Call for Submissions
Subliminal Statements: Sublunary Statements
First Issue of the Newsletter of the Society for a Subliminal State
Due November 21, 2006, Midnight

Subliminal Statements is looking for essays for the upcoming Sublunary Edition. Details follow.

THEME

The Subliminal Statements newsletter prints articles and essays on subliminal history: writing about the agency of land - a broader reality beyond that which we can see - a world in which past, present, and future combine. The theme of the first issue of the Society newsletter is "Sublunary Statements." Sublunary, meaning "beneath the moon" or "of this earth" refers to all that takes place here on the earth's surface. We want your articles about the thin slices of reality that comprise the built environment in which we live, or our everyday experience, and how these things are evidences of something else.

FORMAT

Subliminal Statements is published in newspaper format. Accordingly, we will accept articles and essays written in a style befitting a newspaper: written as though reported, brief editorials, etc. Photos, drawings, or illustrations should accompany articles only, and must be able to be printed in black and white.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Text submissions should be a maximum of 1500 words, though we will accept excerpts of longer documents. There is no minimum length. In fact, the shorter, the better. Submit your text as .rtf, .txt, or .doc files, and your images as .png, .tiff, .jpeg, or .gif (8 MB max). E-mail your submissions to subhist @ subliminalstate.org with the subject line: Subliminal Statements Submission. Your submissions must be received by midnight on November 21, 2006. If accepted, your submissions will be published in the first issue of the Society for a Subliminal State Newsletter, a newspaper-style compact format print publication, and on the Society's web site. The print version will be distributed for free to bookstores, art events and historical centers in New York. It may be downloaded and copied for wider distribution.

The upcoming edition of Two Thousand + SEVEN will once again run in parallel to the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (www.sonorities.org.uk), hosted by the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen's University Belfast (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland that presents cutting-edge new music and features some of the most thought-provoking and controversial musicians.

Call for papers/presentations:

The "object is no longer to compare humans and machines in order to evaluate the correspondences, the extensions, the possible or impossible substitutions of the one for the other, but to bring them into communication in order to show how humans are a component part of the machine, or combine with something else to constitute a machine. The other thing can be a tool, or even an animal, or other humans" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1995).1

Machinic performance, in Deleuze's and Guattari's sense, happens at multiple sites through multiple agents, both human and technological, and "to research a machinic performance implies to become part of it" (McKenzie, 2005).2

A multi-site networked music performance for example can range from performing a notated score with another musician in a remote location, improvising with other performers in different virtual spaces, playing with algorithms (the other performer could be a machine), to staging a performance in a virtual world (such as the online multi-player gaming environment Second Life). Considerations of physical and virtual space are central to any technological construct that promotes social engagement, and as music performance is a field where physical, time-based, subjective and inter-personal concerns are most apparent, it is a highly suitable activity for exploring networked environments. The questions that arise in virtual performance environments are of practical as well as of cultural nature:
• What is the performer's and audience's experience of performances in virtual environments?
• What type of language between performer and audience will (or will have to) develop in a virtual performance?
• How do instrumental/ensemble feedback performance strategies (such as breathing, eye contact or body movements) manifest themselves in virtual environments?
• How can we better understand a phenomenology of virtual performance environments?
• How do virtual music exchanges redefine ideas and definitions of the performative?
• How do virtual performance environments change our ideas of the body/instrument 'relation'?
• What are the implications for the erotics of the body in an environment that is so often characterised by an absence of tactile behaviours?
For this one-day event we invite proposals for performative and theoretical papers that elucidate issues in networked performance environments.

A maximum of 8 papers of 20 minutes duration (plus question time) will be accepted. Abstracts (max. 350 words) are due in electronic format by the 15th of December 2006. Presenters of accepted papers/presentations will be informed by the 15th of January 2007. All accepted papers will be published on the SARC site. Submissions and all queries should be directed to: f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r franzisk[at]lautnet[dot]net

WRO 07 (C): 12th International Media Art Biennale

International Competition

12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 (C) WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw, Poland announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.

The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world. The main prize is eur5000 and the total prize money awarded is eur8000.

The deadline date for entry submission is 15 February 2007. Presentation of works selected to the very final along with the international jurys announcement of competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale.

Agenda: 16 - 20 May 2007 competition, special events, symposium; 16 May - 17 June 2007 exhibition. National Museum in Wroclaw, WRO Art Center.

