T E C N O N U C L E O

TECNONUCLEO is a non profit Net.Label specialises in Experimental Electronic Music, focused on the expression of new musical concepts, from glitchy to field recording, which includes noise, stochastic synthesis, drone, minimalist, microsounds, music concrete TECNONUCLEO is also an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism of emerging sound languages and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. Thanks for your visit.

Nombre: Scmute and Nanako
Lugar: Barcelona / Málaga, España

jueves 31 de enero de 2008

Come and make a NOISE!


The Neo Futurist Collective Needs You!

We are looking for a large number of volunteers to create a NOISE in
Jubilee Square, Brighton on 20th February.

On the 99th Anniversary of the publication of the Founding of Futurism
manifesto, a group of artists are holding a rally in celebration of
Urban Noise before the press and media, to declaim our Neo Futurist
Noise manifesto.

We will also hold a minutes silence in commemoration of fallen artists
from the recent Arts Council cuts.

Contact Joe on artofnoises@gmail.com to register your participation.

Participants need to be available on the day from 11am for a maximum
of 90 minutes (please bring your mobile phone).

The Neo Futurist Collective are:
Joseph Young (curator), Rowena Easton, Mikhail Karikis, Rachel
Gadsden, Abigail Norris, Harry Neve, Eva Weaver, Peter Faulkner, Mike
Blow, Chris Umney.

miércoles 30 de enero de 2008

calls for Moving Forest - transmediale08 berlin

For those of you who maybe coming to transmediale08 berlin

As part of the 12 hour Moving Forest performance (11:00 -23:00) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Moving Forest of the People Front calls for an act of insurgency with Berliners for the final FOREST march toward CASTLE takeover Transmediale08.

On February 1 at 19:00
CALL for DS Revolt:go northwest 20 Allied Clearing House [Bundestag]
CALL for Radio Gun Revolt: Symphony of noise [Siegessäule]CALL for AIR: GAMEoverTAKEoverOVER [JVA Berlin Moabit]
CALL for transmission: autonomous transmitting units [JVA Berlin Moabit]

For those of you who have a few streams of rumblings, disruption, upheaval, turbulence, turmoil and convulsion or simply uplifting, please join backyard radio's CALL for netstreams: Conspire and take remote control

BACKYARD RADIO in association with AKA THE CASLE invites all net streamcasters to join the multi-channel sonic uproar by sending in net streams.

The moving forest - its standing, its moving is floating towards the center of empty wireless power. Conspire with your radio station, sound studio, toy shop, sample archive, live improvisation, mouth poetry, boombox collection. You´ll be streamed, televised, wiretapped, remixed, multiplexed, oversampled, frequency modulated and broadcasted.
Each network sound stream gets on air for 20 minutes slot and mixed into the ensemble stream and microradio broadcast.

SIGN UP for your time slot at

http://www.movingforest.net
/
mailto:info@backyardradio.de
Moving Forest presented by AKA the castleCONSPIRE, Transmediale08House of World Cultures, BerlinFebruary 1, 2008
'Moving Forest', is a 12-hour 5 act sonic performance operating with public wifi and mobile technology - an expandable citywide operatic manoeuvre/intervention. Derived from Kurosawa's film version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle, 'Moving Forest' renders the film's final sequences (12 minutes in length) into a 12-hour 'sonica' of grand scale. 'Moving Forest' reinvents a modern edition of a Castle Central (here: the House of World Cultures) and a city in revolt. Inside the castle, the downfall of the assumed power; outside in the city, the mobilised urbanites march with generated sounds of insurgence towards the imaginary Centre. 'Moving Forest' collaborates with sound artists to compose acts and scores, at the same time, drafts a PD (pure data) conspiracy scheme, performing live with citywide performance transmitted by wifi.
[AKA the castle] is a temporal performance troop bringing together visual artists, writers, soundists, silk threaders, codedecoders, macromikro, boombox mass, mobile agents, wifi fielders and urbanites to realize the 12 hour Moving Forest.

lunes 28 de enero de 2008

First release candidate of SC 3.2 now available!

