x.sounding
time - sound. idea. Konzept -> neueMUSIK
|heFUTUREofklangkunst, international musikalischesLab © x1ll. – the archive
CALL FOR COMPOSITION
- electro-acoustic / computer / midi / acousmatic / tape recording
- improvisation
- audio-visual work
- instrumental composition
APPLICATION
our site function as an archive for sound/media artist and composers to present their composition on the internet. no limitation on nationality, age and style is upon your own artistic decision. we hope to get less-known work more recognized.
please do the following in steps:
1. FULL name, biography
2. audio or video (link or downloadable file link)
3. thoughts and concept (max. 2 page) of the work, score or sketches
4. send to xsounding@outlook.com
* Please use google drive or WeTransfer to, not email attachment.
* Any unclarity can be answered also through email.
if we select your piece
we will need you to sign an authorization letter indicating your allowance for us to archive and promote your piece on our site & related social media account
please also send an artistic portrait photo
FEE
10 euro per submission to the organizor weiwei xu via paypal (link get via email)
or 80 RMB via wechat pay (add: x-sounding)
for those who live in country that does not support paypal or wechat pay. we will make exception depending on the work you submit to us.
AFTER SUBMISSION
Your submission will be archived by x.sounding in a digital hard drive. It will be considered you agree us to share your work.
For sound art / acoustic composition recording, we will upload and share it on our site with converted format in mp3.
For audio-visual work or video: x.sounding will share it on weiwei's running bilibli channel.
WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR COMPOSITION
We organize event in Shanghai when budget is enough & your composition will be in our in-LIVE event.
We will inform you when we prepare the event.
x.sounding focus on music as a solid art form, not as material to be handed in any form that is irrelevant to the subject of sonic study.
music, relates to today's general image, has shifted the subject to a border field of research, we seek music relates to studies on understanding the temporal acoustic form itself, on understanding the sound and its interior structure itself, on understanding the acoustic phenomena of of the sound, on understanding how contemporary music practice in relation to its notation systems throughout the tradition.