FESTIVAL OF LISTENING // LAST CALL // DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION = november 15
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dear colleagues,

This is your last chance to submit works to the Festival of Listening
"Phonurgia Nova"

Arles 007, Festival of Listening is a on line and on site art festival for
radio and sound art.

The Festival of Listening invites authors, radio producers, artists,
students, programmers, sound designers, musicians, to contribute with their
works to the sound festival.

The Festival is an open platform for radio-art. Every one from any continent
is warmly welcomed.

Before you submit works, please read carefully the whole text of the
"call for project" on our website, about conditions, technicalities, etc.

You can send submissions by filling the entry form on our web site.

http://www.phonurgia.org will tell you where, when, how to proceed, with the
support of whom we are acting, and so on...

With kind regards
Marc Jacquin
and the phonurgia nova team

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phonurgia nova is a non-profit organisation and an independent
audio-art-university-lab based in Arles/France
the radiolab is in an evolving process of exchange with initiatives of
individuals and european institutions based on mutual sympathy.
Among them we must quote :
UER/EBU
Radio France
French Ministery of Culture
INA-GRM
IMEB Bourges
GMVL
CIDMA
SACEM
Musée of Contemporary art, Musée Réattu
Ville d'Arles
Région PACA
CG 13

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Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published
around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology,
acoustic, organology, linguistic and medicine.

In Phonurgia Nova (1673) Kircher considered the possibilities of
transmitting sounds and music to remote places.

Kircher was largely neglected until the late 20th century. One writer
attributes his rediscovery to the similarities between his eclectic approach
and postmodernism: "at the start of the 21st century Kircher's taste for
trivia, deception and wonder is back²; "Kircher's postmodern qualities
include his subversiveness, his celebrity, his technomania and his bizarre
eclecticism"

Kircher has been compared to Leonardo da Vinci for his inventiveness and the
breadth and depth of his work. A scientific star in his day, towards the end
of his life he was eclipsed by the rationalism of René Descartes and others.
In the late 20th century, however, the aesthetic qualities of his work again
began to be appreciated. One scholar, Edward W. Schmidt, has called him "the
last Renaissance man".