ISAC 2023 - International Sonosfera® Ambisonics Competition “Eugenio Giordani”

[Carmine Emanuele Cella]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

ISAC 2023

International Sonosfera® Ambisonics Competition “Eugenio Giordani”
1st call for submission of 3D-audio electroacoustic compositions 

Awards ceremony and concert - 9th June 2023

Pesaro, ITALY

https://isac-pesaro.github.io/

First Prize         € 2500

Second Prize     € 1000

Third Prize        € 500

(+ expenses for 3 days in Pesaro-Italy) 

DEADLINES:

Submission: March 28th 2023

Result: May 5th 2023 

Award Ceremony: June 9th 2023

CALL (see THIS PDF)

ISAC competition calls for outstanding 3D-audio works created for full-sphere reproduction, for an acousmatic or audio-visual listening experience.
Requested works will have to be presented in 6th order Ambisonics format - maximum duration of 10 minutes. (See pdf for specifics)

Candidates can submit their works exclusively online. The procedure starts by sending an email indicating name, nationality and age of the candidate to the following email address: isac....@gmail.com

A response with a link to a Google Drive private folder (were the candidate can upload all his material) will be sent to his email address. Every candidate can modify his folder until the end of the call. The Steering Committee will process all submissions in order to eliminate any reference to candidates’ names and data, and will send to the International Jury only the compositions for blinded judgment. The requested material will have to include:

1) PDF 1 — Program notes (with no reference to the name of the candidate) including:

- Title (and subtitle if applicable)
- Duration (max 10.00 min.)
- Short synopsis with any information on poetics and compositional strategies - Technical information including photos (if relevant) and original spatialization techniques used

2) PDF 2 — Name with short bio and/or extended CV
3) WAV file — 6th order Ambisonics ACN-SN3D, 48kHz-24bit

CATEGORIES

A) Acousmatic

1. Electroacoustic Music
2. Soundscape Composition

B) Integrated Audio/visual 

Juries

There will be two different juries. A Steering Committee will pre-select compositions on the base of eligibility, technical feasibility, aesthetics and potential result in Sonosfera®. A Guest Jury will select winners from a short list of best suited compositions.

Guest International Jury: Natasha Barrett - President (Norway), Chris Chafe (CCRMA - USA), Rainer Kern (Germany), Otolab (Italy), Barry Truax (SFU - Canada). 

Steering Committee: Nicola Casetta, Carmine Emanuele Cella, Tommaso Giunti, David Monacchi, Alessandro Petrolati. 

Sonosfera® Curators: David Monacchi, Daniele Vimini

Best,

ISAC-2023 Steering Committee