http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=154#more-154
ZEPPELIN 2008
DEAFNESSES
Once again, Orquestra del Caos, announces its new edition of Zeppelin, Sound Art Festival, calling for sound works about the multiple “deafnesses” of the contemporary world.
There are many kinds of deafness. This year’s Zeppelin Sound Art Festival will focus on those that are barely noticeable, slowly and steadily undermining our hearing. We like to listen to noise and work with it, but we are aware that some noises often inoculate in us a sort of “mental deafness.” We would like to listen with our whole bodies, and to do so, we invite you to reflect on and make sound pieces that pay attention to the excess of talk, images, and sounds that constantly floods our ears disguised as “information”; to that never ending and repetitive clatter that political slogans wish to imprint in our minds and behaviors; to those strange sounds produced by the concentration of power; to the way we are continiuously made to think of ourselves as “clients” and “consumers” instead of citizens… we want to pay attention to the noise that deprives us of our own sounds. We want to ask what can we ultimately really listen to? What are the mechanisms behind this great mental and social deafness we are suffering? We want to raise this questions through your works, regarding them as listening tools that counteract the kinds of deafness that inhabit our times.
This is an open invitation for all those persons interested in these matters to submit their sound works.
The pieces will be presented in an eight-speaker system on March 13th, 14th and 15th 2008 in Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
REQUIREMENTS
All the pieces will be accepted as long as they fit the following requirements:
1. All works must be ten (10) minutes long or less
2. The works must be in AIFF or WAV format at 44.1 Khz & 16bits
3. The following information should be attached:
3.1. A brief description about the piece
3.2. Artistic biography of the author
3.3. A signed document authorizing or unauthorizing explicitly the desire to publish the piece on the internet
3.4. A signed document authorizing the inclusion of the piece in the sound art archive Sonoscop.
4. All works and documentation must be sent in CD/DVD before February the 15th 2008, to:
caos/ZEPPELIN/convocatoria
Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona
C/Montalegre, 5
Barcelona 08001
España
More info: caos@sonoscop.net
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Orquestra del Caos/ Sonoscop
CCCB - C. Montalegre, 5
08001 BCN
t: +34 93 306 41 28
f: +34 93 302 24 23
caos@sonoscop.net
www.sonoscop.net
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Zepplin 2008 - Soundworks
ARTVantage grant
ARTvantage Grant Program
Agency: Maryland State Arts Council
Deadline: January 10, 2008
The purpose of this grant is to provide opportunities for people to experience and participate in a wide range of art forms and activities, enable arts organizations and artists to expand and diversify their audiences, extend the arts to underserved population and emphasize the potential of the arts to help strengthen communities. This grant must be submitted in collaboration with another non-profit organization incorporated in Maryland. Grant awards range from $5,000 - $10,000.
In preparation for the January deadline, “ARTvantage” information workshops have been scheduled for the following two dates:
+ Thursday, November 8, 2007 (4:00 – 5:30 p.m.)
+ Tuesday, November 13, 2007 (4:00 – 5:30 p.m.)
Both information sessions will be held at the Maryland State Arts Council on 175 W. Ostend Street, Suite E, Baltimore, MD 21230. To register, please email your name, your organization and the date of the workshop to Doreen Harmon at msac@msac.org. A member of the OURS staff will be attending one of the workshops so that notes and handouts will be available upon request if you are unable to attend.
URL: http://www.msac.org
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ITROW Faculty Mini-grant
http://www.towson.edu/itrow/FacultyGrants.asp
- New course development within the faculty’s department/discipline which will produce a course to be cross-listed (counted toward) the Women’s Studies major. Substantial restructuring/transformation of a current course with the goal of integrating women/gender topics throughout the syllabus will also be considered. Faculty receiving course development awards will consult with the Director of ITROW in the development or restructuring of a course and will be expected to offer the new or transformed course within a year of having received the grant.
- Scholarship focused on women/gender issues, or scholarship which contains a significant women/gender component. Faculty receiving awards for scholarship will be required to present their research/artistic creation in ITROW’s Women and Gender Faculty Colloquy series. Travel funds for presentation of such scholarship at conferences will also be considered.
