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Diffusion Prize 2010: International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition

RTÉ Lyric FM Nova programme (presented by the wonderful Bernard Clarke) has announced the Diffusion 2010 competition for electroacoustic music. The Diffusion prize is a bi-annual competition run by RTÉ Lyric FM and the Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music at the University of Limerick. The competition is open to all composers for works [...]

Call: soundart for SoundLAB VII

Call for entries extended deadline: 31 December 2009 2010 – 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:|| cologne SoundLAB – sonic art project environments is happy to launch the call for its next edition to be part of this anniversary celebrations, entitled: SoundLAB VII – soundCELEBRATION sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary! For its 7th edition, planned [...]

Voxnovus . 60×60 Call for works

Vox Novus is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length to be included in its eighth annual 60×60 project! Download Submission form here: 60×60 PDF Submission Form or 60×60 MSWord Submission Form Vox Novus In collaboration with ICMC (International Computer Music Conference 2010) is inviting composers to submit recorded works [...]

ONE OF THE LAST N-EVENTS

Thursday, 17 December, 2009 – 21:00 The N-Collective presents: One of the Last N-events at Ausland Lychener Straße 60, 10437 Berlin The N is an international network of musicians, improvisers and composers. It was set up around 2002 in Amsterdam and has since spread throughout the world, in many forms and shapes. N-Berlin presents the following groups [...]

Call for Submissions – Ncounters: Living in a World of Sound and Noise

NCOUNTERS: Living in a World of Sound and Noise University of Alberta, Graduate Music Students’ Association Department of Music March 5-7, 2010 In his influential text The Audible Past Jonathan Sterne writes: “[C]hanges in the form and consistency of sensory experience are bound up in much larger social and cultural transformations.” Music scholarship is also [...]

Jon Appleton . Contes de la mémoire

Looking back over the thirty years of electroacoustic music represented by the music on this recording, it can be difficult to untangle the web of personal, cultural and technological influences which shaped these pieces. Unlike my instrumental music from the same years, in which one can observe a certain stylistic consistency, my work in electroacoustic [...]

Making New Waves 2009 . Budapest

December 10-13. 2009. – Budapest, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts This year the Making New Waves Festival in conjunction with the “Music in the Global Village Conference” will discuss the relationships between music, networked systems and other genresof art. The international conference researches artistic and technological domains that are made available through the interactions of [...]

Call for Applications: The Camargo Foundation

Call for Applications: The Camargo Foundation Academic and Artistic Fellowships The Camargo Foundation is now accepting applications from composers, writers, and visual artists pursuing specific projects. The interdisciplinary residency program is intended to give Fellows the time and space they need to realise their projects. The Foundation’s hillside campus overlooks the Mediterranean Sea in Cassis, [...]

Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2009

RÉSULTATS / RESULTS For JTTP 2009, the CEC collaborated with Germany’s national electroacoustic association, DEGEM. Similar to the collaboration in 2003 with the UK’s Sonic Arts Network (SAN), submissions from both Canada and Germany were accepted. Prizes were awarded to both the Canadian and German top-placing composers, and Cache 2009 (release planned for Spring 2010) [...]

MATA Festival 2011 Call For Submissions

[conventional musical scores, electro-acoustic compositions, digital media works such as installations and multimedia collaborations] Postmark Deadline: February 16th, 2010 MATA (Music at the Anthology) is currently accepting submissions from young composers for possible commissions and performances on the 2010 MATA Festival in New York City. Materials for submission must include: • Recording (CD) of one [...]

Call for Submissions “Organised Sound” Issue 16/1

Call for submissions Volume 16, Number 1 Issue thematic title: Denis Smalley: his influence on the theory and practice of electroacoustic music Date of Publication: April 2011 Publishers: Cambridge University Press Issue co-ordinator: Andrew Lewis (a.p.lewis@bangor.ac.uk) Denis Smalley is one of Britain’s foremost exponents of acousmatic music, and a voice of international influence in both [...]

EMUfest 2009 international Electroacoustic Music Festival

The Conservatory of Rome presents the 2nd edition of the “International Festival of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia” Emufest. The Festival was held from 8 until 15 November 2009. Last year in November was held the 1st edition of the “International Festival of electroacoustic music at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, EMUfest. The results [...]

Diffusion Prize 2010 – International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition

Jointly presented by RTÉ Lyric fm and the Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music (CCMCM), University of Limerick – Ireland, the competition’s aim is to promote ‘up and coming’ composers regardless of age or nationality. A prize of €3000 will be awarded to the winning entrant in the form of a commission to compose [...]

