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1 September 2010 to 3 September 2010

The School of Music at The University of Auckland will again host this 3-day research symposium on the topic of electroacoustic music. Several of New Zealand’s prominent composer-researchers will be in attendance, including John Elmsly, Eve de Castro Robinson, John Coulter, Ian Whalley, Susan Frykberg, Michael Norris, John Cousins, and Chris Cree Brown. Professor John Young (DMU) will be delivering the keynote presentation. As a special feature of the symposium, a 26-channel discrete ‘acousmonium’ will be installed in Studio One, Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland St, for the duration of the 3-day event.

Concerts open to the public

Sonic Art 2010
7pm, Thursday 2 September

Works by associate artists of NZEMS 2010, including Arrivederci (for ensemble) and electroacoustic music by Professor John Young.

Tickets: $15 full price, $10 concessions
Venue: Music Theatre, School of Music, 6 Symonds Street, Auckland

Diffused Works Lunchtime Series
1pm Wednesday 1 September: Young composers
1pm Thursday 2 September: Video works
1pm Friday 3 September: Established composers

Admission free, but seating is limited – bookings required. Contact nzems@auckland.ac.nz
Venue: Studio One, Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland

NZEMS 2010 is proudly supported by Protel.

The Music Council of Australia maintains a useful collection of current composition competitions and other opportunities at http://www.mca.org.au/bulletin_commissions.php#1

A good one to bookmark and check back with periodically..

Congratulations to Jason Long, Carol Shortis, Ross Carey and Bruce Crossman who have work in the Festival.

http://www.asiancomposersleague.com/asian-music-festival-2010-in-tokyo-japan.html

The Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival is seeking scores and musical works that fulfill the following conditions:

1. Duration not more than 10 minutes

2. SOLO, DUO or TRIO

3. from the following

a. Strings: violin, viola, cello, double bass
b. Wood winds: piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bass clarinet, bassoon.
c. Brass: horn in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone
d. Percussion: Marimba, xylophone, vibraphone.
e. Piano, guitar
f. Vocals: Soprano
g. Javanese and Chinese instruments: Gender, rebab, siter, saron, vocals, kendang, suling, erhu.

Scores and instrumental parts have to be written in Sibelius, and formatted in PDF. They should be mailed to ycmf@live.com along with a short bio, photograph and program notes.

Electroacoustic Music

Duration has to be not more than 10 minutes. Work must be for sound only or sound and video. In both cases, the work should be a composition without live performance. The video work should be submitted on DVD that is playable on a PC.

The CDs/DVDs should be sent along with a short bio, photograph and program notes by mail to

Panitia YCMF 2010
J1. Ki Mangunsarkoro 55
Yogyakarta 55111
D.I. Yogyakarta
INDONESIA

DEADLINE: August 15, 2010

Open to all composers without age limit.

Selected works will be performed, recorded, and uploaded onto YouTube.

website: http://ycmfindonesia.bravehost.com

Emerging young composers with experience in creating music for voices are invited to apply for a place in MODART11, hosted by The Song Company in Sydney in July 2011.

Every two years The Song Company host MODART, an opportunity for young, emerging composers to develop a short vocal work in close collaboration with the ensemble. The Song Company have asked SOUNZ to be involved in the selection process for a New Zealand representative at MODART11. They anticipate a larger international component in 2011 with composers also from Canada, China and Mexico. They envisage that the project will again take place in two stages:? in early February 2011, three or four days of initial workshops in Sydney with the Song Company; and in late July 2011, a final week of rehearsals and public performance recorded by ABC Classic FM. It is envisaged that there will be two public performances, one in Sydney and one in Brisbane.

For further background and information on the application process, got to the SOUNZ website here: http://sounz.org.nz/events/show/1929

Time and place:
From 1-3 September 2010 The School of Music University of Auckland will host a 3-day research symposium on the topic of Electroacoustic Music. Several of New Zealand’s prominent Composer-Researchers will be in attendance including Phil Dadson (TBC), John Elmsly, Eve de Castro Robinson, John Coulter, Ian Whalley, Susan Frykberg, Michael Norris, John Cousins, and Chris Cree Brown. Professor John Young (DMU) will be delivering the keynote presentation. As a special feature of the symposium a 26-channel discrete ‘acousmonium’ will be installed in Studio One Kenneth Myers Centre 74 Shortland St for the duration of the 3-day event.

The special theme of NZEMS 2010 is ‘ Multi-Channel Electoacoustic Music’
Research in the field of multi-channel electroacoustic music continues to advance at an alarming rate. The once standard 8-channel speaker configuration has now given way to a range of multi-speaker spaced and zoned arrays as variable as the creative works presented on them. Multi-zone and ambisonic field recording has become a typical method of acquiring source materials, and new tools for multi-track spatialisation and transformation are constantly being developed. Hyper-instruments too, many of which are designed to capture human gesture, have made their way into the multi-channel production process, while in the context of live performance, the combination of acoustic and multi-channel electroacoustic instruments is providing vocal and instrumental composers and sonic artists alike with pioneering opportunities.

