Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Call for Multi-Channel Works - EuCue Feb 2008

(Electroacoustiques universite Concordia university Electroacoustics)
http://music.concordia.ca/EuCuE/Concerts.html

invites composers to submit works for concerts 7 thru 13 of Series XXVI

February 6, 7, 8, 2008
at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Featured composers include:
John Chowning, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Maurice Wright

and the concerts will present the Concordia Quodlibet 2007.


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Multi-channel works are invited for 4, 4.1, 5, 5.1 etc up to 12.2,
with the possibility of other configurations, and video presentation.


All concerts are webcast (except Stockhausen). Received pieces are
kept in the Concordia Archive, and with the Sonus.ca contract
http://www.sonus.ca/contracts/index.html are included in Sonus.ca,
possibly the world's largest ea 'jukebox'. http://www.sonus.ca/


Selected works are preceded by a spoken introduction providing such
things as historical or analytical information.


Prefered file format is 24/48kHz mono.

Channels should contain a descriptor identifying the speaker
location: (L, C, R, LF, RF, LS RS, LB, CB, RB etc)


STAGE LEFT STAGE RIGHT



LEFT CENTER RIGHT


LEFT-FRONT RIGHT-FRONT


LEFT-SIDE RIGHT-SIDE


LEFT BACK CENTER-BACK RIGHT BACK


If no LFE channel is provided, the playback software (Logic), will be
used to extract an LFE channel with an approximate 80Hz crossover.


Preferred deadline for receiving pieces, January 15, 2008



Kevin Austin / Mark Corwin
EuCuE Production team

kevin.austin "at" videotron.ca


Associate-Professor (Music) / (EuCuE) RF-302
Department of Music (Electroacoustic Studies)
Concordia University
7141, rue Sherbrooke o
Montreal, QC
CANADA H4B 1R6


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Technical note:

Please normalize all channels to around -1 dB.

Please check for DC offsets that will shift levels and produce
anomalies in the subwoofer(s).

Please check for 'rogue' spikes that may compromise average RMS levels.



For further information or special consideration, please contact me off-list.


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