fwd: Call for Sound Works

http://www.mediascot.org/drift/call/sound.html

Resonant Cities: Call for Sound Works

New Media Scotland seeks sound works for Drift, an exploration of sound art
and experimental music which comprises live events, radio broadcasts, moving
image and publications. We are seeking sound works for 'Resonant Cities':
Internet radio streaming that explore the sonic identity of our surrounding
space and that engage with the fragmented 'noise' of the city soundscape:
people, traffic, communication intrusions, mobile phones, radio traffic,
city wildlife, buildings...

We are particularly interested in audio works which involve one or several
of the following ideas or processes:

- Acoustic Ecology
- Acousmatics
- Phonography
- Sonic research
- Radio art, Internet radio
- Microsound
- Lowercase sound
- Internet communication media and audio streaming
- Electronic communities
- Artists' software for sound and music
- Sound work developed using open source processes and principles
- Generative sound
- Sound archives
- Spoken word / oral history
- Field recordings
- The re-purposing / representing of existing analogue sound recordings,
such as amateur recordings, scientific recordings, and accidental, lost or
abandoned recordings

The works selected by the Drift team will then be curated into themed
streams that will be available via this web site.

Our intention is to expand the audience for the work, encourage appreciation
of sound art, and broaden access to a genre which is too often labelled as
esoteric and inaccessible.

We cannot pay a fee for this opportunity, but we will facilitate the
broadcast of your work.

Eligibility

- Open to artists, musicians, producers in the UK and across the globe.

DEADLINE: 31 OCTOBER 2003

---
Hanuman Zhang, musical mad scientist

"Welcome and explore and inquire into everything, new or old, that comes
your way, and then build your own music on whatever your inner life has been able
to take in and offer you back again." - Henry Cowell

"Music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a
copy of the will itself, the objectivity of which are the Ideas. For this
reason, the effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is
that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music
of the essence." - Schopenhauer, _The World as Will and Representation_

"His music, far from being in the background of my life, was in the
foreground. It was he as a musician who accomplished what I dreamed of, and
I followed as well as I could with the inferior power of words. The ear is
purer than the eye, which reads only relative meaning into words. Whereas
the distillation of experience into pure sound, a state of music, is
timeless and absolute." -Anais Nin on her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell

"...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ...
improvisation is about a constant change." - Steve Beresford

improvisation: "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt
Improvisation resists documentation - it celebrates the ephemeral, it
perversely reminds us every second that everything dies. Much of the "modern
Westernized world" isn't ready for this kind of news.

> >"Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from noise"

> >(after Arthur C. Clarke's aphorism that any sufficiently advanced

> >technology is indistinguisable from magic.)" - John Chalmers, in email
response
to the quote _The Difference between Music and Noise is all in your Head_