November 2008
Call for Works: Theorizing the Space Between Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Music University of Alberta, Department of Music March 6-8, 2009 Advancements in digital technologies in the 20th and 21st centuries have provided composers with entirely new means for creating music, encouraging composers and musicians alike to re-examine conventional ideas about composition and performance. Real-time processing and the use of non-conventional devices like the Wii Nintendo controller as musical objects have opened up new spaces--between composer and performer, between play and art, between body and machine-that invite contemporary composers to engage in dialogue with new aural-scapes.
We are accepting submissions of works which make use of new technologies such as the Wii Nintendo controller for the interactive control of computer music. We ask that composers submit a short video clip of their work and a brief (100-250 words) description of its philosophical or conceptual underpinnings, as well as technical requirements for performance. Composers will introduce their work in a 5-minute time-frame prior to the performance. A panel discussion will follow. Submissions must be received via email by 11:59 pm, December 20, 2008, and should include in separate attachments: * A proposal of 100-250 words. * An abstract of about 100 words suitable for publication on the conference website. * A cover letter containing the author's name, proposal title, institutional affiliation, and technical support and equipment needs. * A short video clip (URL or MPEG-4). Further conference information is available at the conference website www.music.ualberta.ca |
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NAISA Toronto Presents: Artist Soir?e with Neil Wiernik and Jason Stanford November 30th 1-5pm SOIR?E - an evening gathering, typically in a private house, for conversation or music. Although it's in the afternoon, the intent is the same: a time for artists to talk about their works, listen to other people's works and network. Featured artists Neil Wiernik and Jason Stanford will be performing and discussing their recent works. Neil Wiernik will give a general over view of his work as an audio artist and how its led him towards his current interest and ongoing research into site specific generative soundtrack composition as it relates to acoustic ecology composition. He will talk about how these soundtracks or aural landscapes, even when created by a digital mediator are natural, organic occurrences, much like walking down the street or driving down a highway we piece together the sounds around us to create a soundtrack of our environment. Wiernik's music was recently described in "The Wire" as having "...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." His his online HQ is http://www.phoniq.net Jason Stanford will discuss what excites him about EA (ElectroAcoustic) and composing for spatialized sound which includes the virtually unlimited resources you can draw upon to fill your sonic palate, defining your musical language. EA allows for the creation of very immediate and visceral juxtapositions of interesting and unexpected musical metaphors between sounds, through the composition and counterpoint of complex abstract sonic spectra and the mixture of referential real-world sounds. A unique perspective on sound comes with the added dimension of space, one has to be sensitive to the kinetic natures of each particular sound, and give it a choreograph trajectories that suit each character. Jason Stanford is a Toronto-based composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Through his work he seeks to explore evocative, visceral, and at times highly disparate stylistic and musical/sound elements and to distill them into a unified and meaningful whole. This event is PWYC NAISA Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street, Studio #252 Toronto for more information http://www.naisa.ca |
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