USA: The Ear Hut + Listen Ahead
2022-07-01 - 2022-10-31 | OUTDOOR PLAZA, Building 12, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York City, NY, United States
A listening station created by Miya Masaoka
The Ear Hut was originally commissioned by Sonic Innovations, a program of the Caramoor Center for Art and Music in Katonah, New York, for composer and sound artist Miya Masaoka and was exhibited there in 2019-2021.
The Ear Hut is a listening space, a contemplative space that directs the attention of the viewer towards an awareness of their sense of listening over their sense of sight, and how this shift in emphasis might be experienced in an impactful way.

Japan: Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka
2022-07-02 16:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Izumi Hall, Sumitomo Seimei OBP Plaza Build. 1-4-70, Shiromi, Chuo0ku, Osaka, 540-0001, Japan
On the program:
Xenakis：
Nomos Alpha
linaia-agon Aroura
Palimpsest
Also:
Bartók（arr.Motoharu Kawashima)：
Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra, BB 121（ISO ver.）

Players:
Norichika Iimori (Conductor)
Yasuo Maruyama（Vc）
Shin-ichi Go（tb）／Hiroshi Kigawa（hrn）／Tuba player being adjusted
Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka

Mondi Senza Frontiere - Worlds Without Borders
2022-07-16 05:59 (America/New_York) | NY
Call for Scores
Submission period
Wed May 11 at 04AM UTC
End of submission period
Sat Jul 16 at 10:59AM UTC (5:59AM ET)
Results date
Wed Aug 31 at 04PM UTC
“Piazza del Mondo” is very excited to announce its first call for scores, in order to focus the attention on essential themes and values such as pace, solidarity, dialog and democracy.
The recent events stress the need to raise awareness towards altruism, solidarity and comprehension of your neighbor.
Key concepts that will stimulate your creativity:
Pace – War – Net – Solidarity – Dialog – Democracy – Local – Global – Community – Individual – Otherness
Guidelines for submission:

Applicants may be of any nationality and age.
Applicants may submit only one work.
Submitted works must not exceed 15 minutes length.

Deadline: July 16, 2022 (CET 11.59am)
Fee: The call is completely free of charge.
AgorArt Ensemble:

Davide Baldo (flute in C, flute in G, bass flute in C, piccolo);
Emanuele Dalmaso (Bb clarinet, A clarinet, Eb clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax);
Mattia Grott (Electronics).

We accept pieces written for two or three performers (any combination is allowed, live electronics is included).
Electronics (Stereo) can be live or fixed media. In addition to other materials, a detailed description of technical requirements must be provided with the application. We can run Max/MSP or Pure Data patches and Ableton sessions.
All winners will receive a performance at “Resistance and Resilience. Workshops and Performances”, that will take place in late 2021 in Trentino, Italy.
All submissions should be sent via email to: call@piazzadelmondo.it with the subject heading “MONDI SENZA FRONTIERE / WORLDS WITHOUT BORDERS – Call For Scores – Your Name” and should include a link (Dropbox, Google Drive, WeTransfer, etc) to the following files:

PDF score and program notes;
MP3 recording or MIDI realizations (not mandatory);
Curriculum vitae

All parts must be sent within a week after the selection
For more information regarding the call for scores, please send an email to: call@piazzadelmondo.it

First International UPISketch Competition
2022-07-31 | NY
Some fifty years ago, Iannis Xenakis and his team at the CEMAMu (Centre d’Études de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales) invented the UPIC, a computer tool for composing music with the help of drawing. Anyone, with or without a musical background, could compose using this very large digitizing table and its associated system.
The CIX decided to pursue this initial goal of opening up creativity to all audiences and has developed a new application/software called UPISketch (see here for free download).
Xenakis’s centenary is the perfect occasion for us to launch this first UPISketch International Competition, with a total amount of 5000 € in prizes.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
The competition is open to all nationalities and all ages.
The amateur category is reserved for non-professional musicians.
CATEGORIES

A : Amateur – UPISketch solo
B : Professional – UPISketch solo
C : Professional – UPISketch and mixed techniques

