The Undergraduate College of Arts, Culture, and Humanities
The Undergraduate College of Arts, Culture, and Humanities (ACH) brings together first-year students at Stony Brook University who share an interest in the wide scope of human activity, particularly artistic production of all sorts (music, literature, theatre, the visual arts, dance, etc). Because the ACH experience is not strictly academic in nature, involvement is based on an interest in these areas, rather than on one's choice of major. Throughout the academic year, the ACH team (consisting of a Faculty Director, Quad Director, and Undergraduate College Advisor) will plan events that highlight the college's themes and offer participants a chance to meet other students with similar interests, as well as network with faculty and staff. The college is housed in Tabler Quad and boasts a newly refurbished arts and cultural center including a cafe, performing arts space, practice rooms for musicians,
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The Sonic Residues festival will develop subtle and complex spaces of auditory experience, organized loosely around the theme of the remainders left by vibrations in time and space. It is concerned with sound as a medium of artistic expression that encompasses performance, sculpture, phonography, experimental notation, and installation. To this end, the festival synergistically combines a concert performance, a gallery exhibit, and provocative lectures as different mediums of access to “sonic residues.”
This call is for short form works which will be presented at the gallery on portable audio players, and available for download as .wav, .aiff, and .mp3 formats in conjunction with the exhibition. These works should take into consideration the differential specificity of these devices, and the roles that they have come to play in contemporary culture. They should consider sound as material, as something which can index space, evoke landscape, or translate history into the present.
The contemporary sonic landscape is increasingly punctuated by the singing beeps of cellular telephones and quick snips of overheard chatter. It is shaped by the aural experience of the mp3 player—the hierarchy of track listings, and the unexpected occurrences of randomization. We are constantly enveloped by sound—to such an extent that the particular textures of it often disappear, receding into what information theory might term noise. A residue draws a pattern. It can trace an evolving process, recreate an experience, or reimagine a prior event. It can weave pattern, both absent and present, into meaning.
Please send an email containing the following to sonicresidues@gmail.com by April 25th, 2008:
1. A short bio.
2. A short (100-word) project description.
3. The completed piece in mp3, aiff, or wav format. Completed work must be less than 15 minutes, and designed with portable audio players in mind.
Works will be judged by a panel of Stony Brook University professors in the Music, Art, and Computer Science departments including Christa Erickson, Zabet Patterson, Margaret Schedel and Daniel Weymouth.
April 3 at 8:00 PM
Battle of the Bands Semifinals
Tabler Center for the Arts
April 24 at 8:00 PM
Battle of the Bands Finals
Tabler Center for the Arts
May 1, 2008 Hey, Undergrads... Show us what you love about Stony Brook in a 30- to 60-second video. You could win an iPod, achieve Internet immortality, or both.
Contest ends Thursday, May 1. Submissions will be judged by a panel of students and staff. Top submissions will be screened at University events and showcased on the University Web site.