Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Electroacoustic Audio-visual Music

CALL FOR WORKS

Electroacoustic Audio-visual Music

Submission Deadline: 20th February 2009 (postmark)

This is a call for fixed media electroacoustic audio-visual music works exploring the interaction between sound and image. Works should be cohesive audio-visual entities and not just video/film with a soundtrack or music with a video/film track. The audio within these works should be electroacoustic in nature.

Works are requested for a PhD research project investigating audience reception of differing styles of audio-visual composition and the role of composer intention in facilitating audience reception of electroacoustic audio-visual music works. This research builds upon the foundations laid by Leigh Landy and Rob Weale through the Intention/Reception Project (Weale 2006) (Landy 2006).

Works will be presented to a series of audience groups who will then complete questionnaires and discuss their reception of each of the presented works. Results from these tests will then be analysed in order to discover any trends that exist between the different audience groups.

It is hoped that this analysis will form a useful resource for composers of electroacoustic audio-visual music works providing key information on how audiences perceive and receive their works. The research will also provide fruitful information concerning the accessibility of these types of works.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

  • In this phase of the project, submissions must be fixed media works (as opposed to 'live' performance based works).
  • Works must have stereo audio and be for single screen.
  • The duration of submitted works should be no longer than 8 minutes due to testing practicalities or, alternatively, a well-defined self-contained section of the work lasting no longer than 8 minutes can be identified within the entire work.
  • Composers must be willing to complete a 'Composer Intention Questionnaire' outlining dramaturgic information relating to each submitted work.
  • The composer should own all rights to the submitted works and provide the researcher with the right to include selected works as part of future scholarly publications of the research.
  • Multiple works may be submitted.

NB: Works of high reputation may be rejected for testing due to issues of familiarity.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions must consist of the following:

  1. DVD containing the work to be considered (PAL or NTSC format) and or QTM file. Works should have stereo audio and be for single screen.
  2. Programme notes (please include duration, year of creation and a list of previous performances).
  3. Composer biography.
  4. Contact information: email, postal address and telephone.

All requested information must be provided in order for the work to be considered.

DEADLINE

Only submissions received by (or postmarked) Friday 20th February 2009 will be considered.

Composers of selected compositions will be notified by 31st of March at the latest.

A 'Composer Intention questionnaire' will be dispatched to the appropriate contact address for completion by the composers of selected works. Failure to complete a copy of the questionnaire for a selected work will prevent the work from being used in the study.

Please send hard-copy materials to:

Andrew Hill
C/o Simon Smith
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
0.19 Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester
LE1 9BH,
UNITED KINGDOM

Many thanks for your interest.

References

Weale, R. (2006) Discovering How Accessible Electroacoustic Music Can Be: the Intention/Reception Project. Organised Sound 11/2: 189-200.

Landy, L. (2006) "The Intention/Reception Project" in Mary Simoni, ed. Analytical Methods of Electroacoustic Music. Routledge (New York) pp. 29-53 + appendix on DVD.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Call for audiovisual works - EAR-plugged Festival at The LAB, 26-28 Feb 2009

The Table:

A pedestal for eating, a stone platform, a playing board, of marble, of wood, of metal, round or semicircular, as a work place, for serving tea, for dining, a joinery piece, a place to pursue the arts of writing and painting, folding leaves, a night table, Tabula rasa (starting with a clean slate)...

EAR are looking for audio visual compositions that respond creatively to the idea of The Table. The selected works will be shown in a screening, as part of the EAR-plugged Festival, February 26-28, At The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Submission guidelines:

  • Works can be up to 10 minutes in duration.
  • Works should be submitted in DV format, either on DV or MiniDV tape, or as .avi or .mov file on data DVD.

The submission deadline is Fri 23rd Jan 2009

Entries must include:

  • 1/ Full Contact Details (name, address and email)
  • 2/ Short Bio (max. 50 words)
  • 3/ Short Description of the Work (max. 50 words)
  • 4/ 2 jpeg images (high resolution)
  • 5/ A self addressed stamped envelope if you would like the work returned.

Please send works to:

EAR
Audiovisual Call
3 Radcliffe
Binn Eadair View
Dublin 13
Ireland

Open Call for Scores from the Red Note Ensemble

NOISY NIGHTS @ the Traverse, Edinburgh starting Feb 23rd

Noisy Nights are the Traverse's new music nights - performed by the newly-formed professional Red Note Ensemble.

The first Noisy Night is in the Bar of the Traverse Theatre on Monday 23rd Feb 2009. A general call for scores, maximum length 5 minutes each, instrumentation Vn / Cl (BCl) / Trb / Vibes is made. Tape parts can be accommodated. Full scores and parts (hard copies or pdf via email) to john@seventhings.co.uk (address below) by Monday 9th February at the very latest. Late submissions will not be considered for performance.

The performers will be the Red Note ensemble. Noisy Nights are supported by Seven Things, the Traverse Theatre, SAC and the PRS Foundation.

The next Noisy Night will be Monday 20th April (Call for: Fl (AFl) / Tpt / Vc, submission date Monday 6th April)

John Harris and Robert Irvine (co-artistic directors)
Red Note Ensemble
c/o Seven Things
ETTC, King's Buildings
Edinburgh
EH9 3JL
UK