Just Listening - Ireland Calling

Just Listen is a sound art event initiated by the National Sculpture Factory across various venues and sites across Cork and Limerick April/May 2011. The event is curated by Danny McCarthy and Sean Taylor and will include installations, performances, talks, workshops events and concerts. Invited artists include David Toop, Anne Bean, Pauline Oliveros, Eric Leonardson and Stephen Vitiello.

Just Listening-Ireland Calling is an open and invited submission event being organised as part of Just Listen, to showcase new and emerging work by Irish or Irish-resident sound artists and improvising artists/musicians. The showcase will be performed live in the LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT Clare Street Campus, Limerick on Saturday April 30th before a public audience and a number of invited international curators.

The selected artist must be available to perform a live work in Limerick on this date. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Receipt of works will not be acknowledged. Please include a stamped addressed envelope if you wish to have your application material returned.

Submissions must be received by 12 noon Monday January 20th 2011. No late submissions will be considered.

Applicants are invited to submit work to justlisten@ireland.com or by post clearly marked Just Listen, National Sculpture Factory, Albert Road, Cork Ireland either as audio CD, DVD or MP3. No other formats will be accepted. Applicants must include the following information:

  • Name and duration of work
  • Short description of work(s) maximum 100 word(optional)
  • Short Biography of the author, maximum 200 words
  • The works should be NOT longer than 10 minutes
  • Maximum 2 works per artist
  • 6. Sound files in MP3 FORMAT only will be accepted for download.

Applicants may also submit this material as audio CD by post. (please mark all material ‘Just Listen- NSF’) In case of files larger than 25 MG, we recommend to open a Mydrive account http://www.mydrive.ch/ (for free) and send Just Listen an E-mail with User and Password to download the file(s).

For further information about Just Listen visit

www.nationalsculpturefactory.com

www.soundoutin.blogspot.com