03/30/2020
OPEN CALL
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Olio Projects, an artist-run gallery space in Philadelphia is accepting artist sound submissions that are 30 seconds long... detailed below:
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Social distancing is a phrase we have learned quickly. We are communicating more than ever its importance. We are seeing what it looks like and people share what it feels like openly. Our unity to use technology to bridge the distance between our psychical presence, nonverbal language, and ideas is strong. Distant Sounds is about understanding what social distancing sounds like for you right now during the global COVID-19 Pandemic. An assemblage of sounds put together like a quilt to soothe our ears as a transcendental meditation with a voyeuristic touch that places us in a moment of someone else’s social distancing and isolation that we do not perhaps know. The project intends to provide a necessary break from screen time visuals and cacophony of urgent news. This open call is for any artist or individual looking to engage in an experimental artwork while at a distance.
Participation in Distant Sounds is a rolling open call model without any limitations other than carefully following a simple procedure that is shared below. If there are any questions, please contact us at [email protected] before going through the procedure. Doing it right the first time helps our workflow piecing together the sound art pieces. Thank you for your time, interest, and following our guidelines.
Submissions will be shared on a first come first served basis and no set end deadline at this point in time. A virtual exhibition will be developed for immediate experience as quickly as we can work based on participation volume. Physical exhibition and activations are consented to by agreeing to the mutual sharing of your audio file for future manifestations of Distant Sounds.
How to submit _
Please record 30 seconds of ambient sounds. We ask that artists record at any point in time from outside their living space’s window or door without making any of their own sounds. The idea is to capture the outside world as it is being experienced from your place and point in time. Please send us your audio recording as an email with the format “Distant Sounds Entry *YourZipcode*” to: [email protected]
All entries must be .m4a files formatted exactly as follows: FirstName_LastName_YourCity_StateAbbriviation_YourZipcode
Step by step procedure _
Lastly, please attached 3 to 5 sentences of reflection about your senses, observations, and experience; writing is entirely open to the artists interpretation.
Step 1*. Open the application “Voice Memos” if you are using an Apple iPhone running iOS. (See asterisk note below if using a different phone or software platform.
Step 2. Go to your nearest window or door that you can safely open.
Step 3. Place your phone gently next to the open air, or hold it steady with your microphone port pointed towards the opening to the outside world.
Step 4. Press the record button and don’t make any sounds of your own for 30 seconds! (This is a big red on Apple iPhone iOS. You will likely hear a little chime signaling recording has begun. Keep your eye on the recording time.)
Step 5.** At 30 seconds exactly press the stop button and you will be prompted with “Save Voice Memo” where you must please type using this file format, “FirstName_LastName_YourCity_StateAbbriviation_YourZipcode” (Example: William_Felinski_Philadelphia_PA_19103)
Step 6. Select the Voice Memo just created and press the icon to share it via email to [email protected]
Step 7. In the subject line please type, “Distant Sounds Entry YourZipcode” (Example: Distant Sounds 19103)
Step 8. *Optional* Please share your intersection, “Street & Street” (Example: 18th & Pine St.)
Step 9. *Optional* Feel free to share a note that is 3 to 5 sentences describing what you heard during this action.
Step 10. Send the email and wait for us to reply with more information to you in the form of email.
Step 11. Keep up with this project here and on Instagram and
*All methods of recording are allowed. We encourage any method that ensures Olio Projects can receive a .m4a file via email following our guidelines.
**International participants outside of The U.S and U.S.A. territories, please contact us regarding your submission or indicate in your emailed submission a note so that we can properly format and accommodate your country’s system of mapping and addressing (i.e. zip codes, et cetera).
Your entries are starting to come in and we are sharing them quickly up on our website. Thank you to everyone that is sharing and submitting to our Open Call!
https://olio.gallery/distant-sounds
