Opportunities

Vote For Favorite Web Based Audio Work
Audiospace at Open Space
Deadline: December 4, 2005

Until December 4, 2005, interested audiophiles can go to the Audiospace website and vote on your favourite web based audio work.  Each 5’ or less work is based on the theme Sounding Cultural Difference, also the title of Kenneth Newby’s web streaming piece commissioned by Open Space in Victoria.  

Dial-a-DIVA is an event spanning the globe for 24 hours, connecting singers and listeners live by telephone.
    The project is inspired by a period in history when the telephone was the first broadcasting medium for entertainment. From the 1880s to 1920s phone companies in many countries including France, Britain, Hungary and America set up subscription services connecting opera houses and theatres to a remote audience, listening via the telephone network. Dial-a-diva serves a similar function, but reflects today’s global telecommunications and social networks.
   The event will start at 08:00 GMT on December 3rd in time for evening concerts in New Zealand and Australia. Then as time moves on, concerts will begin throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and ending with the Americas, 24 hours later. An installation at CCA, Glasgow, Scotland invites visitors to participate and view the hub of operations throughout the project.
   An installation at CCA Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland invites visitors to
participate and view the hub of operations throughout the project.
    To be part of Dial-a-Diva all you need to do is sing into a telephone, or
use your phone as a microphone wherever singing happens. The Dial-a-Diva call centre will link as many different types of singing, from as many
locations as possible to a wide international audience of telephone
listeners. Whether at home, in a concert hall or bar, whether
professionally or just for fun, whether accompanied or solo, whatever the
singing Dial-a-Diva would love to have you taking part. Sign up, we call
you back at the time of your concert wherever you are - world wide
participation is free.

SIGN UP:
online: www.dialadiva.net
email: dialadiva@gmail.com
phone: +44 (0) 141 227 1830 (UK landline)

SFIFEM 2006 will take place in February/March 2006, with concerts currently scheduled for March 2, 3 & 4.
    Specific programs and events TBA. Please see the festival website for details.
    Call for Works for the 10th Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music. Submitted works are invited in the following categories:

1. Radio broadcasts. Recent works of electroacoustic tape music, preferably under 20 minutes in duration.
2. Ambient sound installations. Works for indoor and/or outdoor spaces (please specify) diffused via a system of 2 simultaneous CD players (on shuffle play, infinite repeat) through 4 speakers arrayed around the perimeter of the space(s).

Submission info:

• All works submitted must be on CD-audio (stereo, 16-bit, 44.1 kHz)
• Please include program notes, brief artist bio, and relevant technical details in printed form AND plain-text file on CD-ROM
• Submissions can not be returned, and will become part of the SFIFEM archives
• All submissions must be received by December 15, 2005
• Selected submissions will be announced on the festival website by January 15, 2006

Send all submissions to:

Steven M. Miller
c/o SFIFEM 2006
College of Santa Fe
Contemporary Music Program
1600 St. Michaels Drive
Santa Fe NM 87505 USA

This is the first call for papers for a major international conference on
Music and Place organised by Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University, 8th -10th June, 2006. For more information contact:M.D. Adams m.d.adams@SALFORD.AC.UK, k.l.milestone@mmu.ac.uk or Justin O'Connor j.oconnor@mmu.ac.uk Thanks.

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

Submissions of commercial or non-commercial audio CDs for program consideration can be made to the the weekly radio show "Other Voices, Other Sounds" (OVOS) that broadcast on Sundays 9:00-11:00 PM (US mountain time zone) on KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, NM.
OVOS is New Mexico's premiere radio showcase for contemporary music & sound art with an international perspective; composed, improvised, acoustic, electronic. More information.

Umatic.nl is proud to announce the launch of SoundTransit.nl. an online, collaborative soundscape project dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can BOOK a sonic transit through a wide range of different locations recorded from around the world, or you can SEARCH the database for specific sounds by keyword, artist, country or location. If you are a phonographer, you can also contribute your recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on this website.
   The basis of SoundTransit.nl lies in the international Phonography
community. Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the
environment around us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds
which often go unnoticed in our daily lives. The phonographers who
collect and share their work here have interests ranging from recordings
of natural or urban environments to improvised situations and soundwalks
to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth's atmosphere.
   If you would like to join SoundTransit, please send an email with the
following information:

To: derek@umatic.nl
Subject: Join SoundTransit
Body: Short description of the sounds you would like to contribute, and a link to your webpage, bio or other personal information.

SoundTransit.nl is a joint production of Sara Kolster, Derek Holzer,
Marc Boon and the international Phonography community, with support from De Waag Society for Old and New Media and the Digital Pioneers. Thanks also go out to Gerard van Dongen, Yannick Dauby, Menno van den Bergh, Carsten Stabenow and the Garage Festival for their help and encouragement.

This challenging new programme offers a unique opportunity to explore the ways in which different types of attention to music, phonography, broadcasting, the voice, telephony and noise have radically changed our understandings of visual and spatial cultures.The programme is set within the broader context of Visual Culture, and provides preparation for higher research in this area.
    This inspiring new degree course is led by Kodwo Eshun, cultural critic and author of the acclaimed More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. Teaching involves seminars, lectures, debates, workshops and group projects. Guest lecturers for 2005-6 include Kaffe Matthews, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Christian Marclay and Jem Finer.
   The Department of Visual Cultures also offers: Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History, MA in Contemporary Art Theory, MRes in History of Art, and MPhil and PhD.

CONTACT:
email admissions@gold.ac.uk
email k.eshun@gold.ac.uk
email kodwoeshun@blueyonder.co.uk

Admissions Office
Goldsmiths College
University Of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW

Tel 020 7919 7060
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