Roger Doyle: Prize-winning "The Ninth Set" out

Irish composer Roger Doyle ‘s prize-winning “The Ninth Set” has been made available to the public by German record company “Die Stadt”. The Hamburg-based label announced the CD has been designed as a full-colour digipack in a first edition of 600 copies. Parts four and five of “The Ninth Set” had secured the Magisterium Prize at this year's Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition. Open only to composers with a minimum of 25 years of experience to their credit, the competition aims to pay hommage to works with the potential of turning into future classics of electro acoustic music. Next to a cash injection of 1.200 Euros, the prize included a promotion campaign for Roger Doyle, with a fourty-minute concert at the "Synthèse Festival 2007" as well as a sponsored CD release. Doyle didn’t have to think too long whom to turn to for the latter part of the bargain. “The Ninth Set”, after all, follows his involvement in another “Die Stadt” project, the incredibly succesful and widely applauded “Huge” by Clodagh Simmonds’ Fovea Hex.