OPEN CALL: International Symposium on Electronic Art

ISEA2010 RUHR is the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a major conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, scheduled for 20-29 August 2010 in the German Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, a. o.). We invite proposals for conference papers, artist presentations, exhibition projects, live performances, and art projects in public space. Visual artists, musicians, dancers, designers, engineers, software artists, researchers, theorists, media activists, and hybrids of these, working with recent technologies and exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media, should submit their projects or papers online by 15 September 2009. All submissions will be evaluated by an international jury. The results of the jury process and invitations for ISEA2010 RUHR are expected by the end of 2009. Please note that all submitted information can be edited and completed until the submission deadline. Detailed information about the submission process can be found at: http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/submissions. Contact: call@isea2010ruhr.org

OPEN CALL: Upstate New York ((audience))

((audience)) is seeking statements of interest and submissions of completed works for inclusion in the ((audience)) festival in Syracuse, NY this September. Sound artists, electronic musicians and new media artists are invited to submit works and proposals in the following categories: Live Performance for 5.1 diffusion; Cinema-in-the-Dark; Film/Video works.

((audience)) is a nomadic biennial festival of sound art, organized by Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati. The centerpiece of ((audience09)) is a 2.5 hour program of 5.1 surround sound works (with no visual accompaniment) by seven international artists, to be presented in pitch black cinema halls. ((audience)) promotes the exploration of the cinema as a concert hall for the 21st century. Performances, lectures, radio broadcasts and other events are organized on a city-by-city basis. Our upstate New York ((audience09)) festival is being organized in association with the Red House Gallery in Syracuse, NY and will take place from September 17-September 27, 2009.

*Live Performance for 5.1 Diffusion*

We primarily seek statements of interest and performance proposals from artists who have experimented with 5.1 diffusion. Performers working with multichannel diffusion other than 5.1 are also invited to submit. Genres could include: extended vocal work, computer music, electroacoustic music, noise, phonographic collage or manipulation. Performance proposals and statements of interest must include video documentation of relevant past performances on DVD. Please also include a CV or resume, artist statement and full contact information. Students and emerging artists are especially encouraged to apply for the performance category.

*Cinema-in-the-Dark*

We seek 5.1 surround and stereo works which are “cinematic,” in any way that artists interpret that term. We are especially interested in narrative, poetic or dramatic works that experiment with audio spatialization or in musical works that play with familiar conventions of cinema sound. 5.1 submissions are preferred. 5.1 submissions will also be considered for inclusion in the ((audience11)) main program. Stereo works may be also submitted, and will be considered for broadcast on Red House Art Radio during the ((audience09)) festival. Please send both a playable and raw data CD/DVD. Please also include a CV or resume, artist statement, full contact information. Ordinary audio cd, DVD-V with black screen, or DVD-A. You must also send uncompressed, 24-bit audio. Distinct mono tracks, with channel info in the filename, are preferred. OMF files or Protools 7 session files are also acceptable.

*Film/Video*

We seek completed film and video works with compelling 5.1 surround soundtracks. Film and video works under 30min are preferred will be considered for screening at the Red House Gallery Theater on September 26 during ((audience09)). Longer works may be considered for later screening. DVD, production credits, distributor information (if relevant), CV or biographies of sound editor/designer, full contact information.

Send to:
((audience))
c/o Nadalex
39 Avenue A - #103
New York, NY 10009

Your submission or statement should be received by July 10, 2009. Submission materials will not be returned. Late submissions will be accepted. Please send a statement via email by July 10, if you are mailing a late submission. E-mail inquiries may be sent to curators@au.dience.org.

OPEN CALL: Filmer la Musique festival

The call for entries for the third edition of the Filmer la Musique is open. It is a music/film festival in Paris, with a strong focus on independent and innovative productions. The festival will take place at the Point Ephemere - an independant art center and music venue and in a new international production center Le CentQuatre, from June 9 to 14, 2009. Documentaries, fictions, raw rushes, phone films, indie videos, and live footage are all applicable. There are no restrictions regarding shooting format, length, or year of production. Deadline for the call for entries is March 15, 2009. Info, rules and submission form on http://www.filmerlamusique.com.