- Campus-wide or departmental events focused on women/gender issues such as speakers, film series, and conferences.
Early Feb. for COFAC.
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SFMIME 2008 - Electroacoustic call
http://sfifem.csf.edu/SFIFEM_call.html
Submitted works are invited for the radio broadcasts on 'Other Voices, Other Sounds' KUNM 89.9 FM Albuquerque and via the web at kunm.org:
Recent (composed 2002 or later) works of stereo electroacoustic tape/recorded media music, preferably under 20 minutes in duration.
Note: tape/recorded media works are defined, for the purposes of this call for works, as pieces created in a studio environment, without live performers, using analog and/or digital synthesis/signal processing/mixing/editing systems as the primary creative medium. Recordings of live performances, MIDI transcriptions of instrumental pieces, etc. are not accepted.
Up to 3 works - Postmark by 1/1/08
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Honors College Course Proposals
http://www.towson.edu/applications/dailydigest/databases/news/20071120_035701PM_joschmid_31.asp
Do this!!!!!
Proposals due 1/4
These seminars will be one-semester courses (typically three units) and will be designed to enable students and faculty to examine areas that are not usually part of regular departmental offerings. Seminars in the Honors College should provide a robust and collegial discussion environment that is intellectually demanding. These seminars should support increasingly independent learning as well as application of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and methods to the larger academic, local, national, or global community.
The Honors College is especially interested in Lower level Honors seminars that allow for indepth study of fundamental issues, ideas, topics or problems. Emphasis for these seminars should be on developing and strengthening skills important to success in Honors and undergraduate education, including oral and written communication skills, reading skills, critical and creative thinking, civic engagement, etc. These seminars should satisfy a specific General Education requirement. The Honors College is also interested in reviewing proposals for Upper level Honors seminars that are designed to deepen knowledge about a particular intellectual issue and demonstrate the interconnectedness of academic disciplines. These seminars may incorporate moral or ethical thinking, problem-solving components, and independent writing projects as part of a culminating activity. These seminars should be designed to satisfy departmental requirements and will require approval from the home department.
Suggested honors components to coursework include the following:
an emphasis on primary texts over secondary works
a project that helps to broaden the disciplinary/interdisciplinary approach of the course
student organized events outside the classroom that build on the course material and
enhance the educational experience for students in the class or other students on campus
student participation in broader community or regional events related to course
student research on pedagogical or research methods (suggesting or implementing some of these innovative approaches during the course of the semester)
student taught sessions or portions of sessions more advanced disciplinary methods
This list is not comprehensive. To the contrary, the Honors Curriculum Committee welcomes other ideas and suggestions, as well as innovative approaches to pedagogy and course structure.
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Honors College Fellowships - at TU
http://www.towson.edu/applications/dailydigest/databases/news/20071120_040350PM_joschmid_32.asp
Apps due 12/14 for 1, 2, or 3 year fellowship
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Crossing Borders - mixed media
http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/listing/1924/
Crossing Borders/Crusando Fronteras, national juried
exhibition. April 19 – May 24, 2008. Juror, Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum. Entry: $20 for 3 entries, all media. Deadline: February 15, 2008. Guidelines www.heragallery.org or SASE, Hera Gallery, PO Box 336, Wakefield, RI 02880.
