International Call for submissions

Curators: New Adventures in Sound Art & AGM

SOUNDplay festival & AGM06 (October 2006)

Deadline: Received by December 16, 2005 at 5pm EST.

New Adventures in Sound Art and AGM are currently accepting submissions for inclusion in both the 2006 SOUNDplay festival and AGM 06 that will feature video/sound art works that place equal artistic importance on image and sound and emphasizes non-narrative elements and abstraction. Both emerging and established artists will be featured in the festivals. We encourage artists to submit works that are less than 20 minutes in length.

SOUNDplay, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, is a meeting point for experimentation in new media and sound art, encouraging new fusions of image, sound & text. New Adventures in Sound Art is a non- profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Sign Waves and SOUNDplay.

AGM, based in Copenhagen, builds annual artistic collaborations and develops new connections among participating artists and audiences around Europe and other parts of the world. AGM 06 will feature Canadian new media works and screenings among a selection of international works for the 2006 event in Berlin and Copenhagen.

Please submit the following for consideration:

- VHS or DVD copy of the work
- a description or program note of the work
- biographies of the principle creators of the work.

Note: we will request permission from the artist before any works are screened and at that time will request a screening master of the work. Unless otherwise requested, NAISA would like to retain copies sent for consideration in future festivals.

Please send submissions to:

New Adventures in Sound Art
401 Richmond Street West #358
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5V 3A8

phone: (416) 910-7231

e-mail: naisa@soundtravels.ca

Installations

"Sieves" by Jean Piché
HD Videomusic installation
Sept 16 - Oct 1, 4-8pm Tues-Sun, FREE
Theatre Centre Studio, 1087 Queen St. W.

"Quieting" by Christof Migone
Sound installation
Sep 29 to Oct 7
Wed-Sat noon-5pm
opening reception Sep 29 at 7 pm
Prefix Audio Art Gallery
401 Richmond Street West #124, Toronto

"Speaker, stain, silence" by Richard Crow
Sound installation
Oct 12 to Oct 15
Wed-Sat noon-5pm with performances by the artist from 1 to 2 pm
with opening reception on Oct 12 at 7 pm
that includes a performance by the artist
Prefix Audio Art Gallery
401 Richmond Street West #124, Toronto

"Silence" by Iben Bentzen
Audio/visual installation
Oct 14-15, 6-midnight, Oct 16th noon ­ 6pm FREE
Latvian House, Cloak Room
491 College St. W., Toronto

Performances/Screenings

Oct 7-9, 11-13
Videomusique screenings
Camera, 1028 Queen Street West, Toronto
7 & 9pm $10/$8 students free with festival pass

Videomusique Works by Quebec artists will be the focus of both the 7 and 9pm shows which will include works by Nicolas Bernier/Delphine Measroch, Chantale Laplante/Inés Wickmann, Alain Pelletier/Marcelle Deschenes, Jean Piche and others.

Tuesday, Oct 11 9:30pm
Richard Crow Performance + NAW
THE AMBiENT PiNG, Hacienda Club
794 Bathurst Street at Bloor - PWYC

UK based Richard Crow is an interdisciplinary artist who uses sound & noise in a performative way, for its spatial and subjective qualities and above all for its psychological implications for the listener. The title of tonight's performance is "phantom music - an aural hallucination".
http://www.elision.org.au/collaborators/crow.html

In the second set NAW (aka Neil Wiernik) will be doing a rare live performance of some of his recent ambient material. Wiernik requested both Aidan Baker and Nathan McNinch to provide him with material played in a specific manner to be worked with in the studio as his compositional elements. NAW will perform on laptop, MIDI controlled and various software applications to manipulate and contort these sounds into cinematic works for the ears.
http://www.naw.phoniq.net http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com/naw.htm

Video projections by SelfService - Jakob Thiesen and Rebecca McLellan
http://www.theambientping.com/thiesen/home.html

Friday, October 14, doors open 8 pm
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
with special appearance by FAMEFAME
Latvian House, 491 College St.
Tickets $15 / $10 students and Pleasure Dome members Free with Festival or Weekend pass

This evening will include the Audio/visual installation Silence by Iben Bentzen, the video sculpture Kaleidoscope by Lyla Rye, the premiere of FAMEFAME's "Micro Omnibus" and "Story of a Fructiferous
Society" An e-book/video from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (In Person)

Saturday, October 15,
doors open 8 pm
La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE
Latvian House, 491 College St.
Tickets $15 / $10 students and Pleasure Dome members
Free with Festival or Weekend pass

This evening will include the Audio/visual installation Silence by Iben Bentzen, the video sculpture Kaleidoscope by Lyla Rye, screenings of works by Katarina Löfström and performances by La
Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE.