OPEN CALL: Radio Content in the Digital Age

The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section invite the submission of abstracts for their forthcoming conference, "Radio Content in the Digital Age" in Limassol, Cyprus, October 14-16. Over the past decade, developments in technology have dramatically broadened the range of options for programming audio. The revolution began in the mid-1990s with a newfound ability to listen to audio being streamed over the Internet. Since then, digital radio has continued to expand with the advent of podcasting, offering radio programming on demand, and the rollout of different digital transmission systems, which provide superior sound quality and additional stations on and outside the traditional FM and AM wavebands. What are the main characteristics of today's radio content? How does radio programming differ around Europe and in other countries? How is radio content, both programming and genre, changing through new and emerging technology? Deadlines:
Abstract submissions: 31 March 2009
Final answers: 15 May 2009
To submit papers: http://sections.ecrea.eu/RR/index.html
Contact person: Angeliki Gazi, Vice Chair Radio Research Section, ECREA, angeliki.gazi@cut.ac.cy

OPEN CALL: At the Arts Center of the Capital Region

Visual Arts Call for Entries: The Arts Center of the Capital Region is pleased to announce a Call for Entries. Visual artists in all media are invited to submit proposals for consideration. Submissions can be of any media, and will be viewed anonymously by a panel of professional artists and curators. The Arts Center of the Capital Region is also calling for curatorial proposals from experienced curators. Download the Call for Entries brochure at http://www.artscenteronline.org/optional_ section2/index.cfm
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River St., Troy, NY 12180

OPEN CALL: 50/50

To celebrate Some Assembly Required's Tenth Anniversary, mnartists.org and Some Assembly Required are teaming up to produce a compilation of fifty-second tracks, by as many as fifty artists. To have your work considered for this online compilation, please submit your original works of sound collage, featuring at least 50 percent post-consumer audio (sounds found in the media) by March 16, 2009. (Listen to Some Assembly Required every Monday at 11 a.m. on free103point9 Online Radio.) Send your submissions to one of the following addresses by 3/16/09:
Email: assembly (at) detritus.net
Mail: Some Assembly Required, 2751 Hennepin Ave. S. (#145), Minneapolis, MN 55408

OPEN CALL: The End of Television

The End of Television is a video program beginning when analog television ends. On February 17, 2009 the U.S. television broadcast signal will change over from analog to digital. No television will receive a signal without a special converter box. On February 17, The End of Television will air through analog broadcast TV on channel 2 in Pittsburgh. When broadcasters turn off their analog transmitters The End of Television turns it's analog transmitter on and broadcasts the program. Using a restricted and nearly obsolete medium (broadcast TV), The End of Television re-imagines the omnipresent idea of "broadcast yourself." We are accepting all videos submitted before the deadline and there is no submission fee. The End of Television will hold a countdown event on the evening of February 16th in Pittsburgh (Location TBA) and at midnight we will flip the switch. Contact: ian.f.page@gmail.com or visit TheEndOfTelevision.blogspot.com for any updates.

Send videos to:
The End of Television
331 S. Aiken st
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Deadline: Postmarked by January 25.

- Work should be submitted on miniDV or VHS.
- Work will not be returned unless a SASE is included.

*It should be noted that this program will accept all work submitted, but the program reserves the right to not broadcast a video if it is deemed unsuitable.

OPEN CALL: Residency Program for Composers and Performers

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA) is an intense, visceral, hands-on immersion in contemporary adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. The festival includes performance coaching, composition seminars, music business workshops, improvisation and more. There are daily performances in the museum galleries and free concerts in the North Adams community. The festival concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles. Mail-in applications are now available for download on our website, and electronic applications will be available December 1st. Applications must be received by January 15, 2009. More information on the festival is available here. For more information on MASS MoCA, visit massmoca.org.

