Call for Performances, Installations, Papers

In order to see and hear divergent views of practitioners on the topic of The Body’s Music, the 2012 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music will be focusing on innovative relationships between music and the body. In particular, we are seeking proposals that provocatively explore the combination of body and technology, while delving into the sonic world of the body itself. We are interested in proposals that render audible (and visual) the human body, and thus we invite artists from diverse backgrounds who engage in making music/sounds with and through their bodies to share their works and views.

We are now accepting proposals for performances, installations, as well as theoretical papers that address the theme of The Body's Music.

Please note that all cost for the attendance at Sonorities will need to be covered by the participants themselves. The Sonorities Festival has no funding in place to cover fees for musicians, travel, or accommodation. Letters of invite can be supplied if participants wish to source their own funding.

Please Email sonorities@qub.ac.uk if you require a letter of support/invite from the festival.

 

Paper Submissions:

 

The international symposia series, Two Thousand +, which has been running alongside the festival since 2006, will be dedicated to theme of The Body's Music. For the symposium, we seek paper proposals from diverse performance practitioners (from music, dance, theatre and new media) and theorists that put the human body at the centre of their practices.

The symposium will accept proposals for 20-minute paper sessions as well as 40-minute roundtable discussions, which might consist of a panel with several practitioners.

Please send a single text (.doc .pdf) document that includes your name, email and an abstract for the proposed paper/round table to sonorities@qub.ac.uk. Please use the tag [Paper Submission] in the "subject" field.

For more information on the Two Thousand + series please visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/sonorities/symposium/

 

Music Submissions:

 

We welcome works by composers/performers, improvisers, new media and sound artists.

Submissions should be a single compressed file (.zip .rar etc.) including the following:

1 Text document that includes full name of artist/group, contact email, short (100 words) bio, piece duration, technical requirements and programme note (100 words).

 

Media: Standard sound, video or image files that clearly showcase the piece being submitted.

 

We encourage digital submissions using any of the widely available file transfer services (minus, Dropbox, youSendit, Ubuntu One, etc.). Please send a link to your uploaded files to sonorities@qub.ac.uk using the tag [Open Fader] in the "subject" field. Please note that we will not accept streaming files as submissions.

Alternatively you can send a CD or DVD with materials including short bio and programme note (Word Doc or PDF) to the following address.

Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2012

Sonic Arts Research Centre

Queen's University Belfast

Belfast BT7 1NN

Northern Ireland

 

Sub-themes:

 

The human body as primary musical instrument

Music that performs, or is performed by the body

The body as sound source

The body as percussion instrument

The body as kinetic controller and as data-source

Biomusic: biologically created/biologically inspired music/sounds

Music and biosignals, including physical indicators of emotion

Music Performance

Sound Installations

 

Extended Deadline for Submissions (Papers and Performances)

 

Sunday 4th December 2011.

Accepted Submissions confirmed, week of 19th December 2011.

 

Contacts:

 

 

Specific queries can be directed to:

Artistic Director: Franziska Schroeder (f.schroeder@qub.ac.uk)

Assistant Director: Miguel Ortiz Perez (m.ortiz@qub.ac.uk)

General Enquiries (venue, travel)

Marian Hanna (m.hanna@qub.ac.uk)