Ensemble Aleph call for compositions
5th International Forum for Young Composers
Call for scores

Ensemble Aleph
www.ensemblealeph.com
Wishing to go on exploring new and varied musical styles and aesthetics, the Ensemble Aleph organizes the Fifth International Forum for Young Composers. The Forum aims to promote artistic exchanges between composers and performers.

Composition Guidelines:
Submitted works should be of maximum 7' duration, and should be scored for 5 to 7 musicians from the following line-up (the performances are undirected):

Monica Jordan Soprano (Voice range: F 2 - H 4)
Dominique Clément Clarinet (A, B flat, E flat, bass, contrabass)
Lutz Mandler Trumpet, piccolo trumpet, Alp horn, didgeridoo
Noemi Schindler Violin
Sylvie Drouin Piano or chromatic accordion
or Synthesiser Fatar SL 880 - 88 keys and Sampler Akai S 2002
NB: 2 of these instruments can be included in the same pieceEnsemble Aleph will retain all submission in their library. Christophe Roy Cello
Jean-Charles Francois Percussion

10 works will be selected in February, 2008, possibly including 2 mixed pieces; associating electronics to the musicians Ensemble Aleph will retain all submission in their library.

Entries must be postmarked by December, 31st, 2007

Please enclose a CV and complete contact details (birth date, address, phone, fax, e-mail) with your application.

Age limit: 40 years old (born after January, 1st, 1968)

A reading panel, formed by the members of the Ensemble Aleph, will select the musical works (the list will be available on the website on March, 2008).

The 10 selected composers will be the guests of a residency in July 2008 for music sessions with the Ensemble Aleph. This summer session will end with a preview concert. A Logbook, including the recording of the 10 pieces will be distributed to the audience before each concert. The 10 musical works will be performed at the Theatre Dunois in Paris and in at least 6 European countries. Ask any information and send the scores to:

ENSEMBLE ALEPH
21, rue Fructidor
F - 71100 Chalon-sur-Saone
contact: Helene Jarry ensemble.aleph@wanadoo.fr  +33 (0)3 85 48 94 41 (phone) | +33 (0)3 85 93 58 20 (fax)

The Sonict Ensemble of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater invites composers to submit scores for consideration for performance. The ensemble can perform works for varied instrumentation, including any combination of acoustic instruments. We especially encourage submissions for small chamber groups that include sax, sax ens, perc, and perc ens. We also strongly encourage submission of works that include electronics, either on CD or to be performed via Max/MSP. Two-channel tape works or works for/including video will also be programmed regularly as part the series, both as part of our regular ensemble concerts and on special electronics-only performances. All submissions not selected for performance will remain in the music library and may be considered for future concerts. If you would prefer to have your materials returned to you, please include an SASE. Please email for questions and send scores and recordings (if available; please, no MIDI files) to:
Jeff Herriott
Music Department
UW-Whitewater
800 West Main Street
Whitewater, WI 53190
Email: herriotj@uww.edu
Web: : facstaff.uww.edu/herriotj/sonict

tracks wanted for a power-field comp - recordings made "in the field" using power electronics

whatever "field" means to you, go there. and however you want to process, amplify, make it audible in that location or not,,,,, just bring yr gear and record it, whatever. take a picture too if you can, i'd like to use them for the package. honor system - no edits or overdubs

track length 2-10 min, longer if it is really good.

the final project will come out end of the year. deadline around halloween. everyone gets 2 copies of the comp, and can order more for real cheap (not sure yet what that will be).

send tracks, title, site location && equipment (optional), pics, and any other info about yrself to

bob bellerue - power/field
662 n. heliotrope dr
los angeles, ca 90004

email questions to bob_AAAATTT_halfnormal_DDDOOOTTTT_com. info about the label can be found here: anok.halfnormal.com

thanks!!!! look forward to hearing some new work bbbbbb

(((call for works/sound is art)))
www.phonurgia.org

Chisel, cut, mix, set in spaceŠSound has the power of the cinema and is lighter

Among the prizes awarded for acoustic creation, the Phonurgia Nova competition has, since 1986, occupied a special place by virtue of its recognition of artists whose work exploits sound as a medium for expressing the real and the imaginary. In 2003, 150 productions from 19 different countries were entered in the prize.

This year's competition will distinguish authors whose work manifests a keen sense of sound and listening as means of expression, on two areas :

RADIO ARTS will privilige all forms of inventive radiophonic creation: documentary, fiction, essays, interviews, radio mix, Hörspiel, experimental forms etc. NEW MEDIAS awards will go to sound installations or sonic works which have been specially created for "new media" to bring new experiences in sound art to listeners - mobile phone, audioblog, site exploring the acoustic dimensions of the net.

