Seventeenth Annual
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival
University of Florida
Composer-in-Residence, Annea Lockwood
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Born in New Zealand (1939) and living in the US since 1973, Annea Lockwood is known for her explorations of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from sound installations and performance art to concert music. Her music has been presented in many venues and festivals including the Whitney Museum, De Ijsbreker, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum, three New Music America festivals, the Asia-Pacific Festival, Wellington, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, West German Radio, CNMAT, the 7th Totally Huge New Music Festival Perth, Australia, the Stadthaus Ulm and the Ear to the Earth Festival New York. Recent works include Jitterbug, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the dance eyeSpace, incorporating recordings of aquatic insects, and rock surfaces read as graphic scores by two improvising musicians; a surround-sound installation, A Sound Map of the Danube, which traces the river from source to delta; Ceci n'est pas un piano (piano, electronics and video, commissioned by pianist Jennifer Hymer), and Luminescence, for baritone Thomas Buckner and the SEM Ensemble, with texts by Etel Adnan. Her music has been issued on British, American, Japanese and Australasian record labels and has been published by Schirmers, Waiteata Press (New Zealand), Smith Publications and in European and American journals. |
About the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival
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A premiere event in the field of electroacoustic music, this year the Florida Electroacoustic Music
Festival enters its 17th year of bringing together an international
rostrum of today's electroacoustic composers to present their
cutting-edge music. Past composers-in-residence have included world
renowned composers Hubert S. Howe, Jr., Cort Lippe, Gary Nelson, Jon
Appleton, Joel Chadabe, Larry Austin, Barry Truax, Richard Boulanger,
Paul Lansky, James Dashow, Mort Subotnick, John Chowning and Charles Dodge.
- works for recorded media alone
- - two to eight channel works for performance on up to 14 speakers (see media formats supported)
- video works (see media formats supported) - works for recorded media and instrumental solo
- - special interest in works for flute, clarinet, saxophone, horn, trombone, contra-bass, piano, and percussion
- works utilizing interactive applications/interfaces including electroacoustic improvisation, alternative controllers, and new approaches to sound with other media in performance.
Supported resources include:
- - Cycling 74's Max/Msp
- SuperCollider
- Kyma 5.13 with Capybara 320 (three card system)
- Proposals for other technologies will be considered
- CD
- 16 and 24 bit RDAT
- Tascam DA88/DTRS
- Alesis ADAT XT20
- DVD
- VHS
A call for electroacoustic art music works that fit into one of the following categories:
media formats supported:
Audio
Video (NTSC)
for submitted work(s):
OCTOBER 19, 2007
All submissions must include performance materials in one of the media listed above, performance parts and/or a score, a brief biography (75-100 words), program notes (100 words or less), and required submission form. Biographies or notes in excess of the maximum will be truncated. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Please indicate whether the composer can provide the performer(s). Contact information on the required submission form must include a phone number, address, and if available, an email address, web site, and fax number. A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is required for the return of all materials (or international postal response return coupons). Materials not accompanied by a SASE will become property of the Florida Electroacoustic Music Studio.
Composers may submit no more than two compositions for performance consideration on the festival.
Composers selected for performance are required to attend the festival; this is to provide the festival with a sense of community. The festival is unable to provide travel grants or honoraria.
Should a composer be unable to attend the festival their work will not be presented.
A call for papers, studio reports, and lecture/demonstrations dealing with the technology, musicology, and/or aesthetics of electroacoustic music.
Submissions from all current areas of research are encouraged. Possible topics include: acoustic ecology, interactive composition/synthesis, algorithmic composition, new musical interfaces, and new synthesis/processing techniques. Authors selected will be given 30 minutes to present their paper (20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions and answers).
for submitted paper(s):
OCTOBER 19, 2007
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SEND SUBMISSIONS OR INQUIRIES TO:
- 17th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival
Michael Solomon, General Manager
University of Florida School of Music
P.O. Box 117900/130 Music Bldg.
Gainesville, FL 32611-7900
(352) 392-0223/voice
(352) 392-0461/fax
( femf17@arts.ufl.edu)More information on the electroacoustic music program at the University of Florida and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Studio can be found at:
The University of Florida is located in the North Central Florida city of Gainesville. Gainesville is served by Delta Airlines (via American Southeast Airlines), USAir Express and Continental Connection (via Gulfstream Airlines). The city is approximately 2.5 hours drive by car from Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Orlando, and Tampa, Florida. Airport shuttle service can be provided by the festival hotel for transportation from/to the Gainesville Regional Airport (but not to other area airports).
Anticipated notification of selection for those with email access will begin December 2007. The completed program will be availble at
http://emu.music.ufl.edu/femf/fest17prg.html
