image: Composer Hans Tutschku in residence at EMPAC :: Photo by Natt Phenjati

Since 2005, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 40 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. While EMPAC will continue its open call residency program, we are pleased to announce four additional focused initiatives:

‐ Audio Production / Post‐Production : For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles, and computers.

‐ Creative Research: Provides artists, writers, and theorists with the opportunity to conduct research over extended periods of time (minimum six weeks).

‐ Dance / Theater: To rehearse, workshop, or finalize a production. Provides a group of up to six individuals a two‐week rehearsal period in a 3,300 sq. ft. black box space with full production support.

‐ Video Production / Post‐Production : For multiple camera shoots, documentation of a performance, development of multichannel video projection, digital video post‐production, or any project involving HD video cameras, computers, and projectors.

EMPAC’s unique facilities offer four major venues including a Concert Hall, Theater, and two black box Studios, in addition to artists in residence studios and a state of the art infrastructure.

To apply, please include a letter of intent, a project description, a resume or CV for all major collaborators, as well as works, samples, and other supporting materials. Proposals are reviewed by EMPAC curators four times a year. Upcoming reviews will take place on January 14, April 15, July 15, and October 15. In general, residencies are scheduled six months to one year in advance.

For more information, please visit: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/residencies/artist.

About EMPAC

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology — offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.

EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture that spans the physical and digital worlds. With a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theater, two flexible black box studios, audio and video production rooms, and residency studios, EMPAC is a unique environment where digital technology and human experience can meet.

EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

EMPAC:: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, USA 12180 :: 518.276.3921

Call & Response is an independent sonic arts collective, serving as a focus for sound arts practice in London. Our aim is to provide an artist run space for the exhibition and performance of sonic artworks, reflecting the emerging interest in the use of the auditory in contemporary art.

You are invited to a four-day sonic art residency at the James Taylor Gallery, Hackney. An immersive listening environment located in an expansive Victorian factory in East London.

We’ll be presenting multi-channel works by:

Kaffe Matthews (Annette Works); Robert Van Heumen (STEIM); Jo Thomas (En’Tracte); Jacob Kirkegaard (Touch); Dawn Scarfe, Ralph Steinbrechel (12k); Eric La Casa (Room 40); Mick Grierson (EMS);Tom Slater and John Levack Drever (EMS); Lawrence Upton and Jeremy Keenan

These will be on rotation from 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m., November 4 to 7, 2010, and entry is free throughout. For full details of the programme check our website.

7-11:00 p.m, November 5: An evening of international performers utilising our 8.1 surround sound system

A-R-A-R (UK): Homemade electronics duo Vasco Alvo and Louie Rice, on AM/FM Keyboard and Tone Generator.

Andre Avelas (PT): Presenting a performless solo generated by musical automata.

Brian Mckenna (CA): Performing an audiovisual work using feedback and harmonic distortion.

Adam Asnan (UK): Presenting a 12 channel work utilising mobile cassette players.

Kaffe Matthews (UK): Performing a live multi-channel piece.

Tickets will be available on the door and in advance. Check our website for details.

4:30-6:00 p.m., November 6: ‘Sound is Promiscuous’:

In conjunction with the exhibition and performances, Call & Response is proud to present a talk around the act of listening, particularly locating sound as a spatial concern and contesting its power of
representation in contemporary society.

Joining us in the discussion are curator Cecilia Wee, and three of the exhibiting artists — Lawrence Upton, Dawn Scarfe and Tom Slater. The title of the talk, Sound is Promiscuous, is taken from Brandon Labelle’s analysis of auditory life and sound culture in Acoustic Territories.

http://callandresponse.org.uk/
http://www.jtg.org.uk/

Since 2005, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 40 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. While EMPAC will continue its open call residency program, EMPAC is pleased to announce four additional focused initiatives:

Audio Production / Post‐Production

For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles and computers.

Creative Research

Provides artists, writers, and theorists with the opportunity to conduct research over extended periods of time (minimum six weeks).

Dance / Theater

To rehearse, workshop or finalize a production. Provides a group of up to six individuals a two‐week rehearsal period in a 3,300 sq. ft. black box space with full production support.

Video Production / Post‐Production

For multiple camera shoots, documentation of a performance, development of multichannel video projection, digital video post‐production, or any project involving HD video cameras, computers, and projectors.

EMPAC’s unique facilities offer four major venues including a Concert Hall, Theater, and two black box Studios, in addition to artists in residence studios, and a state of the art infrastructure.

To apply, please include a letter of intent, a project description, a resume or CV for all major collaborators, as well as works, samples, and other supporting materials. Proposals are reviewed by EMPAC curators four times a year. Upcoming reviews will take place on October 15, January 14, April 15, and July 15. In general, residencies are scheduled six months to one year in advance.

For more information, please visit: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/residencies/artist/
empac.rpi.edu/residencies/artist/

About EMPAC:

EMPAC is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology, founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. EMPAC offers adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.

EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture that spans the physical and digital worlds. With a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theater, two flexible black box studios, audio and video production rooms, and residency studios, EMPAC is a unique environment where digital technology and human experience can meet.

EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

The organization offers three residency programs, to which artists and teams may apply for only one per year (click on each program for its full application guidelines): The Writers Program, through which participants gain professional training in voice and microphone technique, performance and delivery, and studio interviewing, and create new work to be presented through live readings, recorded interviews, a published anthology, and as podcasts on Jack Straw’s website; The Artist Support Program, which provides free or low-cost recording and production time with an engineer at Jack Straw Productions to complete projects (such as music CDs, radio programs, oral histories, audio literature, sound for a gallery installation or public art project, etc.) to be presented at a public event at Jack Straw; and The New Media Gallery Program, which enables artists to experiment with audio and develop new skills and ideas as they create a sound component for an installation at Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery for the following year.

The Programme aims to promote the mobility of young artists through art residences abroad, give priority to artists and artist residency institutions from the global south and promoting the participation of women in international artist residencies.

The website provides links to the residency institutions with full instructions on application procedures. Candidates are invited to submit their applications directly to the institution of their choice. The institutions pre-select three candidates for each bursary and submit the list of names to UNESCO for review by an international selection panel, which makes the final selection taking into consideration the priorities of the residency, geographical distribution and gender equality.

By supporting the mobility of artists and promoting artist residencies, the UNESCO-Aschberg Programme contributes to:

- Individual artistic development: opportunities for artists to realise their creative works and have access to other markets;
- Local development: transfer of knowledge back in local communities;
- International cooperation: Promote collaboration and cooperation between artists and artists’ residencies.

UNESCO
1, rue Miollis
75015, Paris, France

About the HMC ::
HMC is dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and related educational programs. Based in Dallas and Budapest, the organization operates throughout the world. Its principal focus is an international residency program to which artists from around the world are invited. The goal is to provide a supportive community with uninterrupted time to work. Like many visual arts residency programs, the HMC is a microcosm of the cultural diversity: multi-national. Unlike others, however, HMC makes a concerted effort to connect its artists and curators to the art community, while connecting the local art community with contemporary art practice from all over the world. The dynamic of HMC is a programming hybrid conceived to facilitate genuine exchange, specifically its Artist Talks and exhibitions. The exhibitions attract not only professionals, but a wider audience of art enthusiasts. As a direct consequence of connections forged at HMC, many of the over 500+artists who have participated in the program since its founding, are now represented by galleries and have been included in numerous group exhibitions and projects throughout the United States and Hungary.

Who Should Apply
HMC welcomes artists at all stages of their careers and seeks to create a mix of various experience levels in each group of residents. Through a competitive application process, HMC offers residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists such as those working in sound, performance, choreography, etc. AIR is an international meeting point for the arts. Its aim is to support and encourage contemporary artistic creation, research and debate. The purpose of this program is to offer a platform to promote the exchange of artistic discourses from artists with different artistic backgrounds and from different geographical origins. The program is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas in order to broaden creative horizons. HMC considers art as a dynamic social force that is capable of inspiring individuality and of defining groups. Art — one of the few languages that transcends all boundaries — offers a way to understand not only ourselves and one another, but it offers a venue for greatness, which must be supported if we as a civilization are to move forward.

Application form here: http://airhmcbudapestapplicationform.blogspot.com/2010/01/air-hmc-budapest-hungary-2010.html

Each year - via online submission - a limited number of candidates is selected by a panel of international experts based on the following criteria: project content; scientific and artistic motivation; quality and innovative character of the project; mastery of the technologies needed for the project; demonstrated ability to manage a collaborative research project.

Each selected candidate will benefit from a residency at IRCAM for a specific period, associated with one or more of the institute’s project teams. The candidate will receive a scholarship of 1200 euros. IRCAM does not cover travel and lodging expenses.

During the research residency, candidates will work in the context of the Research and Development department in order to pursue their work. They will collaborate with members of one or more teams thus enabling them to deepen the musical and technological issues explored through experimentation as well as participate in the intellectual life of the institute.

At the end of their stay, the selected candidates will be asked to document and share the results of their work via written publications and public presentations given to the IRCAM community as well as the international computer music community at large.

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. We will spend three weeks immersed in recent music that has changed the world. Available studies include Balinese music workshops, improvisation, as well as performance coaching, master classes, music business seminars and more. Composers will have their works performed. Players will perform publicly in ensembles sitting alongside their teachers. There are daily performances in the museum galleries, free with museum admission. And the residency concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles.

The 2010 Performance Schedule here.

The faculty includes some of the most innovative musicians of our time. These are musicians who have dedicated their lives to commissioning, rehearsing, recording and performing music beyond the cutting edge.

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival will take place July 12 through August 1, 2010 at MASS MoCA, located in North Adams, Massachusetts. MASS MoCA presents exhibitions and performances by renowned artists and cultural institutions, but it also is a place where the process of creativity is explored; rehearsals, art fabrication shops, and production studios are open to public view. Bang on a Can has found a home at MASS MoCA for the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival and is thrilled to work with them in building a bridge between the arts.