In each category the jury will deliberate on two types of work:
1)completed productions
2)projects

(") Prizes
One Radio Arts prize and one New Media prize each of 1 500 euros and 3 artist's residencies at GRM-INA (Paris), IMEB (Bourges) and GMVL (Lyon), 3 major studios for electronic music and sound art internationaly known. Ten works will be selected for presentation at the third Festival de l'Ecoute, Arles, 2006. Additional prizes could be given at this time. Certain works will be broadcast by the organisations and radio stations associated with the Festival.

(§) Deadline
The closing date for registration of entries: September 1, 2005. Results will be announced on Saturday, October 1, 2005, in Paris at la Maison du Geste et de l'Image.

(*) Sound archives
All the materials received will constitue a permanent archive of audio works. This archive will be opened to the public.

(!) More info and application form available on www.phonurgia.org

(/)Questions concours@phonurgia.org

Are you interested in performing on the Meridian Music series?

We welcome your interest and want you to have a sense of what we're seeking for this series. The space is a wonderful, intimate venue, a rectangular gallery space, deeply windowed at one end, hardwood floored, 14 1/2 feet by 30 feet with a 10 1/2 foot ceiling. We can seat a maximum of 50 people. We're on the second floor of a building in downtown San Francisco, generally quiet, but with some street sounds audible. There is not a piano in the space. The audience usually sits on comfortable folding chairs. Because it is an active, vibrant art gallery, the music always occurs in relation to the current exhibition. So, we are interested in music that works well in this resonant space.

Each concert is professionally recorded by Michael Zelner of Zoka Productions. With this opportunity, those selected will also share their unique musical perspective with a group of about 15 low-income, high school aged, interns in a one-hour workshop.

We invite proposals from composer/performers for solo or very small ensemble performances that take into account the size of the room. Quiet, "lower case" music works well here, so do sonically saturating pieces. It's a small space, and we respect the ears of our audiences and we want performers who understand that. We host a wide range of styles and approaches, including free improv, structured improv, minimalism, new (and old) complexity, as well as streams from jazz, "concert" music, art music from all world cultures, experimental music, and performance art. We hope to present a wide variety of these sorts of art music, and we need your proposals to help us to do that.

Your proposal needs to let us know what you wish to perform and how you sense your work fitting into the Meridian Music series. Just a few lines of text are fine; we're not after pages of information. You're also very welcome to enter a conversation with us about what you'd like to do. We're working artists and musicians and educators and we always enjoy talking with others in these fields. We want your experience with us to benefit you as well as us and that is why we look thoughtfully for good matches of performer and space.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely, Tom
Tom Bickley, Curator, Meridian Music tbickley@metatronpress.com
www.meridiangallery.org/MGMusic.htm

to be released by UBUIBI
ubuibi.org/wtbtn/

the 'women take back the noise' compilation project will be a compendium of projects by women who experiment with various difficult sound mediums such as noise, machine-noise, laptop, glitch, cut-up and other related genres.

ARTIST TRACK LENGTH and DUE DATE

maximum total time per artist piece - 8 minutes

format for submissions: CD, cassette, mini-disc

we are asking all artists to submit exclusive pieces ONLY.

upon release, each artist will receive copies of finished CD

curator: ninah pixie (aka 'weirdpixie') ninah@ubuibi.org

::: this project is a not-for-profit compilation :::

----/ Contact Info /---------------------------------------------------- ninah pixie
ninah@ubuibi.org
ubuibi.org/wtbtn/

Hope to meet all of you there
very best
Nikola Lutz

to find out about work we've produced and presented, goto:
www.weird.org/what_we_have_done/

Call for submissions

Introducing SONUS.ca, a free online listening library featuring all forms of experimental electronic music. With over 1200 works from artists around the world, SONUS.ca is the world's most extensive audio web-resource dedicated to technology-based sound exploration. Best of all, it's free to listen and free to submit your work.

Sonus is built around a Flash interface, which makes the site simple to use and navigate. It's easy to create and modify playlists, or find music in the library with the powerful search engine. Curated galleries will be a regular feature, showcasing work from different labels and festivals, or presenting work chosen by a curator around a particular theme or style.

With these features, Sonus is a great way to promote your work. You can include biographical information, track notes and links to personal webpages. So why not send in your audio? The CEC will encode it as high quality mp3 and include it in the Sonus library.

If you run a weblabel or have a personal webpage, you can use Sonus to house your audio with a link directly from your page. Contact us for more information.