A & B (“UPISketch Solo”): All of the material should be generated by UPISketch, be from one or several projects using the app. However, the final product can be edited in a digital audio workstation (DAW) and processed through reverberation and/or filtering end and/or dynamics.
C: “UPISketch & Mixed Techniques”: The large majority of the sound material (in terms of content and duration) of the submitted work must be generated by UPISketch. It can be processed by any means. The final product could use other sources as well, but one must be able to retrace the UPISketch material by comparing the provided UPISketch-exported sounds with the piece itself.
Nota Bene: a VST-host version of UPISketch is in the making. With this version, any plugin will be usable for the current competition, as long as it is installed in UPISketch itself.
B & C: It is mandatory to provide the screen shots and exported sounds from the original UPISketch projects that were used, along with the piece. Also, spatialization can be added to expand stereo setups. In such cases, please send us a multi-track audio file.
Only one work per applicant may be submitted.
Collective works by more than one composer will be considered one submission. If a collective work is submitted, none of the composers participating at the collective is allowed to submit an individual work.
SCHEDULE

Opening of submissions: March 8, 2022
Deadline: July 31, 2022
Publication of Results: September 15, 2022

A distinguished international jury will anonymously review all submissions. The jury’s decisions will be final. Names of the jury members will be posted at the same time as the results on our website and related social media.
No member of the jury may participate in the Competition. In addition to the three prizes in each category the jury has the right to award Honorary Mentions for works they consider of high artistic value.
Concerts including awarded works will take place between September 28 and the end of 2022, in France, Greece, and Japan (and perhaps elsewhere).
DURATION
The duration of submitted work should be more than 3 minutes, and preferably less than 20 minutes.
SUBMISSION
Submission is free of charge and will consist of the following files/links emailed to upisketch@meta-xenakis.org:
• your piece (audio file, stereo or multitrack)
• associated UPISketch screen captures and exported audio files from UPISketch projects (for Categories B & C)
• rider containing diffusion setup, technical requirements, images, program notes, etc.
• the completed and signed registration form
PRIZES
Three prizes will be given for each category:
1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize
A 500€ 300€ 200€
B 1000€ 600€ 400€
C 1000€ 600€ 400€
Nota Bene: you are free to use any available version of UPISketch, but please note that the main platforms for the upcoming updates and version will be OSX and Windows.
To be informed when any new versions are released, please check for updates on the CIX website and on our Facebook page.
Video tutorials are available in the application itself, or online at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvYFZ0B8tIk-1ch53Cb2LMTAA3Uoc6z1Y

2nd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition
2022-08-01 10:59 - 22:59 (America/New_York) | NY
Call for Scores
Deadline: August 1, 2022, 23:59 JP time (10:59AM ET)
Sumio Kobayashi​, head of jury – https://www.sumiokobayashi.com/
• Full score (pdf format) and/or recording composed solely by an applicant must be submitted via application form (https://en.iseshimaart.com/international-composition-competiti).
• Application Fee – A non-refundable payment of 3,000 Yen (approximately $30 US Dollars) can be paid via following page after fulfilling the form (credit card or paypal): https://en.iseshimaart.com/international-composition-competiti
• The score has to be sent from the form.
• All important messages will be sent by info at iseshimaart.com. Confirm the e-mail setting to receive the messages from this e-mail address.
• Depending on a situation, we may ask winners to send us a copy of ID.
• Full name of applicants must be written correctly on the application form because the name will be used on a certificate. Teacher names and parent names, relative names etc. must not be written on the application form.
General rules
• Instrumentation and duration are free, from a solo piece to orchestra.
• An electro acoustic work is acceptable.
• Full score must be uploaded from the application form: https://en.iseshimaart.com/international-composition-competiti
• The score, in pdf format, must contain full name of the composer.
• The submitted work may be already performed or awarded.
• Composers may submit more than one work, but must complete a separate entry form and fee for each.
• A recording of the submitted work (possibly movie recording or audio recording) must be submitted by links in Soundcloud / Youtube / Youku / Vimeo. At first, please upload the recording on one of these websites.

