Call: PhD Funding Opportunity at the Centre for Music Technology, University of Kent, UK

PhD Funding Opportunity
Centre for Music Technology
University of Kent, UK

September 2008 entry (earlier start date possible)

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and
self-motivated candidate to join our growing department and study
towards a PhD in Music and Technology. The successful candidate will
have the opportunity to significantly contribute to our ongoing
development and gain teaching and demonstrating experience. This
position would therefore particularly suit someone who wanted to
pursue a career in higher education, although this is not a
pre-requisite.

The Centre for Music Technology was founded in 2005 and offers a BSc
programme in Music Technology, with a new undergraduate programme in
Audio Production and Design beginning in September 2008. Further
undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes are under active
development for September 2009. The successful candidate will play a
role in developing the Centre's research profile, in conjunction with
existing members of staff.

The Centre is seeking applications, on a competitive basis, for a
research studentship funded by the University of Kent. Candidates
will study towards a PhD in a topic area that includes but is not
limited to: acoustics and psychoacoustics, sound design, multimedia
and interactivity/interfaces, synthesis and electro-acoustic
composition.

Applications are particularly sought from candidates interested in
expanding upon current departmental research, including the area of
conducting remote psychoacoustic listening tests utilising the
Internet.

The studentship will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU rate plus a
maintenance grant. We anticipate an annual grant of £12,600, adjusted
for inflation. The Studentship will be offered for one year in the
first instance, renewable for a maximum of three years subject to
satisfactory academic performance.

Candidates must hold a good Honours degree (First or 2i) and a
Master's degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. The studentship
competition is open to all postgraduate research applicants. UK, EU
and overseas fee paying students as well as full-time and part-time
postgraduate research students are invited to apply.

For further details, please look at the following link:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/music_technology.html

The deadline for applications is Friday 9th May 2008. If you have
any queries, please contact me via email.

Regards,

--
Dr Paul D Fretwell
Centre for Music Technology
University of Kent at Medway
The Medway Building
Chatham Maritime
Kent
ME4 4AG

tel: +44 (0)1634 888820
www.kent.ac.uk/musictechnology

Call: Orford 3rd International Sound Creation Workshop seeks audio artists

Orford 3rd International Sound Creation Workshop

from August 4 to August 16

Application Deadlines

February 29th, 2008 to be eligible for financial aid

April 4th, 2008 to be considered for general admission


Open to composers and sound artists of all genres wishing to benefit from a unique and professional experience at the Orford Arts Center:

- to work on the composition/development of a personal project acousmatic work, mixed music, installation, music video or other)
- to improve their technical knowledge
- to fine-tune their creative process

Teachers : Natasha Barrett, Paul Rudy, Alexandre Burton Yves Daoust

(The focus will be put this summer on mixed music)
www.arts-orford.org/en/academy

For information :

Yves Daoust, workshop director, yvdaoust@videotron.ca

http://www.electrocd.com/en/bio/daoust_yv/

http://www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca/cv/cv.asp?ordre=&idProf=184

Call: "Ai-maako" Festival by the Electroacoustical Chilean Community seeks piano and electronic sound artists

Ai-maako: Call for submission

Sat May 31, 2008
(Timezone: Eastern Time - Montreal)
www.cech.cl (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

The Electroacoustical Chilean Community (CECh) annually organizes the
International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Santiago de Chile, "Ai-maako".

The eighth edition of the festival will take place between the 11th and the
19th of October 2008. During its existence, more than 500 works by creators
from diverse countries have been performed.

