Chris Joseph

Call for Works: Composers and Sound Artists
Receipt Deadline: Friday, March 23, 2007

Composers and sound artists are invited to submit original works to TRANSreveLATION, the second annual audio concert curated by Jim Briggs and Melissa Grey. Your composition must interpret a work from another discipline, such as, painting, sculpture, architecture, literature/poetry, new media, film/video, mathematical/chemical processes, or political/economic systems, etc. Works that include live performance, real-time processing, or dance will receive special consideration.

Criteria:
Work must have been composed after 2005 and must not have been performed or broadcast.
There is no limit on duration; however, works that are under 5 minutes will stand a better chance at being accepted.

To have your work considered, please provide the following on one page:

• Contact information: phone number, home address, and email address.
• Title/duration/media/year created
• Artist and Performer Bios (100 words)
• Program note (100 words or less) or artist statement about how your piece relates to the theme
• If the work will be a live performance, please note that you must provide all necessary performers/equipment/instruments. If available, include a DVD recording of a recent performance.
• Broadcast-quality recording of audio work on compact disc
• If you are submitting sound for video or film, please submit a broadcast-quality DVD of the work.
• Copy of score, if appropriate
Late or incomplete submissions will not be considered. If you would like to have your materials returned, please supply an SASE and the appropriate postage. Contact greym593@newschool.edu for all inquiries. Accepted works will be announced by March 28. The concert will be held at The New School, NYC in late April 2007.

Mail submission to:
M. Grey
12 West 29th Street, second floor
New York, NY 10001 USA

animatetv seeks proposals from UK based artists and animators for risk taking and experimental works for television. We will be commissioning five films, with budgets up to £20k.

Deadline for proposals 27 April 2007

Guidelines at www.animateonline.org

The animate project explores the relationship between art and animation, and the place of animation in contemporary art practice, through commissioning, exhibition and publishing.

Commissions currently in production are by: David Anderson in collaboration with Jilia Peacock, Mark Simon Hewis, Andy Martin, Let Me Feel Your Finger First, semiconductor, and Thomson & Craighead.

Another literary Alice has gone live this week at http://www.aliceinparis2007.com. The story is told via a weekly videoblog, and tells the story “of events which transpired in a short space of time, a single week in the summer of 2006. A central character, the heroine perhaps, the catalyst certainly, is Alice.”

Of particular interest to those wondering how to earn a living through digital storytelling is the delivery model. Chapters 1-13 will be available for free, while the rest of the story (chapters 14-39) are available through a single payment of £5.99 (or $10.99), with each chapter lasting approximately 30 minutes. That works out as over twelve hours of content for £6, or almost twenty hours of content if you include the free chapters, which is amazing value compared to purchasing a two hour film on DVD at two or three times the cost.

I hope the series is a success: aside from the great concept (and having another Alice on the literary block), it would be nice to be able to point to an example of new literature being successfully delivered online to erase the memory of Stephen King’s aborted attempt.

You may have seen some mention recently of Yahoo Pipes. As Bill Thompson describes it, Pipes “lets you take a data feed such as the result of a web search, or an RSS feed from a blog or news site, or a set of tagged photos on Flickr, and transform it to produce the outcome you want.”

I’ve been having a little play with the system, and it is remarkably easy to use. Here’s a PART (Production And Research in Transliteracy)/Flickr mashup that reworks the PART blog through related Flickr images - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/lkAk8ZPF2xGxBlSiHxeTaQ/

Not sure if this transliteracy, but it’s certainly fun.