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[claudia westermann]

Hi all,

  Below is a description of an exhibition that is being prepared for 
Art in General in
New York (www.artingeneral.org).

  Please send a piece!

Ron Kuivila


OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
A GROUP EXHIBITION OF SOUND WORKS AT ART IN GENERAL

Exhibition Title: Rock’s Role (After Ryoanji)
Curator: Ronald J. Kuivila, composer and Professor, Music Department, Wesleyan
University
Venue: Art in General
Deadline for submission: September 27, 2003
Accepted formats: CD and cassette

PLEASE INCLUDE A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SUBMITTED WORK, A RESUME/BIO &
A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RETURN.

Rock's Role (After Ryoanji) is a group exhibition of sound works by 
artists responding to
John Cage's musical transliterations of the famed Japanese Zen rock 
garden, Ryoanji.
The elements of the exhibition will be arranged both spatially and 
temporally so that they
can be heard both in isolation and together. Contributors to the 
exhibition will be invited
to prepare their own "mixes" subject to the requirement that every 
contribution be heard
within any half hour interval.

Cage's view of Ryoanji was that the specific arrangement of the 15 
stones was not as
important as the way in which the emptiness of the garden and the 
regularity of the lines
of raked sand intensify their individuality. In Cage's pieces, the 
stones become solos
consisting of glissandi derived from the tracing of 15 different 
stones he collected. The
raked sand becomes an irregular pulse performed on any collection of 
instruments of
limited resonance (exceeding one in number).

Rock's Role (After Ryoanji) will follow this same approach, breaking 
contributions into
"continuous" and "discrete" elements corresponding to the stones or 
the raked sand of
the garden. In the exhibition, continuous elements will be mixed and 
overlapped;
discrete elements will be played in succession. We hope for 
contributions employing
sounds and sound-making means of all kinds. The only requirement is 
that contributions
be able to co-exist with any other sounds in the exhibition.

We expect that most submissions will take the form of a compact disc 
or set of compact
discs, but we are happy to consider sound works of any form as long as their
performance can be easily regulated with a computer (for example, through MIDI
control). In the case of CD submissions, continuous elements should 
be a series of
individual tracks suitable for "shuffle play," with no single track 
exceeding four minutes in
duration. Discrete elements should take the form of a single long 
track ranging from 15
minutes to an hour. Contributors to the exhibition will be invited to 
prepare their own
temporal arrangements of the entire exhibition, subject to the rule 
that each contributor’s
work is heard within any 30 minute interval. Throughout the exhibition, these
arrangements will be played in succession together with chance-determined
arrangements.

PLEASE SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS BY SEPTEMBER 27, 2003 TO:

Attn. Rock’s Role Exhibition
Art in General
79 Walker Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10013
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