OPEN CALL: FuturePlaces

"Radio Futura," the official FuturePlaces radio station broadcasting live during the FuturePlaces 2009 digital media festival (October 14-17, 2009 in Porto, Portugal), is looking for submissions. "Radio Futura"" is a joint venture between Future Places and Rádio Zero. We are now accepting submissions for Radio Futura, a special one-week radio broadcast during FuturePlaces 2009. FuturePlaces 2009 is an international digital media festival focusing on the potential of digital media to change local cultures and societies. It does so by exploring digital culture in its many forms: from concerts to exhibitions and competitions, from workshops to parties, from conferences to film screenings. During the festival, Radio Futura will be broadcasting a mix of live event coverage and studio programs. We want your participation by submitting proposals for programs to be broadcast during the festival.
You can submit any kind of program, as long as it is connected to radio digital culture and/or local cultures in any way. Preference is given to proposals of live programs, using webstream or at (if you're around at the time) Radio Futura studio, but pre-recorder programs are also welcomed.

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSALS TO: radiofutura2009 @ gmail.com
Deadline for submitting your proposals is : August 15, 2009
Proposals should be either a short statement of the idea to be developed in the radio program, or an audio file of a draft program. (MP3 or OGG is preferred at this stage, because it is light!). You can find out more on the Future Places digital media festival at http://futureplaces.org.

OPEN CALL: Radio Content in the Digital Age

The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section invite the submission of abstracts for their forthcoming conference, "Radio Content in the Digital Age" in Limassol, Cyprus, October 14-16. Over the past decade, developments in technology have dramatically broadened the range of options for programming audio. The revolution began in the mid-1990s with a newfound ability to listen to audio being streamed over the Internet. Since then, digital radio has continued to expand with the advent of podcasting, offering radio programming on demand, and the rollout of different digital transmission systems, which provide superior sound quality and additional stations on and outside the traditional FM and AM wavebands. What are the main characteristics of today's radio content? How does radio programming differ around Europe and in other countries? How is radio content, both programming and genre, changing through new and emerging technology? Deadlines:
Abstract submissions: 31 March 2009
Final answers: 15 May 2009
To submit papers: http://sections.ecrea.eu/RR/index.html
Contact person: Angeliki Gazi, Vice Chair Radio Research Section, ECREA, angeliki.gazi@cut.ac.cy

OPEN CALL: Ecology: Water, Air, Sound

New Adventures in Sound Art invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound for consideration in 2009 future programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art in Toronto, Canada. Artists may submit works in one or all of the following four categories: 1) Radio Art, 2) Electroacoustic Music, 3) Videomusic and 4) Installation Art. Individual interpretations or variations on the theme are encouraged: Ecology: Water, Air, and/or sound could be done entirely in sound, an audio journal, a soundscape portrait, sound mapping, a visualization of a sound and so on. All submitted works must respond in some way to the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound in order to be considered for 2009 NAISA programming. Deadline for Submissions is September 30, 2008.

Off The Grid

Off The Grid
03.30 - 06.01.08
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.

Off The Grid will feature works that subvert and circumvent conventional infrastructures and are interested in alternatives to corporate and commercial applications and proprietary refinement of communication technologies. Installations will be on view inside the Neuberger Museum of Art and across the SUNY Purchase College campus and include works by Matt Bua; Brett Bloom; Benjamin Cohen, Dylan J. Gauthier, and Stephan Stanford; ecoarttech; eteam; Max Goldfarb; Tovey Halek and Madalyn Warren; Louis Hock; Nina Katchadourian; Kristin Lucas; Joe McKay; Trevor Paglen; Seth Weiner; and Bart Woodstrup.

Co-presented by the Neuberger Museum of Art and free103point9. Curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff (Neuberger Museum) and Galen Joseph-Hunter, Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe (free103point9).

