We are delighted to announce the Call for Submissions for next year’s Sound,
Sight, Space and Play Conference. Post-graduates working in the creative
sonic arts are now welcome to send submissions.

Please forward this call to interested colleagues and students.

Kind regards,
Ben Ramsay, Andrew Hill and Motje Wolf
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre,
De Montfort University,
Leicester,
UK

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Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010

Postgraduate Conference for the Creative Sonic Arts
Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th June 2010
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre,
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts

We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play
(SSSP) 2010, a conference for postgraduate students working in the creative
sonic arts, organised by postgraduate students of the Music Technology and
Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), De Montfort University. The ideals of
this event are to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between
postgraduate students, across institutional boundaries, leading to new
perspectives on current works and research. We encourage submission of
papers and creative work, both completed and in progress, for presentation
over the course of the event. This year’s event has the theme “Exploring the
Future of the Sonic Arts” and aims to investigate this critical topic
through all forms of submissions and a roundtable discussion.

Event Topics

We invite paper submissions on topics related to creativity in the sonic
arts including, but not restricted to:
·      Sound Diffusion
·      Multi Channel Approaches to Composition and Sound Projection
·      Installations
·      Interactivity
·      Audio-Visuals and Multimedia
·      Electronics and Circuit Bending
·      Performance Practice
·      Theoretical Implications of the above

Registration Fees

So far we are waiting for responses from funding bodies to secure this
year’s funding in order to support the event. As it stands at the moment we
intend to charge a £30 registration fee, per delegate or attendee, in order
to cover the costs of the event. There is NO fee for submission.
Registration fees would be payable in April 2010. Organisers of the event
have applied for funding from various sources and if these bids are
successful the registration fees will be abolished.

Guidelines for Submission of Papers and Works

General: All submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review
procedure conducted by PhD students or post docs from different institutions
representing the various sub-disciplines of sonic arts and related fields.
Talk abstracts and programme notes supporting creative work should be
submitted as a Word document (accepted formats are .rtf, .doc or .txt, no
.pdf) via email to motje.wolf@email.dmu.ac.uk. Submissions must not exceed
300 words in length including a title, headings and references. Your
submission must include also your name, affiliation, email address as well
as a 200 word biography. Postal applications should be sent to: Andrew Hill,
MTIRL (Cl 0.19), Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1
9BH, United Kingdom

Papers: The duration of each standard presentation slot will be 20 minutes
followed by a 10-minute formal question period. Keynote presentation slots,
lasting 40 minutes with 10 minutes question time, will be awarded to
submissions of excellence. Between sessions there will be breaks for
informal questions and discussion. We offer the possibility of online
publication for papers on a voluntary basis. You will receive more
information about the publication after acceptance of the submission.
Multimedia support will be provided for talks in the form of video
projector, laptop and quad speaker system.

Works: Should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration and can be submitted
either on physical media (e.g. CD/DVD) via post, or online via file
sharing services such as YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com) or Dropbox (
http://www.dropbox.com). Please make digital submissions available to
benjamin.ramsay@email.dmu.ac.uk. Submissions must be accompanied by
technical specifications and requirements (Channel configuration, sample
rate, additional information). Works will be performed in the Performance
Arts Centre of Excellence (PACE) Building at De Montfort University on the
MTIRC’s multi speaker diffusion system. Concert and installation slots are
limited and as a result we are only able to accept one submission per
person.

Deadline: The deadline for abstract submissions is 1st February 2010. The
review committee will evaluate applications and results will be send in
March. A detailed timetable will be available on our website shortly.

Further information can be found on our webpage at:
http://www.sssp.org.uk/
Further Contact Information
Questions relating to paper submissions and general information should be
directed to:
Motje Wolf: motje.wolf@email.dmu.ac.uk
Questions relating to concert and installation submissions and finances
should be directed to:
Andrew Hill: andrew.hill8@email.dmu.ac.uk
Questions relating to the online submissions process and web resources
should be directed to:
Ben Ramsay: benjamin.ramsay@email.dmu.ac.uk

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Ben Ramsay
PhD researcher
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
De Montfort University Leicester
United Kingdom