Dear all,Thanks to the efforts of lots of SC developers, we can now announcethat the first "release candidate" of SuperCollider 3.2 is nowavailable.Mac bundle and source-code downloads are available at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

The "release candidate" means that the developers consider itappropriate for general release, so we're putting it out for generaluse and testing. If no important problems are revealed then this willbe the official 3.2 release, the release on which the forthcoming bookwill be based.The changelog, showing what's new, can be seen here:

http://tinyurl.com/28nx7b

Best
Dan

martes 22 de enero de 2008

Convocatoria IN-SONORA IV

Próxima convocatoria IN-SONORA IV, Muestra de Arte Sonoro e Interactivo
del 22 de enero al 25 de febrero

IN-SONORA
es una asociación cultural creada para apoyar y dar visualidad a propuestas artísticas experimentales relacionadas con la interactividad y/o lo sonoro, desde un punto de vista amplio y multidisciplinal.

Desde el 22 enero IN-SONORA abre la nueva convocatoria para proyectos que tengan como medios de expresión el sonido y/o la interacción.

BASES

Fecha límite de presentación:
25 de febrero 2008
(se admitirá que esté sellado el envío ese día)

Enviar a:
IN-SONORA
C/ La Palma, 28
28004 – Madrid -
Teléfono: 91.521.35.84

o al email: info@in-sonora.com

Lista de pre-seleccionados:
10 de Marzo del 2008

Los artistas pre-seleccionados serán contactados personalmente para concretar datos de la obra y montaje.

Fecha para la muestra:
14 – 26 octubre 2008. Noviembre documentación de la misma

CONVOCATORIA:

1. Tema: libre

2. Formatos:
la muestra está abierta a todo tipo de trabajos sonoros e interactivos así como a diferentes modos de presentación de los mismos:

- instalación sonora y/o interactiva (para mostrar en sala)
- pieza experimental
para presentación en directo (performance, concierto...)
- pieza audible (para zona de documentación)

- proyecto online (para zona de documentación)
- estudio teórico (para conferencias-debates)

3. Selección:

a. Las obras presentadas tendrán que estar ya produccidas y contar con todos los medios técnicosnecesarios para su correcto funcionamiento durante la muestra.

b. In-sonora no puede hacerse cargo de gastos de transporte, dietas, seguros...

c. Los artistas seleccionados cederán los derechos de exhibición, tanto de imagenes, como textos presentados, así como de toda la documentación que se produzca en la muestra; siempre para difusión del proyecto y sin ánimo de lucro.

d. In-sonora aportará la organización de la muestra, las sedes que van a cubrir tanto la parte expositiva como conferencias y eventos, así como la difusión en todos los medios posibles que tengamos a nuestro alcance.

4. Documentación a presentar:

a. Formulario adjunto completo

b. Memoria explicativa del proyecto donde se detalle: título, descripción y situación actual de la obra. Necesidades técnicas y espaciales.

c. CD o DVD con todo el material que ayude a la comprensión de la obra (vídeo, sonido, fotografías, esquemas, bocetos...).

d. Currículum, datos personales y de contacto del artista o colectivo.

e. Dossier digital con fotografías, textos y bocetos de obras anteriores (siempre que ayude a valorar mejor la obra presentada).

*Importante: Todo el material anterior deberá ser entregado en formato digital (textos en word, fotografías en calidad (aprox. 5 MB), sonido en aiff o wave, mp3 y videos en avi o mov.)

La muestra se realizará entre los meses de octubre o noviembre del 2007 contando este año con 7 sedes: Centro Hispano-Colombiano + Cruce + Espacio F + Espacio Menosuno + Medialab Prado + Off Limits + YOPoArt.


Podéis ver lo seleccionado en otras ediciones en la web:

IN-SONORA IV
+ info:
http://www.in-sonora.com
http://www.youtube.com/insonora

lunes 21 de enero de 2008

Call to Musicians: 3rd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival

This is a call to performers for the upcoming 3rd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival, which will take place May 29 through June 1, 2008. If you are interested in performing at this event, please review the details of the program below and follow the submission guidlines located here: http://www.boisemusicians.com/BEMF-3/Submittals.htm (also pasted at the end of this message)

Warm regards,

Krispen Hartung
Boise Experimental Music Festival
Event Coordinator and Artistic Director
info@krispenhartung.com
1-208-724-5603

3rd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival

Festival Overview

The 3rd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival is a four-day event occurring May 29 through June 1, 2008 in the Boise down town and North End areas. The festival will feature approximately 38 musical performances, 14 headliners from out of state or other countries, 24-30 unique performers/groups, and 20 hours of music. The music performances featured at the festival will fall into the experimental, avant-garde, or free improvisation music genres. The festival will also integrate experimental and avant-garde film, during intermissions and during most all performances to produce a multimedia experience for attendees.

