The soundpedro Call for Submissions now closed for 2020.

INFORMATION for ARTISTS:

FLOOD seeks ear-oriented art to be placed throughout the Angels Gate Cultural Center site, indoors, and outdoors for soundpedro 2020, taking place on Saturday. June 6th, 2020, 7pm to 10pm. While work should address sound and aural perception, the option of aurality/hearing in combination with other senses is welcome. Work can be interactive or self-contained (e.g. sculptures, environments, installations, timed and ongoing performances,
interactions, and presentations).

Artists may propose projects for any of these modes of presentation:

• indoor (approximately 10 spaces, including rooms, hallways, studios, etc.)
• outdoor (AGCC has 7 acres of outdoor space)
• adaptable, indoor or outdoor
• roaming (indoor and outdoor)
• silent video (Earmaginations, projected on a variety of surfaces)
• audioscapes on the parking shuttle for the event

It is important that artists understand that soundpedro is a sound art event and not a music event. Work that is characterized solely by elements of pitch, melody, rhythm, tempo or meter cannot be considered. Work may examine the interface in which experimental music and sound art connect.

FLOOD encourages works that respond to and generate interplay with some aspect of Angels Gate Cultural Center as a specific place. For example, artists may consider aspects of history, geography, and purpose, and create site-responsive works that affect the viewers’ perception and understanding of place and their relationship with it.

We encourage participation that explores or incorporates acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, audio technologies, listening actions, performance actions, spatialization, conceptualization, timbralization, hearing anatomies, found sound, or environmental sound.

Earmaginations are ear-oriented silent videos that explore and synthesize ideas, images, and visual conceptualizations informed by or responding to the dynamics, the interplays, and the aesthetics of various auralities and deafnesses, hearing and listening. Videos will be displayed outdoors and indoors, on multiple surfaces.

• We are looking for silent videos (up to 5 minutes) that can include visualization of such themes or actions as: acoustics. psychoacoustics, audio technologies, spatialization, timbralization, environmental sound, hearing anatomies, synaesthetic responses to sound, imagined aural response, connection of sound and hearing to sight and seeing, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR).

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE APPLYING

1. It is helpful to view and read the soundpedro website in order to become familiar with the event and venue.
2. If you are local, we encourage you to visit Angels Gate Cultural Center in person. Keep in mind that most of the artist studios are not accessible during the event and, therefore, not available to soundpedro artists.
3. Set up is on the day of the event starting at 10AM. Tear down is that night, immediately after the event. Artists cannot begin set up before the time and date, or come the day after for tear down. Approach this as if it were a pop up.
4. For installed works, artist(s) or artist representative(s) must be on site to install and de-install.
5. Keep in mind that Angels Gate Cultural Center can be subject to high winds. If you are proposing an outdoor piece, please ensure that it is stable and wind tolerant. It can also get quite dark after sunset, so artists planning outdoor works should consider location and/or incorporate lighting elements.



6. Non-acceptance, in many cases, is not reflective of the quality of the artwork submitted. Reasons for non-acceptance may include:

• The number of submissions relative to the amount of space available.
• The work under consideration may not be a good fit, aesthetically or thematically.
• The work did not appear to be completely realized.
• As the event grows, we are not be able to invite artists back with the same frequency for the same type of work, as in the past. However, we encourage returning applicants to consider submitting something in a new category. For soundpedro 2020, we will have the greatest capacity to accept submissions for the shuttle bus, Earmaginations, and outdoor roaming pieces.

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Photos: top right, bloodroot : middle right, Kio Griffith : middle left, Raze the Whitebox : bottom right, Soundshoppe presented by SASSAS