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International meetings butoh dance and acousmatic music

Call of participation for acousmatic composer - Call of participation for butoh dancer

Conservatory "Nicola Sala" in Benevento, near Napoli
Department of New Technologies and Musical Languages

23 to 25th of June 2017

Deadline for propositions : DELAYED TO 10th OF MAY 2017

Call of participation in italian here

To make a proposition as acousmatic composer

To make a proposition as butoh dancer

Argument

The aim of the butoh-acousmatic festival/meeting project "En chair et en son" is to encourage new collaborations for,
up to now little explored, creative investigation.

Placing the dancer's body at the heart of the machinery of digital sound projection "acousmonium", to confront him
with this 'music of imaginary', the primitive pleasure of the sound perception, to open the butoh dancer's perception
to new creative paths. From then on, the richness of the acousmatic sound environment can interact with his body and open new ways of motricity and expression.

Butoh and acousmatic sound proceed from the same will of transgression, from the same desire of a return to the essence of things (the flesh, the sound).

The two first editions of the festival showed the creative richness and the potential that such meetings contain.


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Call of contribution Acousmatic music / Butoh dance

In the scope of these "Butoh dance and acousmatic music" meetings, we are looking for composers of acousmatic music
and butoh dancers.

The Dancers will be able to select the musical work with which they want to perform during the festival.

An artistic and scientific comity, constituted by composers, dancers and researchers will proceed to the selection of propositions.
The comity will be particularly interested by the motivation expressed by the artists to work on a spirit of "meetings and exploration" between acousmatic music and butoh dance.

The intention of these meetings is clearly to promote the emergence of new ways of creation and collaboration between dance and music. For purposes of opening and eclecticism, the comity will be interested by "transgenres" propositions, coming from various influences, however without to deny the "butoh-acousmatic" specificity.

«En Chair et en Son» proposes to initiate meetings between composers and dancers, however creations which already results from an existing cooperation between one composer and one dancer could be proposed.

During the work of each « pairs », the dancer- composer “confrontation“ would imply some adaptations of the musical work:
• Temporal adaptations: in some cases up to a reworking or restructuration of the musical work.
• Spatial adaptations: for example the composer can “divert” the sound during the sound projection,
depending of the dancer position.

The musical propositions

The musical propositions shall have a duration between 15 to 30 minutes. However propositions longer than 20 minutes will be considered with priority. They have to be available on a on-line audio distribution platform (like soundcloud, bandcamp…). They shall go with a concert note, written in French or English, explaining the musical work and the linked desired/seen with the butoh dance.

Proposals shall be sent exclusively by e-mail, to the following address : contact@en-chair-et-en-son.fr

The selection comity will be particularly interested by the proposals which takes into account the “spirit” of these meetings: music played on a spatialisation system and associated with butoh performance: Takes the time to read the arguments and tracks of reflections proposed, and to visit the website of the festival showing excerpts of the previous editions and some texts of the symposium.

The butoh dancers propositions

It is asked to submit, via an in-line video platform (as youtube, vimeo,…) an excerpt or the totality of a butoh performance video captation. They shall go with a note, written in french or English, explaining the motivation to participate to these meetings and the links considered with acousmatic music.

Proposals shall be sent exclusively by e-mail, to the following address : contact@en-chair-et-en-son.fr

The selection comity will be particularly interested by the proposals which takes into account the “spirit” of these meetings: music played on a spatialisation system and associated with butoh performance: Takes the time to read the arguments and tracks of reflections proposed, and to visit the website of the festival showing excerpts of the previous editions and some texts of the symposium.

The conditions of the place does not allow to accept groups of dancers with acceptable conditions, then only propositions of solo dancers will be considered.

Conditions

The comitee will be the interface allowing dancers and composers to meet together. All submitted musical works and video will be put on line on a dedicated page of the website of the festival (public access).

The selection of the artists will be done the 15th of May 2017. From this date, only the musical work and the video of the selected artists will be put on line. The artists will then have 15 days to perform the choice of their “partner”: lists by priority orders will be asked and the comity will propose the “pairs”.

From the 1st of June 2017, all pairs should be constituted

For any question thanks to send a mail to : italian.en.chair.et.en.son@gmail.com

Special thanks to Carey Jeffries for the translation

Maite Soler: photo Fabrice Pairault