Dartmouth College Contemporary Music Lab
Call for Scores
Deadline:  November 1, 2009

Are you a composer?  Have you ever been frustrated by a string quartet refusing to get into a canoe?  Or perhaps you’ve found yourself wishing that a flautist was more willing to give soldering a try?  Are your scores impossible to Xerox because they’re made of hazardous materials?

Send them to us.

The Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab is currently seeking new scores and proposals for its 2010 season.

The Lab is directed by Doug Perkins (formerly of So Percussion) and consists primarily of graduate students from the Dartmouth Digital Musics program.  We perform a wide variety of experimental musics, new and old.  Last year’s season included premieres of works by student composers alongside fresh interpretations of pieces by Christian Wolff, John Cage, Michael Gordon, and Larry Polansky.

We are:
- musicians who play a variety of traditional and non-traditional acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments*
- programmers and engineers with expertise in many music technologies+
- composers and improvisers who delight in new aesthetic challenges

We are looking for:
- new music from composers whose work requires creative aesthetic and technical approaches
- intriguing proposals for intermedia happenings (sound installation, sound poetry, sound choreography, sound cuisine)
- collaborations that challenge traditional divisions of labor and accepted production hierarchies

Please contact Lab librarian Chris Peck for more details:  chrisp (at) dartmouth (dot) edu

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* flutes, guitars, voice, chapman stick, cracklebox, vibraphone, drumset, percussion, piano, synthesizers, theremin, toys, kitchen utensils, etc.
+ low and high level audio and video programming, hardware hacking, physical computing, software development for mobile devices, audio recording, live sound reinforcement, multichannel audio, firearms, web development and networking, metal and woodworking, etc.