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Juxtapositions - Photography
JUXTAPOSITIONS is a thematic exhibition based on a comparison of imaginary and reality based art forms. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, April 3 -26, 2008 and is open for entry to all artists working in any media. $1000 cash award. Deadline January 31, 2008. On-line entry form at http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/juxta.htm or email slowart@aol.com, or send SASE to SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 SlowArt Productions presents the group thematic exhibition, Juxtapositions. This exhibition will focus on and compare imaginary and reality based visual art. Works in the show will be "juxtaposed" to facilitate analysis and comparison in the mind of the viewer. Art created from the imagination must be solely created from the imagination and must not use photography or models from life as a reference. Reality based art must use real life or photography for reference and may be photography, digital art or media art (painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, mixed media) that is created incorporating or using photography as reference. All media and methods are acceptable. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from April 3 - 26, 2008. A $1000 cash award will be presented to one artist from the exhibition. ELIGIBILITY: JUXTAPOSITIONS is open to all artists, national and international, working in any media. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to apply. RESTRICTIONS:JUXTAPOSITIONS
Imaginary and Reality Based Art
April 3 - 26, 2008
IMAGINARY ART CATEGORY: Art in this category may be in any media or style, but must be created solely from the imagination. Subjects in the work may refer to real life objects, but neither real life nor photography may be used as a model for creating the work For example, a bird could be in a painting in this category, but only if it is drawn without looking at a bird or a photo of a bird. Photography is not acceptable in this category, digital art is acceptable only if it does not incorporate photography.
REALITY BASED CATEGORY: Art in this category may be in any media or style, but must be created by using real life objects or photography as a model for creating the work. For example, a bird could be in a painting in this category only if it is painted from looking at a photo of a bird, or from looking at a bird in nature. Photography and digital art incorporating photography is acceptable in this category.
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Photo Competition - Altered Landscape
The Altered Landscape Photography Competition
Newspace Center for Photography
(Portland OR)
Newspace Center for Photography invites you to Submit your images that you feel depict an "altered landscape." From simple and subtle ways like gardens, power lines and billboards to the more obvious like bridges, power plants and factories the impact of humankind is almost everywhere we turn.
The competition is open to photographers using any type of photographic process, color or black & white, traditional or computer generated/manipulated images. There are no restrictions on the date of the image(s).
Entries should illustrate or explore the theme described. Newspace encourages individual artistic interpretation of its theme. We believe this will make for more diverse and therefore more interesting exhibitions. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions.
The entry fee is $5 per image, you may enter as many images as you like. Fill out the entry form and submit it with your images via email or physical mail with images on a cd. Entry materials will not be returned.
The entry deadline is Friday, December 28th, The exhibition will take place at the Center from February 8th through 27th, with an opening reception Friday, February 8th 7-10pm.
Visit our website for full prospectus.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Hidrazone - Online Journal
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=178
Hidrazone,
the online digital arts journal, is pleased to announce forthcoming SPRING 2008 edition curated and edited by Helen Sloane of SCAN and designer/writer Bob Cotton
To commemorate the rebirth of broadcasting into a multi-channel and fragmented media form we are looking for artworks and written contributions that reconfigure audience experience through performance, installation, online work and PDAs.
Suggested formats and/or themes
- Installation
- Computational narrative
- Video and sound for handheld
- Video and sound networks
- VJ and live performance
- Peer casting/User generated content
- Broadcast archive content management
- New approaches to broadcasting
GUIDELINES
Web- based work can be hosted on the HIDRAZONE site or you may submit documentation (screen-grabs, audio files and/or video) in addition to URL’s. We are seeking work that is accompanied by some form of contextualization - this can be from a critical, technical, academic or philosophical perspective.
SUBMISSIONS
The next issue is TELENESIA
Jan 30 08 - deadline to email
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
National Audio Theater Script Competition
http://www.natf.org/script2008_rules.html
mid-November deadline
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3rd Coast Audio Festival
Check in May 2008
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_competitions.asp
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Zeppelin Sound Festival
There are many kinds of deafness. This year’s Zeppelin Sound Art Festival will focus on those that are barely noticeable, slowly and steadily undermining our hearing. We like to listen to noise and work with it, but we are aware that some noises often inoculate in us a sort of “mental deafness.” We would like to listen with our whole bodies, and to do so, we invite you to reflect on and make sound pieces that pay attention to the excess of talk, images, and sounds that constantly floods our ears disguised as “information”; to that never ending and repetitive clatter that political slogans wish to imprint in our minds and behaviors; to those strange sounds produced by the concentration of power; to the way we are continiuously made to think of ourselves as “clients” and “consumers” instead of citizens… we want to pay attention to the noise that deprives us of our own sounds. We want to ask what can we ultimately really listen to? What are the mechanisms behind this great mental and social deafness we are suffering? We want to raise this questions through your works, regarding them as listening tools that counteract the kinds of deafness that inhabit our times.
