This sounds interesting, but there is no mention of compensation for the artists whose works are thus presented. Please talk about that.
best, John On 4 November 2014 02:38, Martin Parker <martin.par...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear SurSound - calling composers and field recordists > I’m putting together a non-stop playlist of bFormat works to play through > December as part of ‘gap in the air’, a four month-long sound festival at > Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh - https://digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/gap-in-air. > I’d like to invite members of this list to send works in if you have > something that you think will fit. We’re trying to show a wide range of > approaches to composing with space and recording sound. We’re interested in > fully formed pieces, interesting/special field recordings and even one-off > sound events. > > The main conditions for inclusion are that you grant us permission to play > the sound in the space and that (if a piece of music) the work is yours. > We’re also looking for technical simplicity so would like the works to > arrive in four-channel WXYZ bformat .wav. Everything will play at 44.1kHz > so please SRC the file before sending it in should you need to. > > If you want to have your work considered for this playlist please send me > a link to a dropbox (or other) folder that contains a .zip of the bformat > file (WXYZ), a photo/album cover if this is relevant, and a text file with > the following information: > > your name > title of the piece > duration > a short description of the piece (1 paragraph - for display in the gallery) > more extended notes if you wish these to be available online > > The deadline for this is end of next week Friday 14th November, we’ll be > glad to consider submissions after this date but given the time it will > take to sort through everything and put the playlist together, this is my > nominal cut off date. Preference for inclusion on the playlist will be > shorter tracks as we want gallery visitors to get a sense of the range of > work that’s out there and what’s possible with ambisonics, some longer > pieces will also be included. > > A technical note: we’ll be decoding the 4 channel files to a 12 (possibly > 16) channel rig. The room is a Georgian gallery space, so this will colour > the sound significantly, I’ll attempt to balance the pieces in the room to > give the best effect for each work, but abandon any hope of their being a > clear sweetspot. The sound will certainly envelop the listener and fill the > room but a sense of a solid 'image’ will be fleeting. > > Incidentally if you wish to come to Edinburgh, we’ll host a panel > discussion on sound spatialisation in gallery spaces on the 15th December. > Would be great to meet some of you at this. > > Best wishes > Martin~ > > martin.par...@ed.ac.uk > Programme Director, MSc Sound Design > http://soundeducation.net > > Sound Lab Edinburgh: > http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/sdresearch/ > > Tel. +44(0)131 650 2333 > Mob. +44(0)7813 217 092 > www.tinpark.com > > Postal address: > MSc Sound Design > c/o Dr. Martin Parker > Edinburgh College of Art > Alison House > 12 Nicolson Square > Edinburgh > EH8 9DF, UK > > Google Map: > http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=eh8+9df > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20141104/4db0ddfe/attachment.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... > Name: not available > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20141104/4db0ddfe/attachment.ksh > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20141104/00db862e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
