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Football Sound Narratives
Social Specificities of a Universal Game
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Binaural/Nodar (PT) announces an Open Call for Submissions to an Online
Edition of Sound Works
Deadline July 8th, 2010

Football is commonly referred as an interesting field for social analysis of
some functional aspects of contemporary societies. Issues like the
production of winners and losers, the dynamics of organized supporters'
activities and rituals, the specificities of professional and amateur
football leagues, the economics and politics of team management, sponsorship
and TV deals, the players' bodily performances and their impact in the
creation of role models for youths, the formation and sharing of football
stories and myths, the class and ethnical divisions amongst participants, or
the exalted nationalism in an era of worldwide competitions, have been the
source of recent anthropological / social research.

Many of these issues have significant aural characteristics that can be made
evident through the use of field recording and/or sound composition
techniques.

Within the context of the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa,
Binaural/Nodar announces an open call for a web-based audio edition, through
which field recordists, sound artists and/or experimental composers are
invited to submit new or previously edited/composed sound works that deal
with the role of football (a.k.a. soccer) in the formation of political and
socio-cultural identities.

At the close of the open call period, 11 (the number of players in a team)
works with a maximum run time of 10'00'' each will be selected and will be
presented through a web-based edition to be online after July 15th, 2010.
The selection of the works will be curated by Binaural/Nodar's associated
artists Rui Costa and Duncan Whitley, and will be based on the quality of
the submitted work and supporting texts, and the work's adherence to the
proposed theme.

Links to the curators' biographies:
http://www.binauralmedia.org/news/en/people/associated-artists/rui-costa
http://www.binauralmedia.org/news/en/people/associated-artists/duncan-wh...
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Please provide:
1. Link to your Audio work: Audio files are to be submitted as 16-bit .wav
or .aiff files with a maximum run time of 10'00" . MP3's or other compressed
files will not be accepted. Provide a link to the URL of the audio file on
your personal webspace or use a file transfer service (Send Space, Send This
File, Sound Cloud, etc.).

2. One text file including the artist's biography and website, a statement
about the audio work (summary of diary entries, dates/locations/geo
coordinates of the source sounds, working process, description of
techniques, a short essay on the social/anthropologic aspects of the piece
etc.), and contact information for the author.

3. Optionally: A link to a set of photos describing the recorded locations,
the working process, etc.

For submitting the sound works and for questions on this open call please
send an email to Luis Costa (luis@binauralmedia.org).

Best regards,

Luis Costa
Coordinator

Binaural | Nodar

Nodar – Caixa Postal Nº 106
3660-324 S. Martinho das Moitas
Portugal

Email: info@binauralmedia.org
Tel. +351 91 895 18 57

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