OPEN CALL FOR RESIDENCY: KUBER SPATIAL SOUND INNOVATIONS - PiNA - Kulturno Izobraževalno Društvo (original) (raw)
Residency Info
The 26-day residency is designed to support, explore, and produce tangible outcomes that contribute both to the artistic community and to public well-being by addressing urban noise pollution and enhancing sonic environments in cityscapes.
Mentorship
Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio is a composer, curator, and developer of media systems based in Slovenia. His career has developed in various artistic disciplines, with a focus on acoustic, electroacoustic, and experimental music. He designs Immersive Studio’s technologies and content for production. He is a curator and head of research and development at KUBER. Under the guidance of experts and through peer-to-peer interactions, participants acquire new skills in advanced audio technologies.
Expected results
Expected results include the development of new sound technologies and artistic works that demonstrate innovative approaches to noise reduction and soundscape enhance its reach, facilitating outdoor events and broader research opportunities.
Location
HEKA is a physical space and a concept that combines art and science approaches with citizen science to bridge citizens with science by using creative forms of reflection and expression. The guiding principle is the awareness that innovation, technology, art and business always have an effect on the individual and on society.
KUBER Experiential Immersive Audio Unit is a research, production and listening room, located at HEKA Art and Science Lab in Koper Slovenia, which for the last 3 years have entirely work around the field of spatial audio, exploring and resolving the ideas of dozens of projects that are on the quest to explore the possible use of space as a new controllable artistic dimension, regardless of the aesthetic of the content. It serves as a one-person-centered production space in HEKA premises, an immersive listening room, and recording studio.
Duration: From 3rd to 28th of March
Languages: English/Spanish/Italian/Slovene
Number of artist: 2
Discipline: Music / Immersive sound
Additional Expectations/Opportunities
- Output played on the DodekaOTTO modular system.
- Merge diverse knowledge bases and expertise.
- Exchange of innovative ideas and techniques, crucial for creating compelling, innovative works in spatial immersive sound production.
- Access to unique 3D soundscapes and interactive environments, enhancing their artistic and research visions.
Studios/Special Equipment
- Software workflow based on IRCAM’s SPAT, Panoramix, IEM plug-in
- Studio with 12 Genelec 8010 speakers as a second-order ambisonics array displayed in 3 levels, a Tannoy Gold 8 Dolby Atmos monitoring system of 7.1.4 speakers, two-directional sound speakers above the listener, made by Ultra-sonic Audio, a bass transducers attach to the listener chair.
Hosting allowance
€45 per participant, per day. It is a contribution to expenses related to the implementation of the residency project, such as accommodation for the participants, mentor fees, renting equipment, etc.
Type of Housing
Arranged by the residents.
Per diem
€25 per person per day. It is a contribution to food, local transport, etc.
Travel fees
Travel distance under 5,000 km: €350 per person for round-trip.
Travel distance from 5,000 km: €700 per person for round-trip.
For short distances of under 600 km, traveling by airplane is only allowed in exceptional and well-justified cases:
- For persons with disabilities.
- For traveling from or to an island with no ferry connections.
- Due to force majeure or grave personal circumstances.
More details here.
More info about the eligibility here.
Residency plan
- Open call is open from 13th September until 15th October 2024.
- The selection process is until 20 October.
- 25 October Communicating results to participants.
- November – December: help with finding the accommodation (the residencies have to start and end on the same date).
- January: 2 sessions with both residents to align the details and ideas.
- Residency: 3rd to 28th March
- 28th March a promo event
Deadline
15th October 2024, at 12 P.M. CET
LINK TO THE APPLICATION.
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Program is Funded by Culture Moves EU.