OPEN CALL: Radio Killed The Video Star

Laboratorio 060 is a collective based in Mexico City. As part of an exhibition of this group at the Cue Foundation in New York, the group is launching a worldwide call for collaborations for a musical composition that will be learned and performed by the three members of this collective on the day of the opening and later transmitted on the radio in New York. The project Radio Killed the Video Star seeks to alter the homogeneous process by which entertainment is constructed and disseminated in our image-saturated media world. The ideal entries for collaboration should come from composers and musicians who may be interested in disseminating their work and in having their works interpreted by Laboratorio 060 –an artist collective without any professional musical experience— as part of this conceptual project. Entries should have three instrumental parts (instrument or voice) which can be interpreted by three individuals, and have a duration of no longer than five minutes. The proposals will be evaluated and the final composition will be selected by the guest curator of the exhibition.

Eligibility and Criteria
I. Any sound artist and/or composer of any genre is eligible to apply.
II. Special attention will be paid to those projects that take into consideration the specific context into which this performance will take place (an art space in Chelsea, and the radio)
III. Each participant may submit up to 2 entries.
IV. All compositions should be originated by the author. In case it is a collective work, there should be a designated representative for the group.
V. Participants may send submissions in either Spanish or English. If the composition has lyrics, these can be written in any language.
VI. By submitting their works, participants authorize the Cue Foundation and Laboratorio 060 to perform and present this work (either at the gallery, via radio or both) from March 13 to April 19 of 2008 at any given time, as well as show the documentation of their performance at this space.
VII. The authors of the submitted works will authorize the use of the composition and materials for publicity purposes. Authors will always retain copyright of the work. Laboratorio 060 will retain the rights of interpretation of this work without further authorization from the author. Participants will release the organizers of any copyright issue related to the submitted work.
VIII. The selection of the composition by the guest curator will be final.
IX. CUE Foundation does not search, nor actively promote the sale of any artworks. Nonetheless, if such agreement is reached between the author of the submitted work and Laboratorio 060, the resulting recording may be put for sale. In this case, 25 percent of the sale of this work will be directed to the CUE foundation and the remaining 75 percent will be divided between Laboratorio 060 and the author.
X. Participants accept the terms of this call for entries. Any unforeseen detail will be mediated and decided upon by the guest curator.
XI. The name of the author of the selected composition will be announced on the webpage of the CUE foundation (http://www.cueartfoundation.org) and on the webpage of Laboratorio 060 (http://www.lc060.org) on January 4, 2008.
XII. Selection criteria will include:
a) compositions with potential to infiltrate the radio in an effective and innovative way, b) works with an adequate balance between the three components,
c) works with an experimental and playful character, even if they have political content; d) non-commercial works.
XIII. The selected composition will be performed at the CUE Foundation on March 13, 2008 by the members of Laboratorio 060.
XIV. Whenever presented or advertised, the author of the work will be properly credited.
XV. The selected author of the work will receive 10% of the recordings produced.

Application process
XVI. All proposals should be submitted by regular mail to the following address:
CUE Art Foundation
Attn: Laboratorio 060
511 West 25th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
XVII. Submission deadline will be December 21, 2007, at 6 p.m. (this is not a post-mark deadline).
XVIII. All works must be submitted with a musical score and an MP3 (CD) that may show an interpretation of the work.
Submissions will not be returned.
To receive acknowledgement of receipt, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. Do not call the CUE Foundation to seek acknowledgement of receipt.

OPEN CALL: Rudy Giuliani 9/11 remix contest

Click here for over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh's, courtesy of America's mayor, [Rudy Giuliani]. Your mission from WFMU: turn some or all of them into music, to be reposted on WFMU's blog. The best one received by December 5 wins a WFMU messenger bag full of CDs and other assorted swag. Send your mp3 submissions to ken at wfmu dot org, but if they are larger than 8 megs, please post them somewhere and send me the URL. Submissions will be posted on the WFMU blog.

OPEN CALL: Art's Birthday

Celebrating Art's Birthday is a tradition started by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17, 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when somebody dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Throughout the last decades artists continued organising annual celebrations in the spirit of Filliou's "Eternal Network" or "La Fête permanente." In 2008 people all over the world will again be preparing numerous networked birthday parties for art, several of these under the motto "Forever Young."

Kunstradio invites you to join our celebration by contributing presents to our party, which will take place on site at Common Ground, QDK, Museumsquartier Q21 in Vienna from 8 p.m. on January 17, 2008. These presents we invite you to upload to our present pool online under
http://www.kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2008/presents-upload.php

We will be listening in on your presents and streams during our party on site in Vienna, artists will re-mix and further distribute these online and via our live Kunstradio broadcast on the cultural channel on the Austrian National Radio Ö1 from 11 – 12 p.m. CET, as well as on the EBU satellite.

