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Thanks to all 29 of the Sound Collage contestants for submitting some amazing pieces!
Following the contest, we hosted the Sound Collage Contest Showcase & Awards Ceremony on November, 17th. The showcase event, MC'ed by Learning Center Training Coordinator Chris Fitzgerald, featured a premiere of the seven finalists' pieces and Q&A from each. We created the contest to provide students with an educational and creative opportunity to use their laptops and software. For the contest, we asked them to create a composition based around audio samples that we recorded and provided. Special thanks to Scott Mabuchi and Joe James of the MP&E department for use of the studios.
The contestants pieces went before a screening panel, and were scored on the creative use of our provided samples, the musicality and production quality of their piece. The top 7 scoring pieces became our finalists, and were passed on to the judging panel.
This year's panel included Andrea Pejrolo, Assistant Chair of Contemporary Writing & Production, Carl Beatty, Chief of Staff to the President of Berklee College of Music and seasoned recording engineer, Duncan Watt, award winning composer and founder of Fastest Man in the World, a production studio for music scoring and sound recording for the digital game industry, and Francesco Martinez, last year's Sound Collage Contest winner.
The new winner Fernando Monroy Vera, took the grand prize, a copy of Ableton Suite 8. Paul Sefchovich won 2nd place and received a copy of Ableton Live 8, and Enrico de Trizio, last year's 2nd place winner, got the Ableton Live LE 3rd place prize. Hear their winning pieces below.
A very special thanks to Dave Hill, Huston Singletary and the folks at Ableton for sponsoring the contest, and providing the three copies of Live for our prizes.
Grand Prize Winner:Ableton Suite or $500 towards Ableton products |
 - Fernando Monroy Vera - click here to listen to the winner's piece |
2nd Place Winner:Ableton Live or $300 towards Ableton products |
 - Paul Sefchovich - click here to listen to the second place piece |
3rd Place Winner:Ableton Live LE or $150 towards Ableton products |
 - Enrico de Trizio - click here to listen to the third place piece |
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Sound Collage Contest finalists Cameron Roe, Enrico de Trizio, Paul Sefchovich, Fernando Monroy Vera, Dane Orr, and Arseniy Mishchenko |
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- Pictures from the Contest Showcase - click thumbnails for more pictures |
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