FOLLOW MY SCORE 2022 FALL SEASON
2022-08-15 - 2022-09-15 | YouTube
We are pleased to announce Follow My Score 2022! Fms22 is an effort to promote and curate many works by living composers. Approximately 80 works will be selected by the Score Follower jury and curators. Selected works will be made into “score follower videos” by our production team, and uploaded onto our YouTube channels. We hold this call semiannually, once in the Fall (Aug 15—Sep 15, with results by Nov 15), and once in the Spring (Feb 15—Mar 15, with results by May 15). If you want to make a score video in the meantime, you can build one in your browser now: scorefol.io. This project is not a commissioning contest.

Spain: GAUR! 50TH ANNIVERSARY ENCUENTROS DE PAMPLONA
2022-08-24 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | NY
XENAKIS AT THE PAMPLONA MEETINGS 1972 XAS FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET
In the final years of the dictatorship in Spain, in the summer of 1972, and for eight days (26 June/3 July 1972), the “Encuentros de Pamplona” took place, the largest and most significant international avant-garde festival held in Spain, with Luis de Pablo (composer) and José Luis Alexanco (visual artist) as its intellectual leaders.
Xenakis’s music was presented at the Hotel de los Tres Reyes in Pamplona, as part of the exhibition “Automatic generation of plastic and sound forms”, curated by the director of the Centro de Cálculo de Madrid, Ernesto García Camarero.
For the August 24, 2022 event:
interpreters
Andrés Gomis, Ángel Soria, Alberto Chaves, Josetxo Silguero,
Manu Gaigne saxophones , interludes and soundscapes
Francisco Javier Larreina, scenic space
With the special collaboration of the plastic artist César Barrio.
Program
“Gaur!! 50th Anniversary of the Pamplona Meetings”
John Cage (1912-1992)
Four5 (1991)
Gabriel Erkoreka (1969)
Swirls (2018)
Helga Arias (1984)
Milk spilled on a stone (2017)
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Xenakis Xas Centenary Celebration
(1987)
Núria Giménez Comas (1980)
Clairobscur * (2022)
Luis de Pablo (1930-2021)
LDP (2021)
* Absolute premiere. Work commissioned by SIGMA Project-INAEM.

USA: Sonic Innovations
2022-08-26 10:00 - 2022-10-17 16:00 (America/New_York) | Caramoor, 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, NY, 10536, United States
Sonic Innovations continues to expand Caramoor’s programming with an annual exhibition of sound art, curated by Stephan Moore, from artists working with sonic materials outside the traditions of concert music. Each artist has drawn inspiration from their chosen location, creating work that is mindful of the natural and human-made sounds and systems already present in the environment, while engaging each site’s unique characteristics — be they acoustic, historic, architectural, or natural.
• Timbre and Frequency (2022) -Mendi + Keith Obadike
• in“C” (2021) – Trimpin
• Wild Energy (2014) – Annea Lockwood and Bob Bielecki
• Stone Song (2014) – Ranjit Bhatnagar
• t(ch)ime (2017) – Taylor Deupree
• Nafasi Yako Ni Ya Kijani (Your Place is Green) (2018) – Walter Kitundu
• Piano Garden (1969 – 1970 / 2021) – Annea Lockwood
EXPLORE SONIC INNOVATIONS: https://caramoor.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Campus-Map.pdf
OPEN FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

Rethinking: Xenakis Competition
2022-08-31 | NY
“Composition for Ensemble”
Commemorating the 100th anniversary since the birth of the prominent Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, the Greek Composers Union has organized an International Competition.
The aim of the Competition is to encourage composers from all over the world to create new pieces for ensemble and to promote contemporary creation!
Composers from around the world, of any nationality and age, are invited to write chamber music works reflecting on the achievements of the great creator.
Compositions that will be submitted will be judged by an international committee, which will choose three works for the three prizes. Celebrating the 100th anniversary since the birth of Iannis Xenakis, the Friends of Music Society offers the prizes for this international competition.
The Ionian Ensemble will perform the three award-winning pieces at a special concert on the 3rd of October at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall.

