Fast Food Composition Contest

International composition contest
announced by Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig and rp-Gruppe

for a piece of the maximal length of 2-4 minutes (the time it takes to eat a hamburger)

Instrumentation
•    clarinet (also small clarinet/bass clarinet), trumpet, drum kit (vibraphone, bass and snare drum, tom-tom, bongos, cymbal, high hat, tam-tam, gong, various small instruments like a block of wood, a cowbell, a rattle etc.), violin, mezzo-soprano or tenor
•    smaller instrumentation or solo pieces are also possible
•    electronic or live-electronic pieces are possible (maximal 4-channel and 1 sound engineer)

Theme
•    The piece should be related to Fast-Food, food, the production process or the situation of consumption in a fast-food restaurant etc. in an inventive, critical or humorous way.
•    A jury will choose maximally 12 pieces out of the submissions. The chosen pieces will be performed during a concert of the concert series FreiZeitArbeit in the Burger King affiliate Radefeld.

How to submit
•    Submit a score in triplicate, or, if the piece is an electronic one, a CD with the recording.

The compositions should be submitted anonymously as follows:
•    Each score/composition/cd etc. has to have a keyword.
•    The score/CD must be labeled (in addition to the keyword) with the title of the piece and the country of
origin of the composer.
•    The application must include furthermore a closed envelope (labeled with the keyword) with the following content:
name and contact information of the submitter, a signed declaration that the submitted piece has not been performed to the time of submission

Deadline and address for submission
Thursday, 15th of September 2010 at the latest to the following adress:

Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig [FZML]
Kohlgartenstraße 24
04315 Leipzig
Germany

Prize money
The chosen compositions will receive a prize money of 400 € each.

Regrettably, travel and production expanses cannot be paid.

For further information: http://www.fzml.de | Kontakt: info@fzml.de

Sonoimágenes 2010 – Change of dates

The National University of Lanús – UNLa (Argentina) presents the 10 th Edition of the International and Multimedia Festival “Sonoimágenes” that will take place in Buenos Aires on October 19th – 21st  2010.

Extended deadline June 15th (postmarked)

“Sonoimágenes” calls for works to be considered for the 2010 edition, that should fit into one of the following Categories:

a. Acousmatic works: sound art compositions for recorded media alone, for two, four, eight or 5.1 channels. Acousmatic compositions on DVD 5.1 are very specially welcome for this edition.

b. Audiovisual compositions: audiovisual works on media where sound and image narratives should have equal relevance or importance

c. Live Performances involving technology: such as mixed works with acoustic instrument(s) or electroacoustic devices and recorded media, interactive mixed works, real time processing or live electronics, live electroacoustic improvisation, or any of those plus video, in all cases with a maximum of two performers.

All works must have a duration between four minutes (minimum) and 12 minutes (maximum) and must have been created after January 2004.

More information about the “Sonoimágenes” Festivals and about this call, can be found at http://www.sonoimagenes.net46.net/

Inquires may be sent by email to: sonoimagenes@yahoo.com.ar

Call for Works ISCM 2011

iscm2011ISCM World New Music Days 2011 within the 26th Music Biennale Zagreb 2011 in Croatia from 7 to 17 April
A half-century anniversary – 50 years of Music Biennale Zagreb
  Deadline for submissions is August 1, 2010
Theme: Mirabilia Memorabilia

With year 2011, New music enters into its ninth decade of slow, but sure "conquest" of new areas and new countries, and marks 90 years of gaining new friends and admirers. Although it "grew-up" and got considerably older in these 90 years, we still experience it as young and challenging, new and fresh, worthy of the effort we make in trying to make it an integral part of human activities, needs and life, worthy of the faith we have in it, all the time helping it to "grow" even more…
Invitation and Call for Works:
ISCM members as well as music publishers and individual artists are encouraged to submit their works according to the detailed instructions and criteria described in the call for works.
Music publishers and individual artists can pay €50 entry fee, for each work by using the online payment system PayPal