Hartford Opera Theater Announces “New in November”

Hartford Opera Theater would like to announce a call for scores for the exciting event “New in November”. The event will take place in Hartford, CT on the weekend of November 12-14, 2010 with a final performance on Sunday, November 14th. A total of five short operas will be learned, staged, rehearsed, and performed in the span of 48 hours.

Composers are asked to submit opera scores written for 2-3 singers, with at least one part written for a soprano or mezzo-soprano. Please note that scores with more opportunities for women will be more likely to be chosen for this event. The< operas may be no longer than 10 minutes in length, English only, and written for piano or a piano reduction. Material for librettos should be original, in the public domain, or if copyrighted permission must be submitted with the score. Each opera should require minimal sets and costumes.

Composers chosen to participate in New in November are welcome to attend the rehearsal period and should be open to minor revisions and changes. Please note that there is no remuneration for this project. In addition, the company is not able to provide travel or housing compensation for those composers who wish to attend rehearsals.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Scores may be mailed to: Hartford Opera Theater, P.O. Box 270108 
West Hartford, CT 06127-0108. Electronic submissions will also be accepted at the following email address: newinnovember@hartfordoperatheater.com. More information can be found on the website: www.hartfordoperatheater.com.

CALL FOR SCORES: Mahler-Composition Competition 2010/11

In cooperation with the International Gustav Mahler Society, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO) and the Vienna Konzerthaus the Austrian Composer Society initiates an international composition competition on the occasion of the upcoming Gustav Mahler years 2010/11 (his 150th birthday, 100th anniversary of his death) and invites the composers of the 21st century without restriction of age to hand in their works for Orchestra.

Maximum instrumentation: 3/3/3/3, 4/4/3/1, 1 Kettledrum, 3 Percussion, 1 Harp, 14/12/10/8/6 (woodwind instruments incl. additional instruments)

Deadline: 30 September 2010

Duration: max. 15 min

Premiere of the winning piece: 25 March 2011 at the Vienna Konzerthaus in the context of an RSO concert with its chief conductor Cornelius Meister. Those orchestral pieces awarded second and third will be produced by the ORF radio.

Competitions / Awards

:

An international jury will award three prizes. The selected works of this competition shall be staged and heard in as many "Mahler-cities" as possible together with selected examples from Gustav Mahler's oeuvre. For the fact that the winning pieces will be premiered by ensembles and artists of highest internationally reputation such as Marijan Lipovsek or the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO) no prize money will be awarded.

Terms of participation:

No specific reference to Gustav Mahler is demanded, however the submitted works should be clearly inspired by Mahler's modernity and his far reaching influence on the musical development in the 20th century and they should be in the best meaning innovative and forward-looking. The submission of one or more work(s) needs to be done anonymously in such a way that the author's name does not appear on the score material, but can be retrieved from a sealed envelope incl. his/her name, address, phone number and email address as well as his/her artistic curriculum vitae (and a photo). Both the submitted work as well as the connected envelope should be provided with an identical password.

Please send your scores to:
Oesterreichischer Komponistenbund
Password: Mahler composition contest 2010/11
Baumannstrasse 8-10, 1031 Vienna

In case of successful selection by the jury the author needs to ensure that the complete sheets of music are available in time for the performance.

For any questions or enquiries please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Phone: +43 (0) 1 / 714 72 33
Fax: +43 (0) 1 / 714 72 33-12,
email: info[at]komponistenbund.at

More information about organizers and partners

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• Austrian Composer Society: www.komponistenbund.at
• International Gustav Mahler Society: www.gustav-mahler.org
• ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna: rso.orf.at
• Vienna Konzerthaus: www.konzerthaus.at

The Ansae Ensemble Call for Scores

The Ansae Ensemble is pleased to announce a CALL FOR SCORES

The new Canadian chamber group Ansae is programming a concert of compositions for their particular ensemble in the fall of 2010. These works must be scored for the quintet’s unusual combination of flute (doubling piccolo), oboe, saxophone (sop/alto/tenor/bari), piano, and alt. keyboard (electronic keyboard, melodica, toy piano, or combination of the above). Structured improvisation and extended techniques are permitted and encouraged.

