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SEPTEMBER 2009
The deadline is 30 SEPTEMBER 2009 Full guidelines from: www.tippettfoundation.org.uk
Call for contributions for edited collection on ‘Noise, Audition and Aurality: Histories of the Sonic World(s) of Europe’ Deadline: 30/11/2009
OPPORTUNITIES
to Ian Biddle i.d.biddle@ncl.ac.uk by no later than November 30, 2009. If your contribution is chosen, we will require your finished chapter by April 19, 2010. www.soundandmusic.org/network/ opportunities/127660
ReedPlay Composition Competition Deadline: 30/10/2009
Contributions are invited for a proposed collection of essays exploring the soundscapes of Europe from c.1500 to 1945. We will favour contributions that deal with historically-informed topics in the following areas (although this is by no means an exclusive list): The noise-sound-music nexus Urban/rural soundscapes Public/private soundscapes The acoustic ecology of communities Legal histories of noise Noise, music and the body Listening and the erotic Political economies of noise Noise, music and landscape Theories of hearing and listening Historical acousmetre Historiographies of noise, audition and aurality Technologies of sound reproduction and their histories Prospective contributors should send a 250-word abstract and a short biography
Competition for a new trio to be performed at the Purcell Room in February 2010. ReedPlay are: Victoria Soames Samek – clarinets (E-flat, B-flat and A) & bass clarinet, Jeffery Wilson – saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor & baritone) and Tim Watts – piano. To celebrate their launch at the Purcell Room on 8th February 2010 ReedPlay are holding a competition for a new trio composition. Three works will be chosen for public workshop at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama on 14th November 2009 and the winning piece will be premiered in the launch concert. Compositions should be for trio and may use any combination of the above instruments (including doublings), should be between 4 and 8 minutes in duration and should not have been performed in public. Prize: £150 plus potential publication. Download an application form from: www.soundandmusic.org/network/ opportunities/127643