PWGL – A Visual Programming Language

PWGL is a free cross-platform visual language based on Common Lisp, CLOS and OpenGL, specialized in computer aided composition and sound synthesis. It is programmed using the Lispworks programming environment. PWGL integrates several programming paradigms (functional, object-oriented, constraint-based) with high-level visual representation of data and it can be used to solve a wide range of [...]

WAVES OF KOKORO (2009)

WAVES OF KOKORO (2009) Video by Gene Greenwood in Deep Cove, BC, Canada ‘Waves of Kokoro’ from VOICES & WHEELS (2000) by sylvi macCormac Eadwacer do you hear? – From Wulf and Eadwacer a 7th Century Poem in the Exeter Book. Speculative translation reads Eadwacer as either Skywatcher or Earthwatcher

Audio Autographs

Sound Art projects in connection to ART FAIR SUOMI 09 tapahtumaa Pauli Apollo Ahopelto Winter Tour Pauli Apollo Ahopelto is currently working with a folk style electro sound installation for next years Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. He has been recording different atmospheres during the festival, and some of these recorded samples can be detected also [...]

Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde

Presenting a view of the 20th-century music avant-garde without resorting to highly specialized jargon, this work offers an exhaustive history and analysis of contemporary music in a social, political, and artistic context. Distinguished contributors from around the world consider specific composers who represent the most progressive musical thinking of their time and place. Sitsky, an [...]

Space As Structural Function In Electroacoustic Music

In this article, Elsa Justel demonstrates some of the strategies used by different composers to create their compositional spatial models. She discusses several different methods of spatialisation that involve temporal pitch changes, amplitude panning changes, spectral transformations, re-synthesis by convolution and transposition, expansion, and granulation – in relation to works by composers such as Jean-Claude [...]

Call for Participation /Colloque L’Espace du Son III

In 1988, Musiques & Recherches published a first volume of its thematic journal “LIEN” under the supervision of Francis Dhomont; the volume was called ‘L’Espace du Son’ and was re-published ten years later. Riding on the success of this first volume, a second was published in 1991, once again under the supervision of Francis; the [...]

Call: CEMC/EMSAN Day 2009

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CEMC/EMSAN Day Colloquium 28 octobre 2009, MusicAcoustica Festival, Beijing EMSAN – International Network of Electroacoustic Music Studies in East Asia For the second consecutive year, an EMSAN colloquium will be organised in collaboration with CEMC and the Musicacoustica festival. This year, the EMSAN/CEMC Day will revolve around two themes: Theme [...]

Techniques of the Contemporary Composer by David Cope

Techniques of the Contemporary Composer offers a concise, practical and varied spectrum of musical ideas. It is a useful resource for scholars and composers of music composition and analysis. Techniques is not for beginning composers, unfamiliar with traditional music terminology. Rather, it is designed to be used as a textbook for classroom study, and assumes [...]

Sound Artists Raise Volume At Brooklyn Exhibit

  From avante garde music to noise you hear on the street, sound artists are creating new worlds to enjoy in Brooklyn. NY1′s Stephanie Simon filed the following report. The folks at ISSUE Project Room have made a very sound investment in sound. They’ve created a one of a kind audio immersion room. This month, [...]

“Number Soundscape” An interview with Tom Johnson

American composer and critic Tom Johnson (Greeley, Colorado, 1939), is one of the few composers to self-identify as minimalist; in fact, he may have coined the term while serving as the new music critic for the Village Voice. He has since collected those articles in the book The Voice of New Music which isavailable free through his website. [...]

Kallabris–London, July 10

London, 30 June 2009 Kallabris Inbetween the Sound Sound: A sound understanding of a phrase and the misinterpretation of its meaning. A rare live performance by Michael Anacker at the world’s oldest, and London’s most beautiful, music hall. Presented by MUSARC, the ASD Choir and Entr’acte as part of Juxtaposition, an evening of traditional and [...]

LUIGI RUSSOLO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

In order to encourage the creation of experimental and electro-acoustic music, in particular in relation with Luigi Russolo’s noise semantics, the Studio Forum organizes the first  « Luigi Russolo – Rossana Maggia » contest in collaboration with the Luigi Russolo Foundation in Varese directed by Gian Franco Maffina and within the context of its Noise of Snow Festival. [...]

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