Apologies all, but there were a couple or mistakes in this. Dates were correct, but days of the week were wrong. It should say that the festival runs from Thursday 28 - *Saturday* 30 April 2016, and that the deadline is *Wednesday* September 30.
A definitive version is here (on the new BEAST website!!): http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2016-call-for-workstalks/ Thanks, Scott > On 1 Sep 2015, at 18:02, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > BEAST FEaST 2016 – Real/Unreal > > Thursday 28 – Friday 30 April 2016 > The University of Birmingham, UK > > CALL FOR WORKS / TALKS > > BEAST invites you to three days of music, meeting, and ideas. As part of this > event, we invite submissions in the form of musical works and presentations. > These may include anything to do with electronic music or related fields, but > in particular we invite submissions relating in some way to the following > theme: > > Real/Unreal > > Electronic music exists across the boundary of the physical and the virtual. > The word electroacoustic highlights this contrast, with analog and digital > signals necessarily making the transition between electrical representation > and acoustic reality. Dualities of this nature are central to practice and > thought: concrete/electronic, insubstantial/solid, acousmatic/synthesised, > imaginary/real, natural/synthetic, abstract/representative, truth/lies, etc., > etc. > > BEAST FEaST 2016 invites contributions which in some way explore, exacerbate, > blur or dissolve all of these intriguing, challenging, (ir)relevant, and > potentially false oppositions. > > MUSICAL SUBMISSIONS > > Works/performances of electronic music of any style are welcome. Of > particular interest are works for large numbers of channels, but we will try > to accommodate the technical requirements of any accepted work. Works > involving video are welcome, as are works involving live performance > (including instrumentalists), but note that any costs or fees arising from > including performers may need to be borne by the submitter. Installation > submissions are also welcome. While there is no hard limit on duration, > submitters should understand that for practical reasons, we will be more > likely to be able to include shorter works than longer ones. As well, since > we feel that community is a crucial part of BEAST FEaST, we will prioritise > works by artists who can commit to attending the festival. Works not > programmed in BEAST FEaST 2016 may be included in other BEAST events in this > or future seasons. > > Online submission system (includes sample system schematics): > https://bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/beastfeast-2016-musicsubs > <https://bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/beastfeast-2016-musicsubs> > TALK SUBMISSIONS > > For this year we are inviting informal talks in the tradition of TED. > Academic topics are welcome, as are intellectually demanding ones, but should > be pitched for the festival audience rather than a group of scholars. Talks > should be 20 mins in duration, or multiples thereof. The BEASTdome system > (30+ channel periphonic setup) will be available for these presentations, so > multichannel demonstrations are possible and welcome. > > Online submission system: > https://bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/beastfeast-2016-paper > <https://bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/beastfeast-2016-paper> > DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Saturday 30 September 2015 > > Info: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > (submissions sent to this address rather than the online system will not be > accepted) > > http://beast.bham.ac.uk <http://beast.bham.ac.uk/> > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20150901/5067f614/attachment.html> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: BEAST_black.png > Type: image/png > Size: 249105 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20150901/5067f614/attachment.png> > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit > account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
