The Distribution Grant for New York State Artists, a regrant program for the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, provides support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Grant awards assist artists in making recently completed works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to distribution and exhibition expenses such as: duplication of preview, screening, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. Successful grantees are awarded the opportunity to work with a project mentor who will offer guidance as grantees execute their distribution and exhibition plans. The following eight projects were selected during a competitive panel review process:

2012 Grantees:
(alphabetical by artist)

David Dixon, David Dixon is dead.

David Dixon is dead. is a documentary of past events and of events that have yet to come. It is fiction, but a fiction built solidly on the real-life public declaration by its maker, David Dixon, which states that after his death, his head should be removed from his body and cleaned to the skull, the skull then included in an art piece. Distribution funds will support the packaging of David Dixon is dead. including supporting materials, and a tour with the live commentary performance.

Meredith Drum, Louisiana Re-storied

Louisiana Re-storied is an interactive, documentary installation focused on environmental justice issues in small communities along the stretch of Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans – communities uncomfortably sandwiched between large petrochemical plants and oil refineries. The piece demonstrates how, in recent years, community groups have collaborated with scientist activists and won seminal legal battles and out-of-court settlements, initiatives to protect their health from toxic emissions; and it prompts consideration on the role and potential impact of social documentary by placing these current stories in dialogue with, and in contrast to, Robert Flaherty’s 1948 Louisiana Story. Distribution funds will support re-staging the installation in order to reach additional public audiences.

ecoarttech (Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir), Indeterminate Hikes

Indeterminate Hikes (IH) is an Android app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings. Generally devices of rapid communication and consumerism, smartphones are re-appropriated by IH as tools of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of intertwining biological, cultural, and media ecologies and slowing us down at the same time. Distribution funds will support expanded platforms for IH (iPhone, etc.) as well as the production of promotional materials.

Sabisha Friedberg, The Starry Garter: A Certain Point Within a Sphere

The Starry Garter: A Certain Point Within a Sphere is a sonic poem for radio that combines elements of sound art, radio theater, film, and music to examine themes of transmutation and redemption. The work is based upon a text written in the 19th Century by an anonymous author and chronicles the journey of a fallen initiate of a unnamed secret society. Starry Garter updates traditional radio theater by emphasizing an experimental sound score of atomized dialogue, electro-acoustic composition, and interludes of abstracted cello, piano, and chorus in a multi-channel spatialized format combined with minimalist cinematographic scenography. The Starry Garter is conceived for both live audience and radio broadcast. Funding will support the distribution of the work via radio broadcast, the web, and an adjunct live recording with cast and instrumentation.

Michael Galinsky, Battle for Brooklyn

The documentary film, Battle for Brooklyn, follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for an arena and real estate development. Over the course of seven years, Daniel spearheads the movement against the development plan as he and the community fight tenaciously in the courts, the streets, and the media to stop the abuse of eminent domain and reveal the corruption at the heart of the plan. Distribution funds will support a series of community, school, and college screenings as well as for public relations efforts on behalf of the film.

Jacqueline Goss, The Observers

In Goss’s film, The Observers, the land and sky of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire form a varying frame for two climatologists as they go about the solitary and steadfast work of measuring and recording the weather. Based in part on the Nathaniel Hawthorne story "The Great Carbuncle," the film features the extreme and surprising beauty of the windiest mountain in the world. Distribution funds will support the production of a home-use release of the film on DVD.

David Horvitz, Public Access

Public Access, originally exhibited at SF Camerawork in San Francisco, California, was a project in which Horvitz drove up the entire California coast and made photographs for the Wikipedia pages of various California beaches. In each photograph, Horvitz's body was subtly (and sometimes obviously) placed in the landscape. As the photographs went online, many Wikipedia editors caught on, and began to debate the legitimacy of the images' usage on the articles. The exhibition documented the project in all aspects: the trip, the photographs, and the commotion caused by the photographs as they entered the web 2.0 sphere. Funds will support the distribution of this new media project vis-à-vis a physical printing of the Public Access images and documentation of the project’s narrative.

Marina Rosenfeld, roygbiv&b

Created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of a series exploring the legacy of Fluxus, roygbiv&b is a musical performance, within a mutli-channel sound installation, exploring the intersection of forms implied by the iconic idea of the rainbow. The work aimed to produce a spectral field vertically within the museum's large central atrium space, locating bass players and subwoofers on the ground level and strata of choirs, loudspeakers and instruments rising to the top balcony, and to graphically evoke the iconic curve of the rainbow within this field by virtually spraying arcs of song fragments and other sound over the site's nominally "blank" fourth wall, which is cantilevered out over the atrium's central cavity. Distribution support will be used to capture the three-dimensionality of the sound field the work created in ambisonic and binaural versions for gallery display and archival purposes, as well as to create a web-based documentation of the project.

