

FINALISTS | SHORTLIST: R · T · D | 2026 COMPETITION
Nathan Farr (CBC/SRC, Canada), Rytis Skamarakas (LRT, Lithuania), Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet (PR, Poland), Octavia Galescu (SRR, Romania), Luigi Picardi (RV, Vatican State).
The President: Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet (PR, Poland).
P R I N C E – FunkyPurpleAssoziationen (P R I N C E – FunkyPurpleAssociations)
Author: Elisabeth Weilenmann. Direction: Elisabeth Weilenmann, Marie-Louise Fürnsinn (assistant). Actors: Alina Fritsch, Oskar Weilenmann, Eszter Hollósi. Other Participants: Hanna-Lea Drexel (directing internship), Gerald Irnacek (editorial), Elmar Peinelt (sound), Stefanie Zussner (production management), Kurt Reissnegger (editor). Producing Organisation: ORF/Ö1. Coproducing Organisation: ARD Hessischer Rundfunk
«There are many kings. But only one Prince», said the renowned singer Alicia Keys in her tribute to Prince when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. He responded shyly. Prince was grand and dramatic in his music, yet reserved and quiet in private. He has been described as an anthem maker and a musical universalist. The radio play "P R I N C E – FunkyPurpleAssociations" explores his childhood between jazz and violence, his religious upbringing, his radical artistic independence, his struggle for creative self-determination, and his loneliness. These themes are woven together associatively with the biography of the author and director Elisabeth Weilenmann. In a deeply personal way, the piece tells the story of what music can mean – and achieve – in a person's life.
Presented by: Elisabeth Weilenmann, Author, editor, director
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Elisabeth Weilenmann is an author, director and journalist who has been writing and directing radio plays and radio documentaries for 20 years. Her work explores the possibilities of storytelling through sound, often crossing the boundaries between radio, documentary and new forms of audio. In collaboration with Deutschlandfunk and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology, she developed Germany's first audio game. She has also created audio exhibitions in collaboration with various institutions and teaches at several universities. |
FSME 840: W 'en I listen
Authors: Martin Ožvold, Elia Moretti. Direction: Martin Ožvold. Sound: Elia Moretti (percussion and objects), Martin Ožvold (electronics), Pierre Louis Barge (voice). Additional Voices: Elia Moretti, Ondřej Ježek, Martin Ožvold. Composition, Mix, Mastering: Martin Ožvold. Recording, Technical Assistance: Vít Jeřábek, Ondřej Urban, Ondřej Ježek. Producer: Ladislav Železný
"FSME 840: W 'en I listen" investigates and explores the notion of "The Music to Come", a phrase borrowed from the French Composer and Writer François Bonnet, who suggests that music remains to be discovered and is still hidden. "Music to Come" is not something the composer creates alone, but rather the many relationships that one composition can produce with its listeners. "Music to Come" is the pure, subjective moment of our listening experience. If we shed our cultural baggage and our expectations about rhythm, melody and meaning, what remains is a pure sensation: an experience of being displaced from who you are and engaging in a kind of bare relationship with your own perception. This piece contains linguistic and semantic elements, such as the sound of words or adjectives like mobile, immobile, amnesic, repetitive, as well as phrases such as «These sounds are simple», «Numbers are mystical tears» or «They can reveal surprising wonders» and other similar terms that can act as the mouth of an ephemeral narrator, but are not intended to be read as a text in the script but to be heard as part of the composition. These and any other language objects are used as one of the music elements following the traditions of radiophonic composition and radio art.
Presented by: Ladislav Železný, Dramaturge
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Ladislav Železný is Bohemia based artist, radio maker and curator. As a music director and sound designer for Czech Radio, he has been engaged in the development of sound design for radio plays and drama works. Since 2013 he has focused as a dramaturge on unconventional music and new forms of radio production, especially with reference to the experimental tradition in art. He curates the project Radiocustica, where among other things he prepares the programme show Radioateliér associated with exclusive premiere series PremEdition of Radioateliér and with connection to Euroradio Ars Acustica community he realizes special concert events, live broadcasts or recordings. The radio projects he has collaborated on and his artistic or dramaturgical activities have received numerous awards in his country and abroad. |
Semibreve: Intertextualidade (Semibreve: Intertextuality)
Author, Narrating Voice: Andrea Lupi
"Semibreve" is a weekly series of short radio programmes about music. It first began in 2013, and a second season started in April 2022. Each episode lasts around 15 minutes and explores a new topic every week. Each programme is the result of a thorough investigation and is shaped individually according to its unique character. In this episode, we explore intertextuality in classical music, focusing on the intersection of aesthetics and music analysis. Taking a down-to-earth approach, we explain each type of musical borrowing alongside its actual musical result.
Presented by: Andrea Lupi, Radio Producer
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Andrea Lupi is a Portuguese radio producer, born in Lisbon. She trained at the Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa music conservatory and holds a Fine Arts degree, specialising in Painting, from the University of Lisbon. After completing an Opera Stage Directing course, organised by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the São Carlos Opera Theatre, she began her career as a radio producer at RTP Antena 2, Portugal's public classical music radio station. A passionate advocate for classical music, she sees herself as one of the confabulatori nocturni, or "night storytellers", a phrase Jorge Luis Borges used in a lecture about One Thousand and One Nights. Every Friday night, her weekly radio series Semibreve invites listeners to explore a variety of subjects connected to music and culture. She has also directed and written scripts for several classical music documentaries and, more recently, curated the music for a choreography of the Portuguese National Ballet Company. |