The quintet, made up of senior students and alumni of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Composition and Improvisation programs, are all experienced performers of new music and avid improvisers. They have worked collectively with Charity Chan, Linda Catlin Smith, Glenn Buhr, Kathryn Ladano and others; this will be their third year performing together. Their first performance as an exclusive ensemble was in April 2010, performing pianist Andrew Mellanby’s “Resonances” on a recital of his compositions and improvisations.

Every work will be read and recorded and sent to the composers. As many new works as possible will be performed live in-concert in Kitchener-Waterloo.

Eligibility:

• Applicants must be aged 30 or under on the date of submission.
• The work should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration.

How to Apply:

Interested applicants should submit their entries digitally (pdf) to ewheaton@kwsymphony.on.ca, or mail them to

264 Ottawa St S
Kitchener, ON
N2G 3T7

Please Include:

1. a legible score of the work
2. transposed parts
3. a separate document giving your name, a brief biography, contact information, and any program notes
4. a self-addressed, stamped envelope should you wish your scores to be returned

Application Deadline: September 30th, 2010

2010 Welcome Christmas Carol Contest

Now in its thirteenth year, the VocalEssence & American Composers Forum Welcome Christmas Carol Contest provides composers of all ages with the opportunity to compose a modern-day carol, celebrating the holiday tradition in their own unique way.

This year, the contest seeks carols for SATB chorus accompanied by handbells (3-5 octaves).

Winning composers will receive a prize of $1,000 and will have their carols premiered at the VocalEssence Welcome Christmas concerts on December 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12, 2010. The performances will be recorded for a 2011 national broadcast via American Public Media.

Complete information about the VocalEssence / American Composers Forum Welcome Christmas Carol Contest, including complete contest guidelines, submission requirements, a helpful guide to composing for handbells, and information on the selection process is available at http://www.composersforum.org/programs_detail.cfm?oid=12236&section=professional and at http://www.vocalessence.org/

Applications must be postmarked on or before August 6, 2010. Faxes will not be accepted. Composers will be notified by late September 2010.

ContemporarY Ensemble (CYE) Call for Scores

ContemporarY Ensemble (CYE) challenges you to write for an exciting ensemble!

CYE is an open ensemble focusing on contemporary music and has the ambition to develop new ensemble forms through unusual combinations of instruments.

Composers are invited to write new works for three odd quartets, as well as open pieces for an unspecified ensemble. To our premiere concert in November 2010 we are looking for new pieces of music!

The composer has four options and it is free to choose which group he/she wants to write for. All four instruments in the selected group (Option I-III) should be represented.

Option I:

• Trombone
• Vocal – soprano
• Accordion
• Cello

Option II:

• Tenor saxophone
• Recorder
• Viola
• 5-string banjo/guitar

Details: the banjo player also plays guitar. It is possible to choose one of these instruments, or combine both in the same part. All sizes of recorders are available.

Option III:

• Harp
• Jazz vocal – alto
• Clarinet
• Percussion - vibraphone, 4 wood-blocks, 1 cymbal, bass drum (kick), 3 tom-toms

Details: Choose appropriate setup consisting of a selection or all of the above percussion instruments.

Option IV:

Open ensemble form. Piece for an unspecified ensemble, i. e. a score that could be played by any ensemble or almost any ensemble.

Composition Details:

• Duration: ca 5-10 min/piece.
• Up to three contributions per person.
• Open to all composers, regardless of age and nationality.
• The works may not be previously published and shall be created after 2000.
• Additional electronics are possible. If this is not governed by the composer, it should be easy to operate.
• A live recording of the concert will be available for the participating composers.

Deadline: August 24, 2010

Concert: November 14, 2010 Palladium, Malmö, Sweden

For submission and any questions contact us at cye@c-y.se.

Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize

Application Deadline: June 30, 2010 (receipt)

The School of Music of the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the 2010 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize, a National Competition for New Works for Mixed Chorus.

The generosity, vision and abiding interest in music as a living art on the part of Craig and Janet Swan have come together in the establishment of an annual competition for music for large ensembles, the Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize. This competition, underwritten by the Swans, is administered by the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, where Dr. Swan served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

The competition is held in a continuing three-year cycle of music for Chorus, Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra in rotation.