 

2012 Review Panelists:

Brian Dewan, Artist (Catskill, NY)
Justin Luke, Founder, Audio Visual Arts (AVA) (New York, NY)
Nellie Killian, Co-Director, Migrating Forms (New York, NY)

The 2012 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists is a regrant program made possible with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

More Information Contact:
Galen Joseph-Hunter
Executive Director
free103point9
gjh@free103point9.org

Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture - Call for Participation

http://basic.fm/radio/

Call for Submissions -
http://www.thepixelpalace.org/opportunities/basicfm-call-for-submissions
-

About basic.fm
---------------
basic.fm is a new radio station that forms part of Pixel Palace, an
exciting programme of digital arts and new media at Tyneside Cinema. It
hosts Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture, aspiring to be a space
that can be inhabited by artists, curators, thinkers and interesting
people with something to share and will be gradually be populated with
work, projects, shows and archived events.

Since launching in November 2011, basic.fm has commissioned an exciting
number of leading artists, including Mark Vernon, The Noize Choir, Ed
Carter, Sarah Boothroyd and People Like Us.

-Call for Participation
Pixel Palace are seeking new or existing works to host on basic.fm.
Selected works will form part of a series of curated programmes (one-off
and regular shows) that will appear on basic.fm from April 2012. Work
can include sound art, spoken word, field recordings and artist
interviews within the context of Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent
Culture.

This is an unpaid opportunity but all selected contributions will be
fully credited and linked appropriately to relevant websites and/ or
sources. This call is open to all artists, musicians, field recordists
and sonic artists regardless of nationality, age, or career stage.

-Submissions must include:
*    Title and description of new or existing work(s) for basic.fm
(100 words maximum)
*    Examples of past work (please provide links to work as large
email large media files cannot be accepted)
*    CV and contact information

-About Pixel Palace
Pixel Palace is the exciting programme of digital arts and new media at
Tyneside Cinema. This programme takes the form of arts residencies,
commissions, live events and exhibitions.  We experiment with new ways
of sharing creative work, ideas and stories as we move towards the
future of cinema.

-How to apply
Please email submissions to Dominic Smith, Digital Arts Manager at the
Tyneside Cinema: info@thepixelpalace.org with the subject heading:
basic.fm
The deadline for submissions is Monday 20 February 2012 at 5pm.
Artists will be notified via email regarding the outcome of their
submitted work(s).

Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of John Cage, Norte Maar will collaborate with E.A.T. to present Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage. The twelve evenings of performances of music, poetry, theater, visual art, and dance, occurring once each month, will span the calendar year of 2012.  Most of the performances will take place in the front room of Norte Maar’s apartment gallery, and will be broadcast onto the street and live streamed on the web.

Cage Transmitted: Evening 1

JANUARY 24, 7pm

Note: This event can be experienced street side.

Watch the live stream beginning at 6:45 pm EST at livestream.com/nortemaar

Launching the first of twelve transmitted projects will be a broadcast of John Cage delivering a lecture to students at Harpur College, Binghamton, NY on January 24, 1967. This event marks the first time the lecture has been heard since it was delivered exactly 45 years ago. A select group of choreographers and dancers will perform in the space as Cage speaks and will include dancers Andrew Nemr, TAKE Dance , Lynn Parkerson Artistic Director of Brooklyn Ballet, Rachel Cohen of Racoco, Benn Rasmussen + Megan Madorin + Edward Rice of Ardent August, Morgan McEwen of Gleich Dances , among others. Special thanks to DiJiFi for their assistant in digitizing Cage's lecture.

TRANSCEIVER

An Exhibition of Works That Are Transmitted, Not Transported

Part One: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art   |   January 13 - February 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13 - 6:00-9:00pm

Part Two: Drift Station   |   February 3-27, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3 - 7:00-10:00pm

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE
Possible Press (Trevor and Rachel Reese), Sophia Brueckner, Alex Myers, Damien Catera, Collection Enlargement, Gregory Chatonsky, Constant Dullaart, Eilis McDonald, Evan Roth, Dave Beattie, Matt Kenyon, Marius Watz, Maximillian Goldfarb, Michelle Nagai, and Aram Barthol

TRANSCEIVER is an exhibition of works are sent entirely by non-traditional means. Artists from across the US and abroad have been asked to send work via chat, Skype, email, FTP, streaming audio, radio, Twitter, telegram, and Bluetooth. These works, many of which integrate their means of transmission into their structure and content, suggest a non-geographically-centered model. Instead, they suggest the potential for curators and institutions operating within modest budgets and regional locations to mount expansive international shows that challenge traditional structures of what an exhibition and gallery can be.

Transceiver marks the first installment in an open series of exhibitions in the Bemis Underground that highlight regional artist-run spaces and curatorial projects. Sitting at the forefront of creative placemaking, artist-run spaces and initiatives have played a large hand in re-purposing countless spaces and neighborhoods around the world.