OPEN CALL: La Superette 2008

La Superette 2008 is looking for: Survival crafters, conceptual product makers, DIY game producers, micro distributors, fashion hackers, electro-gadget inventors. La Superette is an annual hybrid event mixing art, shopping, music, and community spirit. La Superette is not an ordinary exhibition or craft fair. La Superette wants to promote and sell commodities made by artists and designers of all career levels; to offer shoppers unique superettenly affordable items; to incite and inspire participation, collaboration, and conversation. La Superette 2008 is happy to announce that this year's event is supported by LMCC. Deadline for online submission is November 10. All products must be delivered to La Superette by December 1. La Superette will be held on December 13 and 14 in Manhattan. Please visit our website http://lasuperette.org/call.php to complete your application and carefully read all guidelines.

OPEN CALL: Organised Sound

Call for submissions
Volume 14, Number 1
Issue thematic title: Sound Art
Date of Publication: April 2009
Publishers: Cambridge University Press
Issue co-ordinator: Jøran Rudi (joranru@notam.uio.no).

This issue of “Organised Sound” will focus on sound art, a genre of acoustic expression that has a long history in both music and the visual arts. Currently, sound art is becoming a highly dynamic focus for new cross-disciplinary activity. Partially this has to do with young composers' eagerness to search out for new forms of public performance as well as new arenas. This has also led to a new way of looking at the relationship work/audience/performer/ composer.

These conceptually new approaches to music and art can be traced to developments in technology and society in general. It is interesting to note the extent to which this interest has developed outside the established networks and hierarchies of, for example, electroacoustic music.

Themes of interest include:
- conceptually oriented investigations of sound as material
- site- and context-specific art
– the use of soundscape within sound artworks
- process-oriented rather than entity-oriented definition of artworks
- use of audio and music technology whilst departing from the approaches to listening and analysis that are predominant in traditional forms of electroacoustic music.
- new technological means allow artists to pursue new arenas
- convergence in tools -> dissolving lines of distinction

Some questions that are related to the challenges posed by sound art:
How do these changes affect the relationship between concept and craft; what are the implications in terms of critical listening and our ideas of emergent qualities?
What are the implications of the use of different artistic spaces?
Is this a new way of tying art again into society, and if so, which groups in society will benefit? In other words does this represent a renaissance of social art?
Or is this yet another village in society, possessing more or less transparent demarcation lines?
With regard to the established field of electroacoustics: how do we describe the changes in aesthetics?
How can sound art and process-music (for lack of a better term) benefit us in reassessing our field, aesthetically and functionally?

We invite submissions from composers, performers, artists and researchers working in the realm of digital media and sound. Submissions related to the theme are encouraged; however, those that fall outside the scope of this theme are always welcome.

Deadline for submissions is 15 July 2008. Submissions may consist of papers, with optional supporting short compositions or excerpts, audio-visual documentation of performances and/or other aspects related to your submission that can be placed onto a DVD and the CUP website for “Organised Sound”. Supporting audio and audio-visual material will be presented as part of the journal's annual DVD-ROM which will appear with issue 14/3. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 July 2008.

Notes for Contributors and further details can be obtained from the inside back cover of published issues of Organised Sound or from: http://www.journals.cambridge.org/oso

OPEN CALL: Differentiated Bodies

Call for Submissions: Subliminal Statements 3: Differentiated Bodies in Newsletter of the Society for a Subliminal State. Due December 31, 2007. Please email info@subliminalstate.org if you have a question regarding an article you'd like to write. For our third issue, Subliminal Statements asks you to help us grapple with phenomena in the solar system. Differentiated Bodies will examine the objects in our solar system with differentiated composition: from planets like earth, to the legions of asteroids with rocky surfaces and a crystalline once-molten cores.

We want your writings about all manner of celestial objects and subjects:
Planets and Moons; The bands of habitability inside planets further from the Sun than Earth; Comets; Objects in the Asteroid and Kuiper Belts; The Oort Cloud; The Sun, and its swirling combustive surface. Differentiated bodies here on Earth (made of rock, flesh, or anything else) Tell us your story about any of these objects or phenomena. Describe it, uncover it, recount its implications. Tell us how these things effect us. What do we see when we look at the sky, and how does the differentiation of celestial bodies impact our own differentiated bodies and minds. What changes does it enact in us?

FORMAT

Subliminal Statements is published in a newspaper format. Accordingly we will accept articles and essays written in a style befitting a newspaper: written as though reported, brief editorials, etc. Due to the scientific nature of the issue's theme, we are also accepting submissions in the form of scientific papers, charts, or other data-heavy examinations of the theme.