2009 Orchestra: prize of $2,500

2010 Chorus: prize of $1,500

2011 Wind Ensemble: prize of $2,000

The single prize-winning work will receive a monetary award, and its world premiere by the appropriate large ensemble of the School of Music University Singers. The prize- winning work will be announced in September 2010 and will be awarded publicly at the time of the premiere performance in Spring 2011. In addition, the School of Music will invite the composer of the winning work to the Twin Cities campus for rehearsals, composer master class, and to be present at the premiere performance.

Contest Guidelines and Application Form are available at:

http://www.music.umn.edu/enscomp/competitions.php

call for audio art on the subject of speed

everglade records and the Florida International University-Wolfsonian Museum announce a call for audio works related to the theme of speed. Slated for release to coincide with a forthcoming multi-museum exhibition entitled Speed Limits sponsored by the FIU-Wolfsonian Museum (Miami Beach) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA, Montreal), works submitted for publication consideration to the audio Speed Limits project can address one or more of the following issues with respect to speed: pace, traffic, construction, efficiency, motion, and mind+body.

To submit a composition for consideration, please upload a single zip file containing a brief biography, program notes, and a stereo mix/downmix (MP3 format preferred) to everglade.org/speed by June 1, 2010. Please name your zip file LastnameFirstname.zip. The composers of winning submissions will be asked to send uncompressed data files of their audio works at a later date. Works from 0.1–16 channels will be considered. There are no restrictions on the duration of compositions.

For more information, please contact us.

Call for audio/audiovisual works

The submission of audio or audiovisual pieces is invited for consideration at this exciting conference. The 2010 event aims to maintain and enhance the Sounding Out’s already impressive reputation as a major forum for discussion and interaction between practitioners, artists and academics working in the field of sound.

We are planning to base the conference on the overall theme of Soundworlds – Sonic Arts, Film and Radio and are willing to include audio or audiovisual works relating to the theme of the conference.

The works will be played continuously in a dedicated space, The Atrium Gallery, before, during and after the conference. The gallery will be equipped to accommodate multi-channel pieces (up to eight channels) as well as video projection.

Submit your works

Please send your submission along with a one-page description (including technical requirements) to:

Dr Alain Renaud
DEC
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB
UK

Alternatively you may submit your works online by sending an email by 1 June, 2010 to Alexandra Peirce along with your one page description (including technical requirements) and a link to the contents of your work.

We look forward to welcoming you to Bournemouth in September

Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2010

ALL FOR NEW WORKS FROM YOUNG AND / OR EMERGING SOUND ARTISTS / COMPOSERS

Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2010 (postmarked)

• The CEC is pleased to announce that ACMA (Australasian Computer Music Association) has accepted our invitation to collaborate on JTTP 2010. This year’s edition is therefore open to young and/or emerging sound artists/composers from (or living in) Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
• Exceptionally for the 2010 edition, the deadline has been moved to June 1.
• As of the 2010 edition, multichannel submissions and videomusic works may be submitted to JTTP. Due to recent changes in arts council funding programmes, the CD component of JTTP, Cache, may no longer be produced. The remainder of the project remains however intact.

More . . .

Utrechts Blazers Ensemble Call for Scores

The Utrecht Wind Ensemble ("Utrechts Blazers Ensemble") issues a Call for Scores. The UBE focuses on playing modern classical music and therefore finds itself in a unique place among Dutch student ensembles. Even though this niche is not always appreciated by the large public, the members are not afraid to choose for challenging and original programmes. The UBE considers it important that new music has a place in Dutch (and student) musical culture. With this Call for Scores we would like to gain access to a new musical reservoir and play works of the next generation of composers.

Composers are invited to submit works for wind ensemble (with or without piano). Selected pieces will be performed by the UBE during two concerts in January 2011. Submission deadline: 1st of June, 2010.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ube.studver.uu.nl/callforscores_eng.php

Destellos Competition 2010

The Foundation Destellos , call for works for the Third Competition of Electro-acoustic Composition, open to composers and artists of any nationality, up to 50.

The objectives of this competition are the promotion and development of the artistic creation in relation with new technologies. Likewise, it is an intention of the Foundation Destellos to stimulate the creativity of the young generations of artists and to provide to them new routes of diffusion of their works.

The first prize will be attributed by Destellos and will consist of 500 American dollars and a residence of study of Mar del Plata (Argentina).

