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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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