Sonus.ca is supported by the membership of the CEC and the Canada Council for the Arts. Sonus.ca is dedicated to presenting experimental electronic music of all kinds, and has attracted over a quarter of a million listeners since its inception. Check it out:
sonus.ca

For submissions: sonus.ca/call.html

RAM-Radioartemobile and Nomads & Residents

A collection and a traveling archive of audio-artworks, a database on the Internet, and a center for different ways of listening

Proposal open to all artists who work with sound

Radioartemobile (RAM) and Nomads & Residents (N&R) kickoff an audio-artwork database.

All artists who have worked or are working with sound are invited to send an artwork on audio CD, DVD, or on a vinyl record. The RAM headquarters in Rome, via Conte Verde 15, will function as a gathering and a listening point and as an archive for all materials received. It will be open to public. Artworks will be gradually posted in the section "database" of the Radio website www.radioartemobile.it.

RAM is also the first location of a traveling archive initiated by Nomads & Residents. The second public presentation will be in San Francisco, at Southern Exposure, in the spring of 2005.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING AUDIO-WORKS
- unlimited subject matter;
- each CD, DVD or vinyl record must contain only one track;
- time is unrestricted (except that of the technical features of the chosen device);
- each audio-work must be entered with a written indication of: the name of the author, a title, duration, and an e-mail contact address;

- the sender can mention any requirement needed to listen to the audio-work (type of loudspeakers, stereo system, headphones, etc.). These indications will be taken into consideration each time RAM would chose the piece for installing it, within the technical and logistic features available;
- RAM and N&R cannot assure a complete accessibility for the works that include a primary visual factor;
- the sender is responsible for mailing costs of submission;
- the works will not be returned to the senders.

Radioartemobile and Nomads & Residents will take the best care of the entered works, but cannot take liability for accidental damage, loss or theft. For this reason we suggest to send two copies of each material. RAM and N&R will archive all sound works that fit the above mentioned requirements and will present them to the public.

Lorenzo Benedetti, Riccardo Giagni and Cesare Pietroiusti will listen to all the entries and will gradually post them in the web-site database. In turn-to the discretion of the curators- some artworks will be displayed in the RAM headquarters in Rome with the aim of offering the public also the possibility to explore different ways of listening to audio-works. The database will gradually increase the number of contributions and will be presented to the public at regular appointments. The first public presentation is scheduled for mid October 2004.

Deadline for first submission is September 1, 2004.
Next appointment: Southern Exposure, San Francisco, spring 2005

Please send the material to:
RAM Radioartemobile
Via Conte Verde 15
00185 Roma - Italy

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Dangerous Curve
Los Angeles, CA USA

Performance art, video, installations, experimental music.

Dangerous Curve is a new Downtown Los Angeles experimental exhibition and performance art space committed to supporting visionary emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person shows of risky, intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor currently popular. Dangerous Curve is also a new venue for performance artists, with performance-exhibits, monthly performance art and experimental music events, and an annual end-of-summer festival planned.

Dangerous Curve is looking for performance artists and experimental musicians for their monthly Performance Art and Experimental Music Nights. We will give preference to work that is, in the words of Jacki Apple, radical content in radical form. We want work that pushes the envelope, not pure dance, singing, or theatre.

Submission format: DVDs/CDs/URLs preferred. We can handle videotapes and slides, but not to your best advantage. For performance art, a written description may even suffice; musicians must send samples.

Deadline: Ongoing.

Mailing address: Dangerous Curve, POB 532281, Los Angeles, CA 90053-2281
Email address: events@dangerouscurve.org

See dangerouscurve.org for directions, etc.

New Media Scotland calls for participation for Drift - an exploration of sound art and experimental music which comprises live events, radio broadcasts, moving image and publications.

The accessibility of the Internet together with new tools and methods for digital recording, manipulation, reproduction and distribution have changed forever the way that we think about and interact with sound, giving us new ways to communicate our ideas. An increasing number of artists, producers, DJ's and sonic creators, from a broad spectrum of disciplines and varying modes of practice, are exploring streaming media as a viable format. We want to open up this channel further.

We are offering four opportunities to take part in Drift, details follow. Further information, guidelines and application forms available from the Drift web site:

www.mediascot.org/drift

Ongoing, Internet Project

PANSE, an open platform for the development of audio-visual netart, is now open and accepting connections. All information available at: http://130.208.220.190/panse

Write me if you have any questions.

