DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART
You can submit your work in Digital Musics & Sound Art for Prix Ars Electronica 2015. This year (2014), the open categories are: Computer Animation/Film/VFX, Interactive Art, Digital Communities, u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD and [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant. Please come back next year if your work does not fit in one of the open categories.
Contemporary digital sound productions from the broad spectrum of “electronica” come in for consideration in the ” Digital Musics & Sound Art” category, as do works combining sound and media, computer compositions ranging from electro-acoustic to experimental music, as well as sound installations.
What should you enter?
- Sound and New Media- (audio visual performance, sonic sculpture, intermedia / video / film soundtracks, installations, soundspace projects, radio works, net-music, generative musics, etc.)
- Electronica- as in Dub, Techno, Microsound, Ambient, Global, Minimal, HipHop, Jazz, Noise, Downtempo, Drum’n Bass, Mondo/Exotica, digital DJ-culture, Mash-ups, Music videos, Glitch, Plunderphonics etc.
- Computer compositions (algorithmic, acousmatic and experimental), analog and electro-acoustic methodologies, the use of voices and acoustic or amplified instruments are allowed as well, but the crucial criterium is the artistic and inventive use of digital tools to manifest a convincing realization.
Exclusively commercially oriented activities in the sense of product advertisement are excluded.
Only works, which have been created, realized or significantly updated within the last two years are accepted.
Submission Details
All works must be submitted as upload online or on Audio CD, DVD Audio, DVD Video, including specification of the necessary codecs, plug-ins and formats (such as NTSC and PAL).
http://www.aec.at/prix/en/kategorien/digital-music/
Submitting an entry to the Prix Ars Electronica is free of charge.
Online Submission Deadline: 7th March, 2014 (23:59 CET)
Submitting an entry to the Prix Ars Electronica is free of charge.
Online Submission Deadline: 7th March, 2014 (23:59 CET)
Enter projects such as sound installations, real-time performances, audio/visual environments, etc as a video documentation (3-10 minutes). This documentation should describe not only the event itself but also the characteristics of the work’s environment aside from the music, such as spatial and technical requirements for the realization of the piece.
Along with the work, please include a comprehensive description of the work as well as information about equipment, scores, set-ups, and any illustrations or sketches if possible.
In addition to the complete work, please include a 2-3 minute excerpt that effectively gives an introductory summation of the essential elements explored in the whole piece. This edited extract can serve as a compressed remix of different musical areas of the longer composition, or the participant can simply choose a continuous representative slice. This helps the Jury to deal with large quantities of submissions in a focused judicial manner.
Award-winning works may be performed in conjunction with the Festival Ars Electronica. Entrants are therefore requested to provide precise information about the technical set-up of all required equipment as well as suggestions regarding any technicians, musicians or soloists necessary to implement the production plans submitted.
Jury
All the entries will be judged by a Jury of experts in the order of their arrival and according to the following criteria:
- Aesthetics, originality
- Compelling conception
- Innovation in the special expression of sonic imagination
- Technique and quality of the presentation