This is an open invitation for all those persons interested in these matters to submit their sound works.
The pieces will be presented in an eight-speaker system on March 13th, 14th and 15th 2008 in Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
All the pieces will be accepted as long as they fit the following requirements:
1. All works must be ten (10) minutes long or less
2. The works must be in AIFF or WAV format at 44.1 Khz & 16bits
3. The following information should be attached:
3.1. A brief description about the piece
3.2. Artistic biography of the author
3.3. A signed document authorizing or unauthorizing explicitly the desire to publish the piece on the internet
3.4. A signed document authorizing the inclusion of the piece in the sound art archive Sonoscop.
4. All works and documentation must be sent in CD/DVD before February the 15th 2008, to:
caos/ZEPPELIN/convocatoria
Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona
C/Montalegre, 5
Barcelona 08001
España
More info: caos@sonoscop.net
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Art @ Radio - UMBC
http://art-radio.net/
art@radio, invites artists to submit experimental music and sound works to be considered for broadcast. Works which explore concepts of serialism and ultra-rationality, aleatory and anti-rational, musique concrète, chance & non- music, text-sound composition, microtonal, lowercase, sound/noise, synthetic and ambient /space recordings are encouraged to submit.
Submission data:
Please include a statement and an artist statement, visual documentation of the event and/or designed instruments along with your submission include ur/emaill of current projects and samples. Also, indicate if your interested in your works being part of the podcast component of art@radio.
Broadcasting @ http://wmbc.umbc.edu/~artradio/podcast/artradio.xml
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room - Call
7th International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room
The Listening Room Project is part of the 7th Annual Festival of New Music at California State University, Fullerton, California, to be held Thursday, February 28th - Sunday, March 2nd. This year's 7th Annual New Music Festival is a landmark year. After 6 years of celebrating Women in New Music the festival will move to an inclusive format-celebrating works by women composers along-side works by men composers. We look for inclusive in programming and works that bridge the divide between gender, culture, media. However, the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project will remain unaffected by these changes. The Women in New Music Festival features day-long playback of works by women in electroacoustic music. During the 6 hours of the electro-acoustic listening room the listener's mind is immersed in the sounds of diverse compositional voices of women composers in electroacoustic music from over 20 different countries from around the globe.
The Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room strives to present a diverse sampling of different approaches to electronic music, with examples from classical computer music, environmental music, and meditative music to works that expand acoustic virtuosity and improvisation with virtual instruments to sonic documentaries that capture the inner workings of the mind: horror, humor and the unfolding of human dramas. This year the Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room focuses on the theme of Inclusive Voices: Healing the Divide.
Deadline: December 15. Submit your proposed CD recording of electronic work for inclusion in the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project. Maximum length 12 minutes. Please include: CD of proposed work, submission information: title of work, length of work, name of composer, contact information, program notes and short bio to address below. In addition, send all submission information: title of work, length of work, name of composer, contact information, program notes, short bio and inquiries by email to Dr. Pamela Madsen.
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MATA Festival - NYC - 2009 - Call for Score
http://www.matafestival.org/callforscores.pdf
MATA (Music at the Anthology) is currently accepting scores for consideration for commissions and performances for the 2009 MATA Festival in New York City, in the spring of 2009. Although commissions are only awarded to composers under 40 at the time of submission, composers of all ages who are at the early stages of their careers will be considered for programming on the festival. Commission amounts range from $1500 to $5000, depending on the parameters of the work. Composers are expected to attend the premiere of their work. Please include a sentence in your cover letter specifying if you would like your works to be considered generally for the festival in the event that you are not chosen for a commission. MATA will consider works of any instrumentation and duration; please send whatever you consider to be your best work. In addition to our traditional festival programming, MATA encourages submissions in the following sub-categories: 1) Site-Specific Works; 2) Electro-Acoustic / Computer Works; 3) Chamber Music for Wind Instruments.
