Subject: call for works for NYCEMF 2015
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014
From: CEC
Announcing the
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
June 22-28, 2015
The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival solicits works for
its Festival in June, 2015. The festival will take place at
the_Abrons Arts Center_ , and other
locations throughout New York City. Details of the festival are shown
below. Our web site,_http://www.nycemf.org/_, is now open for
submissions.
Call for Works
Composers may submit works in any the following categories:
Works for recorded media alone with up to eight channels
Works involving live electronics, including computer
processing and laptop orchestras
Works combining musical instruments or voices with recorded
media or live electronics
Video and multimedia works
Installations involving music or video
Deadline:December 5, 2014
Entry fee: none
Composers whose works are accepted will have to pay a
registration fee of approximately $150, which will entitle them to
free admission to all events at the Festival. Attendance is not
required, but even if the composers do not attend, the fee must still
be paid.
Individuals may submit one or two works, provided that the
second submission is five minutes or less. Individuals may also submit
an installation or a proposal for a curated concert.
Works in progress will be considered if a substantial part
of the work is complete. In any case, the duration stated in your
application cannot be exceeded. Works of any length may be submitted,
but only a limited number of works longer than 15 minutes will be
accepted.
Composers whose works are accepted will have to pay a
registration fee of approximately $150, which will entitle them to
free admission to all events at the Festival. Attendance is not
required, but even if the composers do not attend, the fee must still
be paid.
Works involving instrumentalists where the composer is
unable to provide the player will be accepted provisionally, subject
to our ability to find a performer.
The composer should provide all non-standard equipment
required for the work’s presentation.
Works of any length may be submitted, but only a limited
number of works longer than 15 minutes will be accepted.
Incomplete or preliminary versions of works may be
submitted, but accepted works cannot exceed the duration indicated at
the time of submission, and the final versions cannot be substantially
different from the versions submitted. Stereo versions of
multichannel works must be submitted.
Submission of media files may be done in one of the
following ways:
Submit the media online with your application.
For large media files, send the files via a delivery service
such as Hightail (https://www.hightail.com/) or WeTransfer
(https://www.wetransfer.com/), along with a PDF copy of the submission
form (saved after completion online), to the email
addresssubmissions@nycemf.org .
For files greater than 2 GB, you may mail the media, along
with a printed copy of the submission form (printed after completion
online), to:
NYCEMF 2015
c/o Prof. Hubert Howe
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College
Queens, NY 11367
U.S.A.
Materials will not be returned.
3D Spatialization Lab
A special room will be equipped with an array of 16 speakers, 8 in the
usual surround sound configuration and 8 at a higher level, allowing
sound to be spatialized in three dimensions. The audience will be
seated in the center of the space. We solicit works that will take
advantage of these resources, and we encourage works that use the full
16-channel capability as well as octaphonic works. We will allow
composers whose works are played in this space additional tech time to
plan their diffusions. Only multi-channel electroacoustic works will
be played in this space, not works involving musical instruments or video.
Performers
Featured performer:Gianni Trovalusci
,/flute/
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Other featured performers:
_Mari Kimura_ ,/violin/
_Esther Lamneck_ ,/clarinet/
tárogató/
_Madeleine Shapiro_
,/cello/
These performers will be available at the festival. Works are
solicited that feature these instruments.
Individual Presentations
In addition to musical works, we will also consider individual
presentations that may consist of many different kinds of activities
such as paper and piece presentations, “musicological” discussions of
electroacoustic musical issues, analyses of compositions of historical
importance including electroacoustic music “classics,” papers, or
other ideas.
Galleries
The Abrons Arts Center includes several galleries that will be
suitable for audio and video installations in larger spaces than are
usually available for festivals of this kind, including a large
outdoor amphitheater. We encourage site-specific proposals to take
advantage of these resources.
Call for Curated Concerts
Proposals are also invited for the presentation of an entire concert,
not to exceed 52 minutes in duration of music. These concerts
represent an opportunity for someone to put together an entire concert
consisting of works of their choice. The concert should be organized
around a theme or idea, and they may include works of historical
importance as well as more recent works. A performer may also propose
a concert that he or she will play. The only limitation is that no
more than one work by an individual composer may be included. The
registration fee for these concerts will be higher than for individual
submissions.
Emeritus Professor Hubert S. Howe, Jr.
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College C.U.N.Y.
Flushing, NY 11367-1597