CECh invites the electro-acoustical community to participate in our festival. A
special concert for piano and electronics will take place this year.
Submissions must be sent before May 31, 2008 (the post office stamp will be
valid as a reference) to the following address:

José Miguel Candela (CECh)
Casilla 104
Correo Villa La Reina
La Reina - Santiago de Chile
Chile

The works sent must fulfill the following conditions in order to be eligible:

a) Acousmatical or tape pieces (only 1 work)
- Format: Audio CD or DAT.
- CD-data and technical notes or diffusion score, in case of multi-channel
pieces
- Pieces of a duration no longer than 10 minutes
- Biography of the composer and program notes. Spanish translations are
welcomed (Paper and word document). No more than 100 words each one.

b) Mixed Pieces (depending on the organizers' possibilities of available
soloists; only 1 work):
- Works for soloist and electronics
- Works for piano and electronics are encouraged
- Duration no longer than 10 minutes
- Format: Audio CD or DAT
- CD-data and technical notes or diffusion score, in case of multi-channel
pieces
- The instrumental score must be sent by regular or registered post
- Please include a recording of the electronic part alone as well as another
one with the piece as a whole (electronics + acoustic instruments)
- Biography of the composer and program notes. Spanish translations are
welcomed (oaper and word document). No more than 100 words each one.

The list of selected works will be published by July 31, 2008. Selected
composers will be notified by e-mail.

Call: Euroepean Sound Delta seeks audio art submissions

Sound Art - Call for projects & residencies - summer 2008
--> Deadline 15th of March 2008

EUROPEAN SOUND DELTA is a mobile project on the Danube & Rhine Rivers
focusing on radio-art using sounds of European cities. Two teams will be
travelling on both rivers this summer, recording sounds, producing live
performances and radio broadcasts with local sound-artists. A final
exhibition is scheduled in Strasbourg-F by the end of September 2008 as
part of http://www.ososphere.org International sound artists are invited
to apply with a project meant to be created on one of the trans-European
floating labs.
>> keywords : radio, sound art, media art, field recordings

Main Objectives:
--> To give young people the experience of a professional mobile project
--> A documentary artistic research on cultural identities of
European cities
--> Built a new european network in the field of sound art
--> Experiment ICT via innovative artistic practices

Participating countries:
--> Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary,
Netherlands, Romania, Serbia & Slovakia

Associated curators:
Valérie Vivancos (www.vibrofiles.com) and Joachim Montessuis
(www.autopoiese.org)

Participating artists & residents (list not closed) :
Aymeric De Tapol, Tonic Train, Dinahbird, Jopo Stereo, SIC: Hori Cosmin
Samoïl, Ewen Chardronnet, Alejandra Perez Nunez, Julien Ottavi, Chris
Watson, Vincent Epplay, Alejandra & Aeron, Robert Hampson, Kassel
Jaeger, AGF, Jörg Piringer, Yannick Dauby, Christian Zanesi, Phil
Niblock, Charlemagne Palestine, Jean-Philippe Roux, Gaël Segalen, Philip
Griffiths, Joachim Montessuis

Full project Description & Application Form : www.sound-delta.eu

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Thanks for all
Don't hesitate to contact us for any question.

Sincerely

Collectif MU
contact@sound-delta.eu

Call: Audio art sought for Canadian Electroacoustic Society's 60x60 Project

Call for Works for the first Canadian 60x60 Project (2008)*

Vox Novus, in collaboration with the Canadian Electroacoustic Community
(CEC), is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less
in duration to be included in the first Canadian version of the annual
60x60 project. 60 compositions will be selected to be played
continuously in a one-hour concert. The Canadian 60x60 concert season
will begin with a debut in Montréal and continue throughout Canada in
venues to be announced. Concerts may also include a visual component (a
clock, video clips, spectrographs, dance, etc.). The works will also be
broadcasted on radio stations and featured on a Sonus.ca dedicated
gallery. Please submit your recorded work(s) and submission form(s)
before 31 March (postmarked). You may submit your works online or on a
CDR; see submission guidelines below. Your work may be selected for
both the Canadian and the International 60x60 projects.

During the concert each of the 60 pieces selected will begin precisely
at the beginning of the minute, this will mark the end of one piece and
the beginning of another. There will be no pause between the pieces.
Works may be less than 60 seconds in length, but may not exceed 60
seconds. Selected works that are shorter than 60 seconds will be
"padded" with silence either before, after, or surrounding the
composition. Please note that the total duration of the work including
silence may NOT exceed sixty seconds.

