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Sonic Arts Network Announce Expo 2007
Call for Commission Proposals, Submissions and Papers

Expo is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond. Free and open, the event mobilises a national network of artists and engages with communities from all backgrounds ­ placing sonic art and the people who make it in direct contact with the public. Expo steps out from traditional venues and into spaces that lie at the heart of the community - inspiring practitioners and the public to reconsider their environments.

After the success of last year¹s highly eclectic event in Manchester the focus for 2007 shifts to Plymouth and the South West of England where Expo will be presented in partnership with the University of Plymouth's i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology).

This weekend of performance, exhibition and presentation will take place between 22-25 June 2007 across a variety of public venues in Plymouth including a selection of outdoor performance spaces, club spaces and an historic architectural space. The weekend will highlight the broadest possible range of approaches and thinking that surround the sonic arts.

Call for Commission Proposals

We are once again pleased to offer a festival commission for the creation of new work. We are seeking proposals for this new commission that will be presented in the large upstairs space of the New Cooperage building, Royal William Yard, Plymouth on the 23/24 June. A total budget of £4000 will be made available for the production of the selected work.

Call for Submissions

Submissions are sought in all forms of sonic art including real-time interactive works, improvisation with technology, experimental electronica, noise, instrumental/electroacoustic mixes, acousmatic music, sound installations, environmental sound work, performances, internet-based creative work, sound and image works, conceptual sound art and cross-arts work. We welcome submissions of all kinds incorporating sound as a major element.

Call for Papers

On the final day of Expo the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth will host the Expo conference; a day of sonic art related papers and research presentations.

The guest speaker on this day of research presentations will be Professor Leigh Landy, Research Chair in Contemporary Music and Director of the Music, Technology and Research Group (MTI) at Leicester De Montfort University and editor of the Organised Sound international journal of music and technology.

The calls for commission proposals, artistic submissions and papers are now open at our website.

For full details please visit:

http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expocall

This was posted on the Sound As Art Yahoo! Groups listserv.