SIPA COMA SUMMER SCHOOL

The School of Intermedia and Performance Arts at University Centre, Doncaster is to host CoMA (Contemporary Music-making for Amateurs) Summer School, which runs from 23rd to 28th July.

CoMA's award winning Summer School, which has run annually since 1993, offers a friendly, non-competitive approach to contemporary music. A wide range of composition, improvisation, performance and music technology opportunities catering for all abilities, from complete beginners to experienced musicians and composers, are available.

The Summer School will make use of SIPA’s resources, which include 24 Pro Tools workstations, 18 Logic Pro workstations, 14 Cubase SX workstations, a 200-seat theatre and a dance studio.

Further information can be found at www.coma.org and www.don.ac.uk/ipa

RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS

Applications are invited for full-time research degree studentships for students interested in single or cross-disciplinary research. You should possess a good first degree in a relevant subject and preferably have a Masters qualification in an appropriate subject. The studentships will commence in October 2005 and each carries a three year bursary plus fees. Please note that the college you will be registered with will be where your Director of Studies is based.

London College of Communication

Creative Research into Sound Art and Performance

Practice and/or theory based doctoral research in: sound art practice from a historical, conceptual or aesthetic dimension, the application of data-mining and data-manipulation technologies to creative sound art practice, and sound arts. Proposals which engage with archive materials are particularly welcome.

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/courses/studentship/vacancy-938274-4.html

COMPOSITION PROFESSORS AT RCM

The Royal College of Music is seeking to expand its team of composition professors. There are opportunities for up to three part-time appointments.

All applicants should have experience and expertise in at least one of the areas listed below.

•    General 1-to-1 and group composition teaching at HE undergraduate and taught postgraduate level

•    Composition for screen and the teaching of this specialism, preferably at HE level

•    Composition and/or dissertation supervision of doctoral students to successful completion

•    Course management at HE level in composition, preferably including screen-based composition and supported by strong professional links in this area.

For further details see the RCM website at www.rcm.ac.uk. A letter of application with a full CV should be returned to Sophie Rees, Human Resources Manager, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 1200 on Thursday 23 June 2005.

Interviews will be held during the week commencing 4 July 2005.

TEMPORARY LECTURESHIP

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
 
SCHOOL OF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES
 
Temporary Lectureship IN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSITION (0.5) (REF:  HUM/147/05)
 
 
Applicants should be able to make a strong contribution to the research culture and teaching programmes of a 6* discipline (Music achieved 5* rating in 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises), working in the rapidly expanding field of Electroacoustic Music. The post is a two-years fixed-term contract in the first instance but may be made permanent subject to funding.

The appointment will be made on the Lecturer A scale £23,643 - £27,116 per annum (pro rata)  depending on experience

Informal inquiries should be addressed to Professor David Fanning, Subject Leader in Music, +44(0)161 275 4989; david.fanning@manchester.ac.uk 
 
Application forms and further particulars are available from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/vacancies or from Directorate of Human Resources, Humanities HR Lime Grove, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: ++44 (0)161 275  8838; Fax: ++44 (0)161 275 2064;  email:Humanities-hr@manchester.ac.uk.
 
Closing date for applications: 1 July 2005. Please quote relevant reference number. 
 
Interviews will be held week commencing 11 July 2005.

W2 PROFESSORSHIP IN EXPERIMENTAL RADIO

Media Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

“Experimental Radio” refers to radio as a global phenomenon and includes "Hoerspiel" and auditory media, journalistic, literary, and musical reflection, sound objects and sound installation as well as artistic strategies, interventions and cooperative working practice. Internet, wireless culture, and the faculty’s own radio frequency provide possible tools and methods of approach. Through the adoption of current
international tendencies and new technological means, countless experimental radio works can be tested, researched, and developed.
 
Requirements for the position include a completed university degree, university teaching experience, and relevant job experience in the area of radio art. An active cooperation with other projects within the university’s Faculty of Media Design - especially in the area of electroacoustic music and sound design, part of an existing cooperation between the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus University - as well as the support of non-commercial radio initiatives on the regional, national and international level is expected.

General employment requirements are ruled in 48 of the "Thueringer Hochschulgesetz". Judicial employment classification complies with 50 of the "Thueringer Hochschulgesetz".

Further information (mainly in German) is available at:
 http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/mediengestaltung
 http://ewww.uni-weimar.de/ausschr/m0606.de.html

SUPPORTED POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

EPSRC SUPPORTED POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS COMMENCING October
2005

The Department of Electronic Engineering, which has a strong research culture and is a lively, ambitious and expanding department invite applications from well-qualified prospective research students.

