NYCEMF solicits works for June 2014 festival

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    From: Hubert S Howe <Huber...@qc.cuny.edu>

    Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 17:15:54 +0000

    See http://nycemf.org for deadline date and current updates!

Announcing the

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

June 2-8, 2014

The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival solicits works for its

Festival in June, 2014.  The festival will take place at the Abrons Arts

Center  (http://www.abronsartscenter.org), and other locations throughout

New York City.  Details of the festival are shown below.  This web site

will open for submissions soon.

Call for Works

Composers may submit one work 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

Works of any length may be submitted, but only a limited number of works

longer than 15 minutes will be accepted.

Composers may submit one additional work in any of the above categories

if it is a "miniature" (under five minutes in length).

There is no fee for submission, but composers whose works are accepted

will have to pay a registration fee, which will entitle them to free

admission to all events at the Festival.  Attendance is not required,

but if the composers do not attend, the fee must still be paid.

All works must be uploaded by the persons submitting the pieces on line.

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 may be submitted.

3D Spatialization Lab

During the 2014 festival, 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: Francesco Prode (http://www.francescoprode.com), piano

  Francesco Prode will play a concert of electroacoustic music with piano.

Other featured performers:

  Mari Kimura (http://www.marikimura.com/main.html), violin

  Esther Lamneck (https://files.nyu.edu/el2/public), clarinet/tarogato

  Madeleine Shapiro (http://www.modernworks.com/musicians/shapiro.html), cello

These performers will be available at the festival, although they will

not present an entire program.  Works are solicited that feature these

instrume nts.

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

(718) 997-3865