Transceiver will continue at Drift Station, featuring a low-power FM radio station that will operate through the month of February, as well as live projections from webcams around the world.

For more information on the first part of the exhibition, please visit the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art's website.

Recordings wanted for the third edition of the Power/field
compilation.  This series is dedicated to recordings made "in the
field" with processing on-site - ie pedals, laptops, or strange
acoustic phenomena in the intersection of power and environment. No
post-processing besides basic trim edits and gain

Traditional field recording captures ambient sound in various
locations via microphone without any effects. Power/field recordings
are field recordings made with effects processing units used on-site.
The intent is to take experimental music practices outside of their
traditional operating venues (composing studios and performance
venues) and into the “field” (anywhere you don’t normally
compose/record/perform music).

Aesthetically speaking, anything goes - drone, microsound, synth,
ambient, harsh noise. The recordings can come from a wide variety of
musical practices, and can be made with electronic, electrical,
mechanical, and acoustic means.  Harnessing the existing sound in a
space is preferred over generating sound within a space - but the
latter can work when the results align within the perspective of the
series. It is suggested for all to listen to the first edition (link
below) for examples of successful submissions.

Typical scenarios for successful works: microphone feeding into a
pedal; contact mic fed into a laptop; sounds played in an environment
and recorded via mics; lathe records, cassettes, and circuit boards
left outside all winter long, then recorded in their deteriorated
condition outside, a microphone rubbed against subway walls, a
microphone set inside the whirlwind funneling into an air conditioner.

Typical unsuccessful scenarios: recorded freak folk / alt rock /
post-war classical jams in someone's living room or an underground
chamber. Please listen to the tracks from the first edition to get a
sense of the aesthetic intent behind the project.

There is an honor system on the basic rules: the recording must be
made outside of the studio or the stage; no overdubs except on-site;
no re-processing; no edits besides cutting off the beginning or end.
The submission can be an excerpt of a longer take, and basic
normalizing of the levels is fine. Track length 3-15 min preferred,
multiple short tracks are fine to submit. Previously released tracks
will not be considered, and tracks created specifically for this
project are preferred.

The final project will be released March 2012 in an edition of 200.
The first 2 editions each had 2x CDrs, as there were a ton of great
submissions. Traditionally the discs are housed in screen-printed
cardboard sleeves.  A digital edition will be created in addition to
the physical one.

The entire contents of the previous editions can be found here:

vol 1:
http://anarchymoon.com/sounds/powerfield
(p.s. the first track of Disc 1 is titled "\\\" but the slashes don't
come out right in an online directory)

vol 2:
http://anarchymoon.com/sounds/powerfield2

Please submit everything online by Jan 1 2012.  To prevent wasted
CDrs, please upload your recordings (mp3s in the first round) to your
own website, to a file sharing service such as yousendit, or
soundcloud.  I can also provide an FTP address if you aren’t able to
upload it yourself.  Once the final choices are made, I’ll need full
resolution files (WAV / AIFF) uploaded by Jan 31 2012.

Send track(s), title(s), site location(s), equipment list(s), pictures
of your setup environment, and any other info about yourself to:
bob_AT_halfnormal_DOT_com (please put "power/field submission" in the
subject)

More info:
http://halfnormal.com/powerfield.html

--
halfnormal.com

DEADLINE FOR PRODUCER PROPOSALS AND STATION RUNWAY SUBMISSIONS:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

It’s heating up. More stations are coming onto the Localore Station Runway this week and next…WLRN/Miami and WRVO/upstate New York are the latest to date.  Producers, get busy watching them all and reaching out as you finesse your proposals to be one of the 10 selected to lead our station-based initiatives—designed to expand local innovation capacity. See which local outlet is right for you. We provide a contact link for you to be in touch with them on the station profile page.

Stations, keep your options open! Open the door to talent and see what comes in. You can name up to three potential producers. The sooner you get your media up, the more eyeballs you'll attract.

Guidelines are here (pdf). Take time to read them if you haven’t yet.

November 10: Deadline for proposals. If you'd like to be one of our lead Localore producers, that's when you must submit proposals for project ideas at Localore.net. By that same deadline, stations hoping to serve as Localore incubators must get media uploaded to our Station Runway.

December 2: Finalists notified. Up to 30 lead producers and incubator stations will be invited to submit a second-round proposal. Final teams will be announced by late January, and projects will begin launching in March.

Want to learn more?

• Read our FAQ:
http://airmediaworks.org/sites/default/files/imce/pdf/LocaloreFAQ.pdf

• Study the Guidelines:
http://airmediaworks.org/sites/default/files/imce/pdf/Localore-guidelines.pdf

• Watch the project's 6-minute launch video:
http://vimeo.com/29561666

• Check out the article on the whys and whats of Localore in Current:
http://www.current.org/indies/indies1118localore-schardt.html

Interested in helping us spread the word? Learn more here.