The scholars of acoustic and spectral space (Bayle, Bregman, Emmerson, Haas, Hall, Lennox, Oliveros, Russo, Schafer, Smalley, et al) remind us that the language of the domain is far from arbitrary – rather, that the effective aesthetics we experience in listening to multi-channel works is founded on more general principles relating to human genetics and experience. Several questions arise: Is the articulation of space at the heart of the language of electroacoustic music? Are there different types/genuses of spaces? What is the relationship between the proximity/location of loudspeakers and the proximity cues of the musical materials? What importance does sound spectra hold in the reception of spatiality? Is the division of space into ‘zones’ a useful heuristic procedure? How does the presence of a human performer impact on the space of a live multi-channel performance? How is space perceived in multichannel sound/multimedia installations (where participants are free to roam within a multi-channel sonic environment)?

Call for presentations of research
Presentation of research are called for concerning all aspects of multi-channel electroacoustic composition. However, submissions are not limited to this field. Research presentations from the following domains are also welcome:

• Performance-Based Electroacoustic Music / Sonic Art (with live electronics and/or acoustic instruments and/or dance)
• Acousmatic Electroacoustic Music / Sonic Art
• Electroacoustic Music with Moving Images,
• Interactive Installation / Sonic Sculpture,
• Electroacoustic Music / Sonic Art with other disciplines.

Each spoken presentation will be 20-min in duration with 10-min reserved for questions. The inclusion of creative work as part of the presentation is encouraged. Stereo playback and data projection will be made available to all presenters. A basic eight-channel playback system will be made available to presenters on request.

Associated events:
Delegates are welcome to submit creative works for inclusion in the concert series; however, space in these events is extremely limited, as a number of high-profile New Zealand composers have already accepted invitations to present.

Concerts for Diffused (stereo) Works (seating for 60)
• 1pm 1 September, Kenneth Myers Centre – Young Composers Lunchtime Concert (acousmonium)
• 1pm 2 September, Kenneth Myers Centre – Video Works Lunchtime Concert (acousmonium)
• 1pm 3 September, Kenneth Myers Centre – Established Composers Lunchtime Concert (acousmonium)

Concert for Live Works - SONIC ART 2010
• 7-9pm 2 September, School of Music Theatre (multichannel system available)

Concerts for Multi-Channel Works – repeat performances (seating for 9)
• 6-9pm 1 September, Kenneth Myers Centre – (acousmonium)
• 2-6pm 3 September, Kenneth Myers Centre – (acousmonium)

Guidelines for submissions
The deadline for receipt of proposals (abstracts and biographies of contributors) is Friday 30 July 2010. Submissions are to be made electronically to nzems@auckland.ac.nz. Send abstracts of 200-300 words plus a short biography. Please ensure that your name, institutional / organizational affiliation (if any), contact address, telephone, and preferred e-mail address are included on the abstract. Paper acceptance decisions will be emailed to applicants by Friday 6 August 2010

Registration details
To register on-line please visit http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/nzems. All NZEMS events are free, with the exception of the Sonic Art concert on 2 September ($15). Concerts for Multi-Channel Works will be closed to the public (available to NZEMS delegates only)

Contact details
For further details including programme information please visit http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/nzems or contact the NZEMS events manager directly. nzems@auckland.ac.nz

Complimentary tickets are available for composers to attend Sonnets Unplugged, a fully-orchestrated original drama setting 16 of Shakespeare’s sonnets to music by Gareth Farr.

Auckland Town Hall / Fri 18 June / 1.30pm

Christchurch Town Hall / Thurs 24 June / 9.30am

Wellington Town Hall / Wed 30 June / 12 noon

BOOKINGS REQUESTS: musicforschools@nzso.co.nz

Sonnets Unplugged is the world premiere of a fully-orchestrated original drama, setting 16 of Shakespeare’s sonnets to music by Gareth Farr. It’s brought to life by actors Rima Te Wiata and Kristian Lavercombe, who reveal the sonnets in a new way by linking them into a strong storyline based around three characters – the poet, his mistress, and his muse.

Anyone who loves the language of love should not miss this concert! Gareth calls it a darkly passionate “sound world” full of acting, song and dance.

William Shakespeare will never be the same!

Electronic copies of the June/July issue of Canzonetta have now been sent. Posted copies for those not on email will follow in a few days.

The Centre for New Zealand Music is now welcoming proposals from New Zealand composers and/or community groups for the 2010 SOUNZ Community Commission.

Click here to download a pdf of more information and an application form or contact us at SOUNZ.

The SOUNZ Community Commission aims to bring together professional composers and community groups to create and perform a new work. It has been supported since 1998 by an overseas donor who prefers to remain anonymous. Click here to find out more about the commission and click here to see a list of previous recipients.

The proposed commission should be completed and a performance realised or scheduled by March 31, 2011. While works can be of any form, the donor has previously expressed an interest in those works which include improvisational processes and a choral/vocal element and perhaps a music-theatre slant. (These elements are not obligatory by any means!)

The SOUNZ Contemporary Award is the most prestigious annual award for ‘contemporary classical’ music in New Zealand. First presented in 1998, the award seeks to recognise compositional excellence and inspiration in the works of Kiwi composers in the previous year.

It is a collaborative project of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and SOUNZ. New Zealand composers who are also APRA members may submit up to two works which have been premiered in public between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010. There is no restriction on duration and the works can be for solo, chamber, ensemble, choral, orchestral, electro-acoustic or any combination of these.

The entry deadline is Monday 14 June, 2010 and an entry form can be downloaded here.

The award, consisting of a trophy designed and made by Auckland sculptor Sarah Smuts Kennedy and $3000 cash prize, is presented each year at the APRA Silver Scroll awards ceremony. This year that event will be held in Auckland on Wednesday 8 September.

More information, including a list of past finalists and winners, can be found here.