http://beamfestival.com/open-calls/
We now have three Open Calls for the BEAM Festival ā details below. They are:
1. BEAM OPEN SPACE
2. BEAM TRAIN
3. BEAM ONLINE
All proposals should refer to the broad themes of music & technology, interactivity, electronic music, music produced through unusual interfaces and homemade interfaces and instruments. Send your proposal to , including all of the below elements:
* Which call youāre responding to
* Description (maximum 300 words) and Title (incl. artistsā name)
* 200-word biography
* Video or pictures or audio (incl. one for marketing)
* Tech spec
* Email & phone contact details
Successful proposals will be posted on the PLAY & DISPLAY page on this website.
**SCRAP PIANO CHALLENGE** In addition to the festival calls, see NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! on home page. BEAM is looking for engineers/sculptors/artists/composers/pianists to form teams to rebuild a scrap piano into a sculpture/installation/new instrument.
1. BEAM OPEN SPACE ā Deadline 30th APRIL.
There will be a dedicated large room for the BEAM Open Space during the whole festival weekend. We welcome installations, performances, demonstrations (eg of something youāve built/are experimenting with) subject to sensible limitations (eg size, dangerā¦!). Youāll be asked to steward your demonstration and to chat to interested viewers (breaks allowed!). What are you doing with technology? Weāre into anything interactive: be it beautiful, intense, playful, dramatic, mesmorising or shocking.
2. BEAM TRAIN (SOUND ART) ā Deadline 14th MAY.
In this category weāre looking to provide podcasts for the rather long Metropolitan Line journey (45 minutes) from Baker Street to Uxbridge. Being a long and pretty unreliable journey we thought you might like to consider different options for when the train terminates at Harrow-on-the-Hill, stops outside a station etc.
3. BEAM ONLINE ā Deadline 14th MAY.
In this category we are welcoming input from anyone who wants to share related work but cannot physically get to us. This is a chance to upload work to our internet gallery which we hope to host during the festival on site (size/number of screens tbc).