Bang on a Can is on the lookout for the newest and most adventurous new music from around the world. Bang on a Can organizes and sponsors a wide variety of events and concerts, including an all-day Marathon of new music. Every year, we present pieces we have discovered through our annual call for tapes at our events. We are looking for music for the Bang on a Can Marathon, People's Commissioning Fund, and other concerts. Instrumentation can be for small ensembles, composer-performers , our ensemble - the Bang on a Can All-Stars (cello, percussion, piano, electric guitar, bass, clarinets) or any other instrumentation.

Please send cassette tapes or CD's (no scores). Include on the tape the name of the work, its instrumentation and duration, the name(s) of the performer(s) and the composer's name, address, phone number, and email address. DATs and videos are also okay. Due to the large volume of tapes we receive, we cannot return submissions. If we choose your material, we will contact you. Send tapes/CD's to Bang on a Can, 80 Hanson Place, 7th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217 USA; please clearly mark package "Open Call for Music." Open Call is a rolling process... Before every major event that Bang on a Can plans, all Open Call submissions that have been received are listened to. Feel free to send your material at any point and know that we will listen to everything."

from REC Networks:

In a landmark decision, the FCC has granted a waiver of several rules to Thin Air Community Radio, licensee of KYRS-LP in Spokane, WA. The station, currently faced with encroachment from a metro move by a station in Idaho was looking for creative solutions to keep the station on the air. Under the existing rules, the statation was deadlocked as there were no alternate channels available. Thin Air has filed for 89.9 (Ch. 210) at it's licensed site. The proposed facility was second adjacent short spaced to KEWU-FM, Cheney, WA. Using methodology from the translator rules, Thin Air was able to show that the 130.5 dBu interfering contour only extended 22 meters from the transmitter. Thin Air entered into an agreement with Eastern Washington University, licensee of KEWU-FM with specific conditions on the handling of interference. The proposed facility was also short spaced under the LPFM rules to KHQ-TV Channel 6. In this case, Thin Air applied regular non-commercial FM rules and used vertical polarization to show that the station would not interfere with Channel 6 in Spokane. Thin Air reached an interference agreement similar to what they reached with KEWU-FM. KHQ plans to vacate Channel 6 to move to Channel 7 for the DTV transition as noted in their First Channel Election filing.
In its decision, the FCC stated:
Section 632(a)(2)(A) prohibits the Commission from eliminating or reducing the third-adjacent channel protections required by paragraph (a)(1)(A). Congress did not impose a similar prohibition with regard to second-adjacent channel separation requirements. Moreover, Congress is well aware of the Commission's judicially-endorsed "good cause" waiver standard. In these circumstances, we conclude that Section 632 bars the Commission from granting third-adjacent channel rule waivers only.

The United States will spend $465 million beaming freedom signals to Cuba in 2007, and virtually no one will see or hear the U.S. propaganda, according to Vincent Parascandolo from the Center for International Policy. Parascandolo quotes Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, who said in 2000, "For nine and a half million dollars in the coming fiscal year, $139 million over the last decade, another hundred million dollars over the next decade, we ask Cubans to get up in the middle of the night to watch snow on a blank screen. This makes no sense at all."

From Media Network weblog:

Vincent Parascandolo, a research assistant at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC writes: “Of all the resources spent on US policy toward Cuba, Radio and TV Martí are probably two of the most egregious examples of wasted taxpayer money - nearly a half-billion dollars squandered on television and radio transmissions to the island and reaching virtually no audience.” In a commentary published in the Fort Lauderdale newspaper Sun-Sentinel, Parascandolo says that “TV Martí seems to be a matter of giving the BBG and its staff extra jobs and salaries, and pandering to voters in Miami, which helps win elections in Florida.”

Hillsborough County Sheriffs arrested 20-year-old Marjorie Voltaire in Tampa on October 12 for operating a radio station.

The sheriff's press release says, "Responding to a complaint from the Federal Communications Commission, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at 13410 La Place Circle #127 around 11:30 p.m. on October 12, 2006. Marjorie Voltaire was arrested for unauthorized transmission of a radio broadcast. Voltaire had been transmitting music over an FM band without a license. Radio transmissions were being broadcast at the time detectives entered the apartment."

Baynews9.com reports that Voltaire was released on $2,000 bond and was, "charged with unauthorized radio transmission, which is a third-degree felony." The St. Petersburg Times reports, "deputies served a search warrant at Voltaire's apartment. They found $10,000 worth of broadcasting equipment and a large antennae, said Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway....Voltaire, who has no criminal record in Florida, is Haitian, and she set up the station about a month ago, Callaway said."

Florida and New Jersey recently made it a state crime to operate a radio station without a license.

