From: Tom D (ditota@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2011 - 15:53:35 EST
Maybe EA musicians haven't had much luck with the touring grants but the
general grants for professional musicians even lists Electroacoustics as
one of the 12 general fields of music for which they accept
applications. There is even a specific program officer they suggest you
contact for further information, maybe he can help you out a little more?
his info is
Classical and electroacoustic fields of music:
André Jutras
Program Officer
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5071
(taken from the council of the arts website here:
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/music/ff127245366823750000.htm)
Not to hijack this topic, but the possibility of applying for a grant
interests me as well, is there anyone on the list that has gone through
the process and successfully received one? What can you tell us about
your experience with the Council for the Arts? How much did they help
you out? Are there specific requirements that need to be met if you plan
on releasing something using money you received from the council?
thanks
-Tom
On 1/30/2011 3:19 PM, Kevin Austin wrote:
> Indeed. This is what the Music Section has been saying for four decades ... you're not really doing "music". Go over to the visual arts area with visual artists who are using sound.
>
> In Canada, three decades ago, the ea community was asked (by Franz Kraemer), "What is electroacoustic music, and what do you want from the Canada Council?" The practitioners spent a decade organizing, creating the CEC, and retuned to the Music Section with the answer. And now there is 25 years of thoroughly documented history.
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> A few individual composers (and occasionally performers) have been recognized by the Music Section from time to time, but the ea community is still "on the outside looking in". Thirty years later, the ea community remains largely unacknowledged by the Music Section, and not well integrated into the Canadian contemporary music network. It was the CEC which, almost 20 years ago, created the CCMN with the objective of bringing the interested parties together, and having ea [music] recognized and supported by the Canada Council.
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> Looking around, it is not the contemporary music scene that is attracting attention; it is becoming fossilized into a "museum" function, with universities graduating composers who get played by contemporary music ensembles that have university affiliations, playing for other university composers and other student composers.
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> IME, the "live wires" in sound are breaking out on Queen Street West (in Toronto), in clubs and in small public spaces all over the world.
>
> Will the Music Section of the Canada Council wake up and smell the chips?
>
> This would be a good question to ask at any meetings about the place of new sound arts.
>
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> Kevin
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> On 2011, Jan 30, at 2:52 PM, Guillaume Boutard wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> you might wanna take a look at Media Arts instead of Music. We might also want to link this to a previous topic.
>> Best,
>> G.
>> ________________________________________
>> From: owner-cec-conference@concordia.ca [owner-cec-conference@concordia.ca] On Behalf Of Mathieu Bouchard [matju@artengine.ca]
>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:26 PM
>> To: SN jef chippewa
>> Cc: cec-conference@concordia.ca
>> Subject: Re: canada council - touring grants not for EA?
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, SN jef chippewa wrote:
>>
>>> looking through the results of this "pilot programme" it seems to be only
>>> instrumental (contemporary and jazz) musicans who have received the grant
>>> (since 2007). there seems to be a bias, but perhaps there have simply been
>>> no electroacousticians who have applied?
>>> http://canadacouncil.ca/home-e.htm
>>> - on the right, "Quick Links: Who received a grant?"
>>> - choose: year, Music, "International Touring Assistance in Music"
>> So, in the end, what did you conclude ?
>> What were the causes of this apparent bias ?
>>
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