Castle in Dolná Krupá		Milan Adamčiak Jan Backstuber Miro Bázlik Roman Berger Vladimir Bokes Martin Burlas Christian Calon Etela Čárska Hugh Davies Janos Decsenyi Magdalena Dlugosz Chantal Dumas Juraj Ďuriš Eduard Herzog Istvan Horváth Peter Janík Marian Jurík Miloš Jurkovič Dieter Kaufmann Gunda Koenig Viťazoslava Kubička Edward Kulka Igor Lintz-Maues Gian Franco Maffina Rossana Maggia Jozef Malovec Daniel Matej Ivan Parík Jozef Patkowski Melánia Puškášová Alois Simandel Pinos Zoltan Pongrácz Rudolf Růžička Tadeáš Salva Oľga Smetanová Roman Spišiak Ivan Stadtrucker Igor Valentovič Peter Važan Raphael de Vivo Lothar Voigtlaender Peter Zagar Andrej Zmeček Rudolf Žákovský
IFEM '92 - organized by CECM Bratislava (Center For Electroacoustic And Computer Music) in cooperation with Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio and Slovak Music Fund, supported by State Cultural Fund Pro Slovakia and The British Council Bratislava. Concept by Juraj Ďuriš, Andrej Zmeček, Rudolf Žákovský - published by CECM Bratislava 1993
International Forum of Electroacoustic Music Bratislava - IFEM '92 We have endeavoured to make this catalogue not only a collection of statements, but also an attempt on mediation of events, because in mutual connections and in the context of undocumented or nonverbal information consists their message. The statements were presented as seminar papers in the Dolna Krupa Castle in Slovakia from 5 to 7 November, 1992. We gave the whole event - together with accompanying concert and presentations - the name: International Forum of Electroacoustic Music - IFEM '92. The Forum has arisen from the need for communication. Centres for electroacoustic music have got long-term traditions in central Europe. However, information interchange and cooperation - if any at all - take place only in certain latent forms. This condition caused natural need to create a platform that would enable regular interchange of opinions, ideas, experiences, analyses and information from this sphere of contemporary art. The potential is sufficient for the discussion; not only in historical view but, first of all - with regard to rapid technological development, expansion of compositional possibilities and presentation techniques of musical artifacts - the present and the future are to be discussed. Besides the papers at the seminar, pieces of Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Austrian and Slovak electroacoustic music were presented in the opening concert. The objective of IFEM '92 was to make transparent, present and recapitulate the experience of electroacoustic music in this region, for the first time after the iron curtain breakdown. The participants presented Canadian and German music during the session in the Castle. We understand the international character of the Forum within wider than regional scope. With respect to foregoing years of mutual isolation, contacts between cultures are becoming inevitable. Therefore, personalities from worldwide had been invited to the Forum. Their participation made possible more universal comparisons, more open view of the actual state of things, more complex formal and esthetical evaluations. Our intention is to continue in organization of the Forum in the future; to make it a constant platform for communication and cooperation, placed somewhere at the boundary of Eastern and Western cultures. The first step is completed by the edition of these proceedings.