The purpose of this music festival is to a) promote and increase awareness of experimental music in the Boise and surrounding Treasure Valley, b) provide a recurring annual venue for experimental musicians to express their art amongst their peers and potential music enthusiasts, and c) foster local artistic diversity, awareness, and appreciation of unusual and avant-garde forms of art.

Websites

www.myspace.com/boiseexperimentalmusicfesival
www.boisemusicians.com/BEMF-3/

Mission Statement

The intent of BEMF-3 is to raise awareness and appreciation of experimental music, provide an artistic venue and outlet for experimental musicians from all over the world, and place Boise, Idaho on the world map of creative music as a best-in-class and highly respected music event.

Timing

The date for this festival is May 29 through June 1, 2008 (Thursday through Sunday). The event will begin with an evening kickoff performance on Thursday at 3 Shapes Aikido in the North End of Boise from 7pm to 11pm. On Friday there will be another evening performance for headliners at the El Korah Shrine Center, from 9pm to Midnight. On Saturday, the main festival begins at 1pm at the El Korah Shrine Center for back to back performances until 7pm, and then there is a third set of evening headliner performances from 9pm to Midnight. Finally, on Sunday, the festival begins at 1pm at the El Korah and continues until 7pm. On Monday, there will be a luncheon for all performers at the Bittercreek Alehouse, at 1pm.

Note: the above timing and details are subject to minor changes until the month before the event.

Venues and Overall Program Schedule

May 29, 7pm - 11pm (Thursday)
3 Shapes Aikido
1512 north 10th street
Boise, Idaho 83702
208.387.0410

May 30, 9pm - Midnight (Friday)
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
208-343-0571

May 31 (Saturday, 1pm - 7pm)
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
208-343-0571

May 31 (Saturday, 9pm - Midnight)
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
208-343-0571

June 1 (Sunday, 1pm - 7pm)
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho
Boise, ID 83701
208-343-0571

Note: the above timing is subject to minor changes until the month before the event.

Festival Grid

May 29

May 30

May 31

Saturday

June 1

Thursday

Friday

Sunday

1:00

“Main Festival”
1-7pm

El Korah ShrineCenter

1118 W Idaho

Boise, ID 83701

208-343-0571

“Main Festival”
1-7pm

El Korah Shrine Center

1118 W Idaho

Boise, ID 83701

208-343-0571

2:00

3:00

4:00

5:00

6:00

7:00

“Kickoff Show”
7-11pm

3 Shapes Aikido

1512 north 10th street

Boise, ID 83702

208-387-0410

8:00

9:00

“BEMF Headliners”
9pm – 1am

El Korah Shrine Center

1118 W Idaho

Boise, ID 83701

208-343-0571

“BEMF Headliners”
9pm – 1am

El Korah Shrine Center

1118 W Idaho

Boise, ID 83701

208-343-0571

10:00

11:00

12:00

1:00

Note: the above timing and details are subject to minor changes until the month before the event.

martes 15 de enero de 2008

Giant Ear))) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Call for submissions for the Giant Ear))) show.

Giant Ear))) is a webcast produced by the New York Society for Acoustic
Ecology. It can be heard from 7-9 PM every Sunday eve at
www.free103point9.org
.Shows feature a wide range of field recordings, interviews and compositions
based on field recordings.The last Sunday of every month there is new
content.

The February show's theme is "Urban Rhythms". Please submit your field
recordings (or compositions based on field recordings) of naturally occuring
rhythms in your city's soundscape (long or short) via an upload service to
jonnysounds@gmail.com or mail to:

Jonny Farrow -- Giant Ear)))
C/O Production Resources, Inc.
50 West 17th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011

Deadline is Friday, February 8.

Thanks!

Jonny Farrow
Co-Chair, New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

lunes 14 de enero de 2008

Call for Works: 60x60 project

The Following is the Call for Works for the 60x60 project in 2008

Continuing to promote contemporary composer and their works, Vox Novus is
inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length to
included in its sixth annual 60x60 project. 60 compositions will be selected
to be played continuously in a one-hour concert. The 60x60 concert season
will begin with a debut in New York City and continue throughout the world
in venues to be announced. Please submit recording(s) of work and submission
form post marked before March 31st, 2008 to:

60x60
c/o Robert Voisey
Radio City Station
P.O. Box 1607
New York, New York
10101 USA

More information can be found at:
http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Call.htm
http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm

During the concert each of the 60 pieces selected will begin precisely at
the beginning of the minute, this will mark the end of one piece and the
beginning of another. There will be no pause between the pieces. Works may
be less than 60 seconds in length, but may not exceed 60 seconds. Works
selected that are less than 60 seconds long will be "padded" with silence
either before, after, or surrounding the composition. Please note that the
total duration of the work including silence may NOT exceed sixty seconds.