Sunday, October 16 noon-4pm
Workshop by La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE
Latvian House, 491 College St.
$40 / $35 students and Pleasure Dome members

Get a first hand glimpse of the inventive techniques employed by La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE in their performances. Learn about how they manipulate 16mm film stock, create film loops, and how they combine these with analog synthesizers, audio processing and tape
machines to build a dynamic multi-sensory and multi-disciplinary improvisation practice.

SOUNDplay 05 Funders and Sponsors

SOUNDplay 05 Co-Presenters
CAMERA is a unique bar, lounge and Screening Gallery concept located on Queen Street West in Toronto. Occupying the front space is the bar, and in the back space is the Screening Gallery. CAMERA is dedicated to presenting an eclectic mix of first-run films and festival favorites, and to providing a unique forum for filmmakers and audiences alike.
Pleasure Dome is film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of experimental media art by local, national and international artists. Programming since 1989 Pleasure Dome presents approximately twenty screenings per year organized into a fall/ winter/summer schedule and is committed to exhibiting shorter length and small format work, as well as 'expanded cinema' projects featuring sound, performance and installation.
The Theatre Centre aims to develop, create and promote exciting, interdisciplinary, innovative, accessible, high quality theatre through creative collaboration between artists, staff and community. The Theatre provides opportunity for growth at the centre of all its activities.
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is a non-profit organization based in Toronto. Prefix is dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of contemporary photographic, media and digital arts through exhibitions, publications and related activities. For more information, please contact Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Communications Manager. T: 416.591.0357 E: info@prefix.ca
AGM (annual general meeting) aims to build collaborations and develop new connections among artists, curators, participants and audiences. For "AGM 05 SILENCE" we aim to enhance and foster the exchange between Canadian artists, or artists who already collaborated with SOUNDplay, with a group of European artists and with the AGM structure.

At A Glance
venues
ticket info

Sept. 16 - October 1
Sieves
by Jean Piché
4-8pm Tues-Sun, FREE
Theatre Centre Studio

Sept. 28 - October 8
Wed-Sat noon-5pm
Quieting
by Christof Migone
FREE
Prefix Audio Art Gallery

October 12-15
Wed-Sat noon-5pm
Speaker, stain, silence
by Richard Crow
FREE
Prefix Audio Art Gallery

October 7-9, 11-13 Videomusique screenings
7 & 9pm $10/$8 students / free with festival pas
Camera

October 14
FAMEFAME opens for tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Audiovisual installation by Iben Bentzen
video sculpture by Lyla Rye/Nick Beeson
doors open at 8pm
Tickets $15 / $10 students and Pleasure Dome members
/Free with Festival or Weekend pass
Latvian House

October 15
La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE
Plus video works by Katarina Löfström
Audiovisual installation by Iben Bentzen
video sculpture Kaleidoscope by Lyla Rye/Nick Beeson
doors open at 8pm
Tickets $15 / $10 students and Pleasure Dome members
/Free with Festival or Weekend pass
Latvian House

October 16
Workshop with La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE
Noon -4pm $40 / $35 students and Pleasure Dome members

Venues

The Theatre Centre Studio 1087 Queen Street W.

Prefix Audio Art Gallery
401 Richmond St W. #124

Camera Bar
1028 Queen Street W

Latvian House
491 College Street

THE AMBiENT PiNG, Hacienda Club
794 Bathurst Street at Bloor

SOUNDplay is
co-presented with

The Theatre Centre, Camera Bar, Prefix, Pleasure Dome and AGM 05.

Tickets
available now e-mail naisa@soundtravels.ca, call 416-910-7231

Festival Pass
$25 / $20 for students & Pleasure Dome members
Includes:
1) Admission to a 7pm & a 9pm videomusique screening at Camera Bar (October 7-9, 11-13)
2) Admission to October 14th tENTATIVELY, a cONVENINCE with FAMEFAME at Latvian House
3)Admission to October 15th La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE,
at Latvian House
4)$10 discount for the October 16th workshop with La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE

Weekend Pass $20 / $15 for students & Pleasure Dome members

Includes:
1) Admission to October 14th tENTATIVELY, a cONVENINCE with FAMEFAME at Latvian House
2) Admission to October 15th La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE,
at Latvian House
3) $5 discount for the October 16th workshop with La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE

Contact: Nadene Theriault-Copeland at
416-910-7231, 905-454-5714,
or naisa@soundtravels.ca.