Deadline: February 15. Materials for submission must include: 2 recordings of samples of recent work. A maximum of two works may be submitted (MIDI tapes will not be accepted), scores to accompany the above recordings (unless scores are not pertinent), biography or résumé, list of works, contact information, SASE if you wish to have your materials returned. If your music has been programmed by MATA, or you have received a commission, you must wait three years before re-applying. Only one commission will be awarded to any one composer in his or her lifetime. Send works to the surface address below. More information available on the web or by email.
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Another cool conference - and possible place to present paper/talk
http://www.changingthepresent.org/campusconference2008/play+a+role
| 24th Annual IMPACT: National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy, and Social Action | |
| Date(s): | March 7, 2008 - March 9, 2008 |
| Venue: | Northeastern University Boston MA |
Also
http://www.civicyouth.org/?cat=15
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Cool Conference & Link
http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/events/2008conf.html
The Power of Place: Regional Higher Education Networks
for Community Transformation
Thursday, February 28 and Friday, February 29, 2008 at the University of Pennsylvania
They also have links to syllabi - service learning classes at Penn & NJ colleges.
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Service Learning Grant - Learn & Serve America
I don't know if this is the way to go, but it would be nice to have some funding for service learning in EMF.
http://www.learnandserve.org/for_organizations/funding/index.asp
The purpose of higher education grants is to expand participation in community service and service-learning by supporting innovative community service programs carried out through institutions of higher education that act as civic institutions to meet the human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs of neighboring communities. Emphasis is placed both on institutional change to support service and service-learning within higher education and on community problem-solving and capacity-building.
Date????
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BEA Call for Papers - 2008
Theme - New Communication Frontiers
Curriculum, Documentary, Gender Issues, Radio/Audio
The Broadcast Education Association invites scholarly papers from academics, students and professionals for presentation at its annual convention, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The BEA2008 convention theme is "The New Communication Frontiers" and is intended as a focus for the convention, but does not imply that competitive papers must reflect that theme. Papers should, however, address the goals and objectives of the interest division to which they are submitted. Please check the BEA website (www.beaweb.org) for each division's specifics on submitting papers.
Each division selects up to six papers – four for presentation and two papers as alternates - that may be used. Please clearly mark the two alternates. In addition, a few papers may be selected by divisions for consideration in the Scholar-to-Scholar (poster) session.
Papers are submitted directly to the relevant divisions as either "Debut" or "Open" papers. The Debut category is open only to those who have never previously presented a paper at a BEA Convention. First and second place winners in Debut categories receive $200 and $100 to help defray their costs of attending the convention. If you have previously presented a paper at a BEA convention your submission category is “Open”.
Papers must be received by the appropriate division by Monday, December 3, 2007.
Submission Requirements:
* Length: not to exceed 30 double-spaced pages, including references and tables
* Style: use of APA style or a style suited to the discipline
* Abstract: abstract of less than 250 words to be included with submission
* Exclusivity: papers may not be submitted to more than one division during the same year
* Authorship: author's name, institution address, phone number and e-mail to appear on the cover page only (list all contact information for each author of multiple authored papers)
Cover page must include:
* the title of the paper and the division to which the paper is submitted
* any A/V requirements
* whether submission is an "open" or "debut" entry (any papers without such designation will be considered in the open category)
* Title: to be printed on the first page of the paper and on running heads on all subsequent pages
* Author Contact Information, including all contact information for each author of multiple authored papers
Copies: three (3) copies of paper must be submitted.
Convention Attendance
At least one (1) author of an accepted competitive paper MUST attend the convention to present the paper. Participants MUST be members of BEA and registered for the convention. Winners will be notified by February 8, 2008. Send papers directly to the following individuals:
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Radio Killed the Video Star - Call
http://www.nyfa.org/opp_detail.asp?type=Opportunity&id=95&fid=1&sid=54&oppid=18430
Laboratorio 060 is a collective based in Mexico City. As part of an exhibition of this group at the CUE Art Foundation in New York, the group is launching a worldwide call for entries for a musical composition that will be learned and performed by the three members of this collective on the day of the opening and later transmitted on the radio in New York.