A selection of presents will also be presented in later on air editions of
Kunstradio. Should you have any questions or plan to organise a party yourself, please do not hesitate to contact us under: kunstradio@kunstradio.at Spread the word! This is a party you can bring as many people and presents as you wish! More about Art's Birthday can be found here: http://www.artsbirthday.net

OPEN CALL: AV Festival 08

AV Festival 08 is providing creative practitioners with an opportunity to contribute ideas to the programme. In the next two months, we will announce a series of opportunities for artists, musicians, filmmakers, DJs, VJs, designers, theorists, technologists, scientists, philosophers and others to contribute to the festival.

The first of these are now online, and include the call for artists’ proposals for AV Festival 08 at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, a project Manager for Middlesbrough and also for young people to get involved with AV Festival 08 through the evolve volunteer and envoy scheme.

In the coming weeks, we will also call for proposals from artists and producers who want to get involved with our radio stations, filmmakers who want to create a new work for the festival, and critics and philosophers who want to contribute to our conferences.

Waygood Amateur Radio Club two-way radio communication

Artists, writers, performers, sound artists and musicians who are interested in working towards an amateur radio license and producing work for a new arts amateur radio club as part of AV Festival 08 are invited to contact Waygood Gallery & Studios for further information. Please send your contact details to helen@waygood.org by 31st October 2007.

Call for Artists’ Proposal for AV Festival 08 at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

AV Festival 08 and Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens seek to commission a new site-specific audio artwork for the Sunderland Winter Gardens as part of AV Festival 08. Deadlines not specified on web site; festival is in March, 2008.

free103point9 Online Radio May Top 40

free103point9 Online Radio
May 2007 Top 40

1. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
2. Joseph Nechvatal, Viral Symph0ny (iea)
With Matthew Underwood, Andrew Deutsch, and Stephane Sikora.
3. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
4. Uncle Woody Sullender + Greg Davis, The Tempest is Over (Dead CEO)
5. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
6. The Dust Dive Flash, Tens of Thousands (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 029)
7. Jeff Arnal + Dietcich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
8. USA Is A Monster + Mudboy/USA Is A Monster + Kites, split CD (self)
9. Chris Forsyth + Nate Wooley, The Duchess of Oysterville (Creative Sources Recordings)
10. (), "Autecicadas/ocean_db_crash_nue" 7" (Parentheismusic.com)
11. Andy Graydon, At Bay (Winds Measure Recordings)
12. Albrecht Maurer + Norbert Rodenkirchen, Hidden Fresco (Nemu)
13. Mike Tamburo, Language of the Birds and Other Fantasies box set (New American Folk Hero)
14. The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama, Singing Songs of Praise (CaseQuarter)
15. Various artists, Selections from Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost (free103point9)
With Michelle Nagai, Edmund Mooney, Andrea Polli, Mike Hallenbeck, Ryan Holsopple, Renee Ridgway, Jonathan Zalben, Hanneke de Feijter, Saskia Janssen, Kaisu Koski, and others.
16. Ignaz Schick + Jorg Maria Zeger + Burkhard Beins with Keith Rowe and with Charlwmagne Palestine, Perlonex Tensions (Nexsound)
17. MPLD, Lapse Phaser (self)
18. Tripwire, Looking in My Ear (Creative Sources)
19. Seejayno, Sedainty (Shinkoyo/Here See/Skulls of Heaven/BOC Sound Laboratories)
20. Mouthus, For the Great Slave Lakes (Threelobed)
21. Jonas Braasch, Global Reflections (Deep Listening)
22. Droopy Septum, Howling Lands, Whispering Leaves (NAFH)
23. Parts & Labor, Escapers One (Broklyn Beats)
24. Mudboy, LP Bootleg(breadandanimals.com)
25. Eliane Radigue, Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music)
26. Mike Tamburo + Ken Camden, Menken and Maas (NAFH)
27. Kotra & Zavoloka, Wag the Swing (Kvitnu.com)
28. Robert Horton, Sleep, Wake, Hope and Then (NAFH)
29. John Morton, Solo Traveler (innova)
30. Eric Carbonara, Seven Pieces for Solo Guitar (Nada Sound Studio)
31. Edmund Mooney, Happy Trails (self)
32. Matt McDowell, Headlong Into the Fire (NAFH)
33. Steve Stoll, Earthling (self)
34. Gratkowski + Fox + Menestres + Davis, ORM (Umbrella Recordings)
35. Phantom Limb & Tetuzi Akiyama, Hot Ginger (Archive)
Recorded June, 2006 at free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn.
36. Sixes, Cursed Beast (enterruption)
37. Matt Weston, Resistance Cruisers 3" CD (7272 Music)
38. Gay Bomb/Ironing split LP (Hymn)
39. ZMF Trio, Circle the Path (Drip Audio)
40. Wether, Skin Atonement (Hymn)

