Call for Works, Installations & Papers: NoiseFloor Festival, 12th – 14th January 2011, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom.

Submission Deadline: September 3rd, 2010, (12pm GMT or postmarked)
Registration fee: None
Entry fee: None

Staffordshire University Music Technology department is pleased to invite submissions of fixed media and live works, installations and papers for the second NoiseFloor Festival. Stereo and multi-channel audio or audio-visual works (up to 8 channels + sub) are invited for consideration. Equipment needed for diffusion of fixed media and audio-visual works will be provided; composers will need to provide their own laptop and performers for live pieces.

Composer attendance is strongly encouraged but not required.

Submission format:
Please send download links to your work using one of the many file delivery services (yousendit.com, MobileMe etc) in .zip or archived format. Please do not email file attachments.
Electronic submissions should be sent to ben.ramsay@staffs.ac.uk

Physical submissions (CD/DVD etc) should be sent to:

NoiseFloor Festival
c/o Ben Ramsay
Music Technology Department
Staffordshire University
Beaconside
Stafford
ST18 0AD

Fixed Media and AV works
For multi-channel works, please include a stereo version of the piece, as well as individual mono files for each channel. If you are submitting your work via CD or DVD please ensure that the disc is labelled with the title of the piece and composers name(s).

Along with your work, you should also submit a text file which includes the following:-
Programme note
Brief biography
Channel configuration
Sample rate

Composers are encouraged to submit a paper in addition to their piece.  The submission process is the same for audio-visual works. DVDs and movie files are both acceptable, but please be sure to also include the documentation listed above.

Installations
Artists submitting installation work should initially submit an abstract along with supporting imagery, diagrams or footage of the installation. We are able to provide a limited number of loudspeakers, but please contact us if you have any special requirements.

Papers
The intention of the NoiseFloor festival is to draw together forms of exploratory electronic music from a range of disciplines and place them together in one single event. The festival will include music which has been composed as an outcome of academic research, as well as music which has been created for commercial release or performance. Attendees will be able to explore both the multi-channel Electroacoustic concert situation, as well as the two channel club setting. By maintaining the individual identities and qualities of both of these listening environments, the festival aims to entice attendees to investigate music which might sit outside of their current area of interest.

This year we are inviting paper submissions which relate to this area of research and include, but are not limited to:
The future of sonic arts
Cross genre works/research
Beat based music
Widening access to sonic arts
Composition and aesthetics

Paper sessions will last 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. A lecture theatre will be provided with computer, projector and stereo playback.

If you have any questions please use the email address above or visit the NoiseFloor website at www.noisefloor.co.uk.

Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology

Call for Submissions
Volume 10, Number 1
Editor: David Paquette

Deadline for submission: July 31, 2010

Theme: Sonic Ambiances

Daily places are heard, touched, explored, imagined and felt through the richness of our sensory experience. The contribution of these various senses, along with perceptual and affective mechanisms, create an ambiance. This issue examines the role of the soundscape, along with other sensorial models, in the making of ambiances. Contributions discussing the following topics, or any other relevant theme related to sound and ambiances, are welcome.

– Architectural use of ambiances
– Immersive sonic arts and sound installations
– Sound and synesthesia
– Ambiance and the sense of place

Abstracts and bio should be sent to david@sharawadji.org
Article length: 1500 to 3000 words.

Agxivatein label
(www.agxivatein.com)

announces the
White Sleeve Album Series
first call for fixed media works

deadline: 30th September 2010

The project emerges out of a strong need to disassociate sound from any constancy, reference or dogma ? especially from those related to the post-renaissance western music tradition.

Everyone interested in participating should send a cd/dvd or usb-stick with his ready-to-be-released  album in high quality audio files in the following address :

Marinos Koutsomichalis
(White Sleeve Album Series)
33 Paloumpioti Str / Giatagana 41
11476, Athens
Greece

(pls do not use registered mail or any other option that requires physical presence to collect)

The submission should be completely anonymous. The envelope should contain nothing more than just the audio material in a non-labeled medium. The label should not be able to identify the origin of the work in any way.

The selected albums will be released by the label in blank cdrs inside white sleeves. A small card with the indication ‘White Sleeve Album Series’ followed by a catalog number will accompany all copies ? just to separate them from each other.

No other kind of information about the works should be available and hopefully the albums will remain uncredited and anonymous forever.

The label is dedicated to the exploration of post-postmodern aesthetics so pls send sth adequate. If the submissions fail to meat our standards, then nothing will be released.

The artists will get nothing ? there is no way (or point) in sending him any copies, as the label has to remain unaware of his identity. The label is willing to make up, though, by sending free copies to research centers or similar organisations worldwide (Pls do request them !).