The project Radio Killed the Video Star seeks to alter the homogeneous process by which entertainment is constructed and disseminated in our image-saturated media world. The ideal entries for collaboration should come from composers and musicians who may be interested in disseminating their work and in having their works interpreted by Laboratorio 060 –an artist collective without any professional musical experience— as part of this conceptual project.
Entries should have three instrumental parts (instrument or voice) which can be interpreted by three individuals, and have a duration of no longer than five minutes. The proposals will be evaluated and the final composition will be selected by the guest curator of the exhibition.
•Any sound artist and/or composer of any genre is eligible to apply.
•Special attention will be paid to those projects that take into consideration the specific context into which this performance will take place (an art space in Chelsea, and the radio)
•Each participant may submit up to 2 entries.
•Selection criteria will include: a) compositions with potential to infiltrate the radio in an effective and innovative way, b) works with an adequate balance between the three components, c) works with an experimental and playful character, even if they have political content; d) non-commercial works
•The selected composition will be performed at the CUE Art Foundation on March 13, 2008 by the members of Laboratorio 060.
Needs to be in NYC - 12/21/07
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Call for Papers - Electroacoustic Music
http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?article224
Paper due 1/11/08, conference - Paris - early June
Musique concrète - 60 years later
Electroacoustic Music Studies Network - International Conference Series
5th Conference ‘EMS08’ 3-6 June 2008, Paris
Presenting EMS 08
When the first trains were “running out” off the loudspeakers during the concerts of Pierre Schaeffer’s Études, the audience must have been surprised and shocked with the notion that such mundane sounds could be used in music. Sixty years and thousands of musical works later, the shock factor is gone but our surprise remains in terms of the discovery of new musical trends on the unending road where technology is applied to music.
And yet, what do we know about electroacoustic music? It is vast domain with many actors, small and large; a domain that attracts composers from all around the world; a domain for any musician to explore. However it is a domain where few studies have been done in comparison to other domains; where methodologies and terminologies have yet to evolve that are capable of taking the complexity of electroacoustic music into account.
One of the main functions of the EMS Network is to promote and encourage the study of electroacoustic music, and to provide a regular framework for discussion and diffusion of the results. 2008 is a special year for this, a year for celebrating the past but also a year for new perspectives. Several trends will be explored during EMS08; before the meeting, there will be a special study session on the socio-political implications of electroacoustic music, Composing Today. This meeting and the EMS08 event will be hosted by the GRM (which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary) and the University of Paris Sorbonne. It will last three days and concerts will be performed during the event featuring the Asian Network (EMSAN) track; on the weekend immediately following EMS08 there will also be two concerts in the annual GRM series at the Salle Olivier Messiaen at the French Radio.
EMS 08 main theme
The main topic for the EMS08 will be the relationship between sound and music
Inventing new sounds for music: how do composers approach the production of sounds for their musical works, which methods and procedures they used? Influence of tools on music: Is the music the result of invention, or do tools determine the final result? Relations between sound and structure: what relationships exist between the sounds and the structure of the work? Are there significant trends in this domain? Sound terminology: is a physical or the morphological description efficient for characterising sounds? Has a need for new terminology appeared in any way?
Other EMS 08 themes
None of these is exclusive; any may be combined, others added. Criticism of the terminology, categories and assumptions made in this list will be perfectly acceptable. We also encourage papers from the margins of electroacoustic music and papers which discuss works in the fields of intermedia, installations, video music, multimedia, Internet-based collaboration, etc.
Analysis: What types of discourse are relevant to electroacoustic works? Which analytical methods are currently being developed? Can one adapt existent analytical methods of music to electroacoustic works, many of which involve no prescriptive notation? How can we further develop the field of study of electroacoustic musics?
Transcription and representation of sound, new audio-visual tools: How are analytical tools being produced and disseminated in the community? Which means are available for communicating this sonic artform through symbolic and graphic representations? Does the study of electroacoustic musics require specifically designed tools or can it take advantage of methods conceived for other musics?
Taxonomy, terminology - ‘meaningful’ units of music description: Which systems of classification are in use or should be developed? How can we become more consistent in our use of terminology in a field as dynamic as electroacoustic music?