Photos, drawings, illustrations, or other images should accompany text submissions only, and must be able to be printed in black and white. Suggestions for accompanying illustrations are also welcome.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Text submissions should be a maximum of 500 words, though we will accept excerpts of longer documents. There is no minimum length. In fact, the shorter, the better. Submit your text as .rtf, .txt, or .doc files, your data as .xls, or .csv files, and your images as .png, .tiff, .jpeg, or .gif (8 MB max). E-mail your submissions to jesse@subliminalstate.org with the subject line: Subliminal Statements 3 Submission.

OPEN CALL: Improvisation as a unifying agent in education, arts, and society

Building Bridges: Improvisation as a Unifying Agent in Education, Arts, and Society

Featured Artists and Presenters: Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Dresser, Mazen Kerbaj, Oliver Lake, Bennett Reimer, Michael Zerang, Association for the Advancement of Creative Music.

Creating connections is one of the most prominent themes in today's world. Whether forging treaties between hostile nations, creating ties between diverse cultures in today's global society, melding ideas and artistic influences, or negotiating the intricacies of human relationship; the capacity to integrate disparate perspectives and constituencies into a coherent whole—to build bridges—is central to meaning and progress in most every area of life.

Recognizing improvisation as a powerful tool for achieving this integration, the International Society for Improvised Music invites proposals for performances, workshops, and papers based on this theme for its second international conference.

The theme may be construed broadly: Improvisation may be considered as a powerful way in which to engage with music as an individual or with others; as a pedagogical tool that bridges diverse areas of musical training such as performance, theory, and composition; a vehicle for creativity across fields as diverse as business, science, and sport; a means for integrating one's own creative awareness through peak or transcendent states; a lens for interdisciplinary investigation into areas such as complex systems, cognition, consciousness, and sociology; or a catalyst for dissolving ethnic, gender, and other boundaries. These are just a few examples of
possible angles; proposals that pursue other approaches are welcome. ISIM encourages proposals from as diverse a cross-section of performers, pedagogues, and scholars as possible.

Deadline for proposals: Sept 1, 2007. Notification date: Sept 20, 2007

Proposal Form is available on the ISIM website www.isimprov.org.

For more information please contact: Sarah Weaver, ISIM Conference Director, sarah@isimprov.org 734-277-2690.

OPEN CALL: New York, New York, New York

New York, New York, New York
So nice we named it thrice.
December 14, 2007 through January 2008
Deadline: October 1

This is an open call for artists working in all media to participate in Flux Factory’s Winter 2007 show, New York, New York, New York.

New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia installation consisting of a large model of New York City inspired loosely by the Panorama at the Queens Museum. It will be located in five separate spaces (one in each borough). Instead of being an exact replica to scale of the city of New York, this project offers a mental map, a replica of an imaginary New York. The goal of the show is to explore the architectural and conceptual elements of everyday space. It is an investigation into the collective unconscious of the cultural capital of the planet.

Each artist will contribute a building, a landmark, a street, an avenue, a block, a park, a neighborhood, an expressway, a bridge, an island, an airport—one or several elements of the urban environment. All of these individual works will be combined to produce a cohesive yet chaotic installation, a multimedia, scale model version of the city.

We want artists not to think so much about New York as it actually is, but New York as a possible space. We encourage participants to explore the city's great myths and urban legends, grandiose unrealized projects, future visions from the past, as well as individual and personal experiences of the city.

Models will be installed on the gallery floor, keep in mind that each project needs to be integrated with the rest of the show. Think of your production as a single piece in a larger puzzle. Scales can vary between 1:200 and 1:2000.

Please send us a CV as well as a less than one page descriptive text and a couple of visuals. Please include specific dimensions and materials. Documentation of past relevant work will also be accepted. Also (and importantly), please be very specific about the location of your piece: specify the Borough and the exact neighborhood you want to work on.

