Zepplin 2008 - Soundworks

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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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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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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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