Pall Thayer
artist/teacher
Fjolbrautaskolinn vid Armula
http://www.this.is/pallit
http://www.this.is/pallit/isjs
http://www.this.is/pallit/harmony http://130.208.220.190/panse

Ongoing, Internet Project

Email Music Project : Theme : MUSIC : Deadline : ONGOING
Send Email containing text, images, links, etc.
(Anything relating to music)

The Process : I use a program which converts text and images from your Email to Random MIDI musical note data. Each submission generates a NEW instrument track and is then added to the musical data generated from all previously received Email. The ongoing process is repeated and a type of song is composed. The Music is composed directly from the elements contained in all Email. The work will be presented on a website when I get enough Email for music. All will be informed.

Send Email to : emusicproject@hotmail.com

Ongoing, Internet Project

The Infinite Sector Project is an independent network of experimental musicians/bands/and artists from around the globe.

We are seeking contributors for our series of non-profit compilation CDs. Anything is accepted without editing or censorship, as long as it is free of hate and defies traditional musical boundaries.

For more information please go to : www.geocities.com/klaodna

Anyone living in Melbourne, Australia should know about the Melbourne electroacoustic nights:

http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/mikropol/david/mean.html

We had our first meeting last week - it was good fun, with some interesting music being played and a cool demonstration by Tim Kreger of his new 3D real-time sound visualisation system.

The format is ad-hoc show-and-tell and/or CD/DAT playback. Everyone should feel free to come along and play something or just check it out.

GRANT

The New York Arts Recovery Fund will survey NYC artists to find out if they need job retraining in the areas of teaching, social work, and some construction-related trades as well as arts organizations to see if they have laid workers off. Artists will be eligible for the Consortium for Worker Education's job retraining program for NYC artists whose economic base has been impacted by the disaster. Additionally, it is possible that CWE will provide, with NYFA's help, partial wage subsidies to nonprofit arts organizations that laid workers off or cut back their pay or hours as a result of September 11.

www.nyfa.org/9-11.htm

ORGANISM: MAKING ART WITH LIVING SYSTEMS

organism is a new mailing list for people interested in art that involves living systems. discussion topics on organism include technical, practical, aesthetic, and ethical issues.

subscribe to the organism mailing list: http://music.columbia.edu/organism/

the idea of making art with living systems is not new; you might even consider a topiary garden or a goldfish pond to be biological art. what is new is the degree of control over biological systems and materials contemporary technology offers us.

some artists making biologically-based art:

Eduardo Kac has made several transgenic artworks, including GFP Bunny, a genetically engineered fluorescent rabbit.
www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html

Damien Hirst's A Thousand Years involves a cycle of maggots eating a cow head.
www.eyestorm.com/hirst/read_first.asp

Yukinori Yanagi uses ant farms in some of his work.
www.hainesgallery.com/YY.work.html

Edgar Lissel's Bakterium is photographic images rendered in light-sensitive bacteria.
www.germangalleries.com/LAGalerie/Lissel.1.02.html

Richard Reames is an arborsculptor who makes extreme trees.
www.arborsmith.com

douglas repetto (that's me!) has a number of pieces, like How to Annoy a Plant, that involve plants and time-lapse photography.

......................................
............. organism ...............
... making art with living systems ...
http://music.columbia.edu/organism

The changes wrought by the terrible events of September 11, 2001 are still becoming visible. The arts community has, like every other area of life, been deeply affected by the terrorism and its aftermath. In response to the horrors and destruction in New York City and Washington, D C, the Santa Fe Art Institute is contributing to the support and normalization of life in America. The Santa Fe Art Institute is offering two to four week residencies in beautiful, quiet residence spaces with studios as respite for artists whose living spaces or studios have been compromised by the terrorism. The residencies are available during the fall and winter at no cost to the artists.

Please send a letter (and slides if possible) to The Santa Fe Art Institute, 1600 St Michaels Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505, Or email to: info@SFAI.org

Longwood Cyber Studio is equipped with four NT networked pc workstations, Internet accessibility, software programs such as Microsoft Office 2000, the entire Adobe suite including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Director, a flatbed scanner, zip drive and color printer. We would also like to offer access to our administrative office as regards your telephone and fax needs. While they are well aware that access to computer and office equipment only offers relief of a material nature, they hope that relief may help to assuage some of the worries of those affected by this loss. Bronx Council on the Arts again sends our sincere condolences and warmest thoughts.

Contact: Eddie Torres, Director, Longwood Arts Project, 965 Longwood Avenue, Bronx, NY 10459, Tel: 718-842-5659, Fax: 718-842-3933
E-mail: longwood@bronxarts.org
http://www.longwoodcyber.org

eric hill/perMUTATIONS
635 Scully St.
Fredericton, NB
E3B 1V3
Canada

perMUTATIONS
experimental sounds radio program
every Wednesday 11pm-1am Atlantic time
on CHSR-FM 97.9
or on RealAudio on the web: http://www.unb.ca/chsr enjoy!!!