From: Simon Waters <s.wat...@qub.ac.uk<mailto:s.wat...@qub.ac.uk>>
Subject: Sonorities Festival Call for Works
Date: 5 September 2013 16:20:23 BST
To: Sonorities <sonorit...@qub.ac.uk<mailto:sonorit...@qub.ac.uk>>
Sonorities Festival Belfast and Two Thousand + fourteen symposium.
Call for submissions. Deadline 9 November 2013
Festival dates: London 27 April & Belfast 30 April-4 May 2014
Belfast’s longest-running festival of contemporary music breaks with
tradition in 2014 by opening at King’s Place in London, in the first in
a series of initiatives which will link it with other cities.
Sonorities this year celebrates the tenth anniversary of the
inauguration of its current home – the Sonic Arts Research Centre at
Queen’s University Belfast – by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
The opening concert, featuring Chicago-based Nic Collins,
hardware-hacking guru and author of ‘Handmade Electronic Music’ in a duo
with meta-trumpet virtuoso Jonathan Impett, will initiate Sonorities
2014’s theme - remembering and forgetting - exploring the extent to
which our current technologies for music simulate these all-too-human
concerns.
This programme will also be presented in the Sonic Lab at SARC when
Sonorities 2014 transfers to Belfast a few days later.
Alongside this year’s festival will run the Two Thousand+ symposium,
inaugurated in 2006, and continuing the theme of Remembering and Forgetting.
Submissions
Proposals are invited both for works (performances, installations) for
the festival, and papers for the one-day symposium, which will take
place on Saturday 3 May.
Festival proposals should take the form of submissions of audio or
audio-visual works. Please note that the cost of attendance/performance
at Sonorities must be covered by the participants themselves. The
Sonorities Festival has no funding to cover fees for musicians, travel,
or accommodation. Letters of invitation can be supplied on request if
participants wish to source their own funding.
Uploading
All composition and installation submissions should be in the form of a
single compressed file (.zip, .rar or .tar – max size 2Gb) of a folder
containing the appropriately completed submission document, media files
(standard sound, image or video formats) that clearly represent the
piece being proposed, and one or two high resolution image files of the
artist(s) or an image related to the submitted work. The folder must
have the name of the submitting artist.
Symposium proposals should, in the first instance, consist of a single
compressed file (.zip, .rar or .tar) of a folder containing the
appropriately completed submission document, a 300 word abstract in Word
(.doc or .docx) format, and one or two high resolution image files of
the author(s) or an image related to the submitted work. The folder must
have the name of the submitting author. Those submitting successful
proposals will be asked to prepare a fifteen-minute paper.
sonorities.org.uk<http://sonorities.org.uk/>
twitter.com/sonorities<http://twitter.com/sonorities>
facebook.com/sonoritiesfestival<http://facebook.com/sonoritiesfestival>
sarc.qub.ac.uk/sites/sarc/<http://sarc.qub.ac.uk/sites/sarc/>
kingsplace.co.uk<http://kingsplace.co.uk/>
The Sonorities website at
www.sonorities.org.uk/<http://www.sonorities.org.uk/> will shortly be
updated with details of keynote speakers and featured performers.
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