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Sonic Arts Network http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org {Link without Title} Established in 1979, Sonic Arts Network is a UK based organisation that promotes and explores the art of sound through a programme of performances, commissions, education projects and releases. EVENTS Sonic Arts Network, in collaboration with BBC Radio 3, curate and stage the annual Cut and Splice festival; the UK’s premier annual festival of radical electronic music and sound art. This year, Cut and Splice brings the Acousmonium to London for the first time in its 30 year history. Sonic Arts Network, BBC Radio 3 and the ICA provide a rare chance for audiences and artists alike to experience this performance machine first hand. The festival presents some of the leading international names in current experimental electronic music performing alongside the great figures of the GRM. Cut and Splice - Acousmonium ICA, London, May 5-7 2006 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/ {Link without Title} Another main feature of Sonic Arts Network's events diary is the Expo festival - a travelling event that visits a UK city every year and works in close collaboration with Universities and local venues. This year Sonic Arts Network brings the Expo festival to Manchester for a weekend packed with over twenty free events including solo exhibitions at cornerhouse gallery, concerts, club nights, conference and a take over of the vast and historic manchester victoria baths. Expo is the hub and playground of the UK’s experimental music and sound art scene and features very special guests from around the world. This year’s Expo festival is a sonic exploration of the inner, outer and public spaces of Manchester. EXPO Manchester 23 - 26 June 2006 http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org {Link without Title} EDUCATION Sonic Arts Network has been running groundbreaking education programmes exploring sound technology since 1989. Workshops have included people of all ages and abilities from pre-school to adults. In conjunction with local education authorities SAN has devised a range of teacher training workshops, many incorporating new music technology software specifically designed by Sonic Arts Network for making music on a PC and encapsulated on a CD-ROM called Sound Magic. In 1997 SAN was awarded a major grant to develop models of good practice for the use of music technology in schools and the community by the European Commission as part of Huddersfield’s Creative Town Initiative. Subsequently over five thousand people have participated in education projects in schools and the community. SAN has acted as direct consultants to the Government's Qualifications and Curriculum Agency (QCA) for its revision of the National Curriculum and has been commissioned by the British Educational and Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) to produce a book of exemplar classroom materials for key stage 3 called Sound Processing and Recording. SAN has worked with leading venues including the South Bank Centre; the Science Museum, Symphony Hall, Birmingham; St David's Hall, Cardiff and the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. Recent major projects include leading the education programme for the UK’s largest exhibition of sound art, Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London. We are currently in the midst of Sonic Postcards; a unique and innovative project that aims, over the course of three years, to explore and compare the local sound environments of young people right across the UK, the impact of sound on our lives, and the possibilities for creativity through the interaction of these sounds with technology. Year One was a massive success with 52 schools from across the UK taking part. Our second year is just beginning and we hope to develop the work we have started. SONIC POSTCARDS Sonic Postcards is concerned with the impact of sound on our lives and as with an ordinary picture postcard it offers the opportunity for people to exchange information about their local environments with a view to providing windows into a variety of other places, lives and cultures. The project is aimed at young people aged between 9 and 14 years in Primary, Secondary and Special Schools and their teachers and is free to participating schools. Sonic Postcards involves sound artists visiting your school over the course of a series of sessions and working with a single class of Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 pupils. All of the sound artists who facilitate our project are skilled workshop leaders with experience of running education projects in schools with young people. Sonic Postcards is run by Sonic Arts Network, the lead body for artists working with sound and technology in the UK. The project follows both good practice and government guidelines for working with young people. http://www.sonicpostcards.org {Link without Title} NETWORK Sonic Arts Network is a national organisation working exclusively with sound and technology in creative, innovative and experimental ways. Every year we support UK based artists by providing platforms for their work through performance and exhibition. Our membership programme publishes specialist materials for practitioners and institutions across the UK. Membership benefits include: FREE CD Three times a year our members receive a free CD. Each one has a unique theme and is compiled by a guest curator, with specially commissioned print materials and packaging. Each edition is limited to a run of 1000 and builds a distinctive series. Past CDs have been curated by Nicholas Collins (A Call for Silence), Kenny Goldsmith (Agents of Impurity), Irwin Chusid (Interesting Results), Tim Steiner (Big Ears), Andrew Hugill ('Pataphysics) and Ben Watson (Frankfurter Ahnung). DIFFUSION EMAIL A fortnightly email newsletter containing quality information for practitioners on calls and opportunities, plus network updates, articles, listings and reviews. See the Diffusion archive here... ONLINE SERVICES Use our member’s online space to add your profile to the membership directory and tell the network about your work. Sell your CD’s on our Sounds webpage and submit your event listings, calls and reviews for Diffusion. SANLIST Our sonicartsnet email list is an instant way to contact the 1000 subscribers of our extended network. (details) ANNUAL CONFERENCE Free admission for members. more... REFERENCE AND RESEARCH SERVICES PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org {Link without Title} |
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