Send submissions for airplay to free103point9, 5662 Route 23, Acra, NY 12405. (Do not e-mail mp3s, or links to mp3s, it will be a waste of your time. Mailed submissions will be considered.)

OPEN CALL: Electric Lab

In the fall of 2007, Exit Art will present Electric Lab. This exhibition is dedicated to the scientist Nicola Tesla, who wanted to provide the entire world with free access to electricity. As Tesla discovered, electricity is one of life’s most fundamental forces; it courses through the heart and powers our computers. Today, the shortage and high cost of electricity is a pressing contemporary issue. For Electric Lab, we are asking artists to envision solutions to the impending electricity crisis by creating works that imagine alternative sources of electricity, suggest new ways to access electricity, and establish scenarios in which to experience the power of electricity. Proposals due June 15, 2007.

How to Apply:
Proposals may be for work in any medium. Please submit a one page description of your project idea: a sketch of the proposed project; a resume; and documentation of your previous work (10 slides or images on CD, please send images at lowest resolution so they open quickly, or a 3-5 minute NTSC VHS video or DVD). Please include a self addressed stamped envelope for the return of your work. You will be notified by email of your involvement in the exhibition so please include an email address with your materials. Exit Art is not responsible for returning works submitted without a SASE.
Send Submissions to:
Exit Art
Electric Lab
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Or email electriclab@exitart.org

2007 AIRtime residents announced

free103point9 is pleased to announce our 2007 AIRtime residents.

31 Down (Benjamin Brown, Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal) (Brooklyn, New York)

"Dusk: The Sound of Bats," is a solar powered “bat detector.” The installation uses the high frequency radio transmissions of the bats living at Wave Farm as its subject matter. Bats emit sounds via echolocation, at typically two or three times higher pitch than that which the human ear can hear. Using an ultrasonic microphone paired with a customized scanning device, 31 Down will translate the bats' transmissions into audible frequencies.


Cross Current Resonance Transducer (LoVid: Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus; Douglas Repetto) (New York, New York)

1) Data Collection Devices
An analysis of signals on the electromagnetic spectrum and telluric currents (signals in the earth) will inform CCRT's development of measurement device sculptures. These devices exist both as aesthetic objects and as functional monitoring mechanisms, which will enable data recordings used in future projects.
2) Bonding Energy
A web-based project commissioned by turbulence.org, "Bonding Energy" is a model system for distributed microenergy generation. The system suggests new ways of thinking about renewable resources and to address global warming and climate change.


Evidence (Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood) (Troy, New York)

"Spheres of Influence (working title)" is a performance/installation of both live-performed and pre-recorded sounds being broadcast through a number of radio transmitters all tuned to identical (or nearly-identical) frequencies. The audience is equipped with radio receivers, and then encouraged to explore the points of “indecision” that exist between the various transmitters. In this way, each audience member participates in the composition/editing of the final piece by performing the interplay between our broadcasted material and the indeterminate artifacts of the transmission/reception process inherent in the installation.


Sarah Kanouse (Murphysboro, Illinois)

With “Driving East Through Indian Country” Kanouse addresses historical and contemporary mobility through the routes and histories of European settlement and Indian removal, the ways this early history of (re)settlement is commemorated via monuments and museums, and contemporary discourse on (im)migration. Her upstate iteration of the project will focus on the territory related to the Cherry Valley Massacre of 1778 and the retributive Sullivan Expedition of 1779. Among the project components is a public road trip including an FM broadcast of real-time, gps triggered audio content.


