AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

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SIRENS 2012 is the code name for a project based in the sound of the
Dutch civil defense sirens system. This system consists in around 4200
sirens placed all across the country and tested regularly, resonating
in unison exactly at 12:00 (midday) every first Monday of the month.

Listen to one of those events, recorded at Bezuidenhout in The Hague,
Nov 2009: http://bit.ly/fog6N4

The first step is to gather recordings of the monthly sirens tests
through this open call, so I would like to ask you to contribute with
recordings of any of the 12 tests that will happen throughout 2011.
The simple goal is to collect as many recordings every month as
possible, allowing us to map this large scale event from a variety of
locations.

Outcomes of the project are still to be defined and will also depend
of the received materials, consisting primarily in work derived of the
archive of recordings made over this one-year period. Results will
emerge likely at the end of 2011, celebrating the arrival of 2012 and
embracing whatever revelations and transformative changes
(apocalyptical or not) the new year may bring.

Please, forward this call to any of your contacts based in the
Netherlands potentially willing to participate.

Find below the details about how to contribute.

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SIRENS 2012 : Contribution guidelines

- Recordings in any location within the country in all sorts of
environments and situations are welcome, as far as the sound of the
sirens is audible in the recording. It is encouraged to record as well
a couple of minutes before and after the sirens sound itself.

- There are no technical limitations neither special requirements. Use
any sort of recorder (handheld, laptop, etc) and transducer/
microphones you have at hand.

- Please, send uncompressed audio (AIFF/WAVE) or lossless (FLAC)
instead of compressed formats (MP3, OGG).

- Use any online storage system of your choice to submit the
recordings (any FTP server or services such as Yousendit, Megaupload,
Dropbox, etc).
Anyway, there is a Dropbox account made available for the project
which can be used to upload your recordings.

Log in data (please note: its not needed to download the dropbox
application in order to upload files):

https://www.dropbox.com/
username: sirens2012@gmail.com
password: sirens2012

- Once the files are uploaded, send an email to sirens2012@gmail.com,
including:

* Your name and contact info.
* Name of the file (and download link in case it is not stored in the
project´s Dropbox).
* Date and location of the recording (address, a well-known landmark,
GPS coordinates, Google Maps...).
* Recording equipment used (mic and recorder).
* (Optional) Comments and personal impressions about the sound of the
sirens.

(Files will be removed from the dropbox account as soon as I receive
the submission email and download the files).

- If you feel like contributing throughout the year but feel unsure
about being able to remember about it every month, drop me a line and
you will be sent a monthly reminder the day before each of the siren
tests.

- Every contributor will be included in the credits of the project.
All the recordings and as well the derived works will be under
copyleft (using a Creative Commons 3.0 license), granting the rights
to be shared and reused. Submitting recordings implies that you agree
with this license.

- Comments, feedback and questions: sirens2012@gmail.com.

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