Eligibility:
The call is open to composers of all ages and career stages who live in
Canada, and to Canadian composers living in Canada or abroad. All other
composers may participate in the international 60x60 project (see below).

Eligible works:
Any sound or music captured on recorded media, which does not require
live performers for its presentation in concert. The piece may be of
any style and may comprise electronic sounds, field recordings,
recordings of voice or musical instruments, or other sound sources.
Recordings of acoustic compositions SHOULD NOT be accompanied by musical
scores. Works submitted should be created specifically for this project
and must not have been previously performed or broadcasted.

More information can be found at:
http://www.60x60.yaeldad.com (Canadian 60x60)
http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm (International 60x60)
http://cec.concordia.ca (Canadian Electroacoustic Community)
http://sonus.ca (SONUS, the CEC's online electroacoustic Jukebox)

Call: Sound art wanted for Futuresonic 2008's "The Comfort of Strangers" project

'The Comfort of Strangers'

http://soundnetwork.omweb.org

'The Comfort of Strangers'
at SoundNetwork's Autonomous Village, Futuresonic 2008, Contact
Theatre, Manchester, UK
1-4 May 2008

Open call for submissions of audio art works: closing date - 28th March

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At Futuresonic 2008 in Manchester, 1-4 May, SoundNetwork will be
creating a brand new kind of social space close to the centre of the
festival where artists and visitors alike can meet, relax and
experience sonic art. Our cafe will be an exhibition and an exhibit.
Where ever you sit to drink your coffee, eat your cake, and talk
there will be access to audio work (by means of headphone outlets
inserted into the furniture) or a local network that allows you to
experience and interact with sonic art work on your own laptop. In
addition there will be live performances at our Binary Jam event
showcasing some of the best emerging talent in live sound art and
experimental music.

SoundNetwork are inviting submissions of stereo (and mono) audio work
to be shown as part of The Comfort of Strangers headphone exhibition.

With respect to the theme of the festival, The Social, we are only
seeking work created by collectives, groups, ensembles or any other
kinds of collaborations from anywhere around the world. We especially
welcome submissions from registered members of the network and would
encourage you to register with us on our website. Work made by
individuals will not be accepted for this exhibition.

You can download an application form at: http://
soundnetwork.omweb.org and find out more about how to send us your work.

The closing date for this call is 28th March 2008.

http://www.futuresonic.com
http://soundnetwork.omweb.org

Call: The 2nd Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music is

Giga-Hertz-Award 2008

Sat Apr 19, 2008
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
www.giga-hertz-preis.de (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

Giga-Hertz-Award 2008

Call for Application: The 2nd Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music is
open for entries. Online Submission Deadline: April 19, 2008

In 2007, the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the
SWR-EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO in Freiburg inaugurated the annual
Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music. This new international music
award with its future-oriented concept exists thanks to the initiative
and commitment of ZKM director Peter Weibel. The award is funded by the
city of Karlsruhe and the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The Giga-Hertz-Award addresses composers working in the areas of
electronic and acousmatic music. Four Special Prizes are awarded once a
year by an international jury, and serve to initiate and support new
projects. Candidates are judged on the basis of a composition not more
than five years old and a proposal for a projected work.

The Special Prize consists of a project realization grant with which the
prizewinners realize their submitted proposal either at the ZKM |
Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe or at the
SWR-EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO in Freiburg. This includes technical support and
guidance by the studio.
The four Special Prizes are endowed as follows:
2 x Euro 8,000 in form of a realization grant at the ZKM | Institute for
Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe;
2 x Euro 8,000 in form of a realization grant at the
SWR-EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO in Freiburg.

To apply and for further information please visit www.giga-hertz-preis.de

Please feel free to forward this to all interested parties.