A number of studentships are available for students who meet the EPSRC residency criteria, and both full studentships (fees plus standard EPSRC rate maintenance grant for 3.5 years), and fees only studentships (again for 3.5 years) are on offer.  In addition several studentships offer additional support from UK industry.

Applicants should hold a recognised MSc degree, preferably at distinction level, or be about to complete such a course this summer.

Applications are invited from prospective research students with interests in the full range of research activities currently being undertaken in the department which include: Multimedia and Vision; Digital Music and Audio; Digital Signal Processing; Mobile Communications; Ad hoc Networks; Antennas and Electromagnetics; Network Performance; Intelligent Systems and Communications.

The closing date for applications is  30th June 2005.

More information about the department's research and an application form
can be found at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/study/phd/index.html

For information concerning EPSRC residency criteria see:

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/
and also http://www.dfes.gov.uk/gfees/index.shtml

MUSIC BEYOND PERFORMANCE: SoundImageSound III

Submission Postmark Deadline - July 11, 2020

With Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound III the Conservatory Computer Studio for Music Composition (CCSMC) in combination with the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific presents the fourth year of concerts featuring the work of artists who cross boundaries to combine the aural and the visual. For 2005 this event will again feature new works of "fixed media" which in some manner combine multi-channel sound and visual images without "live" performance. For complete submission guidelines and information about previous events go to:

http://www1.pacific.edu/~rcoburn/mbp.htm

Works in all media and style will be considered. Preference will be given to concert works but sound/image installations are also possible. The audio portion of the work may be composed for two to eight channels of sound. Preference will be given to work which exceeds normal stereo presentation.

The visual elements may be projected image (DVD, minidv, vcr, still image, etc.) or three dimensional objects within the space. Works requiring multiple projections will be considered. Any unique or unusual
equipment required for the presentation of a particular piece will be the artist's responsibility.

Artists selected for presentation are encouraged but not required to attend.

For further information contact rcoburn@pacific.edu

CALL FOR INTEREST

PLAN TECHNOLOGY CAMP
Venue: Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham
Date: Sunday 2 October to Saturday 8 October 2020

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
are invited for the second PLAN event which will take the form of a
team-based hands-on workshop in Nottingham. Those interested
in taking part should submit a 2-page summary of their areas of
interest and expertise, so that working groups can be formed to
develop a seed idea into a hypothetical project.

Deadline for Expressions of Interest: Monday 4 July 2020

The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) is an international and
interdisciplinary research network funded as part of the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Culture and Creativity
programme. The network aims to bring together practising artists,
technology developers and ethnographers with the aim of advancing
interdisciplinary understanding and building consortia for future
collaborative projects. Further details about PLAN and its membership
are available at http://www.open-plan.org

AIMS OF THE TECHNOLOGY CAMP
Cross-disciplinary teams will be formed to work on seed project ideas
and develop methodologies, encouraging cross disciplinary
experimentation. Proposals may develop into real projects or may be
entirely hypothetical. There will be opportunities to take the projects
further, in particular as part of the PLAN final exhibition at
Futuresonic 2006 in Manchester UK during July 2006.

We regret that due to the nature of this event, the number of participants
will be limited, and we will not be able to offer a place to all those who
could make a valuable contribution or who we would like to see attend.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please send a 2-page expression of interest, including details of your
areas of interest, experience and expertise to the address below by
Monday 4 July 2005. Suggestions for seed ideas in the area of
locative-based media are also welcomed. Places at the workshop are
limited and the steering committee reserves the right to seed ideas and
put together diverse teams from the best submissions, based on the
expressions of interest together with views generated at the ICA Event.

The expression of interest should also include:

Contact Name and postal address
Email address
Telephone
Webpage

EVENT COSTS
There will be no attendance fee for the workshop, but attendees will be
expected to pay their own hotel bills and travel expenses where possible.
We request that participants seek support for travel and subsistence from
their institutions or funding councils. Limited support is available from
PLAN for participants without institutional affiliation or other means of
support, please contact us for further details.

CALL FOR PIECES

A call for pieces for The Digital Music Research Network Summer Conference that we are organising this summer in Glasgow with other young researchers.

More information about the conference can be seen at:

http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mps37/DMRNSummerConference05/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Deadline 15. August 2005

Piksel[1] is an annual event for artists and developers working with open source audiovisual software tools. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) [2] and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of open source. Piksel05 will take place in Bergen october 16. - 23. 2005.

The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy.