Real-time music making: How can live performance/composition strategies be analysed? What is ‘live’ electronic music?
Performance, presentation, dissemination: What is the ‘work’? New presentation spaces, technologies. Internet communities, group compositions and performances.
Listening, Intention-Reception: Issues of perception and interpretation. How do the composer’s intentions relate to what is perceived?
Semiotics/semiology, ‘meaning’: What (and how) do different electroacoustic music genres express?
Soundscape, sound ecology: Analytical tools for the understanding of soundscapes. New approaches to sound ecology, sonification, sound environment.
Genres/styles, ‘languages’: Questions of unity, diversity, plurality, multicultural resources, polystyle, hybridisation, ‘local music’
Gender issues: Have gender balances shifted since the early days? The relationship between technology/electroacoustic music and gender. Unrecognised contributions: revising history.
Electroacoustic music in East and South-East Asia: The EMS 08 conference will include a special EMSAN track. EMSAN (Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network) is devoted to the study of the development and practices of electroacoustic music in East and South-East Asia. All contributions are welcome.
Furthermore ... Proposals concerning any other themes related to electroacoustic music studies, such as sources and resources are most welcome.
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Call for Papers - Intermedia
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/content/fall_2007/call_for_papers.html
We invite papers that explore the theme of Intermedia and its relation to the ever-evolving state of New Media.
Themes that could be explored (but are not exclusive) include:
- Definitions of Intermedia
- Distinctions, as they exist, between inter, multi, and trans- disciplinary practice, and the implied boundaries.
- New relationships created between artists and audiences through Intermedia practices.
- Connections to pre-digital practice. The term Intermedia predates cyberspace and digital media, yet it seems comfortable with them.
- Intermedia in digital arts programs: the development of digital arts programs around a process of integration, and the integration of proximal areas of interest or histories.
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Futuresonic 2008 - Call for Submissions
Manchester - early May 2008
http://www.futuresonic.com/08/getinvolved.html
Futuresonic Art Award - Submissions
A commission valued at £5000 is available for a new project responding to the Social Networking Unplugged theme. Support will also be available for a limited number of other projects, and Futuresonic invites submissions of projects that do not require funding from the festival.
Transforming the city into a space of experimentation, making it come alive. Futuresonic's art strand features exhibitions, performances and interventions, including many world firsts, with a focus on social and participatory artworks which re-imagine the city.
Futuresonic transforms lived city spaces, not just occupying spaces temporarily vacated by their commercial owners. In 2007 Futuresonic commissioned 3 artworks responding to the social context of one of the UK's main shopping centres.
There are 3 ways to have a project included in the Futuresonic Art strand:
i) A commission valued at £5000 is available for a new artwork
ii) Futuresonic can offer financial support to a limited number of other projects
iii) Projects can be accepted that do not require financial support from the festival.
All will receive full marketing benefits and management support.
This submission form should be used for all of the above. All proposals submitted will be considered for the commission, and unsuccessful submissions will automatically be considered for other sources of support.
Deadline: 5pm, Tuesday 18 December 2007.
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The theme of Futuresonic 2008 and its Art strand is Social Networking Unplugged. It will be "unplugged" in a number of ways. There will be artworks involving offline (or unplugged) collaborative social experience and face to face social interaction. Other projects will look at who is excluded and left out of the loop of Web 2.0, and so "unplugged" in another way. Also there is the sense of pulling out the plug in order to take the new social spaces apart, see how they work, and put them together in new ways.
Projects can involve online, mobile or offline social networking. They can enable people to experiment collaboratively with different kinds of social experience and social interaction. Or they can intervene in the forces, inequities and inequalities that shape society.
Today we can occupy many different social spaces at once. How can we make visible the unspoken rules and etiquette that guide what we do in public places? Who are the social revolutionaries? The misfits? The conformists? Who has been left outside?
Futuresonic will also be working in different ways with communities across Manchester and invites community groups to get involved. Its easy. All you have to do to participate is to reflect on, explore, perform your nature as a social being.
