Application Fee: None
Project description: During Summer 2010, Medea Electronique will produce and publish with the saxophone player Guido De Flaviis a program of new music for saxophone and electronics. The recording is planned for online release and it will be a part of De Flaviis touring program. Interested composers are invited to submit works for consideration. For more details, please see the full call for scores at www.medeaelectronique.com
Eligibility: Composers of all ages and nationalities may submit music for consideration. We would prefer to receive no more than two submissions from each composer. Each piece should be no longer than 12 minutes. Selected composers must agree to the rules for participation.
Please Note: all works should be unpublished.
Before sending any materials, please complete the submission form.
Instrumentation: Solo Saxophone or Saxophone and computer/electronics. Works involving surround/multi-channel audio and/or incorporating video are welcome. The saxophonist can play soprano, alto, tenor and baritone sax. The piece can be written for one or more sizes of saxophones.
For more details about the instrumentation contact: guido.deflaviis@gmail.com or visit the web site www.guidodeflaviis.com
Submission address:
Manolis Manousakis
Feidou 11 Gerakas
153-44
Athens Greece
Materials to submit:
Score for each piece
•For review purposes, please submit either stereo or 5.0/5.1 versions of the works on CD, DVD, or DVD-A.
Projected timeline:
June 1st, 2010: submission deadline
July 15, 2010: announcement of results of selection process
October 2010-January 2010: rehearsal/planning
Dec 2010: recording
Feb 2010: commercial release of recording
Rules for participation:
To the extent possible, mechanical license fees will be paid to each selected composer. However, if production costs require it, composers will agree to waive mechanical license fees and/or accept 10 copies of the released DVD/DVD-A in lieu of fees. The finances of this project will be transparent and available for review to all selected composers throughout the process. Composers will retain copyright in their works.
For return of materials, please enclose SASE. Other materials will be retained and may be considered for future programming.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monday, April 27, 2009
Open Call Koumaria 2009
MedeaElectronique media lab residencies
Koumaria2009 – international open call
MedeaElectronique www.medeaelectronique.com is a cooperate group of individual artists that share a predisposition for innovation in performing arts. Working in fields like music, video, design, painting, multimedia, robotics, interactive technology and media production, we allow the integration of our distinctive areas of research and practice to define a unique style in the realization of various projects – from multimedia theatrical plays to experimental audio-visual shows and from electroacoustic compositions to human-machine-computer interfaces. MedeaElectronique also co-organises Electromedia Works, an annual multimedia festival ( HYPERLINK "http://www.emw.gr" www.emw.gr).
Between the 23rd and 31st of October, 2009
MedeaElectronique organizes Koumaria fall residency offering a week’s retreat for media artists in rural Sparta, Greece.
At the foot of Mount Taigetos, a huge private olive grove will be transformed into a laboratory for contemporary art. Offering a 400 square meter residency made into a modern mixed media art studio, we aim to bring together artists of different disciplines in order to develop a collective mixed media art project.
We are interested in the process itself, as a hypothesis and as an experiment in the search for an emerging work ethic, an intense and refreshing experience that will serve as a model for future creative gatherings.
The outcomes we are looking for include:
A public performance on the 31st of October in Athens, Greece
Material and ideas for further research and processing
Recorded improvisations and other emergent pieces of work to be shared and distributed in appropriate forms between the participants
Documentation of the whole process to be analysed and elaborated on
Further inspiring and productive collaborations to be initiated
The specificity of the place hints towards thematic directions relating to the ideas of creation and growth, serenity, light and the processes of natural flow, universals, as well as the journey outward and within. Anything else that might resonate with the participants during the residency will be greatly appreciated.
There will be a fare amount of relaxed personal space, friendly communal life, conversations, common experiments and improvisation, as well as daily key group sessions for reviewing, processing and structuring of ideas and materials.
We are looking for practitioners active in such diverse fields as: Electroacoustics, sonic art, live electronics, field recording, instrumental improvisation, performance art, VJing, video art, creative computer programming, creative hardware modification, plastic arts, conceptual art, drama, philosophy and semiotics. The list is non exhaustive and we will be happy to consider any interesting proposal.
The ideal participants would have interdisciplinary interests and a strong creative drive. They would be happy to share and embrace ideas, techniques, material, time and energy. They would need good social and communication skills, as well as the ability to function in a wide range of situations. A respect to the craft and the powers of improvisation will be also greatly appreciated.
We are expecting participants to enjoy a degree of self-sufficiency concerning creative tools: e.g. laptop, soundcard, recorder, microphone(s), headphones, camera(s), instruments and so on. We will be providing basic technical support including: a Mac G5 with Logic and Final Cut, assorted plugins, a 32-channel digital mixing desk, high-end monitoring, a range of studio microphones, preamps and sound processors, digital recorders, projector, materials, internet, etc.
