Handmade Electronic Music
Nicolas Collins

Call for Submissions


I am currently preparing an updated and expanded edition of my 2006 book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art Of Hardware Hacking. The DVD accompanying the book will include a “gallery” of hacking projects from around the world. For this section I am soliciting documentation of Hacked and Bent instruments and art projects. I welcome your submission of material for consideration. Please observe the following guidelines and technical standards: 
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS OF VIDEO CLIPS
– Continuous video, with synched-sound soundtrack; or a “Slide Show” in video format, sequencing still images (photos, drawings, schematics, etc.), with a soundtrack demonstrating typical sounds of the device.
– The clip can be no longer than 1 minute (60 seconds) in duration; shorter clips are encouraged.
– The soundtrack can be mono or stereo.
– Insert a credit screen at the head of the video, listing:
  . your name;
  . the title of the instrument/object/project;
  . any brief descriptive notes you wish to include (for example, “CMOS oscillator using dead batteries in place of capacitors”);
  . your web site and/or contact information (optional).
– You may submit documentation of several projects, but each one must be represented by an individual video clip of less than 1 minute in duration.
– Please do not submit un-edited video, video clips longer than 60 seconds, video clips with no title screen, video with no soundtrack, or audio files without a video component.
DATA SPECIFICATION
– DV/DVCPRO
– NTSC preferred
– Best Quality
– Interlaced
– 720 x 480 (640 x 480)
– Quicktime file on a data DVD is the preferred media; standard video DVD if there is no other option.
NON-VIDEO MATERIAL
– You may also submit TIFF or JPEG files of photographs or schematics for consideration for inclusion in the printed book. These can be color or black and white, 300 dpi minimum resolution. You may include the files on the same DVD used for your video clips, in a folder labeled “Additional Images” or something similar.
– You may submit additional AIFF or MP3 files of performances with your instruments; I cannot make use of these in the published book, but would welcome them as musical examples for use in lectures and workshops.

Please send the DVD to:
  Nicolas Collins — Handmade Electronic Music Project
  Department of Sound
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  112 South Michigan Avenue
  Chicago, IL 60603
  USA

For customs purposes indicate that the package contains a data DVD of no commercial value. Pack it well to avoid damage in shipping. Keep a copy yourself in case the package is lost or damaged. 

Email me when you have posted the DVD, so I know to expect it. Include in this email your postal address.
TERMS OF USAGE
I cannot guarantee that your submission will be used until I view it – I am trying to represent a diverse range of projects, and this will affect my selection. If your submission is accepted you will receive a simple letter of agreement authorizing us to use your work, for you to sign and return. You must be able to state that you own and control rights to the material you have submitted (we will ask permission to publish your submission “non-exclusively”, so that you will be able to use it freely as well).
DEADLINE:
PLEASE MAKE SURE THE DVD REACHES ME BY JULY 18, 2008.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions please email me: ncollins@saic.edu.
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Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic Community
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http://cec.concordia.ca/jttp Project for young/emerging sound artists

You can find below the call for works for “FrammentAzioni”, the contemporary music project dedicated to composers coming from all over the world.

Entry is free.

The deadline is on August 31th 2008.


With the intent to promote contemporary music, TEM – Taukay Edizioni Musicali inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length (works may be less than 60 seconds in length, but may not exceed 60 seconds).
The most interesting compositions (50/60 works) will be selected to be played continuously in a concert during the “Contemporanea” festival in October in Udine (Italy) and broadcasted from Taukay Web radio, the first Italian web radio station entirely dedicated to contemporary music. (http://radio.taukay.it)
Over the sequence the dance company “Arearea” will present an expressly dedicated choreography.

The recorded work can be any sound created which can be recorded on CD / DAT / data CD. Live performers are not allowed. The recording can include acoustic instruments, samples, voice, every kind of sound synthesis.
Scores of works are allowed but not required.
It is possible participate with more than one composition.

The call is open to composers of any nationality and of any age.
Previously performed compositions will be accepted.
Works will not be returned.

The following documentation is also required:
– name, surname, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date and place of birth, citizenship.
– composer biography.
– title of the composition.
– a statement agreeing to permit the performance of the composition to be broadcast or telecast and archived without compensation.
– a statement agreeing to the treatment of personal information in accordance with Italian privacy laws.

Printable application form to participate is available from the web site:
http://www.taukay.it

Please submit your work and submission no later than August 31th 2008 to:


Taukay Edizioni Musicali
via del Torre 57/5
33047 Remanzacco (Udine) Italy

The postmark will be deemed to be the date of submission.

You can send your composition as MP3 file to the following address: taukay.webradio@gmail.com
If selected we’ll ask you the CD audio of your work.


Selected works will be announced on September 30 th, 2008.

For further information please visit Edizioni Musicali Taukay’s web site: http://www.taukay.it
Or contact us by e-mail at: info@taukay.it



Taukay Edizioni Musicali
via del Torre 57/5
33047 Remanzacco UDINE
ITALIA
tel. +39 0432 649244
fax +39 0432 649575
http://www.taukay.it
http://radio.taukay.it

*Concours Luc Ferrari*
Concours international de création radiophonique

Every other year, La Muse en Circuit organizes an international competition of radio music composition open to young artists, in partnership with the Archipel Festival, the SACEM, Radio France, and foreign radio stations (Radio Suisse Romande / Espace 2, Deutschland RadioKultur).

The 8th biennial competition created by Luc Ferrari is inspired by a piece from his work, Madame de Shanguai for a flute trio and pre-recorded track.

Both a way of paying tribute to Mr. Ferrari as well as a means of stimulating the imagination of composers, the current competition asks participants to write a piece that develops the principal of the Horspiel.

The entries should resemble mixed music but without any interaction other than the synchronization of an instrument with stereophonic or 5.1 support. The instrumental score will be able to be amplified and transformed except for computerized real time processing. The final piece, with a maximum duration of 15 minutes, will be performed in concert.

The winning entries as well as the piece written by Luc Ferrari will be featured on disc as well as in concerts associated with the competition.

We hope that this tradition of honoring Mr. Ferrari will be stimulating and likely to give rise to new talents and not just epigones. You will thus find attached the application form. We hope that it will be possible for you to leave them at disposal of musicians. You can also contact us by email to have more informations :

arthur.lassaigne@alamuse.com
www.alamuse.com

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