  The second two prizes, consisting of paths collections of CD of electroacoustic music, will be granted for:

• The organization Akusma<Motus , of France
• The foundation Phonos of Barcelona, Spain.

The institutions participants will offer likewise the diffusion of the winning works, across concerts and festivals.

  Guidelines

1. Composers and artists of any nationality up to 5O. No entry fees.

2. Will be accepted stereophonic works of electro-acoustic music up to 11' duration.

3. Will be accepted works of electro-acoustic music with video, up to 6' duration. The work must follow an abstract esthetics and to be interrelated in musical and visual languages, either in their technical and esthetical characteristics. In case of works in collaboration the prize will be considered ex-æquo and the authors will have to determine a representative to receive it.

4. Are excluded pieces using instruments, live electronics and improvisations.

5. Each candidate can send only one work, not been edited or prized before.

6. The participants will have to register before, sending for e-mail the attached form due completed by computer. Manuscript forms will not be accepted.

Submission form

To send as attached document to: info@fundestellos.org

7. Each candidate will receive an e-mail of confirmation and a Code of inscription.

8. The materials must be sent by post with the only mention, on all the supports, of : the title of the work and the Number of Code assigned by e-mail.

9. Admitted supports: DVD and CD: The works with video must be sent in format QuickTime without compression (.mov), the electroacoustic works in CD audio.

10. The works will not be returned and will be conserved in the archives of the Foundation.

11. Prize winners of Destellos Competition 2009 cannot participate, neither members of the jury and their families.

12. The works must be send before 30 April 2010 (postmarked) by ORDINARY MAIL, with mention "For educational use, no commercial value", to:

            Dr. Elsa Justel

            Fundación Destellos

            Rodriguez Penia 1226

            7600 Mar del Plata

            Argentina

13. The jury will be integrated by members of recognized international prestige.

14. The jury has the right to declare the prize deserted and give one or more mentions, also to design an "ex-æquo" prize to works of the same quality level. Jury's decision is unquestionable and definitive and will be published on August 30 th , 2010.

15. The foundation has the right to postdate, to annul or to modify the rules of the competition at any moment. All changes will be published at the time.

16. Candidates are asked to accept all the conditions of these regulations.

17. The prizewinners are engaged to write the mention "Prix Destellos 2010" in all concert programs including the work. The authors must inform the Foundation of the public presentations of the prized work.

The candidates can ask for the submission forms by email: info@fundestellos.org

More info: www.fundestellos.org

MrMcFall’s Chamber Call for Scores

MrMcFall’s Chamber, in association with the Scottish Arts Council, is pleased to announce a

CALL FOR SCORES

Scottish-based chamber ensemble, Mr McFall’s Chamber, is looking to commission four settings of English poems and one extended four-movement setting of English poems from young composers aged 30 and under. The commissioned works will become companion pieces to Gavin Bryars’ ‘Eight Irish Madrigals’, and will be scored for the same unusual combination of soprano, tenor, two violas (or violin and viola), cello and double bass. The chosen works will be performed alongside Bryars’ ‘Eight Irish Madrigals’ by Mr McFall’s Chamber during 2011.

Interested applicants should submit an existing example of their work by 30^th April 2010, to be reviewed by the panel. The piece submitted should be one which includes a part for voice (or voices) and at least two instrumental parts. The reviewing process will be completed by 1^st June 2010, at which point four settings of English poems will be commissioned from the four composers chosen. The four chosen composers will each receive a commissioning fee of £500. They will be performed together early in 2011.

One of the four composers will then be chosen and commissioned to write three further settings to make a four-movement piece (one movement of which would be their previously written individual movement). This chosen composer will receive a further fee of £1,000. This resulting four-movement complete piece will be performed during the summer or autumn of 2011.

Eligibility:

• Applicants must be aged 30 or under on the date of submission (30^th April 2010)
• The submitted score should be no longer than 15-minutes duration.

How to Apply:

Please send the following to the address below:

• A bound and legible score of one work for voice or voices and at least two other instruments – please ensure your name does NOT appear on the score
• A separate sheet, giving details of your name, address, and duration of the work
• A recording of the submitted work, if available
• Program notes, including the work's performance history
• Composer biography
• Optional: Self-addressed/stamped envelope for return of materials. Note: All other scores will be discarded the week following the judges' decision

Application Deadline: All packages must be received at 2 Downing Court, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PN by Friday 30^th April 2010 to be considered. No late submissions will be accepted.