With best regards,
Ludger Bruemmer
Head of ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics


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ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Institute for Music and Acoustics
Giga-Hertz-Award
Lorenzstrasse 19
76135 Karlsruhe
E-mail: music@zkm.de
www.giga-hertz-preis.de

Call: Festival Of Listening seeks sound artists

FESTIVAL OF LISTENING

Thu Nov 15, 2007
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://www.phonurgia.org (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

> FESTIVAL OF LISTENING // Last Call // Deadline for submission =
> november 15
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _____
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This is your last chance to submit works to the Festival of Listening
> "Phonurgia Nova"
>
> Arles 007, Festival of Listening is an online and on site festival for
> radio and sound art.
>
> The Festival of Listening invites authors, radio producers, artists,
> students, programmers, sound designers, musicians, to contribute
> with their
> works to the sound festival.
>
> The Festival is an open platform for radio-art. Every one from any
> continent
> is warmly welcomed.
>
> Before you submit works, please read carefully the whole text of the
> "call for project" on our website, about conditions,
> technicalities, etc.
>
> You can send submissions by filling the entry form on our web site.
>
> http://www.phonurgia.org will tell you where, when, how to proceed,
> with the
> support of whom we are acting, and so on...
>
> With kind regards
> Marc Jacquin
> and the phonurgia nova team
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> phonurgia nova is a non-profit organisation and an independent
> audio-art-university-lab based in Arles/France
> the radiolab is in an evolving process of exchange with initiatives of
> individuals and european institutions based on mutual sympathy.
> Among them we must quote :
> UER/EBU
> Radio France
> French Ministery of Culture
> INA-GRM
> IMEB Bourges
> GMVL
> CIDMA
> SACEM
> Musée of Contemporary art, Musée Réattu
> Ville d'Arles
> Région PACA
> CG 13

Call: International Artists Residency Schloss Bleckede

International Artists Residency Schloss Bleckede

Sat Sep 29, 2007
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de/index_e.ht (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

Lüneburg, Germany
Datum dogodka: 2008

Landkreis Lüneburg Fachdienst Schule und Kultur
International Artists Residency Schloss Bleckede

The usual length of a residency is 3 or 6 months.
http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de/index_e.ht


Since 1979 the Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede has been seeking to promote young artists who explore innovative positions in the field of contemporary art. Today artists, whose work addresses complex aesthetic, cultural or political issues, rarely find the necessary support to realize their ambitious projects. This is why the Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede wishes to offer these artists the opportunity to develop their work in the course of a residential scholarship of three or six months.

The Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede offers ideal working conditions. The historic remise of the castle of Bleckede has been restored and transformed into three studios, each of which provides an extensive work space and a comfortable living area. The castle is located in the nature reserve Elbufer Drawehn close to the river Elbe. The placid environment guarantees an atmosphere of undisturbed concentration. The scholarship includes a monthly grant of Euro 1.400,- , which is made available for up to three scholarship holders at any one time, by the state of Lower Saxony.

The city of Lüneburg is not far away. Here the innovative programme of exhibitions and events staged by the Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg and the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. allows the participation in the contemporary art world. If required, the facilities of the cultural studies-course at the University of Lüneburg might be used.

Moreover Hamburg and Berlin is within easy reach, both of which have a thriving cultural life. The residential scholarship of the Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede is associated with the international exchange program Pépinières Européenes pour Jeunes Artistes.

The strictly spaces of time could only be modified (for example April till September or October till December), if an other artists will agree with a change.

The artistic council and the representatives of the borough of Lüneburg plan to finalise the awarding of residencies for the period of 2008 in October 2007.


