AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Chicago Cultural Center Presents:
This is Not a Test: The Chicago Sound Experience
Curated by Margaret Noble

Calling all audio and recording artists to retell and reproduce the Chicago experience through place, time and culture in audio recordings. Abstract sound, field recordings, text based/spoken word, and radio pieces alike will be considered.

These works will be presented at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Aug. 11th, 2008 from 6PM -9PM
This is a free event for the public.

About The Jay Pritzker Pavilion:
Frank Gehry, winner of the National Medal of Art, applied his signature style to this revolutionary outdoor concert venue. The Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 people.

This state-of-the-art sound system, the first of its kind in the country, was designed to mimic the acoustics of an indoor concert hall by distributing enhanced sound equally over both the fixed seats and the lawn.

Submission Guidelines:

This is an unpaid commission and offered as a free concert to the public.

Maximum Length: 10 minutes (no minimum length).

Recorded works submitted by mp3 through email or CD through regular post.

Open to all artists l(Chicago locals or international)

Up to 3 submissions per artist

No submission fee

Please include the following information:
Artist Name:
Location:
Category: Abstract, Field Recordings, Narrative/Text Based Works, other
100 word description of piece(s):

Deadline for submissions: June 15th, 2008

Email MP3 submissions and questions to:

margaretnoble2000@yahoo.com

Send hard-copy materials to:

Margaret Noble
High Tech High Media Arts
2230 Truxton Road
Third Floor
San Diego, CA
92106

This was posted on the soundasart Yahoo! Groups listserv.