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA is made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and from generous support from the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, CECArtslink, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cheswatyr Foundation, and the NIB Foundation.

Special thanks to Drury High School, Conte Middle School, Williams College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and the Robert Black Bass Scholarship.

Concert pianos provided courtesy of Falcetti Music, a full-line musical instrument store carrying pianos, guitars, drums, keyboards, sound gear and sheet music as well as offering lessons. Locations in Springfield, MA, Enfield, CT, and Rocky Hill, CT. “Falcetti Music, we keep music in your life” (413) 528-2460. www.falcettimusic.com.

image: from David Levine’s Habit, Watermill Residency Spring 2010, Marsha Ginsberg, photographer

The Watermill Center is accepting proposals from emerging artists from all over the world as part of its Fall and Spring Residency Program. Applicants will be considered for residencies during Fall 2010 and Spring 2011. Watermill embraces ambitious proposals from all art disciplines that push the boundaries of existing international artistic practice. Watermill encourages the exploration of those innovative ideas throughout The Watermill Center facility and its six acres of grounds on the East End of Long Island, New York. This unique facility, founded by Robert Wilson, houses studios that double as galleries, The Watermill Collection of fine art and artifacts from Stone Age to contemporary day, a resource library, and communal living areas.

Applications are reviewed by an international Selection Committee that includes arts leaders Michael Morris, Nike Wagner, Alanna Heiss, and Marina Abramovic, as well as those from the social sciences, such as Ida Nicolaisen and Richard Sennett. Watermill encourages proposals from artists based within and outside the U.S., and offers a strong international and U.S. based network of associates as a continued benefit of the residency. Artists who have participated in this program have gone on to perform at various venues throughout the world including Door Studios in Paris and The Danou Festival in Austria, as well as New York City venues including Performa, LaMama, The New York International Fringe Festival, New Island Festival - Governors Island, Park Avenue Armory, and Dance New Amsterdam.

Complete guidelines are available at http://watermillcenter.org/programs/residencies/guidelines

About the Residency Program

Residencies can range from one to four weeks and are scheduled throughout the Fall (September-December) and Spring (February-June). As the Center seamlessly combines performance and rehearsal sites with working and communal living spaces, the areas for studio practice are flexible and can be adapted for the residency needs. In addition to the facility, the Center is situated on six-acres of landscaped grounds with outdoor performance areas.

All residencies conduct an ‘Open Rehearsal’ or public presentation to share the working process. The Center can also arrange educational components or collaborative partnerships with the community. Concurrent with the residencies, Watermill Center staff conduct tours of the facilities, grounds and collection, open library hours, as well as educational and outreach programs.

The Watermill Center is thrilled to announce residency partnerships with The New York Theatre Workshop, Métamatic Research Initiative, and The Summer Play Festival. Each partnership offers a different collaboration. These partnerships are in addition to Watermill’s existing Residency Program.

For information about The New York Theatre Workshop partnership please visit: http://watermillcenter.org/programs/residencies/nytw

For information about the Métamatic Research Initiative partnership please visit:
http://watermillcenter.org/programs/residencies/mri

For information about the Summer Play Festival partnership please visit:
http://watermillcenter.org/programs/residencies/spf

About The Watermill Center

Watermill is a laboratory for performance founded by Robert Wilson as a unique environment for young and emerging artists from around the world to explore new ideas. Watermill draws inspiration from all the arts and cultures as well as from social, human, and natural sciences.

Watermill is a global community of artists. Living and working together among the extensive collection of art and artifacts lies at the heart of the Watermill experience.

Watermill is a haven for the next generation of artist, supporting their work among a network of international institutions and venues that embrace new interdisciplinary approaches.

For more information about Watermill please visit http://www.watermillcenter.org.

Contact:
Sherry Dobbin
Director of Program and Operations
+1 (631) 726-4628
residencies@watermillcenter.org

International Open Call for Radio Art Projects :: Selection of radio projects to be broadcast during the three day special program. :: Closing date for the open call: 30 May 2010. Includes: a) streaming projects; b) 28 or 57 minute radio programs; c) other formats are acceptable (but please send a detailed proposal)

For additional information on this open call go here.

RadiaLx 2010 is the third edition of the radio festival and will take place in Lisbon from July 1 - 3, 2010. RadiaLx 2010 has produced the only radio art festival in Portugal which focuses exclusively on radio, sound art and audio work. The festival features 3 days of non-stop special broadcast on Radio Zero comprising site-specific projects, streamings from all over the world, live shows, as well as broadcasts of recent and old challenging radio and sound works. In parallel, workshops and conferences will certainly provide an in-depth critical platform and a place for exchange of ideas, bringing students and praticioners to collaboration and direct engagement with the radio
field. The artists are encouraged to use radio to establish interactions with the place as social and geographic space.

Email: radialx@radiozero.pt