• The competition is open to composers of all nationalities with no age limit and without registration fees.
• The submitted works must not have been previously published, performed, broadcasted or awarded at a different competition.
• The contestants will submit one work for ensemble that must last between 8 and 10 minutes. The duration of the piece must be written on the score.
• The use of electronics or solo instruments is not permitted.
The submission deadline is 31 August 2022, and in order to be considered as final, there must be an electronic submission.

More information at Rethinking:Xenakis

ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION MÚSICA VIVA 2022
2022-08-31 07:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Submission period: Fri May 27 at 04AM UTC
End of submission period: Wed Aug 31 at 12PM UTC (7AM ET)
Results date: Fri Nov 18 at 09PM UTC
23rd International Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2022
Jury of the 2022 Jonty Harrison, Kees Tazelaar, Miguel Azguime
Deadline August 31, 2022.
The works submitted for the competition shall be electroacoustic pieces, composed and recorded in studio. They are to be projected only by loudspeakers in concert, without any intervention of live performers besides the sound projectionist. They may include a maximum of eight channels and should have a duration between five and fifteen minutes.
The competition is open to composers of any nationality and age, each of whom may submit only one work, which has not been commercially published or awarded a prize in any other national or international competition. Any previous Musica Viva prize-winning composer will not be allowed to submit a work during the two years following the prize award.
The deadline for submissions is 12 pm GMT time, August 31, 2022.
Applications sent after the deadline will not be considered valid.
Prize: the jury will award 1 work with a 500€ prize and the work will be performed in concert by the Miso Music Loudspeakers Orchestra at the 2022 edition of the Musica Viva Festival.

France: ELECTROPIXEL 12
2022-09-03 - 2022-10-02 | NY
Electropixel Festival
A festival of emerging digital cultures and free electronic practices, Electropixel is part of an international network of electronic arts festivals. The festival opens a unique space allowing the meeting of artists (audiovisual, musicians, visual artists, intermedia, performers, etc.), theoreticians, programmers, hackers, and inventors of all stripes and everyday factories.
Sep 3, 2022@ 8:30 p.m.
Electropixel Nantes – ElectronoiseSaturday
3 rue de Bitche, les Ateliers de Bitche
Tickets: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/apo-33/evenements/electronoise-soiree-electropixel-nantes

Sep 17, 2022@ 8:00 p.m.
ELECTROPIXEL 12 – ST NAZAIRE – PCP
Les Ateliers PCP
Tickets: apo33.org – Free
7 chemin du Relais
44600 Saint Nazaire

Sep 22, 2022 – Oct 2
ELECTROPIXEL 12 – PARIS – EXHIBITION – COLLECTIF IRRATIONNEL
Opening Thursday September 22 at 6.30 p.m. Visit the exhibition Friday September 23—Saturday October 1 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sep 22, 2022 – Oct 2
ELECTROPIXEL 12 – PARIS – EXHIBITION – COLLECTIF IRRATIONNEL
Opening Thursday September 22 at 6.30 p.m. Visit the exhibition Friday September 23—Saturday October 1 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sep 24, 2022@ 3:00 p.m. – 6pm
Electropixel 12 – Diwo workshop Art+tech – Mains D’oeuvres (Hands of works)
Continuous performance with artists and musicians where the public could interact with collective experimentation. The idea is to create a framework where artists, audiences, musicians feel comfortable working together in a different process without a specific hierarchy on a common artistic process/project. Apo33 offers an experimental art workshop where participants will contribute to building an evening between installation and performance.
Register at orga@apo33.org
*DIWO: (Do it with the others)

