Sao Paulo Biennial 2000.(electroacoustical music festival)(Brief Article)

The Third International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of Sao Paulo (BIMESP) was held from 3-29 October 2000 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The festival was promoted by the Studio PANaroma and held in association with the Goethe Institute of Sao Paulo. It featured works by Brazilian composers, a dance project with the Merce Cunningham School of Dance in Brazil, and included the first Brazilian performance of Stockhausen's Gesang der Junglinge and Hymnen in their original quadraphonic versions.

Associated with BIMESP is the Sao Paulo International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (CIMESP) and the festival opened with a session devoted to the prize-winners of the 1999 competition. The first prize was awarded to Francis Dhomont for Phonurgie (1998). The second prize was awarded equally to Peter Batchelor for Reel (1997) and Maurizio Martusciello for Unsettled Line (1999). The Public Prize went to Gilles Gobeil for Point de Passage (1997).

Concerts throughout the festival followed themes, featuring CIMESP, aspects of modernity, aspects of interaction, the composers of particular countries, and tribute concerts devoted to the work of electroacoustic pioneers.

The, "Modernity" concerts presented music by Elizabeth Anderson, Michele Biasutti, Ludger Brummer, Christopher Burns, Guto Caminhoto, Jose Miguel Candela, Sebastian Castagna, Luigi Ceccarelli, Rodolfo Coelho de Souza, Vladimir Djambazov, Michael Edwards, Frank Ekeberg, Rajmil Fischman, Antonio Gatti, Martin Gotfrit, Graham Hadfield, Fernando Iazzetta, Wilfried Jentzsch, Elsa Justel, Sergio Kafejian, Ioannis Kalantzis, Damien Lock, Elio Martusciello, Joao Mendes, ...