• All applications will be acknowledged on receipt
• All applicants will be notified of the panel’s decision by 1^st June 2010
• The reviewing process will be ‘blind’: each score will be numbered and the panel will not know the names of the composers until after a decision has been made.

Enquiries: Please direct any queries to Jo Buckley: jmkbuckley@hotmail.co.uk

Non-Cochlear Sound

Diapason will be working with sound artist and author Seth Kim-Cohen to present an exhibition of "Non-Cochlear Sound", as formulated in Kim-Cohen's book "In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art" (Continuum).

The exhibition is scheduled for October, 2010.

CALL FOR WORK

Non-Cochlear Sound organized by Seth Kim-Cohen

OVERVIEW

Non-Cochlear Sound describes a form of sonic practice not primarily concerned with the ear. Marcel Duchamp’s famous call for a non-retinal visual art was answered (eventually) by minimalism, conceptual art, social-based practice, and a host of approaches that appeal not to the eye, but to other concerns. In his new book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art, artist and theorist Seth Kim-Cohen asks why sound has been slower to make the conceptual, linguistic, and social turns. As a way of responding to this question and of “redressing” this perhaps unfortunate sonic situation, we seek sound work that engages any or all of the following: sociality, conceptualism, politics, textuality, discursivity, subjectivity, history, economics, or philosophy.

CRITERIA

Major criteria for artist participation is:

• Artists working with sound (although the work can include other materials and media as well)
• Work that engages concerns beyond hearing or the senses in general
• No history of previous exhibition, performance, or recording is required

DEADLINE

Submissions to participate are due by June 3, 2010. Participants will be contacted by July 1, 2010.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions and contact will be by email.

Send an email to mailto:diapason.info@gmail.com that includes the following information in the body:

• Your contact information (Name, Email Address, Phone Number)
• A brief bio/artist background describing what you do in general and what you've been doing lately
• A brief statement about how your work relates to the idea of the non-cochlear
• A proposal for the project you would like to include in the exhibition

NOTE

Please do not attach any work-samples or documents. All work samples must be available online, and all information must be submitted in the body of the email.

Diapason is supported by NYSCA, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Phaedrus Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Kirk Radke, and by generous individuals. Diapason is a 501(c)3 organization.

Process Festival Call for Proposals

PROCESS Festival Berlin is now accepting proposals for performances and new-media work, to be shown at our 2 day festival in mid-March 2010.

The Festival seeks to highlight new and compelling work in the field of generative or process music - focusing on sound pieces which are inspired by or emulate algorithms, biology, or other defined systems.

From scores generated from nature (Mamoru Fujieda's "Patterns of Plants") or mathematics (John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes"), to interactives which allow users to create music (Brian Eno's Bloom for iPhone) or a system as simple as 2 tape recorders ("It's Gonna Rain" by Steve Reich), this space has enjoyed a compelling history.

As well as the traditional execution of code outputting music, we're also interested in projects which expand the definition or approach to this field. This could, for example, including hardware-based projects like custom instruments, more lo-fi, organic systems, or hybrids such as a string quartet playing a generative score.

Web-based new-media projects will be shown onsite via a Macbook with wireless connection, as well as linked via the festival website. Performances should be between 20 and 40 minutes long, to allow a diverse selection of pieces over the festival period.

We're unable to offer artist compensation or provide travel costs to the event, although composers outside of the Berlin area are encouraged to partner with local artists to perform works. Please contact us if you're interested in this avenue.

Please e-mail us with your name, short bio, contact details, type of work and a description of your project.

The ALEA III International Composition Prize

Theodore Antoniou, Music Director

2010 Twenty-Eighth Annual Competition

The ALEA III Prize: $2,500

Deadline: March 15, 2010

http://www.aleaiii.com

Composers of any nationality born after January 1, 1970 may participate.

Only one composition per composer is permitted.

No entry fee.