Poland: 65th Warsaw Autumn
2022-09-16 - 2022-09-24 | NY
CONNECTIONS – is the watchword of this year’s, 65th edition of the ‘Warsaw Autumn’. We work as a team, bringing together the efforts of performers, programmers, and organisers. Connections are constructive, in defiance of the engineering of social divisions. We are with Ukraine and its artists. We present music that is not indifferent to the struggle with life’s hardships and solitude, brought about both by large-scale processes and by everyday life.
DETAILS: https://warszawska-jesien.art.pl/en/2022/news/64–warszawska-jesien-
Warsaw Autumn (Warszawska Jesień) is a festival with a long tradition and a true witness to music history. It is the only contemporary music festival in Poland on an international scale and with an international status. The Festival is organised by the Polish Composers’ Union. The Repertoire Committee, an independent body appointed by the Union’s Board, determines the program of each edition of the festival. Warsaw Autumn is, therefore, an international and nonprofit festival of a nongovernmental association.

France: Hommage à Paul Méfano (1937-2020)
2022-09-17 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | The Forum, 48, rue Victor Hugo, Rouen, 76000, France
A Concert Tribute to the Centre Iannis Xenakis’s President (From 2009-2020)
This tribute to Paul Méfano will feature several works spanning his rich career, including electroacoustic and mixed pieces. Free admission is subject to availability. Reservation is required on the site. Guests will be invited to an informal reception after the concert.
About Centre Iannis Xenakis
The association was founded in 1985 by Iannis Xenakis and Maurice Fleuret to promote the musical composition machine through drawing, developed by Iannis Xenakis in 1977, called UPIC. Since December 2010, the Iannis Xenakis Center has been housed at the University of Rouen, under the aegis of the
GRHis research laboratory (Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire), whose important archives are kept in the main premises of the University.
http://www.centre-iannis-xenakis.org/

USA: International Contemporary Ensemble
2022-09-20 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York, NY, 10003, United States
International Contemporary Ensemble gives the world premiere performance of two new works by Lesley Mok and Chris Ryan Williams at Joe’s Pub alongside a solo set by Lesley Mok, and Fay Victor’s Flow to the Next. Commissioned by ICEensemble as part of their 2021-2022 “Call for __” Commissions Program, the new works include Mok’s Stilled leaf-chatter and Williams’s Odu: vibration 1.

Advance tickets are suggested. Doors open at 6pm.

JOB OPENING: Senior Vice President, Planning & Capacity Building, Arts Consulting Group
2022-09-21 - 2022-12-31 | NY
Reporting to ACG’s President, the Senior Vice President – Planning and Capacity Building (SVP-PCB) will focus on business development, delivery of client services, and team mentoring, training, and supervision.
Arts Consulting Group (ACG) is the leading provider of hands-on interim management, executive search, revenue enhancement, strategic planning & community engagement, facilities & program planning, and other capacity building services for the arts and culture industry.
More detailed description, roles and responsibilities :
Senior Vice President, Planning & Capacity Building

Arts Consulting Group, Inc. and Arts Consulting Group Canada, Ltd. welcome all qualified applicants and highly values inclusion, diversity,
equity, and access, which are embedded in the uniqueness of the vibrant creative industries and the culture of the firm.
Additional opportunities are listed here: https://artsconsulting.com/employment/