New York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will, 36, was shot in the chest Friday covering protests in Oaxaca City, Mexico. He died before reaching the hospital, according to La Jornada. Oswaldo Ramirez, a photographer from the newspaper Milenio Diario, who was at Will's side, was shot in the foot and reported injured, his status unknown, according to NYC Indymedia reports. Will was a Steal This Radio (Lower East Side, 88.7-FM) alum, according to Al Giordano at Narco News. Even the Associated Press is pointing fingers at the police, and there seems to be many photos, and, presumably, the video footage Will was shooting at the time. Other reports on the NYC Indymedia site say that three others are dead, and a Radio Universidad member was injured. Radio APPO, the radio of the Assembly Popular of the Oaxacan People, are reporting truckloads of armed paramilitaries entering the city. Listen to Spanish feed:
Radio APPO.

Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps attended a "Town Hall/Public Hearing on the Future of Diversity in the Nation’s Media" Oct. 19 at Hunter College. WFMU has a three-hour recording of the proceedings, including these highlights:

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein's comments - 14:32
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' comments - 26:16
An elderly lady sticks it to The Man - 1:27:42
Afrika Bambaattaa testimony - 2:05:09
Take-the-airwaves-away-from-those-obscene-media-molesters rant - 2:35:28
Well-spoken teen waxes eloquent: hip-hop on the radio and institutionalized power hierarchies - 2:37:55

Two groups released studies this week about media consolidation.

On Wednesday the Media and Democracy Coalition released a series of reports focusing on the economic effects of industry consolidation in twelve states. Not surprisingly they find that media consolidation is bad. The coalition includes groups such as Free Press, the Benton Foundation, the Alliance for Community Media and the Prometheus Radio Project. The report said, "The research finds that in every one of those states, most citizens already live in highly concentrated media markets with few choices for news and views. More media mergers in these highly concentrated markets will reduce already insufficient local news coverage and eliminate diverse voices and viewpoints and, in every case, exceed US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Merger Guidelines."

The Benton group and the Social Science Research Council released four other reports on the impact of media consolidation in the U.S. The reports said, "The studies focus on how the concentration of media ownership affect media content, from local news reporting to radio music programming and how minority groups have fared – as both media outlet owners and as historically-undeserved audiences -- in an increasingly deregulated media environment. These studies make clear that media consolidation does not correlate with better, more local or more diverse media content. To the contrary, they strongly suggest that media ownership rules should be tightened not relaxed."

From Mediageek: "The background to the release of all these reports is that initial public comments to the FCC on its media ownership proceeding [were due] Monday, Oct. 23. And, yet, the FCC has held only one of its promised six public hearings on the topic, and released zero of its own research reports that were promised."

DIY Media is one of the few outlets that cover all sorts of pirate radio activity, including the illegal actions of radio corporations.

Recently, they have reported that, "XM and Sirius admitted to selling souped-up in-car transceivers that operated beyond acceptable FCC power levels... XM Satellite Radio now reports that its terrestrial-based network of repeater-transmitters -- designed to bolster its space-based coverage pattern, especially in urban areas -- has not only been operating at excessive power, but on unauthorized frequencies."

Many of the "souped-up in-car transceivers" and other devices meant to send an audio signal from something like an iPod to a radio are slightly above FCC "Part 15" regulations. No one would buy them if they were weak enough to be legal. (You can expose the antennae in these devices to make them slightly more powerful.) So the crimes of these satellite radio corporations aren't that unusual. XM, though, admitting to setting up pirate radio stations all over the country is a different story. The National Association of Broadcasters and National Publc Radio (especially hard-hit because most of the small transmitters use lower-FM frequencies like NPR stations) are both complaining to the FCC.

DIYmedia also reports, "Last year the FCC issued several Notices of Apparent Liability to several cross-border companies in southern California. These companies were using unlicensed microwave data links to connect corporate and production facilities... [using] unlicensed studio-to-transmitter (STL) links to connect studios in the U.S. with transmitters in Tijuana. Both of them claimed they were operating under the counsel of the FCC's International Bureau, which assured them they didn't need licenses anymore to operate the links. The Enforcement Bureau called that counsel 'misplaced' and 'mistaken.'" The two stations were fined $68,000.

New Jersey Christian radio station WAWZ (99.1-FM) recently mailed a postcard to listeners asking them to help fight the Carribean "pirate" radio stations in Brooklyn that are also using the 99.1-FM frequency. "We Need Your Help!," the station's web site says. "It has come to our attention that someone is broadcasting a different format illegally on the same frequency as STAR 99.1 FM. Your immediate response and cooperation are needed to help us resolve this issue, so that you can once again enjoy the family friendly programming of STAR 99.1." Legal New Haven-based WPLR also interferes with the Zarephath, New Jersey-based WAWZ's reception in New York City.

Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps -- who stopped at Hunter College in New York last week -- take their traveling public hearing roadshow to Oakland Oct. 27 at the Oakland Marriott, Broadway at 10th Street. Get there by 5 p.m. to comment on FCC deregulation and other topics.

Protest Academy / Station Vienna
Call for Tactical Audio Submissions
Deadline: 01. November 2006
11. November 2006, 2 p.m.
Protest Academy Workshop, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Until November 1, 2006, Protest Academy by London-based artist Paula
Roush/msdm, is looking for sound works made out of field recordings,
found sounds, auditory interventions, activated soundscapes,
performed sound walks, pirate broadcasts, sonic tools and other
experimental formats on the theme of Tactical Audio. Contributions
will be collected for an online archive on http://protest-
academy.msdm.org.uk/.

msdm's Protest Academy, hosted by the exhibition EAR APPEAL in the
Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, extends the Academy in Austria for
the first time. http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/2/frame.htm The
collaborative Academy was launched in London in February-March 2005
as a performative archive, which is structured into a four part
collective score of the academy's inaugural lecture titled: 'What are
we doing? What's happening to us? What needs to be done? I prefer not
to'

On November 11, 2006, 2pm the contributors to Tactical Audio are
cordially invited to present and discuss their submissions during the
Protest Academy Workshop, facilitated by Paula Roush/msdm, at
Kunsthalle Exnergasse. The idea is to generate a further station of
the performative archive in situ, investigating the sound of protest
from the perspective and situation in Vienna. Interested visitors/
listeners are welcomed!

According to the submissions until November 1 and the workshop on November 11, the radio contribution I LOST MY VOICE TODAY on November 12, 2006 on Ö1 Kunstradio will consist of submissions of the Call for Tactical Audio for the Protest Academy / Station Vienna and a selection of the already archived Tactical Audio of the Protest Academy. http://www.kunstradio.at

From REC Network:

Effective 30 days from publication in the Federal Register, the FCC has made some sweeping changes to the Amateur Radio service. This includes changes in frequency privileges. The new band changes are as follows:
- 80 and 75 meters: Phone band now goes down to 3800 for General, 3700 for Advanced and 3600 for Extra. Top end of CW/Digital is now 3600. Novice and Tech Plus now has 3525-3600 for CW only.
- 40 meters: Phone band now goes down to 7175 for General and 7125 for Advanced and Extra. Novice and Tech Plus now has 7025-7125 for CW only.
- 15 meters: Phone band now goes down to 21275 for General. No changes to Advanced or Extra. Novice and Tech Plus now has 21025-21200 for CW only.
- 10 meters: Novice and Tech Plus now has 28000-28300 for CW and Digital modes. (They still have 28300-28500 for phone).
For more information on the rest of the provisions of the new amateur radio rules, see the FCC's Report and Order.

The residency will run from May 1, 2007- April 1, 2008. Application Deadline: December 15, 2006. Applications will be accepted online beginning November 1, 2006. Images may be uploaded from November 1 until December 15 through the Smack Mellon website.

The 2007/2008 Studio Program will be housed on the lower level of Smack Mellon’s newly renovated building at 92 Plymouth Street.

Smack Mellon offers free studio space to eligible artists for a one-year period. The program provides artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space and a $5000 fellowship (dependent upon funding). The program does not provide living space. Artists also have access to shared facilities that include a fabrication shop, 2 G5 workstations for video editing, DVD burner and CD read/write capabilities, 2 emacs, flatbed and slide scanners, DVD players, projectors and monitors, wireless internet access and technical support.

Studios range in size from 250 to 300 square feet. Not all studios have windows. Artists will not be permitted to choose their studio. Artists who are accepted into the program must be prepared to actively use their studio a minimum of 50 hours a month or they will lose it. Artists may not accept a residency at another studio program during the same time as their Smack Mellon residency.

Longtime Tampa-based talk show host Bob Lassiter died last week, and free103point9 co-conspirator Michael Poole ("The Professor") has an exhaustive obituary up on the WFMU blog. Lassiter's Lenny Bruce/Lester Bangs brilliance was first noticed on a WKRP-like station called WPLP in the late '80s. Back then, his evening show had a cast of regular call-in freaks (one was a lawyer named "Lionel," actually Michael LeBron, who eventually got his own talk show in Tampa, and, since the early '90s, in New York City). Lassiter later failed in Chicago, and then came back to Tampa for shows of varying quality. Poole's story is complete with links to sound files, and other info about an incredibly direct, acerbic, and hilarious talk show host. He was 61.