Email all proposals to Jean@fluxfactory.org or mail (with S.A.S.E) to
Attn: NY-NY-NY
Flux Factory
38-38 43rd Street,
LIC, NY 11101 USA

OPEN CALL: Cell phone picture art show

Camera phones have only become widespread over the past few years, however in that brief time they have become indispensable. Their portable nature and attachment to a never-leave- home-without device has promoted the easy and quick capture of everyday life the moment it occurs. Amateur photographers armed with their cell phones have
already become an important resource for the media, providing first-look on-the-scene instant documentation.

Upstate Artist Guild celebrates the ability for instant unexpected art, capturing the candid moment, through the use of cell phone cameras. We invite artists to present in our unique online gallery, as part of our first international show, titled "Send." Submissions will be accepted throughout the month of June, 2007, and posted to the online gallery, where they will remain as a permanent exhibition.

Submissions:
1. Send your photo, using your phone or email, to send@upstateartists guild.org.
2. In the text portion of your message be sure to include your full name, the title of your photo, and your city and country. If necessary, you may submit this information separately via email, including your phone number for reference to the photo portion of the submission. Submissions without this information will be deleted.
3. Submissions will be accepted through the end of June 2007.
4. Only photos taken using a cell phone camera will be accepted.
5. The UAG is not responsible for any fees incurred through your cell provider.
6. The UAG reserves the right to withhold images it deems inappropriate for general viewing.
7. No copyrighted content shall be submitted as part of the exhibit.
8. The photo must be the work of the artist submitting the piece.
9. The UAG shall not in any way be responsible for violations of the guidelines mentioned above.
10. The UAG reserves the right to use submitted works for marketing purposes.

OPEN CALL: Electric Lab

In the fall of 2007, Exit Art will present Electric Lab. This exhibition is dedicated to the scientist Nicola Tesla, who wanted to provide the entire world with free access to electricity. As Tesla discovered, electricity is one of life’s most fundamental forces; it courses through the heart and powers our computers. Today, the shortage and high cost of electricity is a pressing contemporary issue. For Electric Lab, we are asking artists to envision solutions to the impending electricity crisis by creating works that imagine alternative sources of electricity, suggest new ways to access electricity, and establish scenarios in which to experience the power of electricity. Proposals due June 15, 2007.

How to Apply:
Proposals may be for work in any medium. Please submit a one page description of your project idea: a sketch of the proposed project; a resume; and documentation of your previous work (10 slides or images on CD, please send images at lowest resolution so they open quickly, or a 3-5 minute NTSC VHS video or DVD). Please include a self addressed stamped envelope for the return of your work. You will be notified by email of your involvement in the exhibition so please include an email address with your materials. Exit Art is not responsible for returning works submitted without a SASE.
Send Submissions to:
Exit Art
Electric Lab
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Or email electriclab@exitart.org

OPEN CALL: 11th edition Media Art Festival

The Media Art Friesland Festival 2007 is the 11th edition of the festival. The festival is an international platform for audiovisual arts, as video, film, new media, sound, installations and Internet in the province of Friesland and Groningen. The main locations are Leeuwarden, Drachten, Beetsterzwaag and Groningen. We invite you to send your works in the areas of film, video, DVD, CD-ROM & Internet project, installation, performance and workshops. Sept. 20-30, 2007. Deadline: June 1, 2007.

2007 AIRtime residents announced

free103point9 is pleased to announce our 2007 AIRtime residents.

31 Down (Benjamin Brown, Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal) (Brooklyn, New York)

"Dusk: The Sound of Bats," is a solar powered “bat detector.” The installation uses the high frequency radio transmissions of the bats living at Wave Farm as its subject matter. Bats emit sounds via echolocation, at typically two or three times higher pitch than that which the human ear can hear. Using an ultrasonic microphone paired with a customized scanning device, 31 Down will translate the bats' transmissions into audible frequencies.


Cross Current Resonance Transducer (LoVid: Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus; Douglas Repetto) (New York, New York)

1) Data Collection Devices
An analysis of signals on the electromagnetic spectrum and telluric currents (signals in the earth) will inform CCRT's development of measurement device sculptures. These devices exist both as aesthetic objects and as functional monitoring mechanisms, which will enable data recordings used in future projects.
2) Bonding Energy
A web-based project commissioned by turbulence.org, "Bonding Energy" is a model system for distributed microenergy generation. The system suggests new ways of thinking about renewable resources and to address global warming and climate change.