The exhibition will be viral and ambient. It will not always be clear where it begins and ends. How does the meaning and experience of social interaction change when recontextualised as art?
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Art (12/18/07), Panel or Paper (12/18/07), Music/sound (2/7/08), event (2/7/08)
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Reconnect US Call
http://reconnectus.org/
An artist-curated, multi-media exhibition that brings together diverse expressions of the War in Iraq. In these times of extreme political division and inadequate or biased media coverage, the exhibition will engage the American public in a broad-based dialogue that promotes awareness, understanding, and healing. Through the universal language of art, the exhibition seeks to give a human face to the complex conflict in Iraq and to engage those who have unconsciously cocooned themselves from the fearsome reality of the war. We ask the questions: Â What does it mean to experience this war firsthand, in combat, or as an Iraqi civilian? What does it mean to experience it from a distance, or on television? How can we in America reconnect to the reality of war? Are there shared visions of peace despite cultural and religious differences? The work will be selected on artistic merit and look to include as many perspectives as possible, beyond politics.
The call goes out internationally to both soldiers and civilians for video, audio, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and the written word. The show will be shown simultaneously in the Pawtucket Armory, Machines With Magnets and the Cable Car Cinema, in Pawtucket and Providence, RI, from March 5th to 30th, 2008. These first venues are a 2000sq. ft. gallery and two screening rooms. The show may travel. The show may continue as a website, book and as a DVD.
Entries due 1/12/08, if selected, work due in Feb 08
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ICMC 2008 Call
The Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast, in association with the International Computer Music Association and the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, is proud to be hosting ICMC 2008. The Conference will take place between 24-29 August 2008 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
THEME
The theme for 2008 is ‘Roots/Routes’. The Conference explores notions of placement and displacement in the context of music practice. It provides an opportunity for the investigation of the interface between technologies which develop through international collaboration and the specificity of music cultures rooted in a place.
The theme can be addressed through papers, compositions, installations and performances which explore the sense of place and context in relation to sound and technology. A growing list of conference topics can be seen on the website (see ‘Themes’ and ‘Recent Comments’ on www.icmc2008.net). We welcome contributions to the debate on this site. In addition to submissions addressing the conference theme, the organising committee welcomes submissions on all traditional areas of computer music.
Call will be online 12/1, submissions due 1/28, the conference is in Ireland - late August
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Japanese Roads Making Music
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,2209972,00.html#article_continue
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Humanities Grant
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=16010
I'm thinking about this for: audio doc on highway or maybe something else....
Grants for America’s Media Makers support media projects that explore significant events, figures, or developments in the humanities and offer creative and new approaches to humanities content.
America’s Media Makers projects promote:
- active exploration and engagement for broad public audiences in history,
- interactivity that excites, informs, and stirs thoughtful reflection and urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public.
- enable greater audience engagement with the humanities,
- encourage dialogue and discussion, and
- foster discovery-based learning across the age spectrum.
NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects, Development Grants and Production Grants.
Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop the humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production.
- including but not limited to meetings and individual consultations with scholars, location and archival research, preliminary interviews, preparation of program scripts, designs for interactivity and digital distribution, and the creation of partnerships for outreach activities and public engagement with the humanities.
- The product of development grants should be the refinement of the humanities ideas, a script, or a design document for (or a prototype of) digital media components or projects.
- may also result in a detailed plan for outreach and public engagement in collaboration with partner organizations.
applicants must have a solid command of the major humanities scholarship on the subject, have clarified the ideas the project will consider, and have consulted with a team of scholarly advisers to work out the intellectual issues the program will explore.
Applicants must:
-have made preliminary decisions about the format and storyline and located essential materials for the program(s).
- have recruited the appropriate media professionals, especially the producer, writer, or interactive designer.
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Hello to, well, myself
This blog is actually a place where I can publish the calls & grants I'm interested in working on, as well as a place to put my work, other than just my website - elsalankford.com.
So, the person I expect to be seeing mostly at this site is me.
Others are welcome, but I expect to see mostly myself waving back at me.
-Elsa
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