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Lancaster Universtiy
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts represents an ambitious and exciting new initiative by the University, which is consolidating and expanding creative arts provision within the context of its continuing commitment to research and teaching excellence.
Based on an amalgamation of the Departments of Art, Music and Theatre Studies, the new Institute will come into being on 1 August 2005 and will foster interdisciplinary approaches, focusing on and facilitating a laboratory-based exploration of arts practice, and engaging academic, professional and creative-industries practitioners.
Applications are invited for six posts:
* One at Professorial level, who is expected to become Director of the Institute for a period of up to three years in the first instance
Candidates for this post must have a proven interest in interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts, together with proven leadership skills and substantial high-level creative and/or academic research and teaching skills in one or more of Art, Music, Theatre Studies.
* A second Chair, together with four posts at Lecturer A/B level, one of which may be at Senior Lecturer level
Candidates for these latter five posts should have proven creative and/or academic research and teaching skills in one of the following areas, and in addition an interest in interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts:
* Digital Fine Art
* Art practice and Curatorship
* Music Technology and Sound Art
* Contemporary Performance, Live Art and New Media
* Performance, Globalisation and Interculturalism and/or Theatre for Social Change
The two Chair appointments will be at Professorial level (minimum salary £43,513 p.a.). The Lecturer A/B appointments will be made at an appropriate point on a scale between £23,643 and £35,883 p.a. The Senior Lecturer/Reader appointment will be made at an appropriate point on a scale between £37,558 and £42,573. The appointments will take effect from 1 September 2005 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The closing date for applications is 30 March 2005
More details under job reference numbers A441 - A446 at http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/CurrentVacancies.aspx
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Phenomenology and Media invites submissions for a special issue of Glimpse: Media Phenomena devoted to the theme of sound. Glimpse: Media Phenomena is a peer-reviewed, print journal that addresses 'mediation' as a political and philosophical problem of relations and connections. We invite submissions that examine the way that sound structures the environment and transforms sense. Topics include, but are not restricted to, the phenomenology of sound perception; the history of audio technology; sound and spiritual revelation; sonocytology and the sound of life; the relation between the auditory and other senses; acoustic ecology; the politics of noise and silence; sound poetry; sound in cinema; natural and artificial sound and fidelity in audile reproduction. We invite papers of 5000-7000 words, and shorter notes and comments of between 500 and 2000 words.
Deadline: September 1st, 2005.
Initial queries:
Stephen Crocker
Editor, Glimpse: Media Phenomena
Department of Sociology
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
St.John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
A1C 5S7
Fax: (709) 737-2075
mailto:bcrocker@mun.ca
Disappearing Soundmarks CD
We invite listeners in the UK and Ireland to submit audio recordings of endangered sounds that are special to you, your community or your locality.
For example, an endangered sound might be associated with a cultural event or a natural habitat that is declining or under threat.
The recordings should not exceed 5 minutes and should be submitted on an audio CD. Please ensure that you hold all rights to the material.
Please include your name, the location of the sound, the date and time of the recording and accompanying notes (250 words max.) describing the physical environment, why it is of value to you and what are the reasons for the sound becoming endangered.
Please send submissions to:
Earshot Submissions
c/o Dr John Levack Drever
Music Department, Goldsmiths College,
University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW, London, ENGLAND
Call for Earshot No. 5 The Journal of the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community.
Title: NOISE: Debates, Strategies and Methodologies
Within the current milieu of the European Commission's noise mapping directive and the Greater London Authority's Ambient Noise Strategy, we welcome contributions from those of you that have been or are currently engaged in soundscape and/or noise studies within the UK and Ireland. We are interested to hear about your objectives, methodologies and findings.
Moreover we are interested in the prevailing culture and health debate surrounding noise abatement, and the addition of noise issues to, for example, the estate agent's and tourist industry's agenda.
As the built environment often defines and/or modulates our sonic environment, how are issues of sound and noise design being addressed in architectural/urban planning practitioner's education?
Not only would we like to hear from environmental and urban studies but would also encourage contributions that have explored alternative approaches, such as community arts, direct action or culture jamming. Finally, we
welcome contributions to the Members' Activities and Comments pages. Submission guidelines, proposals and correspondence should be e-mailed to j.drever@gold.ac.uk
Join YDC Session 2005 - Call for Participation
The session 2005 of the UNESCO Young Digital Creators (YDC) is to be launched early next year with the following three programmes:
The Sound of our Water
Creating water soundscapes with digital sound.
http://unesco.uiah.fi/water
Youth Creating and Communicating on HIV/AIDS
Expressing oneself and reacting to HIV/AIDS issues via multimedia.
http://digiarts-hiv-unesco.org/
Scenes and Sounds of my City
Digitally audio-visualizing the past, present and future of urban environment. http://portal.unesco.org/culture
How to participate
Rules of Participation:
Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV12)
WFAE Endorsed Event
July 10-14, 2005
Lisbon, Portugal
To date, more than 520 abstracts have been
received. Because of the holiday period at the end of 2004, however, we have been asked, and agreed, to extend the abstract deadline to 31 January 2005. Download informational flyer (PDF)
Web Info: http://www.icsv12.ist.utl.pt/
Call for proposals
The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology
deadline February 7, 2004 (postmarked by)
Web: http://www.acousticecology.ca
The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology is currently requesting proposals for projects (big or small and from any discipline) relating to acoustic ecology and to be realized in Canada. Please include in these proposals:
- description of the project (including a statement addressing the social relevance of project)
- Name and contact information of all participants in the project
- Budget of expenses and potential revenue sources (including personal grants and/or grants that CASE could submit for the project)
- how you would go about executing your project and whether you require any administrative assistance from CASE.