Questions? Contact Executive Editor Noland Walker at noland@airmedia.org.

Produced by the Association of Independents in Radio with support from CPB, the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, and the NEA, Localore will charge producers with inventing new, multiplatform models for fresh, locally-sourced, high quality journalism. Selected producers will lead a 9-12 month station-based project designed to expand the station's innovation capacity.

+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org
www.airmediaworks.org

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Wyncote Foundation, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Association of Independents in Radio
P.O. Box 220400
Boston, MA 02122
Phone: 617-825-4400
www.airmedia.org

Association of Independents in Radio
PO Box 220400
Boston, Massachusetts 02122

Copyright (C) 2011 Association of Independents in Radio All rights reserved.

DEADLINE FOR PRODUCER PROPOSALS AND STATION RUNWAY SUBMISSIONS
THURSDAY, NOV 10, 2011

Since our September 15th launch, more than 2000 unique visitors have checked out the Localore Station Runway and details for how to get aboard this new initiative. We'll bring more than $1 million in CPB funding to support 10 station-based producer-led teams that help stations "go outside" of their walls and traditional reporting routines to tell untold stories across multiple platforms.

If you'd like to be one one of our lead Localore producers, you must submit proposals for project ideas at Localore.net by the November 10th deadline. By that same deadline, stations hoping to serve as Localore incubators must produce 3-5 minutes of media to upload to our Station Runway, where we're showcasing the creative culture and aspirations of potential incubators. (Note:  the sooner you get your media up, the more eyeballs you'll attract.) Up to 30 lead producers and incubator stations will be selected by December 2nd and invited to submit a second-round proposal. Final teams will be announced by late January, and projects will begin launching in March.

Want to learn more?
• Read our FAQ and Guidelines.
• Watch the project's launch video.
• Check out coverage of Localore in Current, the Nieman Journalism Lab, and MediaShift.
• Watch our recent project webinar, produced in conjunction with the National Center for Media Engagement.

Interested in helping us spread the word? Feel free to share this message with colleagues or relevant listservs, or tweet about the project using the #Localore tag.

Questions? Contact Media Strategist Jessica Clark at jessica@airmedia.org

Produced by the Association of Independents in Radio with support from CPB, the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, and the NEA, Localore will charge producers with inventing new, multiplatform models for fresh, locally-sourced, high quality journalism. Selected producers will lead a 9-12 month station-based project designed to expand the station's innovation capacity.

+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org
www.airmediaworks.org

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Wyncote Foundation, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Association of Independents in Radio
P.O. Box 220400
Boston, MA 02122
Phone: 617-825-4400
www.airmedia.org

Association of Independents in Radio
PO Box 220400
Boston, Massachusetts 02122

Copyright (C) 2011 Association of Independents in Radio All rights reserved.

PRESS RELEASE
October 7, 2011
The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes has announced Information Sessions for two state-wide regrant programs in Electronic Media and Film.  Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds provide support to New York State-based non-profit organizations and artists for work in film, video, sound, new media and Web-based art.  Both programs are funded by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Presentation Funds offers partial support to non-profit organizations located in New York State for in-person appearances by independent artists working in film, video, sound, new media and Web-based art. The mission of the program is to encourage opportunities for conversations between artists and audiences, support the creative programming of independent media-makers, and help increase appreciation for electronic media and film as an art form throughout New York State.  Deadlines are four times a year, with the first deadline on December 1, 2011.

Finishing Funds provides support to New York State artists for the completion of film, video, sound, new media and Web-based art. Awards are made annually and range from $500 to $2,500. The postmark deadline for applications is March 15, 2012.

Information Sessions for artists and non-profit organizations will be held as follows:

Buffalo: Saturday October 22, 11am, Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue
Capital Region: Saturday November 5, 11am, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy
New York City: Wednesday October 19, 12pm, American Documentary POV, 20 Jay Street Suite 940, Brooklyn
Southern Tier: Saturday October 15, 10am, 171 Cedar Arts Center, 171 Cedar Street, Corning
Syracuse: Thursday October 27, 5:30pm, Everson Musem of Art, 401 Harrison Street
Rochester: Tuesday October 25, 6pm, Rochester Contemporary Art Center,  137 East Avenue
Please RSVP to director@eARTS.org and visit www.eARTS.org/EMF for detailed information on both grant programs.

# # #

The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (The ARTS) is a regional arts services organization located in the Southern Tier of New York State. Founded in 1972 as the Chemung Valley Arts Council, The ARTS now serves artists of all disciplines, organizations and the public in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Allegany and Tioga counties and beyond.  Further information is available at www.eARTS.org.