Razpisni obrazec
Rok prijave: 29/09/07

Kontakt:
Landkreis Lüneburg
Am Graalwall 4
21335 Lüneburg
Germany
tel: +49-4131 26-1360
fax: +49-4131-26-2360
info@halle-fuer-kunst.de
http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

Call: ArtCast seeks audio art submissions

ArtCast: open call for sound art folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in Lancashire, Cumbria and online, is developing ArtCast, an ongoing series of podcasting programmes at www.folly.co.uk, as a platform for public access to new and innovative sound art. Building on the success of OWN [SOUND] ART (2007) at www.folly.co.uk/soundnetwork, a series of podcasts specially commissioned in partnership with SoundNetwork, folly intends to deliver a quarterly series of podcasts exploring the possibilities of the medium, and will launch the first in this series as part of VELOCITY, folly's second Festival of Digital Culture: VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture - See the Bay differently 12th October - 3rd November 2007 VELOCITY is ground-breaking new arts festival where you can explore digital art in the sublime context of the coastal rail route between Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. Presented in and around train stations, online and for download at www.folly.co.uk VELOCITY is folly's second annual Festival of Digital Culture and builds on the success of the f.city festival held in Lancaster city centre in 2006 which resulted in over 55,000 people engaging with new media art practice. VELOCITY will open up new ways of seeing life around Morecambe Bay, engaging with the vibrant communities that line the coast and furthering the role that the arts has in sustaining the spectacular landscape of the South Lakes and North Lancashire. VELOCITY... celebrating the role of creative technology in connecting people to places. folly is calling for open submissions of existing audio work, from the broad spectrum of contemporary sound art practice. Submissions should address themes and subjects broadly relating to the ethos of VELOCITY, including but not limited to: travel, movement, landscape, engagement with communities, rural sustainability. VELOCITY will take place on and around the rail route from Lancaster to Barrow-in-Furness in the North West of England, so folly is looking for podcastable content which can be downloaded and experienced on journeys through and around this area. As part of the festival, folly is also keen to broadcast selected works via the loud speaker systems at stations along the rail route. Submissions are welcome from all artists working with sound, experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists etc, basically anyone who has created work which they consider to be suitable for an audio podcast. folly welcome submissions from international artists The deadline for submissions is 14th September 2007 Sonic Arts Network, www.sonicartsnetwork.org, will join folly in the selection of works in late September 2007 Successful submissions will be published as podcasts from 1st October 2007 Please note that there is no fee available for selected works For more information contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Programme Coordinator on jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk or +44 (0)1524 388550 How to submit: Files should be mp3s, no larger than 32MB. Submissions should be accompanied by a submission form and equal opportunities monitoring form, obtainable from jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk or phone +44 (0) 1524 388550 Please send your submissions by email to jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk Or on CD by post to Jennifer Stoddart, Programme Coordinator folly, 6.4.4 Alston House White Cross Lancaster UK LA1 4XQ folly is committed to Equal Opportunities in our employment, programme and services

Call: ((AUDIENCE07)) - an immersive sound art biennial - New Delhi, India - seeks sound art

Call for entries
Deadline: 1 June 2007

((AUDIENCE07)) - an immersive sound art biennial
New Delhi, India

AUDIENCE07 will be an international exhibition of cinematic sound art.
The festival will be presented in a darkened movie hall in New Delhi, India, in October 2007. A New York preview is scheduled for September. (Venues TBC)

We are now accepting submissions for audio art compositions with an emphasis on narrative, temporal and spatial experimentation. We are especially interested in artists that treat cinema as a distinct form for the organization of time. Accepted formats include:

DVD (Quad, 5.1, 7.1)
CD (Stereo)
¼” inch tape (Quad)

Submissions will not be returned. Stereo samples of larger works are welcome, but final works must be provided in a standard surround sound cinema format.

Submissions for 2007 are due by June 1st, 2007. Late submissions will be kept for consideration in future AUDIENCE events.

Submissions should be mailed to:
Nadalex
39 Avenue A – Box 103
New York, NY 10009
ATTN: Audience

For further guidelines, submission information, and updates please visit audience.nadalex.net.

AUDIENCE07
Curators: Alexis Bhagat, Dylan Gauthier and Lauren Rosati
Produced in cooperation with Pooja Sood and Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi.