Participation Tracks - Overview
SPLICE Institute feature three participation tracks to give you more options for joining our community. Whether you consider yourself a composer, performer, composer-performer, electronic music investigator, or are entirely new to electroacoustic music, we encourage you to apply to whichever track listed below best fits your interests.
New Works Artists (NWA) are composers, performers, or composer-performers who would like to collaboratively work on a new piece to be premiered at SPLICE Institute.
NWA Composers will compose a work for either an NWA performer or SPLICE Institute faculty member. Please note that electronics will be run from stage by the performer.
NWA Performers will perform a new piece by an NWA composer and a limited number may also perform alongside SPLICE Institute faculty.
NWA Composer-Performers will compose a new piece for themself to premiere at the institute.
Please note that NWA opportunities are limited. Also note that "New Works Artist" and "Ensemble Artist" tracks require separate support materials in the application form. All NWA applicants who also submit materials in the "Ensemble Artist" category will be considered for that track. Those not accepted as New Work Artists will automatically be considered for acceptance as a "Workshop Artist".
Consult our New Work Artists page for additional requirements and deadlines.
Ensemble Artists will participate in a SPLICE Institute improvisation ensemble that includes a concert performance on Saturday afternoon, AND participate in workshops and other activities. Ensemble examples include:
Electronic Improv Ensemble
Through daily performances, we will explore the unique musical properties that emerge in and from instrumental systems capable of automation and increased agency. Our studies will include both free-improvisation and guided improvisational scores. Participants should have experience performing electronics, which could include fully electronic, either digital or analog, or hybrid electronic-acoustic systems, and they should be prepared to bring their instrument/system. Experience in improvisation is welcomed, but not required.
Workshop Artists will participate in workshops and other activities but not perform.
All workshops (from beginner to advanced), lectures, and non-ensemble hands-on activities are open to ALL participants in each of the three tracks.