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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Open Call For Sound Artworks:::McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival 2011 </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; background-color: transparent;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The curatorial team for the McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival 2011 wishes to open a call for two distinct types of sound work, sight specific performance and recorded composition. The theme of the exhibition is “Architectural Explorations in Sound” in response to the pumping station house where the festival will take place and the wealth of acoustic information to be gleaned from the brick, glass and iron within the interior of the space. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The McNeill Street Pumping Station, located near downtown Shreveport on the banks of Cross Bayou, is Shreveport’s original waterworks. The first water plant facilities, including steam-driven pumps, were installed on the site in 1887 as part of the construction of Shreveport’s first municipal water system, which was only the second such municipal system in the entire state.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We are looking for artists and musicians for whom the relationship of sound and space are central to their practice. We are not as much interested in compositions and performances that apply themselves arbitrarily to the space as we are interested in artists whose work is inextricable from the context within which it is performed and/or written. The dialog that we want to engage in deals with the ephemeral within the acts of exploration and meditation upon the spaces that we inhabit and what information sound can give us about those spaces. If you have ever “played a building”, created a microphone array to capture silence in an enclosed space, or live synthesized the sounds of a brick and iron smokestack creaking in the wind we invite you to submit a proposal. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SUBMISSION DEADLINE:::</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Performance Category:::</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-In reference to the thematic information above, send the best representative original sound work or segment of an original sound work no longer than 10 minutes in length.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-You may also send us links to sound works or video documentation of performances currently online. Please prepare it for review as above, nothing in excess than 10 minutes will be reviewed for entry. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-Include title, date, and (maximum) 250 word description of the submitted work</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-Please send work made within the last two years</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Listening Category:::</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-In reference to the thematic information above, send two to three samples of original sound works or segments of original sound works no longer than 8 minutes each. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-Include title, date, and 250 word descriptions of all works</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-Please send works made within the last two years</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Requested information to include with all proposals:::</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">-Artist biography (500 words max)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You may send proposal materials to:::</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Via email (please only use this email to submit links to works and questions pertaining to the event):::</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Caveat:::</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL COPIES. WE WILL NOT RETURN ANYTHING VIA POST. </span></p>
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