 

Contact:
Ginnie Lupi
The ARTS Council of the
Southern Finger Lakes
607-962-5871 x225
director@eARTS.org

From ETC:

The Experimental Television Center is happy to announce that our electronic media arts grants programs have been given new homes. The Technical Assistance Program  will be managed by free103point9. The Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds Programs will be administered by The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

ETC has been administering the Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds Programs since 1989, and the Technical Assistance Program since 1998. It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the opportunity to work with all of you over the years. ETC would also like to thank Electronic Media and Film at the New York State Council on the Arts which has steadily supported our efforts to help the media arts flourish.

ETC isn’t going away, but rather refocusing our programs. We have redesigned the ETC website, so if you haven’t visited in awhile, please take a look. We will be spending more time on the development of the Video History Project and working on preservation activities with our partner organizations at Migrating Media.

Experimental Television Center: 1969 – 2009 (5 DVD set with catalog), is an anthology of video art works created through the Residency Program since its inception in 1969 and includes the works of about 100 media artists. The collection was featured in 2011 at Anthology Film Archives. It was named top 100 DVDs for 2010 by LUX, the influential arts organization in London, UK. In 2011 the collection was named by LUX as one of 50 essential moving-image artists DVDs in publication. The collection is available through the well-known distributor of contemporary art Electronic Arts Intermix.

The complete library of artists’ works at ETC is being archived at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media. Under the sponsorship of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at the Carl Kroch Library at Cornell University, the archive is curated by Dr. Tim Murray, Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature and Director for the Society for the Humanities at Cornell. The mission is to digitize the collection and provide multiple levels of access to the works and study materials for people internationally.

We are excited about the future and look forward to staying in touch with all of you.

Ralph, Sherry, Hank and Dave

BASIC.fm (Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture)

--A Pixel Palace commission--

Full details here > http://www.thepixelpalace.org/opportunities

--About Pixel Palace--

Pixel Palace is currently developing BASIC.fm a new radio station that will host Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture as a series of monthly audio streams.

BASIC.fm aspires to be a space that can be inhabited by artists, curators, thinkers and interesting people with something to share and will be gradually be populated with work, projects, shows and archived events.

--Call out for new commissions--

Pixel Palace is commissioning four new audio works for BASIC.fm. Each work will be hosted for a month on continuous play and the first commission will go live in November. We are seeking artists who use sound as a medium in unexpected, exciting and innovative ways. This may include work that may act in a similar way to hold music or radio and television test signals.

There is a one-off artist fee of £250 for each commissioned piece.

This call is open to all artists, musicians, field recordists and sonic artists regardless of nationality, age, or career stage.

--Commission proposals must include:

* Title and description of proposed audio work for BASIC.fm (100 words maximum)
* Examples of past work (please provide links to work as large email large media files cannot be accepted)
* CV and contact information

--How to apply

Please email commission proposals to Dominic Smith, Digital Media Projects Manager at the Tyneside Cinema:

info(at)thepixelpalace.org

The deadline for commission proposals is 10 October 2011 at 5pm. Artists will be notified via email regarding the result of their proposal.

Call for works 2011

The 2011 Phonurgia Nova prize is open. What makes it unique? The invitation to leave the well trodden tracks that hinder creativity and to find hitherto  unexplored ways of taking the listener on a new journey of attentive listening to the world of everyday and imaginary sound. It is an invitation to make way for new sound (Radio award). To discover new interactions between seeing and listening ( New media award). In short, this award (which attracted 142 candidates from 15 countries last year) has to do with CREATION... and the attentive exploration of sound.

It is not a music festival, although music may be one component of a piece - along with speech, voice, silence and all the other sounds of this world and beyond.

Two changes in the organisation of the 2011 edition to be noted :

– The group « Ars acoustica » (European Broadcasting Union) has become another of our partners and will distribute prize winning works world-wide, thus greatly expanding the potential number of listeners.
– The transfer of the two days of sound presentations open to the public to Gaïté Lyrique theatre in Paris, will allow a wider audience to participate in listening sessions, and the heated debates which follow. The list of prize winners  is often unpredictable and surprising : unknown names slip in beside names which we already know...

Inscription deadline :  october 15
Public presentation : december 10 and 11 (Paris)
More infos and registration : www.phonurgia.org

Appel à projets 2011

Le concours phonurgia nova 2011 se tiendra cette année à Paris, à la Gaïté Lyrique, les 10 et 11 décembre, durant deux journées "marathon" au cours desquelles on pourra découvrir un large panorama de la création radiophonique européenne et mondiale.

Qu'il récompense des professionnels ou bien de jeunes auteurs qui font leurs premiers pas dans ce domaine (Prix Pierre Schaeffer), ce concours que disputaient l'année dernière 142 candidats du 15 pays, reste avant tout un tremplin de la création. Et si le cadre arlésien du Musée Réattu est abandonné au profit de la nouvelle institution parisienne dédiée aux arts numériques, c'est qu'il fallait donner à ce rendez-vous, soutenu par Libération, la SACD, l'INA-GRM, le GMVL, Radio Campus France, la Semaine du son et l'Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision, une audience plus large.

