Network Music Festival

Our OPEN CALL 2013 is now closed for submissions.

We were happy to receive 94 submissions this year (2 more than last year!).

Our busy team of reviewers are in the midst of reviewing submissions and we should be able to tell you who’s been selected in mid January.

In the mean time watch out for news about this years invited artists… coming soon…

FINAL CALL for the Network Music Festival 2013 OPEN CALL!

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: extended to 25 November 2012

The Network Music Festival 2013 is now inviting submissions for Performances (Concert or Club), Installations, Talks, Workshops and ‘Other’.

Network Music Festival would like to invite submissions in the categories of Performance, Installation, Talks and Workshops. We also include an ‘Other’ category where you are free to submit proposals that fall outside of the previous categories but that you feel would be an appropriate addition to the festival programme.

Please go to the OPEN CALL page for more submission information and links to online forms.

Any questions email networkmusicfestival@gmail.com with ‘OPEN CALLS’ in the subject line.

The Network Music Festival 2013 OPEN CALL is now open for submissions.

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 23 November 2012

The Network Music Festival 2013 is now inviting submissions for Performances (Concert or Club), Installations, Talks, Workshops and ‘Other’.

The Network Music Festival will take place 22-24 February 2013 in Birmingham (UK) showcasing a broad spectrum of musical and sound related works, research, and participatory activities which use networking as part of their aesthetic, creation or performance practice, in the heart of Birmingham’s creative community. Presenting an exciting and diverse line-up of network artists including laptop performances, live coding, collaborative environments for music making, sound installations, workshops and everything else in between, the Network Musical Festival boasts an international line-up including some of Birmingham’s best home-grown hi-tech musical performers.

Network Music Festival would like to invite submissions in the categories of Performance, Installation, Talks and Workshops. We also include an ‘Other’ category where you are free to submit proposals that fall outside of the previous categories but that you feel would be an appropriate addition to the festival programme.

Please go to the OPEN CALL page for more submission information and links to online forms.

Any questions email networkmusicfestival@gmail.com with ‘OPEN CALLS’ in the subject line.

Save the date! NMF2013 will take place on:

22 – 24 // 02 // 2013

We are pleased to announce that after the success of the first Network Music Festival in January the festival will return to Birmingham in February 2013.

We are working with some of the artists from NMF 2012 to curate what promises to be an exciting and diverse line-up of network artists. Benoit and the Mandelbrots (CO/DE), Wrongheaded (UK), Glitch Lich (UK/USA) and Birmingham’s own network band BiLE will each curate a concert at the weekend long festival. Alongside this, local curator Samuel Rodgers (Empty Orchestra/Consumer Waste) will curate a programme of sound installation works which address the theme of networking, to take place in venues across Digbeth, Birmingham’s lively arts quarter.

The festival will also include a chance to explore the inner-workings of network music with a variety of workshops and talks for all levels of experience.

The NMF 2013 will once again take place at the home of the Friction Arts collective, the newly expanded The Edge warehouse in Digbeth, Birmingham.

We’ll be keeping you up to date on the festival blog with all the developments from NMF HQ and are also happy to be teaming up with local music journalist Ross Cotton (Something in the Water) to give you the latest news from the network music world in the run-up to the festival.

We will soon be announcing an OPEN CALL for artists interested in performing or presenting their work at NMF 2013. We are interested in artists and musicians whose work includes sound and explores aspects of networking in the creation or aesthetic of the work or in the technology used to realise it.

NMF 2012 featured over 70 artists from Birmingham’s home-grown talent to UK and international artists from as far afield as USA and Colombia in 5 concerts. The festival was proud to present a diverse range of performances including live coding, multiple-location performances, trans-atlantic streaming and new instruments for network performance. The festival also featured installations, workshops and talks. It was featured on BBC 5 Live’s Outriders programme and mentioned in several national and international publications including The Financial Times and the Computer Music Journal. We hope that NMF 2013 will be just as exciting!

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You can contact the organisers at: networkmusicfestival@gmail.com

Thanks to Graham Booth for shooting this video of BiLE playing ‘The Death of Stockhausen Act 2′ by Charles Celeste Hutchins’ at NMF 2012.

Glitch Litch – The Curse of Yig from Network Music Festival on Vimeo.

Thanks to Graham Booth for shooting this video of Glitch Litch playing ‘The Curse of Yig’ by Chad McKinney and Curtis McKinney at NMF 2012!

Glitch Litch is Chad McKinny, Curtis McKinney Cole Ingraham and Ben O’Brien

BEER – Telepathic from Network Music Festival on Vimeo.

Thanks to Graham Booth for shooting this video of BEER playing ‘Telepathic’ at NMF 2012!

We have hours of video to get through, but expect to see more soon.

Did you go to to the Network Music Festival? We want to know what you thought of it! This information will help us plan next year’s festival and help with future funding applications:

You can no longer buy tickets online for the Network Music Festival. However if you wish to reserve a ticket for the ‘Collaborative Live Coding’ WORKSHOP or any of the concerts please email us at networkmusicfestival@gmail.com.

Price details for all tickets are HERE