“Forget the Mercury – now music’s got a Turner Prize.” Neil Spencer, The Observer
The short-list for the New Music Award 2008, the most financially significant award for music in the UK, was:
Adjustments - Netsayi Chigwendere
Carousel Commission - David Thomas, Eliza Carthy, Adam Bushell & Ed Baxter
Echolocation - Robert Jarvis
Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra - Shlomo and Anna Meredith
The Fragmented Orchestra - Jane Grant, John Matthias and Nick Ryan
Pedal Tones - Django Bates
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Each of these six striking ideas was short-listed from over 130 entries for the New Music Award 2008. The first of its kind, the New Music Award is the most financially significant award for music in the UK. It champions pioneering new music and provides a significant level of money to create one adventurous and challenging new musical work.
The New Music Award 2008 short-list presented a broad range of musical innovation; creating new forms of notation, using cutting edge technology to create a new performance network, and exploring music as a means of broader social and political enquiry.