The 60x60 project's definition of a record work is as follows: any work
created as a musical composition which is captured on recorded media, which
does not require live performers for its production in broadcast at concert
halls, radio, multi-media, etc. Its creation can include but not limited to
acoustic instruments, voice, environmental sources, and computer (Sampling,
MIDI, C Sound, ProTools, etc.)

Acoustic compositions should be submitted with the understanding that it is
their recording that is of prime importance and is what will be used to
determine its selection. Scores of works are strongly discouraged and will
not be used in the selection process.

60x60 is a project of "signature works" and short works created specifically
for the 60x60 project. Excerpts of larger works are strongly discouraged.
Works generated from procedures (i.e. mathematical matrices, organizational
systems, or computer programs,) remixed works, or themes and motives
recomposed from other of the composer's own work are acceptable.

The call is open to composers of any nationality, age, or career stage.
Works submitted must not have been previously performed or broadcasted.
Compact Discs that include the audio submission must be labeled with the
composer's name and the title of the work. The submission form must be sent
at the same time with the submitted work. Submission form must contain the
composer's name, address, email, phone number, composition title,
composition length, and track position on the compact disc. Biographies and
program notes may be included on a separate sheet, but must be typed and
each may be no longer than 100 words in length.

Multiple works may be submitted. Each work must be noted on the submission
form(s) and clearly indicated on the CD. Do Not send originals! No works
will be returned, and may be performed in subsequent performances after the
debut concert. All submissions must be postmarked by March 31, 2008.
Selected works will be announced on August 1st, 2008. Submission of the
work(s) on compact disc must be accompanied by the submission form and sent
to:

60x60
c/o Robert Voisey
Radio City Station
P.O. Box 1607
New York, New York
10101 USA

Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked by March 31, 2008

Submissions must include:

Submission Form (including bio and program notes) and a labeled CD
containing the submission in audio format. Submission forms can be
downloaded at http://www.VoxNovus.com/60x60/Call.htm or by written request
to Vox Novus

Works selected for the 2008 60x60 project will be announced on August 1st,
2008. Composer will be notified of the results by email or they can visit
http://www.VoxNovus.com

Any questions regarding the call for works can be addressed to
Support@VoxNovus.com

viernes 11 de enero de 2008

BARCELONA: Zeppelin 2008 - Convocatoria / Call For Works

ZEPPELIN 2008
SORDERAS


Un año más, la Orquestra del Caos anuncia una nueva edición de Zeppelin, Festival de Proyectos Sonoros, abriendo su convocatoria de piezas sonoras en torno a las sorderas que nos acechan.


Hay muchos tipos de sordera pero aquellas a las que queremos atender primordialmente en este Festival de Arte Sonoro son esas apenas perceptibles que van minando nuestra escucha. Nos gusta escuchar los ruidos y trabajar con ellos, pero sabemos también que estos ruidos a menudo inoculan una suerte de sordera mental. Queremos escuchar con todo nuestro cuerpo y por ello, os invitamos a reflexionar y a realizar piezas sonoras que atiendan al exceso de verborrea, imágenes y sonidos que bajo la cobertura de la llamada información inundan nuestros oídos; a ese rumor incesante y repetitivo que las consignas políticas pretenden grabar en nuestras mentes y nuestros comportamientos; a los extraños sonidos que generan las grandes concentraciones de poder; al modo en que continuamente se nos insta por doquier a considerarnos clientes, consumidores y no ciudadanos... a todo ese ruido que nos deja sin sonidos propios. Por ello, queremos preguntarnos qué es realmente lo que podemos escuchar; qué mecanismos operan esta gran sordera mental y social que nos aqueja y, sobretodo, interrogar nuestras/vuestras creaciones en tanto dispositivos de una escucha que se alza contra todas esas sorderas que habitan nuestro tiempo.

Invitamos a todas las personas interesadas en el sonido a que se unan a estas reflexiones enviando sus trabajos sonoros.