Works of any aesthetic direction from 6 - 15 minutes in duration may be submitted. Works may be for solo voice or instrument or for an ensemble up to fifteen players. Available instruments are: one flute (doubling piccolo or alto), one oboe (doubling English horn), one clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), one bassoon, one horn, one trumpet, one trombone, one tuba, two percussion players, one harp, one keyboard player, one guitar, two violins, one viola, one cello, one bass, tape and one voice.

One of the fifteen performers could play a traditional, folk, or rare instrument (solo or as a part of the ensemble), or could be an unusual specialized vocalist. Contact for more information

One work per composer. All works must be unpublished and must not have been publicly performed or broadcast in whole or in part or in any other version before the announcement of the Prize in late September, or early October 2010. Works that have won another award are not eligible.

Anonymous entry.

6 - 9 works will be selected for performance in Boston by ALEA III under the direction of Theodore Antoniou in late September, or early October 2010. At the end of the concert one piece will be selected to receive the $2,500.00 ALEA III prize. The judges reserve the right to divide the award money or to decline to make an award.

The judges will be prominent personalities residing or working in the Boston area. The panel, consisting of composers, performers, conductors, musicologists and educators, aims for a balance among a variety of musical approaches. For information and application form please check the ALEA III web site:http://www.aleaiii.com

or email to Alex Kalogeras kalogeras@earthlink.net

Application Form must accompany the score at the time of submission.

Cadillac Moon Ensemble "On the Road"

CALL FOR SCORES: Cadillac Moon Ensemble "On the Road"

Cadillac Moon Ensemble announces a call for scores for its upcoming season.

With its unique instrumentation of flute, violin, cello, and percussion, Cadillac Moon Ensemble is redefining a "quartet" of the traditional sense while maintaining the artistry of chamber music within the new music realm. CME is dedicated to premiering new works which explore the roles quartet members as well as extended techniques and innovative ideas in composition.

If selected, we will perform your piece in New York City in our 2010/2011 season.

Instrumentation: the concept of this call is for a New York-based ensemble traveling on the road, or even to a concert on the subway. We are looking for pieces for flute, violin, cello, and suitcase percussion.

All percussion instruments must fit into a suitcase. A list of instruments is as follows: two egg shakers, one 14" cymbal, two bongos, three cowbells, three wood blocks, one tambourine, one triangle, pair of claves.

*additional small instruments can be added to the percussion setup but must be the size of a hand or smaller. For approval on extra instruments contact danielle@cadillacmoonensemble.com

Timing: No shorter than six minutes, no longer than 30 minutes.

Please send a proposal including piece concept, length, percussion instrument list, and composer bio by January 15, 2010 to submissions@cadillacmoonensemble.com. If selected, your scores and parts will be due by March 15 in hard copy format.

We will announce our selections by January 22 on our website, and everyone who submits entries will be notified individually.

For questions regarding this call, write to us at info@cadillacmoonensemble.com, with "Suitcase Call" as the subject heading.

The 2010 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

The University of Illinois School of Music presents
The 2010 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

Eligibility: Any composer, regardless of age or nationality.

Awards: First Prize cash award of $1000 and second prize cash award of $500 plus performances by the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble in November of 2010 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Additional awards and performances may be given at the discretion of the judges.

Judges: A panel of judges consisting of University of Illinois music composition faculty members will select the winning compositions. The winning composers are expected to attend the award concert/reception and will be responsible for their transportation costs (the competition will provide a stipend for lodging). The winning composers will assume full responsibility for providing adequate performance materials upon request.

Guidelines:

• Medium: Full scores of any style or aesthetic direction for one to fifteen performers (including vocalists) may be submitted. Works for tape, electronics and/or mixed media with or without instruments/voices are eligible.
• Duration: 20 minutes maximum
• Limit: One entry per composer
• Entry fee: A non-refundable entry fee of fifteen U.S. dollars ($15.00) must be included with each submission. Payment must be in US Dollars in the form of a check, international money order or credit card (preferable). All checks and money orders must be payable to the University of Illinois, and must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Please make sure to print the credit card authorization form (clik here for form) and sign authorizing the use of the card for the amount specified, the type of card, card number, and expiration date (incomplete authorizations will be rejected).
• Anonymous Submission: The composer's name must not appear on the score itself or on any item (tape, CD, etc.) submitted in supplement to the application. A sealed envelope must accompany the score and contain the composer's name, address, telephone number/e-mail (if applicable) and a brief biographical sketch. If a recording of the work is available, it should accompany the score and be identified only by the title of the composition.
• Return of Materials: Scores will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope of the proper size is enclosed.
• Previous winners and faculty and currently-enrolled students at the University of Illinois are ineligible for the competition.