Ce qui fait la singularité de ce concours demeure : il est une incitation à sortir des cadres habituels de production, à frayer hors des sentiers battus pour entrainer l'auditeur sur de nouveaux chemins d'écoute du réel et de l'imaginaire. Il est une invitation à tracer de nouvelles routes sonores (Prix radio). Un encouragement à expérimenter de nouveaux rapports entre l'oeil et l'oreille (Prix Nouveaux Médias).

Ce qui fait sa convivialité sera préservé aussi : les délibérations du jury se déroulent en public, dans le cadre d'écoutes collectives ou chacun peu prendre part à la discussion.

Pendant 2 jours, il faudra écouter, repérer, comparer, discuter, opposer, batailler - puis élire des lauréats ! - auxquels seront attribués 4 000 euros de Prix et des résidences de création à Arles, Lyon et Paris. Une certitude : comme chaque année depuis 1986, quel que soit le genre défendu (documentaire, fiction, formes acoustiques conceptuelles),  ou le dispositif médiatique employé,  la prime ira à l'éloquence sonore.

Inscription ouvertes jusqu'au 15 octobre.

Formulaire d'inscription 2011 disponible sur le site www.phonurgia.org

Toute l'actualité du concours sur le blog www.phonurgianova.blog.lemonde.fr

Do you listen to your environment? What sounds remind you of home? Have you ever thought of using those sounds as music?

Ear to the Earth invites you to participate in one of our free New York Soundscape field recording workshops. For two days, participants will learn about listening to their environment, identifying soundmarks, and the art of field recording. Workshop participants will then experience field recording first hand as they mine their soundscape for unique sounds and record them for themselves.

Workshop dates and locations:

September 10, 2-6pm
at Snug Harbor
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY, 10301

September 19 & 21, 5–8pm
at Issue Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY, 11215

The recordings gathered during the Brooklyn workshop will be featured during a special performance of Share, a collaborative performance environment at Issue Project Room. Recordings gathered during the Staten Island workshop will be woven into a performance at Snug Harbor by contemporary pianist Joe Kubera,  as part of the Ear to the Earth Festival.

Recordings from both workshops will be further used as part of a final work featuring sounds from all boroughs, called 100 x John. In honor of John Cage's 100th birthday, this piece will be modeled on his unique compositional techniques—using indeterminacy and New York sounds to create a true New York Soundscape.

To sign up for a workshop email field.recording.workshops@gmail.com, specifying if you are reserving a space for the Brooklyn or Staten Island workshop.

Ear to the Earth is a festival and organization that highlights issues of the environment through sound and media. For its sixth annual installment, Ear to the Earth will present New York Soundscape, an event portraying the sonic life force of New York City, October 15—23, 2011. Visit www.emfproductions.org or www.eartotheearth.org for more information.

= WARM YOUR EARS =
Apply for Sounds Elemental in NYC! | December 12 - 16, 2011

The summer temperatures are climbing. You know you'll be dreaming of these days come shivery December. Make sure your ears keep warm this winter by signing up for AIR's Sounds Elemental intensive at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in NYC. It's happening December 12 - 16.

We just finished up a smashing summer session focusing on ”metal," with reviews like "…it was great to be surrounded by people who don't need an explanation for why [working with] sound is awesome" and "I feel like I have new ears for listening, a new toolkit for making sound." This time around, our focus is Wood.

Are you up for it? We're looking for ten producers open to learning unconventional approaches to assembling sound and telling story. Slots are already filling up!

THE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. <<

This opportunity may be especially appealing to those working in traditional documentary formats eager to recalibrate their orientation to sound and craft.

Producers benefit from intensely individualized attention from renowned sound artists-teachers, Harvestworks’ Hans Tammen, and public radio producer and musician Brenda Hutchinson. New York _Times_ new media editor Amy O’Leary will also lead an afternoon mini-dive into audio slideshows - called "bang on," "cutting edge," and "the highlight of the week" by participants.

The cost is $700. A non-refundable $350 deposit is required upon acceptance. AIR members who live outside of New York City are eligible for a small stipend to help underwrite the cost of the intensive and travel to NYC.

+++Attendance is mandatory for all sessions. If you are unable to attend each day of the intensive, please do not apply.+++

_Learn more:_
http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?CatID=5&PageID=562

_Listen to instructor and AIRster Brenda Hutchinson's audio montage of
Sounds Elemental: Sky:_
http://airmedia.org/AIRblast/audio/AIRmuse_April2011.mp3

_Apply:_
http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?CatID=5&PageID=563

The deadline for applications is Monday, September 26, 2011. Please feel free to forward this along to anyone who might be interested!