Evidence (Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood) (Troy, New York)

"Spheres of Influence (working title)" is a performance/installation of both live-performed and pre-recorded sounds being broadcast through a number of radio transmitters all tuned to identical (or nearly-identical) frequencies. The audience is equipped with radio receivers, and then encouraged to explore the points of “indecision” that exist between the various transmitters. In this way, each audience member participates in the composition/editing of the final piece by performing the interplay between our broadcasted material and the indeterminate artifacts of the transmission/reception process inherent in the installation.


Sarah Kanouse (Murphysboro, Illinois)

With “Driving East Through Indian Country” Kanouse addresses historical and contemporary mobility through the routes and histories of European settlement and Indian removal, the ways this early history of (re)settlement is commemorated via monuments and museums, and contemporary discourse on (im)migration. Her upstate iteration of the project will focus on the territory related to the Cherry Valley Massacre of 1778 and the retributive Sullivan Expedition of 1779. Among the project components is a public road trip including an FM broadcast of real-time, gps triggered audio content.


Raphael Lyon (Providence, Rhode Island)

Lyon's "Dark Cinema" project is a performance/lecture which argues that the narrative codes which achieve the immersive cinematic illusion of "being there" in a traditional narrative film were never fully developed for radio. Through the articulation of his "Dark Cinema" theory, and a "Dogma-95" styled call for "Dark Cinema" works, Lyon hopes to activate new projects considering the radio narrative in pioneering and effective ways.


Kenta Nagai (Brooklyn, New York)

"Me & Gretel" is an interactive media installation constructed with Lego block speaker enclosures, microphones, television monitors, and hidden surveillance cameras. Viewers' movements inside the installation are transmitted to the monitors and speakers. In "Me & Gretel" the viewer's presence becomes intertwined with elements from disassembled international folktales, myths, and oral histories collected and represented by Nagai to create new personal traditions.


neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez, Valerie Tevere) (Brooklyn, New York)

"The FM Ferry Experiment" is a weeklong mobile radio project to be held on the Staten Island Ferry during the Fall of 2007. In cooperation with the New York City Department of Transportation and the FM signal of WSIA-FM, this project will transform the ferry into a floating radio station, continually traveling between Lower Manhattan and Staten Island. nT will construct the modular components of "The FM Ferry Experiment" radio station during their AIRtime residency.


Marisa Olson (Brooklyn, New York)

Olson will conduct research using the Wave Farm Study Center collections on the history of the use of broadcast and recorded media in protest to inform her forthcoming projects including a multimedia monologue performance about pop music and political activism, called "Rappers Vs. Rockers," and a dramatization of “gonzo journalist” Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note, which he entitled "Football Season Is Over."


Shawn Onsgard (Brooklyn, New York)

“Local Time” is a radio-percussion music event for large outdoor spaces. In this piece, performers position themselves dynamically in the geography to adjust and synchronize composed musical time structures across great distances with each other and with audible qualities implicit to the site such as echo, reverb
decay, or unintended environmental sounds. In addition to acoustic musical instruments such as claves, bull roars, hand drums, switches and other items that produce sounds capable of carrying long distances; each performer is also equipped with a wireless microphone transmitting their acoustic sounds to a radio receiver/audio amplifier located with the audience.


John Roach & James Rouvelle (Brooklyn, New York)

In "Trailhead" Roach and Rouvelle set out to map Wave Farm. Using separate trajectories and mapping strategies, the artists maintain communication during their explorations via transmitters. Ephemera gathered during their investigations and actions in the form of audio, gps, and drawings will construct an online map of the Wave Farm grounds. Collaborators will contribute additional mapping elements including spoken word, video, and photographs.

OPEN CALL: Artradio

Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary arts and film, announces an open call for audio, for Artradio, Cornerhouse’s temporary radio station, broadcasting in FM and online through late June to August of 2007. Deadline Friday 27 April 2007, 12 noon. Artradio is calling for open submissions of existing audio work of a diverse variety, for example; digital sound productions from the broad spectrum of experimental music and sound field recordings, found sound, sound performance and event archives, cultural interviews, radio plays and shows for breakfast. With a minimum duration of 10mins and a maximum of 1hour.

