David Egan
Posted in Electronic Art 1st year, Sound art on September 9th, 2009Here is some of my process work for my interface project..
Drawing about sound, sound about drawing 2009 Read the rest of this entry »
Here is some of my process work for my interface project..
Drawing about sound, sound about drawing 2009 Read the rest of this entry »
As part of the Australia Council’s Opportunities for Young and
Emerging Artists (OYEA) initiative, 10 paid mentorships for emerging
producers, agents, gallery dealers and rights managers are available
for a period of 18 months under the ‘emerging producers mentorship
program’.
The selected candidates will have the opportunity to work directly
alongside one of the following industry leaders:
Elizabeth Walsh, Artistic Director, 10 days on the Island, TAS
Marguerite Pepper, Managing Director, Marguerite Pepper Productions,
NSW
Steven Pozel, Director, Object : Australian Centre for Craft and
Design, NSW
Daniel Brine, Director, The Performance Space, NSW
Clive Newman, Manager, Fremantle Press, WA
John Oster, Executive Officer, desART : Association of Central
Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Centers, NT
Michael Heyward, Publisher, Text Publishing, VIC
Lee-Anne Donnolley, Executive Producer, Arts Projects Australia, SA
Rob Gebart, Program Manger, The Arts Centre, VIC
Bill Hauritz, Festival Director, Woodford Folk Festival, QLD
More information and application forms can be found on:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/oyeaproducermentors
or email Olivia Parker at the Australia Council:
o.parker@australiacouncil.gov.au
Or try this link to OYEA main page:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/the_arts/features/$6.6m_program_for_young_and_emerging_artists
and click on the link “Producers - the next generation of arts professionals”
You can access the streaming media here:
UCDARNET SOUND + SCIENCE
Thursday - Friday, March 5-6, 2009, 9am-7pm
Location: UCLA, California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium
WEB http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/ <http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/>
Organized and Curated by Tyler Adams

A trans-disciplinary exploration of scientific research and technological breakthroughs concerned with sound, hearing and aurality. Guest speakers include Curtis Roads (UCSB), Diana Deutsch (UCSD), Douglas Kahn (UCD) and Veit Erlmann. For more information and a complete schedule and list of speakers, please visit the above website.
All events take place in the Auditorium of the California NanoSystems Insitute at UCLA
Thursday, March 5th, 2009:
9am - 10am Morning Reception & Opening Statement Tyler Adams UCLA Art | Sci Center
10am - 11am When sounds collide: Environmental influences on the evolution of acoustic communication Peter Narins UCLA Dept of Physiological Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
11am - 12pm The sound of fear: implications of alarm calling and predator detection for conservation biology and national security Daniel Blumstein UCLA Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
12pm - 1pm Sounding out the Matter Market Ricardo Dominguez UC San Diego Dept of Visual Arts
1pm - 2pm Lunch Break
2pm - 3pm Communicating the science of the solar wind using sounds from satellite data Laura Peticolas UC Berkeley Space Physics Research Group
3pm - 4pm The computer as an aid or hindrance to musical expression Miller Puckette UC San Diego Dept of Music
4pm - 5pm Break / Film Screening
Cymatics: Bringing Matter To Life With Sound by Dr. Hans Jenny
5pm - 6pm Gabor’s sonic model: A research review Curtis Roads UC Santa Barbara Dept of Media Art & Technology
6pm - 7pm Illusions in music and speech Diana Deutsch UC San Diego Dept of Psychology
7pm - 9pm Reception
Friday, March 6th, 2009:
9am - 10am The Biophysics of Hearing Dolores Bozovic UCLA Dept of Physics
10am - 11am Using Audio Cues to Enhance Navigation and Spatial Learning for the Blind James Marston UC Santa Barbara Dept of Geography
11am - 12pm Brain networks for tracking musical structure Petr Janata UC Davis Dept of Psychology & The Center for Mind and Brain
12pm - 1pm Lunch Break
1pm - 2pm Scaling the Sonic Terrain: Raising Environmental
Awareness Through Sonification Andrea Polli University of New Mexico College of Fine Art + School of Engineering
2pm - 3pm Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change James Crutchfield UC Davis Dept of Physics & The Complexity Science Center
3pm - 4pm Break / Film Screening
Music for the Eyes: Visual Music Films
Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music
4pm - 5pm Aesthetics of Natural Radio Douglas Kahn UC Davis Technocultural Studies
5pm - 6pm Re(a)sonance Veit Erlmann University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music
6pm - 7pm Sound, Consciousness, and Culture: Exploring Music and Technology through Semiotics and Ethnographic Study Rene Lysloff /
Paulo Chagas UC Riverside Dept of Music
7pm - 9pm Reception
All Events are free and open to the public. Parking is $9 a day.