One of the results of the past Piksel events is the initiation of the Piksel Video Framework for 'interoperability between various free software applications dealing with video manipulation techniques'[3].

Piksel05 will also feature the release of the Piksel LiveCD[4], a Linux distribution containing the software used and developed at Piksel. The package contains a suite of innovative audiovisual and artistic software, free video plugins, and documentation from the past Piksel events.

CALL for PARTICIPATION

The last two Piksel events has focused on live art/audiovisual performance, but for Piksel05 the main focus will be an exhibition in collaboration with Hordaland Kunstsenter[5].

For the exhibition and other parts of the program we are interested in submissions in the following categories:

1. Installations and interactive work Audiovisual installations created and run solely using open source software. The theme for the exhibition will be loosely related to 'games' and the gaming experience.

2. Audiovisual performance Live art realised by the use of open source software.

3. Software Innovative artistic tools or software art released under an open licence.

Please send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel05@bek.no

Deadline - august 15. 2004

Use this form for submitting (or go to the online form at http://www.piksel.no/piksel05/subform.html):

1. Name of artist(s), email adr.
2. Short bio/CV
3. Category
4. URL to online documentation
5. Short statement about the work(s)
6. List of software used in the creation/presentation of the work(s)

Or send by snailmail to:

BEK
att: Gisle Froysland
C. Sundtsgt. 55
5004 Bergen
Norway

More info: http://www.piksel.no/piksel05


CALL FOR WORKS - ELEKTRAMUSIC CD

The "Elektramusic - electroacoustic and contemporary music" CD will be produced in the last term 2005. It will be mainly dedicated young emerging sound artists and composers. It will be distributed to comporary music centers, documentation centers and electroacoustic studios and festivals.

So we invite composers willing to participate in this project to read about our submission rules on http://www.elektramusic.com
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details and rules  : 

- Participation in this project is open to composers of any nationality, aged from 18 to 40 (at the time of submission). 
- The composers can only submit one work.
-  Works in collaboration (two composers or more) are also accepted.
- Submitted works mustn't have been awarded yet (music prize, competition, grant,  commission, ...).
-  Submitted works can be electroacoustic only music (music "for tape", acousmatic music,...), mixed music (music for instrument(s) and electronic), or electroacoustic music for dance, video, multimedia...

Composers willing to participate are asked to :

 - submit their music on an audio CD or DVD (multitrack works must be submitted in stereophonic version).  The CD/DVD will be easily identified and will include the composer's first name and name as well as  the exact title and its duration.
 - print, fill in and sign the submission form (www.elektramusic.com/images/submission.pdf)
- include a short composer's biography and program notes.

Please send your submission by snail mail before 1 October 2005.

II INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ART 404  OPEN CALL
Deadline: August 15th 2005

"Astas Romas" is organising the second "International Festival of  Electronic Art 404", to be held at "Centro Cultural Parque de EspaÒa" and "Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia", in Rosario, Argentina from November 29th to December 2nd, 2005.

"Astas Romas" is making a world-wide call to artists and theorists to take part in this Festival 404'05 in order to estimulate and divulge new productions around electronic art. Authors may participate in the following areas: net-art, still image,  animation, video, electronic music, audiovisual set, theory, performance and any other proposals made by the authors.

The program includes: screening of videos and animations, conferences, performances and concerts.
Participation in this festival is free, open, and has no age-limit. The Festival’s deadline to present works is on August 15th 2005. The date will be taken from the post office cancelling stamp. The only requirements to submit your work are to follow the instructions published on:

http://www.404festival.com.ar

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

New Deadline 31 July 2005.

SoundLab Channel
is looking for soundart works of
a) experimental character
b) electronic music
c) Voice -sound/music integration
d) and other forms

Subject: there is a general subject---> "memory and identity"
and special subject for edition III ---> "pleasure/grief"- "love/hate"

The submission has to be posted on a webpage for download, please do not send it as an email attachement. Submission format: .mp3
Size: Max 5MB, exceptions possible, but on request.

The authors/artists keep all rights on their submitted works.

Deadline 31 July 2020
Please use this form for submitting:
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1.name of artist, email address, URL
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. works (maximum 3), year of production, running time
a) URL for download
4. short statement for each work
(not more than 300 words each)

Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter declares and confirms that he/she is holding all author's rights and gives permission to include the submitted work in "Soundlab" online environment until revoke.

Signed by (submitter)

Please send the complete submission to:

concerthall@le-musee-divisioniste.org

subject: Soundlab Channel edition III

Deadline 31 July 2005.

This call can be also found on
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat=14