Subject: CALL BEAST FEaST 2016 Call for Works/Talks
Von: Scott Wilson
Datum: 1. September 2015
BEAST FEaST 2016 – Real/Unreal
Thursday 28 – Friday 30 April 2016
The University of Birmingham, UK
CALL FOR WORKS / TALKS
BEAST invites you to three days of music, meeting, and ideas. As part of
this event, we invite submissions in the form of musical works and
presentations. These may include anything to do with electronic music or
related fields, but in particular we invite submissions relating in some
way to the following theme:
Real/Unreal
Electronic music exists across the boundary of the physical and the
virtual. The word electroacoustic highlights this contrast, with analog
and digital signals necessarily making the transition between electrical
representation and acoustic reality. Dualities of this nature are
central to practice and thought: concrete/electronic,
insubstantial/solid, acousmatic/synthesised, imaginary/real,
natural/synthetic, abstract/representative, truth/lies, etc., etc.
BEAST FEaST 2016 invites contributions which in some way explore,
exacerbate, blur or dissolve all of these intriguing, challenging,
(ir)relevant, and potentially false oppositions.
MUSICAL SUBMISSIONS
Works/performances of electronic music of any style are welcome. Of
particular interest are works for large numbers of channels, but we will
try to accommodate the technical requirements of any accepted work.
Works involving video are welcome, as are works involving live
performance (including instrumentalists), but note that any costs or
fees arising from including performers may need to be borne by the
submitter. Installation submissions are also welcome. While there is no
hard limit on duration, submitters should understand that for practical
reasons, we will be more likely to be able to include shorter works than
longer ones. As well, since we feel that community is a crucial part of
BEAST FEaST, we will prioritise works by artists who can commit to
attending the festival. Works not programmed in BEAST FEaST 2016 may be
included in other BEAST events in this or future seasons.
Online submission system (includes sample system schematics):
https://bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/beastfeast-2016-musicsubs
TALK SUBMISSIONS
For this year we are inviting informal talks in the tradition of TED.
Academic topics are welcome, as are intellectually demanding ones, but
should be pitched for the festival audience rather than a group of
scholars. Talks should be 20 mins in duration, or multiples thereof. The
BEASTdome system (30+ channel periphonic setup) will be available for
these presentations, so multichannel demonstrations are possible and
welcome.
Online submission system:
https://bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/beastfeast-2016-paper
DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Saturday 30 September 2015
Info: beast@contacts.bham.ac.uk (submissions sent to this address rather
than the online system will not be accepted)