- audio or audio-video documentation of past work
- curriculum vitae of primary project participants
Ongoing request for information
We would also like you to send us details about current projects in Canada that you are involved with that address acoustic ecology as we are developing our web-site in order to include details about current and ongoing Canadian projects.
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Canadian Association for Sound Ecology
Address: CASE c/o Musicworks
401 Richmond Street West #358
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
RADIO TAXI
Kirsten Lavers, Cris Cheek, (TNWK) and Simon Keep invite sound artists(including writers, poets, visual artists, musicians working with sound) tosubmit work for a short range FM and internet radio event in late May and early June
2005.BACKGROUND
RADIO TAXI is a Taxi Gallery narrowcast and webcast initiative. Taxi Gallery is literally a black cab situated in a council estate on the outskirts of Cambridge,England. Since Sept 2001, over 25 different artists have made new works inresponse to the specific context offered
by the gallery and its location. TaxiGallery is a project that reaches for an extended conversation with local, nationaland international audiences (via its website) in response to a broad range of challenging contemporary artworks, approaches and ideas.For more info on Taxi
Gallery – please visit www.taxigallery.org.uk
The translocal or “glocal” philosophy of Taxi Gallery is reflected in the forthcoming RADIO TAXI project which will integrate a 3 mile radius analogue FM broadcast with a worldwide digital transmission via a server capable ofhandling multiple streams.RADIO TAXI will be a live(ly) mix of locally originated programmes and interventions (significant community involvement by neighbourhood residents ofall ages will be developed, including several major projects with ColeridgeSecondary School and an evolving radio club), a curated programme of invited sound works and a schedule of sonic art from all over the world. The Radio Taxi webcast will be technically supported by Liam Wells (Norwich School of Art and Design) of n0media.
Transmission dates:
6pm 27 May – 6am 31 May (GMT)& 6pm 3 June – Midnight 5 June (selected highlights)
The selected highlights will remain archived on the Taxi Gallery website for the foreseeable future. An audio CD selection will also be included in a forthcomingfull colour Taxi Gallery publication.
SUBMISSION DETAILSTHERE ARE THREE WAYS TO TAKE PART IN RADIO TAXI:
1. A 1hour (unedited, raw) field sound recording made at night (anytimebetween dusk and dawn) from a specific location anywhere in the world.Please include exact details of the location, date and time of the recording.
2. A recording made for the duration of a taxi journey (see Jan Cain’s ‘Ride’in the Taxi Gallery web archive). Please include details of the journey including departure and arrival destinations and reasons for the journey.These recordings will be played during the overnight programme during the broadcast period – a programme inspired by Jim Jarmusch’s film ‘Night On Earth’. All submitted recordings will be fully credited
on the website.
3. Contribute to the curated programme by submitting new or existing soundworks that in some way address at least one or more of the following themes:
Neighbourhood The Commons EverydayLocation Transition Conversation Collection Transmission
No other limits and we’re also happy to receive proposals/ideas for works to becarried out on site or via live – streaming. Submissions should be sent (preferably in audio CD format – please get in touch if this is a problem) withdetails, credit info and weblinks to:
38 Stanesfield Rd, Cambridge, CB5 8NH England. Queries to: info@radiotaxi.org.uk
Submission Deadline: 1 May 2005 latest – though we’d encourage early submissions.
Call for works and papers
In and out of the sound studio
A conference at Concordia University, Montreal, July 25-29, 2005
You are invited to propose papers, presentations, performances and concert works for a conference at Concordia University July 25-29, 2005, focusing on gender and sound technologies. Artists, scholars and producers in such areas as:
- museum sound theatre soundfilm, video, digital media or video game sound designelectroacoustic musiccommunity radioradio artpublic radiosound documentaryperformance artmusic recording
- ... and other areas of sound practice
All are encouraged to submit proposals for scholarly presentations as well as less traditional forms of address. Presentations will be in French and/or English. Performances will take place at Concordia’s Oscar Peterson Hall, Studio XX, la Société des Arts Technologiques, and CKUT Radio.Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend academic panels as well as technical, aesthetic and professional sessions on working with sound technologies. During the conference, we will be doing initial production on a sound documentary about gendered practices in sound work. Interviews and audio recordings will take place during the
conference, and a production room will be set up for ongoing editing throughout the event.Please send: A 250-300 word abstract technical requirements for your presentation. Also include a short CV . Deadline: April 15, 2005 In and Out of the Sound Studio Conference
Dr. Andra McCartney
Communication Studies
Concordia University
HB 404
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montréal, QC
H4B 1R6
Canada
Email to: andra@vax2.concordia.ca
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