Call: NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art) seeks audio and video submissions

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New Adventures in Sound Art
2007 Call for Submissions on the theme
"A Sonic Portrait"
Categories: Radio Art, Electroacoustic Music, Videomusic and
Installation Art
Deadline: September 30, 2007
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of all ages and
nationalities to submit works on the theme _A Sonic Portrait_ for
consideration in 2008 programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound
Travels, and SOUNDplay festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound
Art in Toronto, Canada. Artists may submit works in one or all of the
following four categories: 1) Radio Art, 2) Electroacoustic Music, 3)
Videomusic and 4) Installation Art (Note: please send separate
submission forms for each entry).

Individual interpretations or variations on the theme are encouraged:
_A Sonic Portrait_ could be a portrait of a person, place or thing
done entirely in sound, an audio journal, a soundscape portrait,
sound mapping, a visualization of a sound and so on.

All submitted works must respond in some way to the theme _A Sonic
Portrait_ in order to be considered for 2008 NAISA programming.

1) Radio Art (for Deep Wireless)

The Radio Art category is for works conceived for radio or that use
radio and other wireless technology in their creation or that plays
with the idea of radio or wireless technology. Works submitted to
this category must be less than 60 minutes in duration. Special
consideration will be given to 1 minute radio art pieces for
broadcast as well as 1 page proposals for collaboration on translocal
broadcast performances.

Pieces will be selected for broadcast within Canada and on several
international radio stations in May 2008 as part of the Deep Wireless
festival of radio and transmission art.

Both Canadian and International radio art submissions will be
considered for inclusion in the following:

-The Deep Wireless 4 radio art compilation CD
-The radio art interventions (1 minute pieces played guerilla-style
on radio stations during the Deep Wireless festival)
-The Radio Art Salon - a listening gallery of radio art works
exhibited for the month of May.

A small number of Canadian artists will be chosen from the
submissions to be part of the Deep Wireless/CBC's Outfront
Commissioning Programme in 2008 with residencies at Charles Street
Video in Toronto.

2) Electroacoustic Music (for Sound Travels)

The Electroacoustic Music category is for multi-channel and stereo
works less than 20 minutes in duration and conceived for concert
performance or presentation in the Sound Travels festival of sound
art on Toronto Island. Preferred formats for performance presentation
include 5.1, octaphonic and 12 channel formats in both acousmatic
(tape), live and mixed formats. Please indicate in the notes the
intended format of presentation and any required instrumentation or
specialized equipment.

3) Videomusic (for SOUNDplay)

The Videomusic category is for works that explore non-narrative
abstraction with equal emphasis on sound and image. Submitted works
will be considered for video screenings with either stereo or multi-
channel playback. Submitted works will also be considered for
screenings in either a performance venue or a small-size gallery
alongside other works selected from this call for submissions.

4) Installation Art (for Deep Wireless, Sound Travels or SOUNDplay)

Installation proposals of previously realized works for site-specific
and gallery installations with no fixed duration will be considered
for presentation as part of Deep Wireless, Sound Travels or
SOUNDplay. Site-specific works can be for indoor or outdoor
locations. Works can use multichannel or single channel playback and
may incorporate any number of media, but must feature original sound
as a primary element. Please attach a list of the necessary equipment
required to mount the installation and which of these items can be
supplied by the artist. Submissions should include audio, video or
audio-video documentation of previously realized versions of the work.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a completed application form (in digital format if
possible) along with the proposed works on CD or DVD. To download
the submission form please go to opportunities.html#calls>

For multichannel works, please include a stereo reduction for
reference purposes only. For video works, please include a DVD copy
for reference only. Screening masters will be requested later if the
work is to be programmed. For installation works, please attach a
list of required equipment with indications of equipment that can be
supplied by the artist.

Materials not submitted with a self-addressed stamped envelope will
remain in the archives of New Adventures in Sound Art and will not be
returned. Please don't send original copies.

Submissions must be postmarked no later than September 30, 2007 and
mailed to: New Adventures in Sound Art, 401 Richmond Street West
#358, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8.

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director
New Adventures in Sound Art

http://www.naisa.ca