JyK Blog

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

—
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

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.