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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.