ISCM 2010 World Music Days
Call for works - 'Momentary Pleasures'
Typically composers will spend many days, weeks, months and even years writing pieces of music. But to write an entire piece in one day can be also be a singularly pleasurable experience. The 2010 Aurora Festival will be presenting a unique concert of new piano works, each of which will have been written by composers in a single day. Submissions are invited from composers from around the world for this concert.
The theme of this concert is 'Momentary Pleasures'. Composers should write a work with this theme in mind - however they wish to interpret this.
Criteria
Instrumentation: solo (unamplified) piano. Playing inside the piano to be avoided.
Duration: Maximum two notated pages, maximum 4 minutes in length.
Composition time: The composer must include a declaration stating that the submitted piece was written within a single day. Typesetting time may be additional to this single day.
Nationality: Composers may be from anywhere in the world.
Age restriction: There is no maximum or minimum age restriction.
Entry fee: There is no entry fee for this category.
The following should be submitted:
- Score in PDF format
- Recording (Optional; MIDI recordings acceptable; mp3 format only)
- Name and nationality of the composer
- Address
- Email contact
- Programme notes (max. 100 words, in English) detailing how the theme of 'momentary pleasures' was used in the submitted composition.
- A written declaration from the composer in the body of the email, stating that this composition was written in a single day. Entries must be submitted electronically via email to Philippa Horn
Date of receipt of entries: 5pm Thursday, 31 December 2009 (Sydney time).