<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear all,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
I'm writing to inform you about this call for papers for an upcoming issue of eContact, an on-line journal of electroacoustic music launched in 1998 by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community as the successor to the printed issue.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I've been invited to curate the 14.3 issue, which focuses on biotechnological performance practice.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As guest editor I'm collecting articles and I would be grateful if you could forward the call to your students, peers, and anybody who might be interested.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We launched the call about one month ago, and there's still time to submit until the 31st January.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please, find below the original call.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">best wishes and happy new year,</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Marco</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<div>[CALL] <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">eContact</span>! 14.3 -- <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,136);color:rgb(34,34,34)">Biotechnological</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,136);color:rgb(34,34,34)">Performance</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,136);color:rgb(34,34,34)">Practice</span></div>
<div><br></div>eContact! extends an open call for contributions to an issue focussing on the use of the body in electroacoustic <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">performance</span> <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">practice</span>, coordinated by Guest Editor Marco Donnarumma. Performers, composers and others are encouraged to contribute their perspectives on the role or position of the body in experimental practices of musical <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">performance</span>.<br>
<br>Submission deadline: 31 January 2012<br>Publication: 29 February 2012<br>Submission Guidelines can be found here (<a href="http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/submissionguidelines.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/submissionguidelines.html</a>).<br>
<br>Suggestions for contributions include, but are not limited to the following ideas:<br><br>-Use of Mechanical Myography (MMG), Electromyography (EMG) and other similar biological signal measurements in <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">performance</span><br>
-Scoring / notation of body-related <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">performance</span><br>-Sound Art dealing with the body and biological aspects of <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">performance</span><br>
-Development of DIY, biological-based, Interactive Musical Systems (IMS)<br>-The definition / augmentation of Self on stage by means of biotechnologies<br>-Cognitive aspects of embodied interaction between the biological body and computer<br>
-Composer—Technology—Performer: definition of roles?<br>-Live electronics vs. fixed media in <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">biotechnological</span> <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">performance</span> <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">practice</span><br>
-Historical overviews and reflections<br>-Critical perspectives on gesture-based “human-computer interaction”<br>-The sound of flesh…<br><br>We also welcome other contributions that engage in a discourse on the relation between biophysics and music. Feel free to propose other ideas!<br>
<br>To state your interest in contributing or for further information, contact Guest Editor Marco Donnarumma at <a href="mailto:m@marcodonnarumma.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">m@marcodonnarumma.com</a>.<div>
<a href="http://marcodonnarumma.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">http://marcodonnarumma.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>View the call on-line: <a href="http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/14_3/call.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/14_3/call.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>[!!] <span style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">eContact</span>! 14.1 -- JTTP 2011 <a href="http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">http://cec.sonus.ca/<span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,136);color:rgb(34,34,34)">econtact</span></a><br>
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<div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Marco Donnarumma<br>Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher<br>ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)<br>The University of Edinburgh, UK<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
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