This April 4th through 6th, in Iowa City Iowa, the University of Iowa
is hosting the 2002 SEAMUS Conference. SEAMUS is the Society for
Electro Acoustic Music in the United States. This is the premiere
annual gathering of Academic electronic musicians, composers and
performers.
You can read up on SEAMUS at
http://http://seamus2002.music.uiowa.edu/
The conference combines presentation of academic papers with
twelve concerts of electro-acoustic music. An incredibly wide
variety of music will be presented, from tape pieces to live
performances for musicians and electronics.
The director of the conference, Lawrence Fritts, has asked me
to set up some 'underground' electronic music events for the evenings
of April 5th and 6th. These will take place in local clubs, and run
roughly from 10PM-2AM. Paid SEAMUS attendees will be admitted free.
The idea behind these shows is to encourage some communication and
sharing of ideas between academic and non-academic musicians, as well
as the imbibing of fine alcoholic beverages. In other words a rare
opportunity to meet people from all over who like their music just
as weird as you do.
The cost of attending the conference is $40(member)/$55(non-member) for
students and $100(member)/$115(non-member)
The terms for performers are these:
1. No travel provided.
2. All performers will divide the door equally for pay. I would
anticipate, but not guarantee, at least $100 per performer.
3. Every effort will be made to find you a private home to
stay in.
4. You will be able to attend conference sessions and performances
without paying the conference fee.
No one, including me, will be getting rich on this, but
it will be interesting, educational and fun. Those interested in performing
need to contact me as soon as possible. There will be 8 to 10 performance
slots available. Priority will be given to performers with a recognized
body of work -- i.e. I have heard of you, you've release records and CDs,
etc. Those I'm not familiar with will need to submit a recording of a
representative live set, as quickly as possible. There is no committee
judging submissions -- I will choose the performers as fairly as I can.
I'm hoping to present music that exemplifies the underground side of
experimental electronic music. In other words I'm looking for something
beyond straight-up dance music. Ambient, Noise, IDM, Downtempo, Experimental
Techno, Improvisation, are all fair game.
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