UK: Convergence 2022
2022-09-22 - 2022-09-25 | De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, United Kingdom
Music – Technology – Ideas
Convergence 2022 will be a festival/conference celebrating new work and ideas in music and technology.
Our keynote speakers for 2022 are Joanna Demers and Tim Garland.
Joanna Demers is Professor of Musicology at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. One of today’s most authoritative and interesting thinkers on music and technology she is author of Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music (Oxford University Press, 2010); Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity (University of Georgia Press, 2006); Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World (Zero Books, 2015) and; Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS Report, 2214 (Zero Books, 2017).
Tim Garland is a world-renowned jazz musician: saxophonist, composer and arranger. A former member of Chick Corea’s bands Origin and The Vigil, and with over 40 albums and a Grammy Award to his credit, Garland is internationally respected across jazz and classical music as performer, composer, orchestrator and educator in genres spanning symphonic and small combo blends of notated and improvised music-making. Tim Garland’s Duology, with Jason Rebello (piano) will perform in an evening concert at Convergence 2022.
Concerts will be presented in DMU PACE Studios 1 and 2 and at The Venue@DMU
Audiovisual and Installation work will be presented at two of Leicester’s central city Cultural Quarter venues: Phoenix Arts and LCB Depot.
About us
De Montfort University is located in the heart of the city of Leicester—one of the UK’s most vibrantly multicultural cities. A city with Roman heritage, Leicester is also the recently established resting place of King Richard III, the controversial subject of one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.
De Montfort University’s MTI2 Institute for Sonic Creativity has been established as a leading international centre for electroacoustic music for over two decades and builds on Leicester’s reputation as a focal point for experimental music-making. A music department at the university was founded by the composer Gavin Bryars, focusing DMU as a hotbed of experimentalism and innovation. That imperative extends today in the Institute for Sonic Creativity—founded in 1999 with wide-ranging artistic practice embracing many forms of digital and post-digital forms of sonic art: acousmatic music, audiovisual and installation art, live coding, interactive performance, electronic instrument construction, AI, spatial audio, radiogenic art and plunderphonics.

Germany: KONTAKTE ’22 – Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art
2022-09-22 - 2022-09-25 | Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, Berlin-Mitte, 10117, Germany
The Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste is hosting the KONTAKTE Festival for the fourth time in September 2022. Including premieres, revivals and a diverse range of performances, the festival offers a spectrum of current artistic trends and developments in the fields of electroacoustic music and sound art. For five days, the entire Akademie building on Hanseatenweg is transformed through concerts, performances, sound installations and discussion panels.
Online ticket sales: www.adk.de/tickets

USA: Victoria Keddie + Rose Kallal
2022-09-22 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue (Corner of Third Avenue), Brooklyn, NY, 11217, United States
Victoria Keddie and Rose Kallal, who compose and perform for electronic synthesizers and work with analog film and video, are performing together for the third time, creating an immersive audio and visual experience focusing on elemental emergence and collapse.

JAPAN: NYMPHÉART #17 CONCERT
2022-09-26 18:45 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, 1-13-2 Higashisakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 461-8525, Japan
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FOR IANNIS XENAKIS: THE ULTIMATE STRINGS
PROGRAM
Xenakis: Mikka, violin, Theraps, contrabass
Isang Yun: Sachie Sawada, violin, Yoji Sato, contrabass
Stockhausen: Tierkreis
Dai Fujikura: Bis for contrabass
Hiromi Itakura: New piece for violin (world premier)
Miyuki Ito: New piece for violin & contrabass (world premier)
Mikako Mizuno: New piece for contrabass (world premier)

USA: Global Xenakis Centenary Symposium
2022-09-30 14:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
The Brook Center is delighted to announce the Global Xenakis Centenary Symposium, a hybrid event hosted by the Brook Center’s Xenakis Project of the Americas that will take place on 30 September 2022 from 9:30 am to 7:00 pm EDT.
Program details and speaker biographies.
At 6 pm there will be a video tribute to Joel Chadabe (1938–2021) as he remembers his conversations with Xenakis.
The event will take place online and in the Kelly Skylight Room of the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016). Registration is free.
If you would like to attend in person, please register by sending an email to northamerica@meta-xenakis.org.
If you would like to attend virtually, please register in advance here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
To watch this event–or the entire 41-hour global Xenakis marathon (beginning at 2:00 am EDT on 30 September 2022 and ending at 7:00 pm EDT 1 October 2022)–join the stream here: https://avarts.ionio.gr/stream/.

Phill Niblock 89th Birthday Reception
2022-10-02 17:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | White Box Gallery, 9 Ave B, New York, 10009, United States
A reception at White Box Gallery, 9 Ave B, NY, to celebrate Phill Niblock’s 89th Birthday and the release of a new Touch project of Phill Niblock – Working Touch, a USB stick in a CD sized Digipack, with 4 hours of video with four hours of music made from 2013 to 2016, files of video with music and of CD quality music. An evening organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and WhiteBox.
Phill Niblock (b. 1933, USA) is an artist whose fifty-year career spans minimalist and experimental music, film, and photography. Since 1985, he has served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realized in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honored with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award./

Australia: Sonorous VI – Camilla Hannan + Warren Burt
2022-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Substation, Market Street, Newport, VIC,, 3015, Australia
MESS is back at The Substation with the sixth iteration of our Sonorous multi-channel commissions. This concert features two extraordinary artists who have both developed and refined unique sonic palettes across decades of dedication to their respective crafts.

Camilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who works primarily with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience. She investigates the construction of urban and natural environments sonically, and spatially, morphing these elements into new sound worlds. Camilla’s work is centred on a deep fascination with the way in which we listen to our environment and how this listening impacts upon our micro and macro worlds.
For Sonorous VI, Camilla will conjure a sonic world, one in which we inhabit both individually and collectively – a reflection of this place in time and the soundtrack to our internal manifestos.
Warren Burt was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1949. He was raised in northern New York State and studied at the State University of New York at Albany from 1967-71 (with Joel Chadabe) and at the University of California, San Diego from 1971-75 (with Kenneth Gaburo and Robert Erickson). He moved to Australia in 1975 and was involved in setting up the Music Department at La Trobe University from 1975 to 1981. He is a composer, performer, writer, instrument builder, video artist and more. Among recent performances was Darshan with a Pelican, an 8 channel acousmatic composition, which was performed at the GRM Paris concert series.
Warren’s new work for MESS will be an 8-channel live mix using many different sound sources and tuning systems. The use of chaotic equations as both sound and pattern sources will be part of the piece. He hopes to, in the words of his friend Dary John Mizelle, pile pattern on pattern until chaos results.
Warren is also a member of the EMF Institute Board of Directors, founded by Joel Chadabe.

USA: False Harmonics #12
2022-10-12 20:00 (America/New_York) | Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 12231, United States
TILT Brass & Zeena Parkins (Performing the music of Julius Eastman, Phill Niblock & Zeena Parkins) feat. James Fei and Josh Henderson
TILT Brass plays Zeena Parkins, Julius Eastman, and Phill Niblock, featuring compositions & solo set by Zeena Parkins (harp), with special guests James Fei (analog electronics) and Josh Henderson (violin).

Brooklyn’s own TILT Brass presents a program of works by legendary New York composers including the premiere of a new transcription of Julius Eastman’s brutalist If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? (1977) for a 13 piece orchestra of brass, strings, and chimes (featuring violinist Josh Henderson), the premiere of TILT’s massed brass version of Phill Niblock’s Exploratory (2019), and Zeena Parkins’ Whistling in the Dark Wind (2019) for TILT Brass sextet and two improvisers (Parkins on harp & polymath musician James Fei on analog electronics.) Ms. Parkins will also present a solo harp set of two new works, one of her own creation, the other by her Mills College composer colleague John Bischoff.

Netherlands: ECHONANCE FESTIVAL – #1 Pioneers
2022-10-22 14:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Orgelpark, Garard Brandtstraat 26, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Microtonalism, drone music, conceptualism, sound installation, intonation, tone, space, are part of a vocabulary used in current musical practices that have an origin in the avant-garde that developed in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s with composers such as Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, Stefano Scodanibbio, Annea Lockwood and Peter Ablinger.
Echonance #1 pays tribute to those great pioneers who have contributed so much to sound practices today, and are, some of them, producing inspiring works to this day. We’ll have the great honor to premiere two works by the great Eliane Radigue on this unique occasion.

Echonance #1 Pioneers is the first edition of a yearly festival initiated by composer Claudio F Baroni and Ezequiel Menalled. This edition will take place at Orgelpark, in Amsterdam.

USA: RHODRI DAVIES PLAYS ÉLIANE RADIGUE, ELLEN ARKBRO, AND PHILL NIBLOCK
2022-10-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | Blank Forms, 468 Grand Ave. #1D, Brooklyn, 11238, United States
For the first night of performances, Davies will perform Yasunao Tone’s Ten Haikus of Matsuo Basho (2006) and then the composer will join him for two works by Ben Patterson. On the second night, Davies will play the acoustic Occam I, Phill Niblock’s A Cage of Stars (2012) on electric harp, and a newly-commissioned Ellen Arkbro piece which responds to the former compositions. All six of these pieces were written specifically for Davies.

