TRANS-SIBERIAN FM (A Call for Music Submissions)

[Sc'Eric (aka darkFIN)]

Attn: MUSICIANS!!!  Not only is this your chance to have your material heard by some well-known and connected artists/musicians like Scanner and Hervé Boghossian... But they might even spin it, too.  Don't miss out!  [Densely-packed info below...  Thx goes to my friend Ray--Avant-garde Director at The Lion - 90.7fm (WKPS)--for passing it along.]  ~dF   

"Ray Chromie" <metalmach_ray {at} hotmail.com> wrote:
Subject: trans Siberian FM
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:05:51

TRANS-SIBERIANRADIO.ORG
aka The Train Station, is a low-power FM radio station that will operate from the Trans-Siberian train during a conference entitled Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War. The conference, coordinated by the organizational theory and politics journal ephemera, will take place 12 - 20 September 2005 on the Trans-Siberian train as it travels from Moscow to Beijing via Novosibirsk.

The Train Station will turn the Trans-Siberian train into a mobile radio station and experimental music laboratory. Organized by Natilee Harren (Houston, TX), with operational support from David Rose (London) and Matthew Wettergreen (Houston), the Train Station will utilize local FM signals to broadcast audio content from the train. Listeners both in and outside of the train will be able to hear the broadcast. Passengers on the moving train will interact with the station and help form its content.

PROGRAMMING
The ever-changing group of train passengers will lend the station a dynamic character. As the train moves from location to location, listeners change; as people get on and off the train, the programming staff changes. The Train Station will not stay long in any location, but it will always reach someone at some time in some place.

Programming will include music, interviews with conference participants and regular train passengers, and recorded audio works of all genres. The Train Station will be a site through which to report the goings-on of the conference as well as to expand upon the achievements of user-programmed media. In addition, as the train makes its journey, select experimental sound artists from around the world, including Scanner and Hervé Boghossian, will create new works inspired by the idea of broadcasting radio from a moving train. These works will make their premiere on the Train Station upon its arrival in Beijing.

THE CONFERENCE
The purpose of the conference is to gather a variety of creative thinkers—researchers, philosophers, artists, and others—who are interested in global culture and politics. The organizing theme of the conference regards the way institutionalized forms of
power, especially national governments, are dealing with individual human beings, who are today so mobile and hard to track, govern and control.

The spirit of the conference is to cross fixed boundaries and to create an environment that is open to the "contaminating influences" of the communities through which the train will pass.  Seminars with Russian and Chinese scholars will bookend the journey, and there will be a mid-week stop at the economics department of Novosibirsk State University. The final meeting in Beijing will be hosted by social scientists at Qinghua University.

WHAT INSPIRED THE PROJECT
The Train Station and the conference of which it is part are important and timely, as artists re-focus their creativity on impacting society in ways big and small. Arts institutions are beginning to highlight this kind of work, with exhibitions like The
Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere (2004) at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Thought Crimes: The Art of Subversion (2005) at Diverseworks, Houston. Artists who are radically engaged in society and politics are making headlines; take for instance bio-artist Steven Kurtz, who was recently the target of a misdirected federal terrorism investigation.

Artists are turning their attention and efforts to addressing civic issues, and the world is taking note. The Train Station is part of a movement by artists and scholars to bring together art production, aesthetics, philosophy, commerce, popular culture and political and social theory.

SUPPORT THE TRAIN STATION
Participate in a mobile media revolution by supporting this project! Your contribution of funds, equipment or an original audio work is essential in keeping the station up and running, as well as in raising awareness about the Train Station and the 
unprecedented conference of which it is part. Original Trans-Siberian Radio tees are available at:  www.trans-siberianradio.org.  Supporters will have a song dedicated to them over the Trans-Siberian airwaves!

Funds:
Make a secure payment through PayPal by visiting www.trans-siberianradio.org, or send donations directly to the organisers:

Natilee Harren
175 Landmark Drive
Orono, MN 55356

(note: Contributions up to $250 are tax-deductible in the United States.)

Equipment:
Let us know what you have! Write to natilee at trans-siberianradio.org, or call 713.202.0308. We can even pay for shipping.

Audio:
Define the content of the Train Station by submitting digital audio files or a CD. All forms of audio creation are welcomed. Send submissions to the postal address above by August 31, or anytime to: audio at trans-siberianradio.org.

The Train Station is a collaborative project of Natilee Harren and Matthew Wettergreen (Houston, Texas, USA) and David Rose (London, UK). Additional support by Adam Carr, London; Zach Moser (Houston); Matthew Radune (New York); and Adam Hyde (New Zealand).

MORE INFORMATION
The Train Station
www.trans-siberianradio.org
info at trans-siberianradio.org

The Conference
Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War
www.ephemeraweb.org/conference/index.htm

CONTACT
General inquiries:
info at trans-siberianradio.org

Audio submissions:
audio at trans-siberianradio.org

Regarding the website:
webmaster at trans-siberianradio.org

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