Title: FW: a gallery only 7 inches wide? call for audio works
 


Subject: a gallery only 7 inches wide?
Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2002, 11:31 am

 
dear friends,

   I hope you find the announcement below worthy of your
attention....  please also, could you do me a big big favour and pass this
mail on to any practising artists , soundmakers, recordists or complete
outsiders who might be interested...  as this venture is an open call  and
over-ambitiously hopes to reflect what is going on OR has gone on in the
world of aural creativity, its success relies somewhat on co-operation and
the interconnectedness of each of our networks .
   I hope you can contribute or help in some way,   we see these 7 inch
vinyls as being small circulating archives of soundworks  in what is
currently the most stable & long lasting audio archiving medium,  at least
this way some indication of what has been done in sound   ( and by whom )
might survive into the next century...  lets face it most compact discs are
unlikely to make it through the next 20 years.

a further announcement will be made about availability / subscription   for
these editions...

Thanks for letting me take up so much of your time..

Yours,
                  Matt




THE 200 YARD SCRATCH GALLERY

Hello,

  ANNOUNCING : a new independent phonographic gallery of sound works.

independent of space, independent of funding bodies, This gallery is hereby
inaugurated on 28th October 2002.
Each show will exist only on 7 inch vinyl record with very basic black &
white printed sleeve and some ( if necessary ) printed material
inserted. ( special editions on 10inch vinyl may occur in the future )
Each show will contain anywhere from 2 to 10 participants depending on
length of submissions and curation of
specific editions.
Each show will be pressed & printed in an edition of 350, individually
numbered, at least 7 copies going to each
showing artist or more depending on number of artists in that show.
Individual submissions should be no less than 4 seconds long and no more
than 2 and Half minutes long,  an extension
of this time restriction would be allowed for pieces of significant
interest, or in the case of one man/woman retrospective shows
The intention is to release a show Bi-monthly , but this may end up being
Quarterly, it depends on the scope of activity
out there..

The Gallery will show: Sound Actions, Audio interventions, Recorded
Collations, Audible Surrealisms, Sound pieces derived from
  the Voice or Body, Sound pieces produced from mechanical devices or
redundant electronic technology,
Recordings of Sound Sculptures, Documents of specific sound performances,
Sound Microscopy,  Sound documents of
Installations where the sound is a significant, or at least
interesting,  part of  the artwork. Sound Haiku, Recordings of short
performances of  '' instructional text scores ''  and indeed ANY sound
'object' or 'document' that could be construed as having
artistic merit or interest or might strike us as funny or just plain
irritating.

It is not necessary for the work to be contemporary,  any recorded work
from this or the last ( or even before that???) century is applicable.

Each piece should include a reasonable black & white explanatory picture OR
an explanatory text of not more than 200 words
and can be submitted on CDR, Minidisc, DAT or cassette tape or Vinyl ...
please bear in mind the limitations of Vinyl cutting
technology, so audio containing certain extreme high or low frequencies may
not be possible to cut,
if in doubt, send it and let us decide.

The Gallery  is not really interested in: Music or sound pieces made on
computers ( though we fully understand that many works
will be edited or compiled and then burnt onto CDR using computers, we just
don't want pieces generated entirely in computers.)
Conventionally Notated or modern Sequenced Music of ANY kind, unless
performed on an acoustic or mechanical instrument built or found
specifically as an artistic gesture. ( cf: the Harpsichord made entirely
out of LEGO  )

ETA: show number one..................... 15th  December 2002

we are looking forward to hearing your submissions......
  please e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    for the current postal
address to send submissions to.

This Gallery has been co-founded by Matt Wand & Hayley Newman and is a NON
profit making undertaking.
Any  proceeds from each edition will be passed on to the production of the
next edition.
thanks for your attention



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