workbench at home, unused. The ‘Xyziped’ embodies both the thing and the place towards which it gravitates: musical score and reading, manuscript, concert, pagination and musical phrase.

3. Prize
Noemi Wyrsch & Demian Wyssmann: ‘Drumrum’. This installation examines the isolation experienced by people who are suffering from mental illness. With carpets of sound, alienated language and physically separated spaces, the aim is to allow the feeling of misunderstanding and the incomprehensible to surface and become tangible.

Audience Award
Akan, Kofi & Reez: ‘KenteVerse’. A combination of spoken word and rap, the work ‘KenteVerse’, performed in Twi, explores the sounds and the fabric produced by traditional Ghanaian weaving. Each woven pattern has its own story and its own sound. They have been electronically interpreted for SONX.

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Phoebe Bognár & álom ensemble: ‘Ma, Tegnap, Holnap’. This intergenerational musical and literary dialogue deals with memories and culture and features poetry by Bognár’s Hungarian Jewish grandmother, who was sent to Auschwitz during the Second World War.

Anouchka Enzinga, Jean Foncé and Imani Fux: ‘Space of Comfort’. What is healing? And what are we healing from? In ‘Space of Comfort’, everyday sounds and snippets of conversation are transformed into an Afrofuturistic journey. Loneliness, a lack of structure and shared experiences on the theme of healing lie at its heart.