The International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM), or Confédération Internationale de Musique Électroacoustique (CIME), cofounded by the Bourges International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (IMEB, , also "Bourges International Institute of Electroacoustic Music"
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, is a music organization in support of

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a Music genre, genre of Western art music in which composers use recording technology and audio signal processing to manipulate the timbres of Acoustics, acoustic sounds in the creation of pieces of music. It originated a ...

, including

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. The ICEM holds the International Electronic Music Festival and gives

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s for electroacoustic music during the former Bourges International Electro-Acoustic Music Competition (also known as "Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition" and as the International Electro-Acoustic Music Competition, founded in 1973, "to promote elecoacoustic composition," and began to include

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as a category in 1996. The ElectroAcoustic Music Days 2023 were held by Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association ( HELMCA), in

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Recipients

*1972:

Eugeniusz Rudnik Eugeniusz Rudnik (28 October 1932 – 24 October 2016) was a modern Polish composer, electronics engineer and sound engineer and a pioneer of electronic and electro-acoustic music in Poland. Early life Rudnik was born on 28 October 1932 in Na ...

, ''Mobile'' *1973:

, ''Ostinato'' 3rd prize *1976:

Jack Body John Stanley Body (7 October 1944 – 10 May 2015) was a New Zealand composer, ethnomusicologist, photographer, teacher, and arts producer. As a composer, his work comprised concert music, music theatre, electronic music, music for film and d ...

*1981:

Alejandro Viñao Raul Alejandro Viñao (born 4 September 1951) is an Argentine composer based in London. Early life Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Ficher. In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study ...

*1983: Jean-Baptiste Barrière, ''Chréode'' *1984:

, ''Homo Ludens'' 2nd prize *1989: Scott A. Wyatt, finalist *1999:

Frank Corcoran Frank Corcoran ( ; born 1 May 1944) is an Irish composer. His output includes chamber, symphonic, choral and electro-acoustic music, through which he often explores Irish mythology and history. Life ''"I came late to art music; childhood soundsca ...

, ''Sweeney's Vision'' *2009:

* 2023 Prix CIME

''Euphonie d'Or''

''Golden Sound/Sound of Gold''. *1992:

*1992:

Jonty Harrison Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born 27 April 1952 in Scunthorpe, and currently living in Birmingham, England. Career Jonty Harrison studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York, graduating with a DPhil in Compositi ...

, ''Klang'' *2002: Natasha Barrett, ''Utility of Space'' *2004: Jon Christopher Nelson, ''Scatter''

Grand Prize

*1984: Scott A. Wyatt

Trivium Prize

*2009:

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Finalists

*2008: Natasha Barrett

Magisterium Prize

"The award is open to composers having at least 25 years of professional experience in the field, and its objective is 'the promotion and diffusion of works that might become milestones in the history of electroacoustic music'." *1998: Wlodzimierz Kotonski, ''Tierra Caliente'';

Jean-Claude Risset Jean-Claude Raoul Olivier Risset (; 13 March 1938 – 21 November 2016) was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell L ...

: ''Invisible'' *2007:

Roger Doyle Roger Doyle (born 17 July 1949) is an Irish composer best known for his electro-acoustic work, for which he was made a Saoi of Aosdána, and for his piano music for theatre. Education Born in Malahide, County Dublin, Doyle studied piano from ...

, Sectors 4 and 5 of ''The Ninth Set''Roger Doyle
, ''Contemporary Music Center, Ireland''.

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