all for Projects 2011-2012: Musical Research Residency Program

Submission Deadline:    September 30, 2010
Details and submission procedure:  http://www.ircam.fr/875.html?L=1

The second edition of Ircam’s Musical Research Residency program is now open for online submissions for the 2011-2012 school calendar. Ircam (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music) offers experimental environments where composers/artists strive to expand their artistic experience at one end, and scientists aims at extending research and technological paradigms for new artistic expressions. Such interactive process is called Musical Research.

For its second edition, Ircam is inviting composers and artists to submit projects for the 2011-2012 Musical Research Residency program. The program is open to international artists, regardless of age or nationality, who wish to carry experimental research using Ircam’s facilities and extensive research environment. Submission is online only and each project will be evaluated by an international panel of experts including researchers, composers, computer musicians and artists. Upon nomination, each candidate will be granted a residency at Ircam during a specific period (three or six months) and in association with a team/project at Ircam. In addition, laureates receive an equivalent of 1200 Euros per month to cover expenses in France.

Information on past edition & musical research at Ircam:
http://articles.ircam.fr/textes/Cont10a/index.pdf
 

Final call for papers
 

Coventry University
International Symposium on Experimental Music
 
Saturday and Sunday 25 and 26 September 2010
 
Guest speakers:
 
Dr Tim Lawrence (University of East London)
Pluralism, minor deviations and radical change: experimental music in downtown New York, 1971-85
 
Professor Simon Emmerson (De Montfort University)
Experimental: how helpful is the scientific metaphor in new music?
 
 
The symposium is designed as a platform to share graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral research into experimental music in its broadest sense. Papers are invited from researchers into all styles of experimental music including electronic, electro-acoustic, free jazz, progressive rock, free improvisation etc. To encourage practice-as-research, there will be a concert of research-related items in the Saturday evening, so contributions to this are also invited.
 
If you offer a paper, please provide an abstract (approximately 100 words) of your proposed paper (see attached form). Papers should be approximately 20 minutes in length. Each 30-minute slot allows 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
 
If you offer a concert item, please provide a title, instrument/voice and composer details for the work/s to be performed, and a statement of approximately 50 words describing how the performance relates to your research (see attached form). Concert items should be no more than 5-10 minutes in length. Please note that there is only limited time available for such items.
 
If you wish to attend the symposium but not as either presenter or performer, then please email your contact details and indicate if you intend to be present for the whole event or just one of the days, specifying which. Attendance is free but a charge will be made for food.
 
Researchers interested in presenting are welcome to offer a paper, a concert item or both. For presenters, lunch and other refreshments will be free and a donation will be made towards travel costs. For more information about the Symposium, please e-mail the event organiser.
 
To submit an offer to present an item at the Symposium, please complete the proposal form and e-mail it to the event organiser, Andrew Middleton, on middlet9@coventry.ac.uk before August 20 at the latest (form available on request from Andrew Middleton).
 
Indicative timings are: 11.00–20.30 (Saturday); 10.00–15.00 (Sunday). These are subject to change.
The symposium will also coincide with the launch of Coventry University’s international experimental music website
 
Event managers:
Dr Julian Hellaby (adx96@coventry.ac.uk)
Dr Christopher Hobbs (arx221@coventry.ac.uk)
 
Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB

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Dr Tom Williams
Principal Lecturer in Music Composition
Course Director BA Music Composition & Professional Practice
Performing Arts
School of Art & Design
Coventry University
CV1 5FB
UK
 

Friends, colleagues, artists,

The department that hosts the project that employs me – the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, at Lancaster University in the UK – is getting a new building.  This is due to open in the autumn of this year.

There is a call for artworks.  The web page below says that they must be art or design-led but this will shortly be updated to say that proposals can be art- or design-led, and could cover interactive, digital, sonic, sculptural or land-art works.

Submissions will form an exhibition in the foyer of the new building, with a selected work to go forward to commission.

Full details are at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica/news/1044

The pictures on the building web site http://www.lancs.ac.uk/estates/projects/current_projects.htm#LICA are a little over-optimistic about the quantity of trees.  There is a very nice small wood immediately in front of the (west-facing) building and a lot more woodland to the northern side, beyond an access road – but the distant vistas are less wooded – and the architect’s impressions also omit some existing buildings adjacent to the new building.

The campus is a park-land site in a rural location with a mix of architecture dating from its first build in 1968 up to some fairly dramatic new buildings.  All the buildings at the north end are built to high eco-standards.  The LICA building is entirely timber-framed.   The only real snag for sound art pieces is the constant background noise of the motorway which runs alongside, to the east of the campus.  It’s far enough to be a constant noise, though, not individual wagons roaring past!

The proposal submission deadline is 1 October 2010, the launch will be spring 2011, the fee is £10,000.

Regards,

Lisa