Call for Papers (closed)
The Call was closed on April 11 2010. We thank all participants of the call for their interesting contributions!
If you have any questions concerning the Call for Proposals please send an email to the Conference office.
We asked for:
- Title
- Name(s) of presenter(s)
- Duration lectures (min 25 - max 50 min). Duration performances (5 - 20 min)
- Presentation type (e.g. lecture, lecture/demo, lecture/performance, installation, tutorial, workshop, group exercise, concert performance, film
- ALL technical requirements including what you could bring, what you would need, & how much setup time/tech rehearsal would be required
- An abstract clearly stating the topic (or describing the artistic work), including how Kyma is employed in this work, and how the presentation would be interesting/useful for other Kyma practitioners.
- Please describe how your proposal relates the symposium theme of "symbolic sound"
- Brief biography (no more than 150 words)
- Receipt of each application is confirmed by e-mail within one week. Information about acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2010.
All proposals will be considered; however, strong preference will be given to proposals for presentations, tutorials, workshops, group activities, or performances that address the theme of this year's symposium: the intersection of Kyma and the concept of symbolic sound (not the company name, but literally, sounds that function as symbols.)
All proposals (including paper presentations) should include sound (that is our topic after all!) All proposals should assume an educated audience from a broad range of professional backgrounds (participants will come from many different fields, all sharing an interest in sound and the Kyma language). Presenters should expect to address an educated, multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary audience; in the interest of communication, media-rich slide presentations are strongly encouraged. Also encouraged are group participation exercises and musical performances addresssing the theme.
What is "symbolic sound"? Possible proposals could include (but are by no means limited to):
- Symbolic Sounds in Virtual Worlds: sound design for animation
- Emerging symbols: Audio conventions and traditions in sound for games
- Charging with Meaning: How sound can make or break a computer game
- Leading a group Sound Design Exercise: Sound imagined, observed, and remembered
- Guiding a group exercise / improvisation: Communicating with Sound Symbols
- A Crash of Symbols: Listening to environmental sounds symbolically
- Sound design tutorial: Creating sound objects where none exist
- Discussion and performance of a music composition comprising symbolic sounds
- Discussion and performance of a symbolic soundtrack for an imaginary film
- Lost Sounds: Composing with sounds that symbolize a specific time and place
- From the narrative to simulation: The changing role of Sound from illustration to imagination
- Music is not a language: an argument that sound is not symbolic
- Phenomenological analysis of Sound examples from the Arts and the real world
- The symbolic value of the acoustic space: From the cathedral to the iPod
- Symbolism in the classical western music tradition & electroacoustic music: Tonality, instrumentation, melody
- From "Klangmalerei" to "Soundscape"
- Acoustic symbols in nature and human cultures
- The role of sound in the world's religions
- Sound in creation myths
- Numinous sound objects
Please allow your imagination to run free on this topic and send us your proposals (whether for power point presentations, plays, music, films, exercises, or other format).
If your skills are more journalistic, you could alternatively propose to:
- Live blog or microblog from the symposium so that even those who cannot attend can still participate in the symposium
- Write a report on the symposium for a magazine or journal
- Document the events in photos on Flickr
- Produce/orchestrate an audio and/or video stream of the event, live on the Internet
- Document the event with video and/or audio recorders
We welcome your input and ideas on further ways to make this symposium even more memorable, fun, and useful for everyone.
The selection committee will review each proposal in terms of practicality, the degree to which it addresses the symposium theme, and whether it seems it would be instructive and interesting to the expected audience. Abstracts accepted will be put in the conference program and published on the Symposium website (including biography details). If an author makes a submission and it is accepted, he or she agrees to the publication.
NB: If your proposal is accepted for presentation on the symposium, your conference fee will be waived.
We look forward to seeing you there!