Send submissions to:
2010 Martirano Composition Award
Attn: Zack Browning, Director, Martirano Award
2136 Music Building
University of Illinois
1114 West Nevada
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
zbrownin@illinois.edu
http://camil.music.uiuc.edu/CompTheory/Awards/Martirano.html

All submissions must be postmarked by March 15, 2010

Call for Electroacoustic Works

Synesthesia Recordings is pleased to announce a call for electroacoustic works, 2009.

All presented music works should fit one of the following categories.

1. Works for recorded media alone
2. Works for recorded media and instrumental solo

Deadline: October 31, 2009

For more information visit: submissions@synesthesiarecordings.com

A pdf of the application is available at: http://www.synesthesiarecordings.com/docs/Call_for_electroacoustic_works_2009.pdf

Works should be produced using any conceivable analog device processing tools (pedals, no input mixers, analog synthesizers, custom built devices). The use of computer or any digital device (except a DAW for the tracking/mixing) is not allowed.

Call for Electornic Sound Works for Zeppelin 2009

We dedicate Zeppelin 2009 – Sounds of Power / Listening to Fear to thinking about issues that have been insidiously encircling us for some time. We are concerned about signs that might suggest we’re going backwards in terms of hard-won social and intellectual achievements and freedoms. . . .

We invite people interested in sound to think about these questions and send us their sound works. The pieces will be played through a system of eight loudspeakers on 10, 11 and 12 December 2009 at the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

All works received will be accepted provided they meet the following conditions:

1. Pieces should be NO LONGER than ten (10) minutes.

2. The format for the pieces should be WAV or AIFF at 44.1 kHz and 16 bits. Pieces may have up to eight tracks. Each track should be in a separate file (so a piece with eight tracks should have eight files each containing a single track).

3. The following documentation should be included: 3.1. Comments on the piece. 3.2. An artistic biography of the author. 3.3. A document signed by the author either giving or refusing explicit authorisation for the piece to be posted on the internet. 3.4. A document signed by the author giving authorisation for the piece to form part of the Sonoscop sound art archive.

4. The pieces and documentation should be sent on a CD/DVD by 15 November 2009 to:

caos/ZEPPELIN/convocatòria Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona C/Montalegre, 5 Barcelona 08001 Spain

For more information, please visit http://www.sonoscop.net or write to caos@sonoscop.net

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Futura 2010 Call for works

For its 2010 edition, the Futura festival is looking for fixed media works (acousmatic music, musique concrète, video art, hörspiel, etc.) around the ‘travel diary’ thematic.

The sent works may be ‘real’ diaries, elaborated with sound takes and/or recognizable images, but these diaries may also be ‘abstract’, without any identifiable sounds, concentrating only on remaining traces, impressions. The works evolving between these two poles are also, indeed, welcome.

It is all about drawing a large and original view of the ‘travel diary’, which is not only a journey in a geographical space, but rather the expression of an experience or a view on the surrounding world. As such, it is not absolutely necessary to have crossed back and forth the whole planet to submit a proposal, obviously travels are also metaphoric. It can be expressed through very diverse aesthetics and forms.

Nonetheless, we are not looking for ‘raw’, ‘objective’ soundscapes or field-recordings. To the contrary, we would like to program subjective works, and place at the centre of this thematic the perception of the traveller-composer-artist.

The submissions:

- The limited number of submissions is 2 works by composer, excepting works with video which amount is not limited.

- Only sonic works on tape medium should be submitted (acousmatic/concrète, radiophonic art…). Please do not send proposals for live electronics or performances.

- Preference is given to stereophonic music (multiphonic works may be accepted, but always if a stereo mix is provided for the selection process).

- Works including video are also encouraged.

-Deadline for the reception of works on CD Audio only (no cd-r or DVD-Audio) or DVD (for videos) is fixed before January 31 2010 (post-marked). At the following address: Futura, 62, avenue de Flandre F-75019 Paris, France.

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