Organic food from the farm and transport to nearby villages will be also provided. There will be access to a telescope dome observatory on the roof of the building. MedeaElectronique offers a limited number of bursaries meant to cover travel and other expenses (depending on each case). Particular technical and other arrangements will be made with each individual after initial selection.
Please download the application form from
www.medeaelectronique.com/residencies.html
Submit not later than the 15th of June 2009, by email to HYPERLINK "mailto:stgiann@yahoo.com" stgiann@yahoo.com
Selection will be completed by 15 July 2009.
www.medeaelectronique.com for more information, or contact the project curator Stelios Giannoulakis at
stgiann@yahoo.com
Koumaria2009 – international open call
MedeaElectronique www.medeaelectronique.com is a cooperate group of individual artists that share a predisposition for innovation in performing arts. Working in fields like music, video, design, painting, multimedia, robotics, interactive technology and media production, we allow the integration of our distinctive areas of research and practice to define a unique style in the realization of various projects – from multimedia theatrical plays to experimental audio-visual shows and from electroacoustic compositions to human-machine-computer interfaces. MedeaElectronique also co-organises Electromedia Works, an annual multimedia festival ( HYPERLINK "http://www.emw.gr" www.emw.gr).
Between the 23rd and 31st of October, 2009
MedeaElectronique organizes Koumaria fall residency offering a week’s retreat for media artists in rural Sparta, Greece.
At the foot of Mount Taigetos, a huge private olive grove will be transformed into a laboratory for contemporary art. Offering a 400 square meter residency made into a modern mixed media art studio, we aim to bring together artists of different disciplines in order to develop a collective mixed media art project.
We are interested in the process itself, as a hypothesis and as an experiment in the search for an emerging work ethic, an intense and refreshing experience that will serve as a model for future creative gatherings.
The outcomes we are looking for include:
A public performance on the 31st of October in Athens, Greece
Material and ideas for further research and processing
Recorded improvisations and other emergent pieces of work to be shared and distributed in appropriate forms between the participants
Documentation of the whole process to be analysed and elaborated on
Further inspiring and productive collaborations to be initiated
The specificity of the place hints towards thematic directions relating to the ideas of creation and growth, serenity, light and the processes of natural flow, universals, as well as the journey outward and within. Anything else that might resonate with the participants during the residency will be greatly appreciated.
There will be a fare amount of relaxed personal space, friendly communal life, conversations, common experiments and improvisation, as well as daily key group sessions for reviewing, processing and structuring of ideas and materials.
We are looking for practitioners active in such diverse fields as: Electroacoustics, sonic art, live electronics, field recording, instrumental improvisation, performance art, VJing, video art, creative computer programming, creative hardware modification, plastic arts, conceptual art, drama, philosophy and semiotics. The list is non exhaustive and we will be happy to consider any interesting proposal.
The ideal participants would have interdisciplinary interests and a strong creative drive. They would be happy to share and embrace ideas, techniques, material, time and energy. They would need good social and communication skills, as well as the ability to function in a wide range of situations. A respect to the craft and the powers of improvisation will be also greatly appreciated.
We are expecting participants to enjoy a degree of self-sufficiency concerning creative tools: e.g. laptop, soundcard, recorder, microphone(s), headphones, camera(s), instruments and so on. We will be providing basic technical support including: a Mac G5 with Logic and Final Cut, assorted plugins, a 32-channel digital mixing desk, high-end monitoring, a range of studio microphones, preamps and sound processors, digital recorders, projector, materials, internet, etc.
Organic food from the farm and transport to nearby villages will be also provided. There will be access to a telescope dome observatory on the roof of the building. MedeaElectronique offers a limited number of bursaries meant to cover travel and other expenses (depending on each case). Particular technical and other arrangements will be made with each individual after initial selection.
Please download the application form from
www.medeaelectronique.com/residencies.html
Submit not later than the 15th of June 2009, by email to HYPERLINK "mailto:stgiann@yahoo.com" stgiann@yahoo.com
Selection will be completed by 15 July 2009.
www.medeaelectronique.com for more information, or contact the project curator Stelios Giannoulakis at
stgiann@yahoo.com
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Case of Emergency Live Electronics/Cinema/Painting Performance project by MedeaElectronique
Case of Emergency
Live Electronics/Cinema/Painting Performance project
by
MedeaElectronique
Case of Emergency is the project title of a performance that deals with the ongoing multi level decay of the historical (and not only) part of down-town Athens, Greece. Athens, like most EU capitals, is loaded with a sequence of historical events, cultural tendencies and practical particularities, which are embodied in variable percentages as aspects of the city’s contemporary character. Such an aspect with a major impact relates to the city’s architecture – buildings, streets and land marks – shaping our habitat and so our everyday life. Our “walkthrough” starts exactly here.
