duration of this open call is from january 12th, 2020 to december 12th, 2020.
you can apply for more than one month, even for all twelve months of the project.
send an e-mail for reserving a spot, a separate e-mail for each month, this is mandatory! twenty four artists for each month (phase), for a duration of twelve months. the project will conclude with twelve phases. reserving e-mails can be sent within the whole duration of the project or until all spots are filled. a confirmation e-mail will be sent after your spot is successfully secured.
we ask you to send a recent/unreleased field recording related to each month’s topic, to noise.mai12 [a] gmail [.] com via wetransfer (.flac only). it can be a single piece or a collection of more than one, clocking to exactly sixty minutes; no more, no less. material must be sent as is, unprocessed/unedited, with all pros and cons, wonders or errors. feel free to use every tool available, from a cheap cell phone to a high end field recorder. time and date of the recording must be included in the submission, along with artist/project name, e-mail, country of origin, website and for which month that submission is.
deadline for sending your material will be announced each month.
when all twenty four spots of a month are filled, submissions will be closed for that month. if there are less than twenty four submissions for a given month, you can still apply for that month even if the next month has already started.
an album with a single, twenty four hour sound piece, will be digitally released soonest possible, merging all submissions of that month. full artwork will be created, specifically and in relation to each month’s topic. please have patience on this. this is a huge task and it is carried out by two individuals!
eventually, all twelve albums will be physically released as a collective edition, along with the digital one. format, further details and exact release date are yet tba.