Subject: OS Issue 21.2 Call – Extended deadline
From: Leigh Landy
Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology
Call for submissions
Volume 21, Number 2
Issue thematic title –Situating the Avant-Garde: conformity and
oppositional culture.
Date of publication: August 2016
Extended submission deadline: 22 January 2016
Issue co-ordinators: Monty Adkins
and Ambrose Field
Independent artistic practitioners, empowered by technology, have
radically changed the digital arts climate in western societies over the
last twenty years. In this issue we tackle some of the more awkward
questions that have resulted from a changing dynamic where the aesthetic
remits of independent commercial work and scholarship have intermingled.
Creating music which inhabits a space between intellectually informed
artwork and public media product is a contemporary challenge. We are
calling for articles and case-studies on how composers have chosen to
meet the challenge of changing markets for electroacoustic music and
sound art, with reference to their own practice and the work of others
in contemporary digital culture. What are the distinctions between
creating art music for the concert hall and the imperatives of running a
small business? For self-employed musicians, or those running small
businesses, can financial stability be found within carefully made
aesthetic choices? What are the impacts for institutional music research
and for the contemporary music public of changes in accessible technologies?
In this issue, we ask vital broad questions. We seek to assess what
happens when oppositional cultures, often initially positioned directly
against academic scholarship, become commonplace and adopted within
institutions? We seek to review the role of the institution. How can
institutions drive radically new cultural development, rather than
offering reactionary responses to independent commercial experimental
artwork, or falling back on past models and aesthetics?
This issue actively seeks discussion of these questions and themes, with
a focus on contemporary practice within the digital arts both within,
and outside, the institution.
Subjects might included, but are not restricted to:
the bedroom avant-garde
post-laptop music and the resurgence of modular synth
the role of the institution in the contemporary avant-garde
redefining the institution in digital music education – facilitator,
educator or reactionary
new composition in digital music practice
aesthetics of post-acousmatic music
listening, performing and the user – our changing role with technology
and the sonic arts
experimental digital music aesthetics in the 21st century
oppositional culture in contemporary electronic music
the rise and fall of the digital super-group
As always, submissions related to the theme are encouraged; however,
those that fall/outside/the scope of this theme are/always/welcome.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 22 January2016
SUBMISSION FORMAT:
Notes for Contributors and further details can be obtained from the
inside back cover of published issues of/Organised Sound/or at the
following url:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=OSO&type=ifc
download the pdf)
Properly formatted email submissions and general queries should be sent
to:os(at)dmu(dot)ac(dot)uk
not to the guest editors.
Hard copy of articles and images (only when requested) and other
material (e.g., sound and audio-visual files, etc. –normally max.
15’sound files or 8’movie files) should be submitted to:
Prof. Leigh Landy
Organised Sound
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH,_UK_.
Editor: Leigh Landy
Associate Editors: Ross Kirk and Richard Orton†
Regional Editors: Ricardo Dal Farra, Jøran Rudi, Margaret Schedel, Barry
Truax, Ian Whalley, David Worrall, Lonce Wyse
International Editorial Board: Marc Battier, Manuella Blackburn, Joel
Chadabe, Alessandro Cipriani, Simon Emmerson, Kenneth Fields, Rajmil
Fischman, Eduardo Miranda, Rosemary Mountain, Tony Myatt, Jean-Claude
Risset, Mary Simoni, Martin Supper, Daniel Teruggi