Canadian Association for Sound Ecology presents
The Soundscape in Our Landscape

What: 3rd Haliburton Soundscape Retreat / the Soundscape in our Landscape
When: November 24-26, 2006
Speakers: R. Murray Schafer, Bernie Krause, Andrea Dancer, Kristi Allik & Robert Mulder
Deadline: registrations must be received by November 7th, 2006
(note: limited available spots)

The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology invites you to participate in its 3rd Haliburton Soundscape Retreat.

The weekend long retreat will take place at the Haliburton Wildlife Reserve on the weekend of November 24-26, 2006 and will include lectures/talks on the theme “the Soundscape in our Landscape” along with ear-cleaning exercises, show-and-tell sessions for participants and outdoor soundwalks.

Friday evening: a chance to meet all the registrants and speakers and a show-and-tell for those participants who would like to share their research and artistic works with those present.

Saturday: Bernie Krause (www.wildsanctuary.com) will discuss his research into bio-acoustics and his recent Arctic Soundscape Project. Kristi Allik & Robert Mulder will discuss their recent work in Labrador on disappearing soundscapes and the use of soundscape in their site-specific and new media work. Murray Schafer will take us on a soundwalk which will include a site-visit to the latest venue for his Patria cycle. The evening will include more show-and-tell time for those participants who would like to share their research and artistic works with those present.

Sunday: Will begin with a soundwalk/performance and continue with a talk by Murray Schafer about his use of the environment in the Patria Cycle. Andrea Dancer will discuss her research into education with regards to sound ecology. This will be followed by discussion and suggestions for future CASE educational projects.

Registration fees for the retreat are $195 (CDN) for CASE/WFAE members and $225 for non-CASE/WFAE members. The registration fee covers meals and accommodation for the retreat. The non-CASE/WFAE rate provides the participant with membership in CASE or WFAE for one year which includes receiving the bi-annual publication Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. For more information e-mail case@magma.ca or call 416-910-7231.

In order to register, please print out and fax or mail back the form below with your registration information and payment. Registrations must be received by November 7th and space is limited.



Canadian Association for Sound Ecology
c/o Musicworks Magazine
401 Richmond Street West #358, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8


Haliburton Soundscape Retreat Registration Form
Deadline to receive registrations is November 7, 2006

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Please provide on a separate sheet of paper a 50-word summary of your ‘show and tell’ presentation, if you wish to do one, and/or a 50-word summary of any project ideas you would like to propose. Note: there are a limited number of ‘show and tell’ spots available and we will be offering this on a first come first served basis.

Registrations should be submitted to: The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology, c/o Musicworks, 401 Richmond Street West #358, Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8, Canada. You can also fax this form along with your VISA number to 905-454-7662. Registration fees for the retreat are $195 (CDN) for CASE/WFAE members and $225 for non-CASE/WFAE members.

Payment can be made by cheque, money order, Visa or Mastercard. Please make cheque or money order payable to The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology.

From Media Network weblog:

The website of Radio Habana Cuba reports that Cuba has again denounced at the United Nations what it calls ”the growing US radio and television aggressions against the island.” The website says that Cuba’s Alternate Ambassador to the UN, Ileana Nuñez, made the denunciation during a speech at the Fourth Commission of the General Assembly dealing with issues related to Information.

The website continues: “She pointed out that Washington’s radio and television aggressions have been underway for years and have increased since August with the use of a G-1 plane to increase its television transmissions from one to six a week.”

According to Radio Habana, “The Cuban diplomat pointed out that the US radio electronic war against Cuba directly violates international telecommunications agreements. Nuñez added that each week, right-wing radio stations in the US transmit more than 2,240 hours of radio and television towards Cuba on 30 different frequencies. Some of these radio stations belong to the US government and others belong to or offer their services to organizations linked to terrorists that work against Cuba in the United States, with the total knowledge of US authorities.”

The FCC announced today that it moved a "Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture" to a "Forfeiture Order" against Shawn Deroux for operating a radio station at 87.9-FM in the Bronx without a license.

That means Deroux isn't paying his $10,000 fine, and the FCC is slowly stepping up their efforts to get him to pay. Many Haitian pirates in New York City operate just below the bottom of the dial, which is 88.0-FM on many radios. Some, however, can tune a little below 88, and even pick up 87.7. You can also hear 87.7 "pirates" on your television, on channel six.