Sound and Music Computing Conference 2009: Call for Music.

The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) is glad to announce an open call for works. This year’s SMC will happen in Porto at Casa da Música, Porto’s most recent architectural landmark located in the new center of the city.

There will be five concerts at the conference that include a network performance. Three of the concerts will be at Casa da Música and the other two at a venue to be announced.

We particularly encourage submissions of works of electronic music that have a performance aspect to it, such as works for instrument(s) and electronic music, laptop performances, live electronic music, live coding, circuit bending, interactive installations, audio-visual performance, and interactive dance. 

The conference concert programme will be selected by curators (Evan Parker, Nicolas Collins, Pauline Oliveros and Robert Rowe) in coordination with the Music Chairs (Carlos Guedes and Pedro Rebelo). The conference will provide a professional ensemble with soloists in the following instruments: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophones, Double Bass, Piano and Percussion.  

All submissions must be made through an online system at http://smc2009.smcnetwork.org/. Please note there is a limit of 100MB per submission (please used compressed formats, e.g. mp3, ogg, mp4). If you wish to send larger files you should mail us a CD/DVDs to the following address:
SMC 09 C/O Carlos Guedes
INESC-Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 378
4200-465 Porto
Portugal


Call for Student works

The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference is also glad to announce a call for student works. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from all European Schools are encouraged to submit works, following the guidelines proposed in the main call for music. When submitting the works for the student call, you have to submit a proof of enrollment at a European School or University.

Important Dates for both submissions:
Submission deadline: April 17
Notification of acceptance: May 15

All questions should be addressed to Carlos Guedes cguedes[at]inescporto[dot]pt or to Pedro Rebelo p[dot]rebelo[at]qub[dot]ac[dot]uk.

List members (apologies for cross posting)

Call for electroacoustic works
 
EARS II: The ElectroAcoustic Resource Site II
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Group @ De Montfort University
 
The EARS II project research and development group are seeking material for the latest phase of development of the EARS project – http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk Currently our focus group is children in the 11-14 year old age group. This call for material concerns the development of the Genres and Categories index. To this end we are seeking material for use as listening examples; to exemplify particular genres and categories, and at the same time to be used as part of an aural training system intended to introduce students to electroacoustic music.
 
For further information about the project and submission guidelines, please visit http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rjw/earsIIcall.html

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Dr. Rob Weale
CEPA Fellow – Music, Technology and Innovation
Faculty of Humanities
PACE Building
Room 1M.01
De Montfort University
Leicester, UK
LE1 9BH
 
tel: +44 (0)116 207 8131

The European Bridges Ensemble in collaboration with the Hochschule für
Musik und Theater Hamburg and the Hungarian Computer Music Foundation
is inviting project proposals for its 2009 summer residency and the
2009/2010 concert season.

The European Bridges Ensemble (EBE) is looking for an artist(*) or a
team of artists interested in working together to create a network
piece. Its duration should be between 6 to 12 minutes.

The artist(s) chosen will work with the ensemble during the summer
residency in Hamburg, Germany between July 11 and 25, 2009. The result
will be presented at the 2009 Hamburg Klangwerktage festival in late
November as well as at the Music in the Global Village conference in
Budapest in early December of 2009.

The ensemble:
The ensemble consists of 5 electronic musicians (Kai Niggemann,
Germany; Adam Siska, Hungary; Johannes Kretz, Austria; Andrea
Szigetvári, Hungary; Ivana Ognjanovic, Serbia) performing on standard
and/or alternate controllers, a video artists (Stewart Collinson, UK)
and a conductor (Georg Hajdu, Germany).

Prize:
The ensemble will pay for travel, accommodation as well as a stipend
of 1000 Euros (for individual) or 2000 Euros (for a team of two and
more) for the Hamburg residency.

Application:
The applicants are supposed to send a portfolio either by mail or
email containing
– samples of previous works demonstrating expertise both in live music
and video processing (knowledge of network/Internet music is an asset
but not an absolute requirement.)
– a detailed description of the proposed project including a statement
on the use of alternate controllers, video and audio.
– a CV

Requirements:
Workshops during the residency will provide expertise in how to use
the Quintet.net—the environment the European Bridges Ensemble uses in
their performances. Advanced knowledge of Cycling ’74’s Max
programming environment is a necessity. We particularly encourage the
use of Percussa’s AudioCubes of which the ensemble owns six.

Deadline: March 10, 2009

Notification: The applicants will be notified about their status no
later than May 1, 2009.

Jury:
The jury consists of Andrew Gerzso (IRCAM, Paris), Pedro Rebelo (SARC,
Belfast) and members of the European Bridges Ensemble

This project was made possible by a Culture 2007 multi-annual
cooperation grant by the European Commission. The name of the project
is CO-ME-DI-A (Collaboration and Mediation in the Digital Arts).
Project partners are IRCAM (Paris), SARC (Belfast), Casa Paganini
(Genoa), CIANT (Prague), MUG/IEM (Graz), HfMT (Hamburg), HCMF (Budapest)

Further information:
– about the European Bridges Ensemble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Bridges_Ensemble
; http://www.e-b-e.eu
– about Quintet.net: http://www.quintet.net
– about CO-ME-DI-A: http://www.comedia.eu.org/co/documents.html
– on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=european+bridges+ensemble&search_type=&aq=0&oq=european+bri

Contact:
Please send inquiries to:

Georg Hajdu
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
Harvestehuder Weg 12
20148 Hamburg
Germany

Phone:
+49-40-428482-763 (w)
+49-40-23517610 (h)
+49-172-787-4214 (m)
+49-40-428482-770 (f)

e-mail: georg.hajdu@hfmt-hamburg.de
http://www.georghajdu.de/
http://www.quintet.net/
http://mmm.hfmt-hamburg.de

(*) composers, computer/electronic musicians, video/multimedia/
intermedia artists/performers; for simplicity’s sake just referred to
as artists.