International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music


The International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, or Bourges International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, formerly Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges, is a music organization in support of electroacoustic music, including computer music.
The ICEM holds the International Electronic Music Festival and gives music awards for electroacoustic music during the Bourges International Electro-Acoustic Music Competition. It was founded in 1973, "to promote elecoacoustic composition," and began to include music software as a category in 1996.

Recipients

Golden Sound/Sound of Gold.
"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'."