fws: DIAGRAM: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

In a message dated 2004:04:16 12:27:39 PM, praemedia@yahoo.com writes:

>DIAGRAM: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
>
>DIAGRAM is an electronic magazine of text, art,
>schematic, and (as of recently) sound. Aside from our
>online presence (which receives well over 30,000 hits
>a month), we publish a periodic print anthology
>(available through Amazon, our website, and fine
>bookstores) as well as a chapbook series.
>
>Throughout its monthly 2004 issues, DIAGRAM will
>publish audio art exploring the intersection of text,
>language, sound. This is a call for
>artists/musicians/writers working in sound to submit
>audio pieces for consideration.
>
>Please take the time to peruse the journal prior to
>submission. Submissions may include field recordings,
>abstraction, spoken word, electronic or acoustic
>music, [insert any other shorthand description of
>sound exploration you please], or any combination
>thereof, so long as it addresses in some way, our
>interests: In oddness. In representations. In naming.
>In indicating. In the way that meaning happens within
>rule-governed systems. In schematics. In the labeling
>and taxonomy of things. In the phenomenal distance
>between sound and source. In sound work that engages
>in dialog; takes language or poetry or narrative as
>its subject, object, or referent, master or servant;
>addresses the language at the morpheme, phoneme,
>handsign, lips and tongue-level. WE VALUE the insides
>of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance,
>flamboyance, work that moves us, language that does
>something new, or does something old--well. We like
>iteration and reiteration. Ruins and ghosts.
>Mechanical, moving parts, balloons, and frenzy.
>
>WE WANT sound pieces that engage the mechanics of
>meaning/poetry; the processes / of things, both inner
>and outer; of sound-image, confused, manipulated and
>otherwise; pieces that demonstrate rather then
>explain; point and uncover rather than demolish; how
>things become. How they expire. How they move or
>churn, or stand. Send us sound analogous to
>annotations, schematics, poems, sentence diagrams,
>definitions. Translate into/from sound.
>
>PARAMETERS
>
>Please adhere to the following instructions when
>submitting work for consideration.  Also, while our
>aesthetic and conceptual interests are broad,
>submitted work must seek to engage or address
>text/language in some way.
>
>Submissions must be received by May 31, 2004. Please
>limit pieces to
>3-4 minutes in length. Audio vignettes and cameos.
>
>We prefer electronic submissions (mp3) but will accept
>data files on
>CD-Rs, too (.wav, .aif, or high resolution stereo
>mp3s).
>
>Send zipped high resolution stereo mp3 files to
>earache@thediagram.com
>
>All submissions should be accompanied by a brief
>artist's bio and a 'statement of intent' addressing
>the sound work.
>
>CD-R SUBMISSIONS:
>
>DIAGRAM
>Sound Art Submissions
>c/o Shannon Fields
>497 Sixth Avenue, 2R
>Brooklyn, NY 11215
>

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    "For 25 centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It
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the hearing. It is not legible, but audible... Music is a herald, for change is
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& traverse galaxies..."   - Lou Harrison
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