Opportunities included: Call for Artists
Jobs in the Arts
Next Wave Time Lapse – Federation Square
DETAILS
Next Wave is now seeking proposals for their brand new initiative, Next Wave Time Lapse.
This landmark project, running over twelve months from this June, will feature an arresting program of new screen-based work by young and emerging artists on Federation Square’s Big Screen and surrounding multimedia sites.
Next Wave will select twelve of Australia’s most exciting young video and new media artists to make new work for one of Melbourne’s most visible and visited public sites, Federation Square <http://www.federationsquare.com.au/index.cfm?pageID=284> .
Next Wave Time Lapse will investigate the potential of screen-based art in public space, and build new audiences for this exciting art form.
TO APPLY
It is essential to download, read and complete the Next Wave Time Lapse Application Pack <http://inside.nextwave.org.au/file_download/81> (pdf 1.8mb).
This Application Pack contains the eligibility requirements, guidelines for applying and the application form.
CONTACT
For more info call (03 9329 9422) or email Next Wave <mailto:ulanda@nextwave.org.au> if you have any questions or need more info.
http://inside.nextwave.org.au/news/next-wave-time-lapse <http://inside.nextwave.org.au/news/next-wave-time-lapse>
DEADLINE
Applications close on Friday 13 March, 2009

ASOLOARTFILMFESTIVAL
28th EDITION
COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT 2009
August 28 – September 6, 2009
International Festival of Film on Art and Artist’s Biographies
Film on Art – Artist’s Biographies – Architecture & Design – Video Art & Computer Art -
Productions by Cinema Schools – Harmony and Territory
The Festival is conceived and organised by the Cultural Association A.I.A.F. (Asolo International Art Festival), a no profit private institution with legal status (Veneto Regional Council Decree (DGR) N°. 59/41.03 of 18.04.03).
Beginning from the 28th edition A.I.A.F works together with the Gallery San Fedele from Milano.
The contest is divided into six sections:
· FILMS ON ART for works on art;
· ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHIES for works of historical reconstruction and critical interpretation on personalities from the world of art and music;
· FILMS ON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN for works on architecture, urbanism and design relating to history, movements, main personalities, works and projects;
· VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ART for works using electronics or computer technologies as a method of direct artistic expression;
· PRODUCTIONS BY SCHOOLS OF CINEMA related to art and music, produced by schools of cinema, specialized higher education institutes and universities;
PARTICIPATION POLICY
Only works produced after the 1st of January 2007 are eligible for the contest.
The works must fall into one of the six sections previously described and it must be indicated on the entry-form. The Selection Committee reserves the right to move a work to another section, if it seems to fit more appropriately.
The participation is free of charge.
To enter the contest you must:
- print the participation policy and the entry form;
- fill in completely the entry form;
- send the entry form signed in order to enter the contest and to authorize A.I.A.F. to use the work for teaching, cultural and promotional non profit purposes, through the publication on newspapers, magazines, websites and public projections;
- send 2 copies of the work on DVD or VHS standard PAL;
- send a brief biography or an essential filmography of the author/s of the film;
- send a synopsis of the work in Italian or in English;
- send a gallery of JPEG images of different photo grams or frames of part of the film on CD ROM ( at least 4);
- send a detailed list of the original musical tracks the film’s score. Indicate the name of the authors and the titles.
Only the printed and signed entry form has a legal value: the lack of signature will imply the exclusion from the contest.
For any further information or question, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following address:
28edition@asolofilmfestival.it <mailto:27edition@asolofilmfestival.it> .
The applicants will have to take care and responsability for the above mentioned material, which must be submitted by the 15th of May, 2009.
The acceptance of the works arriving after the given date is based on the date printed on the postmark. In case the submitted material results incomplete, only the Festival’s Organizing Committee will decide whether the work is eligible for the contest and its decision will not be disputable. The submitted material will not be returned but kept as documentation in the festival’s archive. A copy of each work will become part of the A.I.A.F. International Archive, created to the benefit of Universities, Schools and students and all the interested once worldwide for educational and studying purposes only and aimed to promote no-profit activities of the AsoloInternationalArtFestival. A.I.A.F. guarantees the possibility to consult freely and free of charge all submitted works.
Works sent to the Festival won’t be copied, duplicated, projected and/or presented beyond official sites where the 28th Edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival takes place, apart further projections for cultural, educational and promotional reasons and only for no profit aims.
The required materials must be sent to the following address:
AsoloArtFilmFestival
Foresto Vecchio, 8
31011 Asolo (TV), Italia.
A Selection Committee will make a selection of the submitted work.
The decision of the Selection Committee will not be disputable.