Questions? Contact AIR's Membership Director Erin Mishkin at erin@airmedia.org.

+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org

_Links:_
Learn more: http://airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=562
Listen: http://airmedia.org/AIRblast/audio/AIRmuse_April2011.mp3
Apply: http://airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?CatID=5&PageID=563
Harvestworks: http://www.harvestworks.org/

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Robert E. Davoli and Eileen McDonagh Charitable Foundation, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Spectral Quartet is a composition by Woody Sullender, and is a web adaptation of the project Whispering Spectres, a series of FM micro-radio transmissions originally launched in NYC in 2010.

The audio content consists of filtered radio signals, culled from various web streams from the Internet. These signals are being passed through many "band pass filters", a type of equalizer that allows a small range of frequencies through while attenuating frequencies outside of this range. In effect, most of the audio signal is "erased" except for a narrow stratum of frequency material. This work highlights small, hidden musical moments that are occurring on radio, but are usually rendered inaudible by other elements in the sound.

Although the Internet can bridge disparate communities, our experience on the web is of a customized landscape, with content tailored to our ideological views, our shopping behaviors, our socio-economic demographics, etc.. Spectral Quartet literally re-unites these voices into a singularized, aestheticized, quiet moment.

Pace Digital Gallery
163 William Street
New York, New York 10038
Opening Tuesday Apr 5th, 5 - 7pm
(artists' presentations at 5pm, reception to follow)
Exhibition runs Apr 5th - Apr 29th

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to host Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery2 with Turbulence.org
Featuring the premiere of 3 artwork commissions by Brooke Singer, Woody Sullender, and Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/

For more information, contact Woody Sullender:
woody *at* deadceo .dot com

Radius is an experimental broadcast platform located in Chicago, IL, USA.  Radius features a new project each month with statements by artists who use radio as a primary element in their work. Radius provides artists with live and experimental formats in radio programming. The goal is to support work that engages the tonal and public spaces of the electromagnetic spectrum.

More info and previous episodes at http://theradius.tumblr.com/

Radius is currently excepting work for upcoming episodes. Please contact Radius at thetheradius [at] gmail [dot] com

An abstract computer animation structured by echoing forms and sounds.

Digital Video, 2011
Running Time 04:20 minutes
Producer/ Director: Sabine Gruffat

http://www.sabinegruffat.com/echo.html

Please post, duplicate and distribute

Deadline:     March 15, 2011

Finishing Funds 2011

The Experimental Television Center is pleased to announce Finishing Funds 2011.

Guidelines and applications are available on the web at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/

Finishing Funds provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation, computer‑based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances, interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web. We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a sponsoring organization. Applicants must be residents of New York State; undergraduate students are not eligible.  The application requires a project description, resume and support materials, including a sample of the proposed project. Selection is made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year. Announcement is made in early June.

The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency.

Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2011

Guidelines and applications are now available on the web at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/ in the ETC News Section and the Grants area or by mail or email etc (at) experimentaltvcenter.org

RABID HANDS PRESENTS
SEQUENCE OF WAVES

EXHIBITION: Saturday, January 29th ONLY
HOURS: 2 pm – 9 pm
LOCATION: St. Cecelia’s Convent
21 Monitor Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
AFTER PARTY: Union Pool, back room, 9 pm
484 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
CONTACT: Rabid Hands
rabidhands@gmail.com

Rabid Hands is pleased to present Sequence of Waves, the collective’s inaugural sound, visual and multi-media art exhibition. The exhibition is open to the public for one day only, on Saturday, January 29th at St. Cecilia’s Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and will include scheduled performances. Formerly a convent and school, St. Cecilia’s Gallery is now a hub for rotating art exhibitions and film screenings, effectively bringing life back into the three-story building.

Recognizing the potential for discovery and experimentation in the St. Cecilia building, Rabid Hands has gathered over 40 artists to transform this space during their two-week residency. Given the narrow hallways and cordoned off rooms, the architecture of the building does not inherently lend itself to one large, continuous visual space, nor does it necessarily encourage group investigation. Instead of approaching the architecture as an obstacle, artists will use sound as the organizing and uniting principle. Embracing complete freedom, Rabid Hands encourages all participating artists to look beyond the confines of their personal forms and methods and merge their dialogue with the broader group. While individual works can be seen, what will emerge, more importantly, is the story of how these artists can influence the outcome of each other’s work by way of true collaboration.

Works will vary from: a “red carpet” of bubble wrap weaving through the convent’s hallways; an amalgamation of the exhibition’s microphone cords ascending a three-story tall sculpture made of found materials in the central stairwell, poised for sonic and aerial performance; a robotically controlled symphony of recordings filling the convent’s chapel with sound, as well as many other collaborative projects.