More about Artradio: Artradio will broadcast from Cornerhouse galleries, and will form the base for a dynamic array of live residency broadcasts, events, pre-recorded and archive programmes, as well as invited feeds, guest slots and submitted content. The public is invited to listen, observe and get involved. Resident artists will shape the core programming of the broadcast schedule. The artists are Diana McCarty & Pit Schultz, reboot.fm, (Berlin); Eileen Simpson & Ben White, Open Music Archive, (London), David Blandy (London). Artradio will broadcast daily from 8 a.m. – midnight (in FM for 26 days, and online for 8 weeks, pending Ofcom confirmation of FM frequency). Normal gallery hours apply. For the FM frequency, more information about the programme, to sign-up for updates, or to learn how to get involved please visit www.artradio.fm.

OPEN CALL: 60x60 project

Vox Novus is inviting composers to submit works 60 seconds or less in length to included in its fifth annual 60x60 project. 60 compositions will be selected to be performed continuously in a one-hour concert, in conjunction with multimedia elements and an analog clock marking the passage of time. 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. Excerpts of larger works are strongly discouraged. 60x60 is a project of "signature works" and short works created specifically for the 60x60 project. 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 May 21, 2007. Selected works will be announced on September 17, 2007. 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, NY 10101 USA.

Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked by May 21, 2007. 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.

Works selected for the 2007 60x60 project will be announced on September 17, 2007.

OPEN CALL: Radio Creation Contest

The CDMC and Radio Clásica (RNE) are undertaking a collaboration to encourage the production of radio creations in order to promote this type of works. Within this line, a contest of ideas is called subject to the following
RULES
1
The works will necessarily be pieces of radiophonic creation, that is to say, whose most suitable means of production and diffusion is the radio. The works will not have been previously awarded nor emitted.
2
Words, noises, music, electronic or radiophonic editings and other similar elements may be the base of the work.
3
The project may be in Spanish only or in several languages but in this case Spanish should be the main language. The use of language or voice may also be omitted.
4
To enter the contest it will not be possible to send accomplished works, but mere projects: a written description of the work and of the elements that it will require, some excerpts as a model in cassette, CD or DAT, scores or fragments of these, acoustical materials, etc. Any form or presentation will be admitted, provided that it makes possible to the Jury to appreciate the interest of the projected idea.
5
There is no age nor citizenship limit.
6
The deliveries should be made on before April 15th, 2007 by any of the procedures allowed by the Administrative Procedure Act; such as registered mail, (postmark date will probe meeting the deadline), personal delivery, etc; and they should be addressed to:
"XIV Concurso de Obras de Creación Radiofónica"
Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea
c/ Santa Isabel 52, 5ª planta
28012 -Madrid (Spain).
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There is no limit to the number of projects to be sent by each author.
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The projects should arrive anonymously with an assumed name that will be reproduced on an enclosed closed envelope containing a photocopy of the DNI or passport and personal details of the author or authors. In the case of using texts by another author, his opportune permit must be accredited.
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A Jury appointed by the CDMC and Radio Clásica will choose on the project considered the most suitable. The decisions of the Jury are without appeal.
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The selected project will be the object of a commission by the CDMC, endowed with 6.000 euros gross. This Commission will be considered as the Prize of the Contest and it is independent of the production costs, which will be assumed by Radio Clásica.
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Radio Clásica will produce the work with the means that the radio itself will determine. For that purpose, in addition to the human and technical means of the Radio, the facilities of the Laboratorio de Informática y Electrónica Musical del CDMC (LIEM-CDMC) can also be used. The radio broadcasting will take place during the last quarter of 2007, and we will try to give the work première at the Festival de Música de Alicante (end of September 2007). The project should be developed with enough time so that it may be produced and emitted on time.
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By the simple act of participating, the competitors accept the terms of these Rules and the decision of the Jury.
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The non-awarded projects will be available to their authors who can fetch them personally at the CDMC, previous identification of the assumed name, within the period of three months after the awarding is made public.
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Once this period is over, the non-collected projects will be destroyed in order to preserve the anonymity of the Contest.