Deconstructing the Soundtrack :: A seminar series in association with the London Film School :: With Larry Sider, Annabelle Pangborn and Stephen Deutsch :: Saturday-Sunday, May 26-27, 2012 :: London Film School, Covent Garden, London ::

Building on the success of recent sound courses, these seminars are aimed at those working in screen-based media, and offer three integrated perspectives on the use of sound and music in filmmaking.

Larry Sider, Annabelle Pangborn and Stephen Deutsch will each deliver a half-day seminar demonstrating the interrelationship between sound, music, image and story. The programme will include a discussion of strategies and concepts for working with sound and music, from pre- to post-production. Continue reading

Toni Dove’s Spectropia :: May 4, 2012 and May 5, 2012 8:00 p.m. :: at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 :: (917) 267-0363 :: Featuring Toni Dove, R. Luke Dubois, Elliott Sharp and the ’31 Band with special guest vocalist Barbara Sukowa

“…it’s just plain cool to watch. Highly recommended.” – Jeremy Barker (Culturebot)

Over two nights, MAY 4 and 5 ROULETTE will present two radically different aspects of Toni Dove’s Spectropia. A sci-fi hybrid with themes of time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir, Spectropia features live VJs orchestrating onscreen characters through a mix of film, performance, and a system of motion sensing that serves as a cinematic instrument. For more information on Spectropia, visit http://tonidove.com/blog. Continue reading

The School of Sound :: The Soundtrack Summer Workshop presented in collaboration with the ifs internationale filmschule köln :: August 11-31, 2012; 9:00 am – 6:00 pm :: Köln, Germany :: Application Deadline: May 25, 2012.

The Soundtrack Summer Workshop is especially designed for Editors, Sound Designers and Composers looking for new ways to work with each other and to improve their skills.

Application form here.

Focusing on the creation of soundtracks for fiction films, The Soundtrack goes beyond the usual teaching of sound design and composition to create an awareness of how these disciplines fit within the structure of film narrative. Continue reading

Sonic Acts – Travelling Time :: February 23-26, 2012 :: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Travelling Time is the fourteenth edition of Sonic Acts, and its theme is the human experience of time. Time dictates our schedule; time gives us structure. We think of ourselves as living in the present, with the past behind us, moving towards the future. But in fact, there is nothing so complex and ambiguous as time: the arrival the early twentieth century of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics has tampered with our straightforward concept of time. The ongoing development and application of technology is challenging, changing and destabilising our sense of time. Continue reading

Austin Motion Graphics Festival 2010 :: New Motion + New Sound + New Code :: October 18, 2010 through October 24, 2010 ::

The Austin Motion Graphics Festival provides seven days of educational, entertainment and networking events featuring artists such as: Herzog & de Meuron, Lucas Arts, N.A.S.A. w/ Tom Waits and Kanye West, Basement Jaxx, Warp Records, Ninja Tune, Royksopp, The Crystal Method, Puma, The Flashbulb, Carl Burgess, The Mill, Dvein, Pleix, Psyop, Max Hattler and many more. Continue reading

OptoSonic Tea @ Experimental Intermedia NYC :: Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 9:00 p.m. :: at 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013 :: with live sets by: Tony Martin (live visuals) with Margot Farrington and Thomas Dexter (live film) :: and invited moderator: Davidson Gigliotti :: Phone: 212 431 5127, 212 431 6430: Suggested donation: $ 7 ::

Experimental Intermedia is excited and honored to present the work of live visuals pioneer Tony Martin in collaboration with Margot Farrington and early video pioneer and historian Davidson Gigliotti as respondent/moderator. The second set will be played by Thomas Dexter (live films). Continue reading

Distribution Grant for New York State Artists :: Application Deadline: October 31, 2010

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2011 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: moving image and sound works; duplication of preview, screening, distribution, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment essential for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000. Continue reading

Call for Papers: Cinesonika Festival and Conference seeks contributions on Sound and the Moving Image :: Festival Dates: November 12-21, 2010 :: Conference Dates: November 13-14, 2010 :: Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia :: Keynote Address: Don Ihde.

Cinesonika: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design is adding a conference component. We are seeking interdisciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception – we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted submissions will be considered for inclusion in an edited volume (papers should be expandable to 3000-5000 words if selected for final essay publication). Continue reading

Academy of Media Arts Cologne— annual exhibition 2010 of films, concerts, performances :: July 15 – 18, 2010 :: Opening: July, 15; 6:30 pm :: Filzengraben 2, D-50676 Cologne, Germany.

The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), inaugurated in 1990, offers an educational concept that cross-links and integrates the fields of Film, Art and Theory in one single degree course titled “Audiovisual Media”. This is unique in Germany and contrasts with the traditional academic class or master student principle of art academies and other art schools where study courses are divided into classes or subjects. The curriculum promotes an interdisciplinary and multifaceted involvement with media arts. Continue reading

Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2010 — an international call open to all those interested in the moving image and sound :: Deadline: July 9, 2010.

Call For Proposals :: Commissions for ‘Artists Moving Image’ and ‘Film Score’ :: The Festival is inviting proposals for commissions in two categories; ‘Artists’ Moving Image’ for an artist or film-maker to make a new piece of moving image work, and ‘Film Score’ for a musician or composer to write and perform a new soundtrack to an existing film or films of their choice.

Each commission offers a fee of £2,500 to create new works relating to the festival theme, ‘Stagings’. Continue reading