Participating artists include: Adriana Atema, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Jon Bocksel, Terence Caulkins, Skye Chamberlain, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Ryan Chin, G. Lucas Crane, Jesse Cronan, Vanessa Cronan, Alex Drewchin, Jan Drojarski, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Jessica Findley, Kendall Glover, George Graham, Doktor Greg, James Haddrill, Gaylen Hamilton, Travis Iurato, Elijah Kast, Victoria Keddie, Jesse Kreuzer, Taylor Kuffner, Roberto Lange, Steven Ma, Lili Maya, Zelijko McMullen, Steven Milton, Rob Minervini, Caleb Mitchell, Ben Mortimer, Kelly Nicholson, Ryan O’Connor, Brian Osborne, Mike O’Toole, Brandon Perry, Zac Poff, Nandan Rao, Allen Riley, John Roach, James Rouvelle, Amanda Salane, Isabella Scott, Tod Seelie, Ben Simon, Phillip Stearns, Martyna Szcz, Heidi Tullmann, Emily Willis, Ben Wolf, Nick Yulman, Tyler Zwiep.

http://www.doot.com/cecilia/about

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Spectral Influence

Sound artist Will Schrimshaw has an exhibition opening at Access Space.
His project, Spectral Influence, aims to explore the way in which the
noises and lighting of the city we occupy influences our movements and
emotional relations with urban space and the others we share this
space with.

The exhibition will preview in the Access Space foyer on Friday 28th
Jan, 5.50-8.00pm and run until the 5th March 2011.
Facebook event: http://tinyurl.com/6g4fy6g

Urban environments constantly emit vibrational forces that affect the
bodies of their occupants, whether these be auditory or
electromagnetic forces, asserting a subliminal influence upon the
movements, physiological and emotional states of citizens. In response
to these diverse vibrational influences, a spectral mapping of the
city is being carried out in relation to the human bodies that
populate it and move throughout it. Spectral Influence aims to
establish a speculative and roaming research environment through
artistic practice and the use of 'open source' tools, insinuating
itself into the city and charting the invisible yet influential
components of the landscape.

http://willschrimshaw.net

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Jake Harries
Digital Arts Programme Manager
ACCESS SPACE
Unit 1, AVEC Building
3-7  Sidney St
Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK
t: +44 (0) 114 249 5522
w: www.access-space.org
Events mailing list: http://tinyurl.com/2wpe7ts
Facebook Group: http://tinyurl.com/37j7gh4
Twitter: http://twitter.com/accessspace
Reg. Charity 1103837
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We [Ed Bear & Lea Bertucci]  will repurpose the iTrip Nano FM transmitter to function without an Apple iPod, giving the device a new life as a self contained open-source hardware platform for subversive/creative acts by selected contemporary artists. We will then compile and document the projects produced by these artists and develop a multimedia web and print catalog around the new work.  We have selected this specific outmoded device, the iTrip Nano FM transmitter, to exemplify the potential impact of re-engineering consumer devices originally destined for landfills.  At 80¢ each on Ebay, the low price creates unprecedented distribution opportunities for a low power transmitter and encourages end-user experimentation.

An express goal of this project is to empower artists with diverse technical and economic backgrounds to create works using radio. This constitutes a social experiment involving creative responses to a common tool.

The end product of the archive research and vigorous documentation will be an online and print multimedia book. The document’s purpose will be threefold: to provide detailed technical instruction for the iTrip hack, to document the resulting artists’ projects, and to provide critical and historical context to the newly created work

The occupation of the public in Hertzian space is fundamentally controlled by access to electronic technology.  To advance the practice of repurposing commercial electronics is to further the reach, relevance, and accessibility of transmission in art and society.  The proposed project will critically, materially, and publicly develop, experiment with, and codify the historical and contemporary relationship between creative electronics and transmission artists.

For more info and descriptions of projects in progress, please see: https://sites.google.com/site/exitrip2012/ and  http://www.free103point9.org/works/496
We are looking for writers to contribute on any of the following topics:

1.     Creative Electronics

2.     Transmission/Radio Art

3.     Parallels between Creative Electronics and Radio Arts

4.     Design Practices (Planned Obsolescence, consumerism etc)

7.     This project as social experiment and community building

8.     Electronic Waste/ Recycling

9.     Art Historical context (hacking, radio, trash art)

10.     Subverting corporate electronics/design to make weird stuff, violating FCC regulations, pirate radio, general naughtiness etc.

** This list is in no way all inclusive, so any topics that were not listed and are relevant to the project, please feel free to mention.

To Apply:

1.     A short summary of your essay.

2.     Proposed word count. We are offering three different word count ranges - Short: 700 - 1100 words, Medium: 1100 - 1800, Long: 1900 - 3000000000

3.     CV and links to any previous writing.

Deadline: Feb 15^th 2011. For questions, please email Edbearleab@gmail.com