Rhodri Davies is an improvising harpist who confronts traditional concepts of the instrument through his use of preparations, detuned, bowed, and e-bowed strings.

Lund Contemporary 2023 – Call for music
2022-10-30 12:59 (Europe/Helsinki) | NY
Odeum Music Centre at Lund University is looking for compositions that include video, to be performed within the Lund Contemporary 2023 festival in Lund, Sweden.
Lund Contemporary is a festival for contemporary art music organized by Odeum in collaboration with local and regional ensembles and institutions. The festival has previously taken place in 2017, 2019, and 2021.
For more information on Lund Contemporary, please have a look at the festival homepage www.odeum.lu.se/LC (in Swedish, with a short summary in English).
Lund Contemporary 2023 will take place on 9-12 February 2023.
Requirements and conditions

The call is open to composers of any nationality, with no restrictions whatsoever.
Deadline: October 30th, 23:59 (CET). Applications submitted after that will not be considered.
Each composer may submit more than one composition. In this case you have to make a new application for each work.
The application must be in English.
The composition must include video. The video will be projected on stage in front of the audience.
The sound can be purely electronic, purely instrumental or for instrument(s) with electronics.
Allowed instruments are flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin and piano. Please limit to two instruments maximum.
Technical restrictions: The video and electronic sounds must be possible to realise from a computer and in a stereo setup.
Maximum duration: 15 minutes.
By submitting, the author accepts to provide the performance materials at no further cost for the organiser.
When filling the submission form, you will be asked to insert your personal data and information about the piece you are submitting, including links to the recording and to the score if relevant.
Please note that we only accept streamed video (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) for the recording and only direct links to PDF files for the score (no WeTransfer or other time-limited services).
In case of selection, you will need to send us all files needed for realizing the performance.

The results of the selection process will be published in mid-December 2022.
Apply here: https://www.odeum.lu.se/en/form/lund-contemporary-2023-call-music

USA: HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL
2022-11-01 | NY
Open Call to Submit Works
Deadline: November 1, 2022
Festival Dates: April 13, 14, 15,16, 2023
Open to all Los Angeles area-based composers. If you are writing innovative, contemporary, classical concert music, and you live and work primarily in Los Angeles.
Learn more here: http://www.hearnowmusicfestival.com/2023-call-for-scores/
Questions? Please contact hearnowcomposersfestival@gmail.com

USA: Interstitial Satellite Concert
2022-11-16 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ramo Recital Hall (BMH), 820 W 34th St, BMH 100, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and the USC Dornsife Department of English will present a concert of their own original collaborative works that tell musical stories of the city.
Organized by Veronika Krausas (Thornton School of Music) and Molly Bendall (English).

Germany: sample&hold #2: sounding physiologies
2022-11-30 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Hanseatenweg Studio, Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin, 10557, Germany
In the second concert of the “sample&hold” series, the focus is on sound and corporeality. The human body becomes a sound generator using brainwave measurement…works by Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins and Wolfgang Heiniger.
https://www.adk.de/en/programme/?we_objectID=64654

Taiwan: 18th International WOCMAT (Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology) Conference & AI Health Concert
2022-12-07 | NY
International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology (WOCMAT) is a cross-industry international conference for publishing new types of computer music and audio technology. Initiated by NTHU, WOCMAT is an international conference built for developing and innovating audio technology, and for creating, playing, and appreciating new form of music.
https://sites.google.com/view/2022-intern-wocmat-aihealthcon?pli=1
https://sites.google.com/view/2022-intern-wocmat-aihealthcon/keynote-and-invited-speakers%E4%B8%BB%E8%AC%9B%E4%BA%BA
NOTE: EMF Institute Board Member, composer, and musicologist Professor Marc Battier is slated to speak at this conference.
