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.

Topics to be presented will include (see the Career Center website at http://www.career.sunysb.edu/ for exact dates):

• How to get involved with the arts on campus, and how this can help build a resume
• Job & internship search in the arts
• It's All About Who You Know ... But Who Do I Know? - Networking and Professional Associations
• Hear from SB students about internships they've done
• What Can I Do with a Major in the Arts?
• I Got the Job/Internship - Now What? - Transitioning from College to the Workplace
• How to promote yourself
• How to make money and still support your art
• I Never Thought of Doing THAT - How to find the creative aspect in any job

http://www.sunysb.edu/sb/wang/events.shtml

Tabler Center for the Arts - Cafe Stage.

Featuring Brian Li, Software Engineer for the Chryon Corporation

Brian Li, Software Engineer and former Stony Brook alumnus, will describe the various fields within the video game industry, including journalism, software development, game design, game art, and quality assurance. He will describe the skills that professionals in each area will be seeking in an entry level applicant. He will cover various ways someone can get into the industry, as well as where students should focus their studies in order to head in the right direction. Included will also be a list of important courses and organizations that will help enhance the students' skill-set and resume.

For more information contact cdact@notes.cc.sunysb.edu or 632.1056
www.art.stonybrook.edu/digitalarts

CANCELLED DUE TO SNOWSTORM

In celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year, the Chai Found Music Workshop, a six person performance ensemble, brings their revival of Chinese classical chamber music (sizhu) and creative innovations to Stony Brook. Internationally acclaimed, Chai Found Music Workshop successfully bridges East and West using the six most representative instruments of sizhu - the erhu, the di, the pipa, the guzheng, the yangqin and the ruanxian - creating unique renditions of sizhu music.

$10 for students
Please reserve your tickets by e-mailing wangcenter@stonybrook.edu or call (631) 632-4400.

Learn about internship opportunities in entertainment! Our specialized panels will inform you of available internships and give you first-hand accounts of what it's really like. This is your chance to network with active professionals. Students are encouraged to bring resumes along. Pizza will also be served.

Honor Nauryz, the Central Asian Spring Festival, by experiencing Central Asian culture with Roksonaki, some of Kazakhstan's most talented musicians. Kazakhstan, an ancient crossroads on the Silk Road and former republic in the Soviet Union, is today a secular nation-state proud of its religious toleration and thriving Islamic, Jewish and Christian communities. A smash hit at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Roksonaki integrates diverse Kazakh and Eurasian musical traditions with contemporary rock and jazz for a once in a lifetime musical experience.

$10 for students

Please reserve your tickets by emailing wangcenter@stonybrook.edu or calling (631) 632-4400.

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He is a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music (with or without his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet), is available on Caipirinha/Sire,
Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.

View the flyer here!

http://www.lukedubois.com/