We examine the older, past century buildings that survived (not intact of course) the cruel cannibalism of modern urban “development”. Buildings that nowadays are left to rot under the unbearable weight of overlapping layers of dust and time. We document and explore the relations between the obvious structural decay of the habitat and the degree of influence that this decay has on the people living in it. Not in a scientific or philosophical way, but in a more simple first level aestheticist way, concentrating on their appearance, external colors, eye sight direction and maybe mood… That is of course related to “scientific or philosophical” related variables, but we’ll not deal with this either here or now… Nevertheless, we can’t hide our sadness and rage about it. What for others might be a settled everyday situation, to us is an unacceptable non stop insult to our dignity both emotional and spiritual. We experience striking events and strong emotional stimuli during our day-to-day life, so for us telling stories about these experiences and sharing these emotions through live performance is a crucial artistic approach, as well as a strong need for a cathartic release.
Finding the most interesting and powerful path that would combine our individual mediums for expression was just a part of the creative process. We concentrate on collection of materials on-site, studio creation and manipulation, structured improvisation and rehearsals. We want and need this project to be as direct and as “perception-of-our-own-reality” accurate as possible. We use the following tools and creative methods to achieve this:
- Live Cinema techniques that involve live editing / mixing between live and prerecorded footage
- Live Electroacoustic music created through manipulation of prerecorded and generated elements
- Live Painting on a variety of materials while operating a video camera
Case of Emergency is not intended to dictate or insinuate wise solutions or attribute responsibilities or blames. Case of Emergency is to portray, communicate and so comment on a sequence of evocative real life events, for people to see and maybe think through virtually experiencing it. This is our side of the story; this is our slice of contemporary life…
From Athens with Love
MedeaElectronique
Live Electronics/Cinema/Painting Performance project
by
MedeaElectronique
Case of Emergency is the project title of a performance that deals with the ongoing multi level decay of the historical (and not only) part of down-town Athens, Greece. Athens, like most EU capitals, is loaded with a sequence of historical events, cultural tendencies and practical particularities, which are embodied in variable percentages as aspects of the city’s contemporary character. Such an aspect with a major impact relates to the city’s architecture – buildings, streets and land marks – shaping our habitat and so our everyday life. Our “walkthrough” starts exactly here.
We examine the older, past century buildings that survived (not intact of course) the cruel cannibalism of modern urban “development”. Buildings that nowadays are left to rot under the unbearable weight of overlapping layers of dust and time. We document and explore the relations between the obvious structural decay of the habitat and the degree of influence that this decay has on the people living in it. Not in a scientific or philosophical way, but in a more simple first level aestheticist way, concentrating on their appearance, external colors, eye sight direction and maybe mood… That is of course related to “scientific or philosophical” related variables, but we’ll not deal with this either here or now… Nevertheless, we can’t hide our sadness and rage about it. What for others might be a settled everyday situation, to us is an unacceptable non stop insult to our dignity both emotional and spiritual. We experience striking events and strong emotional stimuli during our day-to-day life, so for us telling stories about these experiences and sharing these emotions through live performance is a crucial artistic approach, as well as a strong need for a cathartic release.
Finding the most interesting and powerful path that would combine our individual mediums for expression was just a part of the creative process. We concentrate on collection of materials on-site, studio creation and manipulation, structured improvisation and rehearsals. We want and need this project to be as direct and as “perception-of-our-own-reality” accurate as possible. We use the following tools and creative methods to achieve this:
- Live Cinema techniques that involve live editing / mixing between live and prerecorded footage
- Live Electroacoustic music created through manipulation of prerecorded and generated elements
- Live Painting on a variety of materials while operating a video camera
Case of Emergency is not intended to dictate or insinuate wise solutions or attribute responsibilities or blames. Case of Emergency is to portray, communicate and so comment on a sequence of evocative real life events, for people to see and maybe think through virtually experiencing it. This is our side of the story; this is our slice of contemporary life…
From Athens with Love
MedeaElectronique
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Saturday, December 6, 2008
NEW Up Loads
Lust Illusions in A pond Of Lillies http://www.medeaelectronique.com/videos.html
New Papers http://www.medeaelectronique.com/papers.html
New Papers http://www.medeaelectronique.com/papers.html
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
PLEASE DO NO SEND ANY MORE APPLICATIONS OPEN CALL ENDED MARCH 31st
PLEASE DO NO SEND ANY MORE APPLICATIONS OPEN CALL ENDED MARCH 31st
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