Film-makers and producers of the submitted works will be informed about their admission or refusal; in case of admission, the applicant will have to send to the address indicated above, a copy of the work’s master, better if on Betacam SP(PAL) or on DVD tested PAL,
Copies of the selected works will have to be received by the Festival’s team, within and not later than the 10th of August 2009.
Should the work be in a different language from Italian, Italian (preferably) or English subtitles must be shown. Should subtitles be missing when required, the participant will automatically be excluded from the competition.
The Festival’s Panel of Judges will consist of five members chosen by the Organising Committee on a list of International experts. The panel may be supported by a representative of A.I.A.F. as a member by right.
The Panel of Judges will award the best works in the contest the following prizes:
o GRAN PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST FILM
o PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST FILM ON ART
o PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHIE
o PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST FILM ON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
o PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ART FILM
o PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST SCHOOLS of PRODUCTION
o PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST HARMONY AND TERRITORY
o PREMIO GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO FOR THE BEST SOUNDTRACK
The panel of Judges will also MENTION, when particularly worthy, other competing works of value.
The decisions of the Panel of Judges will be not disputable.
Together with the official will be created a popular one, formed by the public that will watch the projections. The public will fill out an evaluation form for the final award of the PREMIO DEL PUBBLICO (THE PUBLIC PRICE). Evaluation forms will be hand out the Hall of the Theatre Eleonora Duse.
Within the context of the cooperation between A.I.A.F. and Gallery San Fedele the partecipation to the project Award Artivisive San Fedele will be promoted.
Winners of young director project and of young artist project (who would present own video work) of the Award Artivisive San Fedele 2008/2009 will be admitted by rights to the 28th edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival, under the terms of the Competition Announcement that you can find on www.asolofilmfestival.it <http://www.asolofilmfestival.it/>
Winners of the 28th edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival until the age of 35 will be admitted by rights to the young director project and of young artist project promoted by the Gallery San Fedele, within the Award Artivisive San Fedele 2010/2011, under the terms of the Competition Announcement that you can find on www.premioartivisivedsanfedele.it <http://www.premioartivisivedsanfedele.it/>
In order to promote the AsoloArtFilmFestival, the copyright owners of the works taking part to the contest freely authorize the inclusions of short sequences of their work (no more than two minutes) in the local national and international Tv-news and Tv-programmes and on the internet. Furthermore they authorize the free screening of the whole competing work for no-profit and educational purposes aimed at the promotion of the AsoloInternationalArtFestival. They will be responsible for the contents of their work and consequent diffusion of screenplays and not original music, covered by copyrights.
The Organising Committee of the Festival will take due care of the copies of the submitted works but assumes no responsibilities for any potential damage during transportation or during the Festival.
The organization of the Festival will not take responsibility for postal or custom fees
In case of understanding problems with this document, the Italian and the English version will stand as proof.
Any disputes arising out of or in connection with this Competition Announcement shall be decided in accordance with the Forum of Treviso.
Participation to the contest implies acceptance of the Regulations.
Personal data will be treated according to the legislative decree of Italian Law n. 196 of 30.06.2003 about Privacy and subsequent modifications and integrations.
Asolo, November 2008
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You can download the entry-form at:
http://www.asolofilmfestival.it/2009/competition_announcement_2009.pdf
For any further information please contact us at
the phone number +39 0423 1995235/36
or at 28edition@asolofilmfestival.it <mailto:28edition@asolofilmfestival.it>
A.I.A.F. - AsoloInternationalArtFestival – Foresto Vecchio, 8 – 31011 Asolo (TV) Italy – C. F. - P. IVA 03720080260
TEL. +39 0423 1995235-36 – www.asolofilmfestival.it <http://www.asolofilmfestival.it/> – info@asolofilmfestival.it <mailto:info@asolofilmfestival.it>
Ente con personalità giuridica privata D.G.R. N°59/41.03 del 18/04/03
Here is a list of interactive sound works and links to projects such as sensor making.
(PLEASE NOTE: INTERACTIVE.doc was found to contain “Virus.MSWord.Thus.ew” this file has been deleted and replaced with a disinfected pdf file Friday 20th Feb 2009. Windows users might have to right click and “save as”)
1-Surround Sound1.pdf
Some Australian surround
Philip Samartzis
Robert Sazdov
Here is a list of audio compression formats
(PLEASE NOTE: audio compression formats.doc was found to contain “Virus.MSWord.Thus.ew” this file has been deleted and replaced with a disinfected pdf file Friday 20th Feb 2009. Windows users might have to right click and “save as”)
SNEAK PREVIEW & CALL FOR PROPOSALS
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK
First deadline for proposals: 15 October 2007
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities
AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts, featuring visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes place in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North East of England. The next AV Festival will be held 28 February - 8 March 2008.