SoundImageSound call

http://cgi.sfu.ca/~musicu/cgi-bin/?q=node/166

This might need to be for next year, since I don't think I've seen this call until just now.

SoundImageSound VI - Friday, February 13, 2009
Submission Postmark Deadline – Monday, December 8, 2008

With SoundImageSound VI the Conservatory Computer Studio for Music Composition (CCSMC) in combination with the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific presents the seventh year of concerts featuring the work of artists who cross boundaries to combine the aural and the visual. For information about previous events go to:

http://www1.pacific.edu/~rcoburn/events/soundimagesound/index.php

Original works that combine sound and visual image in any style will be considered. Individual artists or collaborating teams may submit. For fixed works the visual elements may be still or moving image projected from DVD. If you wish to use an alternative format (computer HD, mini-dv, etc) inquire before submitting. Works requiring multiple projections may be considered. Unique or unusual equipment required for the presentation of a particular piece will be the artist’s responsibility.
Taking advantage of a newly constructed venue on campus, this year SoundImageSound adds both a club concert and live performance to its usual presentation of works for “fixed media”. Artists may submit works in any or all of the following categories -

Concert I - Fixed media concert works for multi-channel sound (2 - 5.1) and video.
Concert II - Works for multi-channel sound (2 - 5.1) and video appropriate for presentation in a club setting.
Live performance works - combining live computer music and video for either concert.
A single artist will be selected and invited to perform during SIS VI.

Submission Materials (clearly identify fixed media, club, or live):
For concert proposals - DVD of the proposed piece
For live performance proposal - DVD or URL documentation of your work
Include a cd with:
Brief program notes (200 words)
Brief artist bio (200 words)
Email and snail mail address - Required for contact

Mail to -
Robert Coburn
SoundImageSound VI
Conservatory - UOP
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA
USA 95211

Artists will be notified by December 15, 2008. All submissions will be placed in the library of the CCSMC. If return is required include a SASE. Artists selected for presentation are encouraged but not required to attend.
Questions or further information contact - rcoburn@pacific.edu

Robert Coburn
Chair - Dept. of Music Studies
Program Director - Composition and Music Theory
Artistic Director - SoundImageSound and ensemble 20/21
Conservatory - University of the Pacific

http://www1.pacific.edu/~rcoburn


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For the masses...

I created this blog for me, and it probably is just me that looks at it. But if you do find any calls for entry for audio or sound or service learning that aren't on here - please let me know - either through email or through a comment or something.

Or if you want to collaborate on a project with sound - let me know. And yes, I do realize I'm probably just talking to myself....
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The Missouri Review - Audio competition

http://www.missourireview.com/contest/audio_competition.php

Audio & Video Competition Guidelines (2008)
[View the 2007 winners here.]

These guidelines are also available in PDF format. You can download the entry form here.

The Missouri Review invites all writers and writers/producers to participate in our 2008 Audio & Video Competition. We have categories suitable for all kinds of writers.

Voice-Only Literature

If you have a short story, a piece of creative nonfiction, or poetry that you think worthy of recording, enter this category. Pieces in this category are author-read and will not contain other tracks of sound (no music beds or sound effects, etc.) Entries will be judged on literary merit and technical proficiency. Note: Poets may enter one or more poems as a single entry as long as the total recorded time does not exceed the six-minute limit. A how-to guide (MS Word doc) for creating your own recordings is available here.

Time: 6 minutes or less.

Category Award Amount: $1500; $500 each sub-category

Narrative Essay

Just as in a personal essay, the subject matter and approach is broad. The “I” is present, and the essay is authorread. Additionally, the entry may contain additional layers of sound, including music, ambient sounds, sound effects, etc. Entries will be judged on literary merit, technical proficiency, and use of sound.

Time: 7 minutes or less.

Category Award Amount: $1,000.

Documentary

This category is devoted to pieces that examine in some depth a time, place, person, event, pastime, trend, or other noteworthy topic. Entries will be judged on the strength of the writing and reporting, technical profi ciency and use of sound.

Time: 10 minutes or less.

Category Award Amount: $1,000.

Video

Filmmakers, videographers, screenwriters, and playwrights, enter the Creative Short category. This broad category includes everything from a filmed scene that stands on its own to a videographed 10-minute play to a comedic or satiric sketch, as well as other video/film shorts. Other writers, video and film artists, enter the Video Documentary category. In addition to short documentaries on any subject or historic period, interviews of authors and author presentations are welcome, as well as any topic of interest to a general literary audience. Entries will be judged on strength of the script and subject, ability to meet its objective (stated or unstated i.e., a comedic short that’s funny, or an author interview that is informative, fresh and insightful), technical proficiency, including sound and lighting, and acting talent, if appropriate to the category.

Time: 10 minutes or less.

Category Award Amount: $1,000; $500 each sub-category.

Editors’ Choice Award

Also, up to 5 finalists selected from all categories will receive the Editors’ Choice Award and a cash prize of $100 each. Winning entries will be featured on the website of The Missouri Review, as podcasts, and made available to subscribers.

All entries must be produced in English.
Entry Fee And Deadline

$24 for each entry. You may send multiple audio or video pieces in a single envelope, but each piece must be submitted on a separate CD or DVD. (For example, three entries on three CDs, with a total payment enclosed of $72.) Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to The Missouri Review magazine.

Entries must be postmarked by December 1, 2008.

Payment may be made by credit card, check or money order. Checks in US dollars should be made payable to The Missouri Review.

Technical Requirements

Audio entries are accepted on CD only. CDs should not contain any audio other than entry material. Submit video entries on DVD as video (not data) that can be read by a standard DVD player for TV or computer screening.

Submissions Must Include

a completed entry form for each entry (download the entry form)
a copy of the entry on a CD or video DVD, labeled with writer/ producer, title and length
a brief program synopsis (short writer/producer bio optional)
the entry fee payment
Send Entries To

The Missouri Review Audio & Video Competition
357 McReynolds Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

For More Information
E-mail us at: contest_question@moreview.com

A basic how-to guide for producing simple voice recordings is available here (MS Word file).


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Third Coast Audio Festival

Calls for entries announced - May 2009
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New Media Caucus Call

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2008_winter&page=call
Call for Papers media-N spring edition, 2009
Theme:Foreignness and Translation in New Media.

Guest Editor for this special issue is Pat Badani, Assistant Professor, Integrated Media, at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, U.S.A.

This issue will deal with the relationship between foreignness and translation in new media. We look forward to a discussion on the idea of foreignness seen as an investigation surrounding notions of travel, displacement and migration beyond those tied to the geographical movement of populations.

We are interested in the broad practice of translation in new media, in the use of an electronic system that mediates and enables the movement from one state to another. We also welcome submissions exploring the specific notion of cultural translation and migration in new media. That is to say, we are interested in a discussion on cultural markers that are displaced into foreign and extraneous locations, languages, supports and genres.

This issue expands the debate initiated during the Colloquium Foreigners in Art and Technology held at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 12 & 13, 2008).

The scope of this issue is double: theoretical and practical. We welcome submissions on critical thinking and studio practices. Artists and theorists are invited to discuss their artwork and/or critical thinking in this area.
Please submit via email to: Pat Badani at pbadaniilstuedu

Deadline: February 14, 2009

Event reviews:The editorial board also invites proposals for reviews of exhibitions, events, festivals, conferences, etc. See examples of reviews in the current issue.

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