Las piezas serán difundidas en un sistema de ocho altavoces los días 13, 14 y 15 de Marzo de 2008 en el Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)


REQUISITOS

Todas las obras recibidas serán aceptadas siempre que cumplan las
siguientes condiciones:

1. Las piezas NO deben tener una duración de más de diez (10) minutos

2. Los trabajos deberán estar en formato WAV o AIFF a 44.1 khz y 16 bits

3. Se debe adjuntar la siguiente documentación:
3.1. Comentarios acerca de la pieza
3.2. Biografía artística del autor
3.3. Documento firmado por el autor manifestando autorización o desautoriazación explícita para la difusión de su pieza través de Internet
3.4. Documento firmado por el autor manifestando su conformidad para que la pieza forme parte del archivo de arte sonoro de Sonoscop

4. Los trabajos con la documentación tienen que llegar en soporte CD/DVD antes del 15 de Febrero de 2008 a:

caos/ZEPPELIN/convocatoria
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
C/Montalegre, 5
Barcelona 08001
España

Más información en caos@sonoscop.net

Agradecemos la difusión.



{english version}



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

We appreciate any difussion


...........................................

Orquestra del Caos/ Sonoscop
CCCB - C. Montalegre, 5
08001 BCN
t: +34 93 306 41 28
f: +34 93 302 24 23
email: caos@sonoscop.net
web: www.sonoscop.net

Call for Multi-channel works; EuCuE XXVI, Feb 2008

EuCuE

(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)

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


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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.

kevin.austin@videotron.ca

ICMC 2008 - Deadline extension

ICMC 2008

Deadline for submissions – extension

The deadline for all music and paper submissions to ICMC 2008 has been extended to Friday 8 February. All online submissions must be made by this date, and postal submissions must be date-stamped no later than this date, to be eligible for consideration. We welcome submissions in all areas of computer music. Detailed submission instructions and general information on the Conference can be found at www.icmc2008.net

For further information about any aspect of ICMC 2008, contact admin@icmc2008.net

ICMC 2008 is hosted by the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, in association with the International Computer Music Association, at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast


_________________________________

Dr Pamela Smith
Administrator
International Computer Music Conference 2008

www.icmc2008.net

Sonic Fragments Conference - Call for Works - Deadline 2/15

SONIC FRAGMENTS: NARRATIVE AND MEDIATION IN SOUND ART
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
March 28-29, 2008
Deadline: February 15, 2008

We hear while we are in the womb, long before we see. For the rest of our lives, hearing essentially precedes the rest of the sensorium, as we move through a world of sonic fragments which affect us phenomenally and emotionally but of which we are often unaware. These fragments are mediated by our environment, our bodies, our individual and collective memories, and the technologies that pervade contemporary life: from books to radio to television to iPods. Through these mediations sounds give rise to stories, which though they might be as hazy as an aura, begin to narrate the world we move through as they themselves move through our bodies and minds.

Sonic Fragments is a sound art festival and symposium exploring how these mediations effect meaning in our lives, and how artists are actively engaging narrative and mediation in their work. We are hoping for a diverse and interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars and artists, between theory and practice.

Central to the festival will be the presentation of works written specifically for mobile mp3 players which engage the spaces, places, objects, and paths on or near the Princeton University campus. We are soliciting works of ten minutes or less. These works will be available on mp3 players at a kiosk throughout the festival, downloadable from the festival website, and may also be compiled onto a limited edition CD-R for later distribution.

Sound works may be created for any location on or near campus. We are hoping that people will engage Princeton’s weird nooks and crannies as well as its wonderful art collection, perhaps atop one of the many Neogothic towers, inside Henry Moore’s sculpture Oval with Points, or in front of Ellen Gallagher’s large-scale Blubber. We hope that each piece will exhibit a distinct relationship to its site. Existing works which are not site-specific will not be considered.

Please feel free to pass this announcement on to others!

A few resources to help you find a site:

Most crucially, you must visit and just poke around.
New Jersey Transit (about 1 hr, 15 minutes from NYC)

But to get a taste of what the campus is like…

Princeton University

Wikipedia Entry on Princeton University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University

Campus Scenes

Flickr Photos of Princeton

Orange Key Virtual Tour
https://www.princeton.edu/oktour/virtualtour/index.htm

Princeton University Art Museum

Putnam Collection of Sculpture

Princeton University: An Interactive Campus History

Please send an email containing the following to sonicfragments@gmail.com by February 15:

1. A short (200-word max) description of your project as it relates to the site
2. A short (100-word max) bio
3. The completed piece (10 minutes or under)
4. A photo or graphic which can be used as your ‘album art’ – we suggest a photo of the site.

Please use the sonicfragments@gmail.com address as it can accept large files.

Deadline: February 15, 2008

For more information, please contact Betsey Biggs at sonicfragments@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Betsey Biggs and Seth Cluett


seth cluett
sound - theory - practice
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