Raphael Lyon (Providence, Rhode Island)

Lyon's "Dark Cinema" project is a performance/lecture which argues that the narrative codes which achieve the immersive cinematic illusion of "being there" in a traditional narrative film were never fully developed for radio. Through the articulation of his "Dark Cinema" theory, and a "Dogma-95" styled call for "Dark Cinema" works, Lyon hopes to activate new projects considering the radio narrative in pioneering and effective ways.


Kenta Nagai (Brooklyn, New York)

"Me & Gretel" is an interactive media installation constructed with Lego block speaker enclosures, microphones, television monitors, and hidden surveillance cameras. Viewers' movements inside the installation are transmitted to the monitors and speakers. In "Me & Gretel" the viewer's presence becomes intertwined with elements from disassembled international folktales, myths, and oral histories collected and represented by Nagai to create new personal traditions.


neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez, Valerie Tevere) (Brooklyn, New York)

"The FM Ferry Experiment" is a weeklong mobile radio project to be held on the Staten Island Ferry during the Fall of 2007. In cooperation with the New York City Department of Transportation and the FM signal of WSIA-FM, this project will transform the ferry into a floating radio station, continually traveling between Lower Manhattan and Staten Island. nT will construct the modular components of "The FM Ferry Experiment" radio station during their AIRtime residency.


Marisa Olson (Brooklyn, New York)

Olson will conduct research using the Wave Farm Study Center collections on the history of the use of broadcast and recorded media in protest to inform her forthcoming projects including a multimedia monologue performance about pop music and political activism, called "Rappers Vs. Rockers," and a dramatization of “gonzo journalist” Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note, which he entitled "Football Season Is Over."


Shawn Onsgard (Brooklyn, New York)

“Local Time” is a radio-percussion music event for large outdoor spaces. In this piece, performers position themselves dynamically in the geography to adjust and synchronize composed musical time structures across great distances with each other and with audible qualities implicit to the site such as echo, reverb
decay, or unintended environmental sounds. In addition to acoustic musical instruments such as claves, bull roars, hand drums, switches and other items that produce sounds capable of carrying long distances; each performer is also equipped with a wireless microphone transmitting their acoustic sounds to a radio receiver/audio amplifier located with the audience.


John Roach & James Rouvelle (Brooklyn, New York)

In "Trailhead" Roach and Rouvelle set out to map Wave Farm. Using separate trajectories and mapping strategies, the artists maintain communication during their explorations via transmitters. Ephemera gathered during their investigations and actions in the form of audio, gps, and drawings will construct an online map of the Wave Farm grounds. Collaborators will contribute additional mapping elements including spoken word, video, and photographs.

OPEN CALL: Artradio

Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary arts and film, announces an open call for audio, for Artradio, Cornerhouse’s temporary radio station, broadcasting in FM and online through late June to August of 2007. Deadline Friday 27 April 2007, 12 noon. Artradio is calling for open submissions of existing audio work of a diverse variety, for example; digital sound productions from the broad spectrum of experimental music and sound field recordings, found sound, sound performance and event archives, cultural interviews, radio plays and shows for breakfast. With a minimum duration of 10mins and a maximum of 1hour.

More about Artradio: Artradio will broadcast from Cornerhouse galleries, and will form the base for a dynamic array of live residency broadcasts, events, pre-recorded and archive programmes, as well as invited feeds, guest slots and submitted content. The public is invited to listen, observe and get involved. Resident artists will shape the core programming of the broadcast schedule. The artists are Diana McCarty & Pit Schultz, reboot.fm, (Berlin); Eileen Simpson & Ben White, Open Music Archive, (London), David Blandy (London). Artradio will broadcast daily from 8 a.m. – midnight (in FM for 26 days, and online for 8 weeks, pending Ofcom confirmation of FM frequency). Normal gallery hours apply. For the FM frequency, more information about the programme, to sign-up for updates, or to learn how to get involved please visit www.artradio.fm.