May 12, 2006
Sounds of the City
Call for Radio Art
Sounds of the City: Call for Radio Art: Deadline 19 may 2006; organizer: Radio Cult and InterSpace Media Art Center in the frame of Radio Territories and Mobile Studios. Radio Cult is looking for soundart/radioart works that:
- will be of experimental character
- will include sound recording of the city
- will be shaped in sound art radio art form
- will answer to the following technical and thematic requests
Sounds of the city is an open call for participation to Radio Cult contest about radio art/sound art production that will include sound recording of the city Sofia. All artists, sound artists, radio artists, producers… are invited to create 15 to 30 min piece based on sounds of the city. All that should be produced in form of short radio art program. In the production must be included field recordings, sound scapes and various recordings of the sound of the city.
Theme: cityscapes or sound of the city
Based on the subjects: city and sound
Works should be related to topics about urbanity, city and ways of looking on the city. They should provoke question like:
how do you look at the city?
what’s the sound of the city?
how can we transmit a location through sound?
and at once give answer to questions like:
why did you chose that location?
why do we think it is represent of urbanity?
what are the perspectives that we can see the city from...
Sounds of the city contest is organized in the framework of radio Territories project. The selected radio pieces will be presented during Mobile Studios visit in Sofia 21.-28. 05. 2006 and will be part of the broadcast on the same occasion.
There will be 5 prizes for 5 best works. Works will be selected and judged by jury consisted of Radio Cult team.
Winners of the contest will also get chance to produce 30 min program for next round of trans European radio network RADIA.fm broadcasting as participant of radio cult and presentation of his work on more than 10 European radio stations interested in radio art.
In the framework of the Mobile Studios event, Radio Cult will broadcast produced pieces together with other pieces produced on Radio Masters workshops held by Radio Cult in May.
Prizes:
1st prize: 200 leva
2nd prize: 100 leva
3rd prize: 80 leva
4th prize: 60 leva
5th prize: 40 leva
The submission should be uploaded on server and link should be posted vie email for download. Submission format should be mp3 that will not exceed maximum size od 20MB. Exceptions possible on request. The authors/artists keep all rights on their submitted works. Deadline for sending 19 may 2006.
Submitting email should include following info:
1. name of artist, email address, URL
2. short biography/CV
3. link for download of the work in mp3 format
4. short description of the work and how it is related to the topic
Send the complete submission to: radio[at]i-space.org
related links:
http://radio.cult.bg
http://i-space.org
http://radia.fm
http://mobile-studios.org
Posted by jo at May 12, 2006 09:58 AM
