OPEN CALL to create sound compositions for the installation “The Sounding Doors”
Type
Curatorial Proposal, Other
Category
Architecture, Installation, Mixed Media, Sound
Status
Archived
Deadline
July 31, 2011
Application Fee
Not Available
Host
OPEN DOORS
Location
Enter City, Germany

We invite musicians, sound artists and engineers to create compositions for the installation "Sounding Doors". Selected compositions will be played by opening/closing the door augmented with specially integrated electronics. Selected compositions will be played according to a set schedule from the 30th of August to the 10th of September at the main door of three public buildings (like the Central station, the cafe-bar “Bento gallery” - on Werderplatz, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Participants will be featured in the OPEN DOORS publication and DVD.


DEADLINE: 1 August 2011


 


REQUIREMENTS
Compositions can be written and performed with any musical instrument, equipment or voice using any technique. Programmed compositions or custom software are particularly welcome (for more details about the interface with the sensors please contact us). Please note that the real-time data of the door’s speed, acceleration and position will be used to control the playback.
Compositions can be short (~3-6 sec) and/or long (up to 30 sec). The audio file format should be mono AIFF.

Please email your compositions and short bios (max 250 words) to sound@julijonasurbonas.lt

COMPETITION JURY
Julijonas Urbonas (LT/UK), Ludger Brümmer (DE), Friedemann Dupelius (DE)


 


CONTACT
Julijonas Urbonas
sound@julijonasurbonas.lt

For more information about the installation “Sounding Doors” please visit:
http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/p/talking-doors/


 


INTERACTIVE ART PROJECT “OPEN DOORS”

The interactive and socio-cultural project “Open Doors” – drawing unusual forms of art and current social issues – will be presented in the public space of the city Karlsruhe to a diverse audience. The main program, comprising a creative lab, discussions, various art activities and the presentation of interactive media installations, will take place on 29 August – 11 September 2011, in various venues of the city Karlsruhe.
The key element of the project “Open Doors” is a series of interactive installations designed specially for the doors of public buildings by the Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas.


 


The project “Open Doors” is winner of the competition kultur-im-dialog.moe 2011 – a program of Schering Stiftung and MitOst e.V., Berlin

CONTRIBUTORS
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Kunstraum “Morgenstrasse”