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Jeu de temps / Times Play 2021 (JTTP 2021)

Call for works from young and/or emerging electroacoustic artists

Deadline for submissions: 1 May (annually)

[NEW] Four Thematic Awards. As of JTTP 2021, participants may request that the jury also consider their submission for one or more of the following annual thematic awards:

Eligibility criteria for each of the JTTP thematic awards is described in more detail on the Call for Submissions page.

What Is JTTP and How Does It Work?

A large multi-levelled project coordinated by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) is an annual project aimed at promoting and celebrating new electroacoustic works from young and/or emerging electroacoustic artists from (or living in) Canada.

JTTP 2021 is the 22nd edition of the project since the CEC began coordinating it in 2000.

What is “electroacoustic”?

Advocating the widest possible interpretation of the umbrella term “electroacoustic”, the CEC understands this field of creative activity to encompass a divergent range of studio and live practices, from acousmatic and musique concrète to circuit bending and hardware hacking to sound art and videomusic, but also embracing live coding and glitch, soundscape and acoustic ecology, electronic and tape music, sound design and live audiovisual, turntablism and generative, as well as any combination or permutation thereof.

What does JTTP provide its participants?

The project offers an unprecedented degree of support to young and/or emerging electroacoustic artists. All of the participants benefit from:

Additionally, thanks to the generous contributions of our Project Partners, the composers of the top five prizewinning works are also offered:

The best way to find out about the project is to look through past editions of JTTP on the CEC’s website. There you can find lists of jury members and Project Partners for each edition, as well as listen to the submissions from all editions and read the programme and biographical notes.

Who is eligible?

Electroacoustic artists from (or living in) Canada.

What is a “young and/or emerging electroacoustic artist”?

This would be someone who is likely to be continuing studies in an educational facility or possibly someone for whom there has been little or no national or international recognition of their work and potential in the short period of time that they have been involved in the field.

Do I need to become a CEC member to participate in the project?

No. Participants are not required to be or become CEC members.

What about copyright?

All participants retain full copyright of their work but with their submission assign mechanical rights to the CEC so that it may promote the work publicly in the context of JTTP.

General Submission Criteria and Rules

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2021.

Your Submission Package

A complete and eligible submission package will include the following:

NB: You must create a user account on Sonus.ca in order to submit a work to JTTP. Do not wait until the last minute to create your account, as this may take a little time, depending on the volume of requests.

Thematic Awards

The CEC is pleased to announce four new thematic awards for JTTP — Jeu de temps / Times Play. The prizes, each in the amount of $300, are launched as part of the 22nd edition of JTTP coordinated by the CEC and will be awarded annually — at the CEC Board’s discretion — upon recommendation of the JTTP jury.

Eligibility Criteria for the Thematic Awards

Who is eligible? Any artist who meets the JTTP eligibility — young and/or emerging electroacoustic artists from (or living in) Canada — may indicate their interest in being considered for one or more of these prizes in their JTTP submission form.

What is eligible? Information about eligibility is found in the individual descriptions for the new awards.

NB: The CEC Board of Directors reserves the right to award or to not award any or all of the thematic awards for individual editions of JTTP.

Description and Eligibility

The Hildegard Westerkamp Award for Soundscape and Sound Installation

Eligible works, projects and practices for the Westerkamp Award include:

Listening. Canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp remains one of the most influential soundscape composers, researchers and lecturers around the globe. Her renowned work in the field extends back to her involvement in the original World Soundscape Project in the early 1970s.
http://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca

The Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux Award for Self-Identified Female or Non-Binary Electroacoustic Artists

Eligible works, projects and practices for the Saint-Marcoux Award include:

Activating. Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux was a vanguard Canadian composer and educator. Following her return from Paris in 1971, her activities were instrumental to the development and awareness of cross-disciplinary practices and spatial music within the broader Canadian contemporary music scene.
http://electrocd.com/en/artiste/coulombesaintmarcou_mi

The Jean Piché Award for Videomusic, New Media and Creative Coding

Eligible works, projects and practices for the Piché Award include:

Designing. Canadian composer Jean Piché is a pioneer in the ever-evolving field of videomusic practices, with a penchant for abstracted visuals and multi-screen presentation. His contributions to software development for digital sound synthesis and processing benefit a range of electroacoustic practices.
http://jeanpiche.com

The Martin Gotfrit and Martin Bartlett Award for Live Electroacoustic Practices

Eligible works, projects and practices for the Gotfrit and Bartlett Award include:

Supporting. Martin Bartlett was an inspirational Canadian composer-performer of live electronics with synthesizers and self-built electronic devices (collaborating extensively with Don Buchla on design) that explored or incorporated aleatoric components. He was one of the founders of Vancouver’s Western Front.
http://electrocd.com/en/artiste/bartlett_ma

Stimulating. A founding member of Metamusic (Montréal) and Hextremities (Vancouver) ensembles, Canadian interdisciplinary composer-performer and educator Martin Gotfrit has been a dynamic force in Canada’s live electronic and interdisciplinary performance scene since the 1970s.
http://www.sfu.ca/~gotfrit

Benefactor

The JTTP Thematic Awards were initiated in 2021 by Kevin Austin, highly respected for his sustained support of electroacoustic practices in Canada since the early 1970s. Kevin is a legal co-founder of the CEC (1986) and designed the original model for JTTP, which has been coordinated since 2000 by the CEC.

Media Formats for Submission

JTTP only accepts audio files in non-compressed formats (no mp3, etc.).

Multi-channel Submissions

All multi-channel submissions must include:

File Naming Convention for Speaker Positioning

Use the format “lastname_keywordfromtitle_POSITION.extension” to name your files (change all special characters to Roman letters: e.g., change éèê to e, etc.). Do not include any other information in the file names (e.g., bit depth or sample rate).

To indicate the speaker position for each stem, use capital letters as follows for works up to 8.1 (larger setups should be based on this model and detailed in an annex to the Technical Sheet):

L = left
C = centre
R = right
F = front
S = side
B = behind
SUB = subwoofer

LF CF RF

LS    RS

LB CB RB

E.g.: The submission of a work by Kevin Austin titled The Mandolin Rises at Noon, for solo loudspeaker and subwoofer (1.1), would contain the following files:

Technical Sheet for Multi-channel Submissions

Use keywords from the title of your work to name the Technical Sheet. Do not indicate your name or any identifying information, as this sheet will be provided to the jury.

Indicating the following information for your submission, and feel free to add any other relevant information:

NB: During the submission process you can choose whether or not to allow the multi-channel files to be downloadable by Sonus users.

Videomusic Submissions

In addition to the official work, a second version of videomusic submissions must be included that is identical except that any credits, names or other identifying features have been removed. This anonymous version will be provided to the jury.

All videomusic submissions must be in one of the following formats: Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD.

NB: Even though Sonus does not currently accept video formats, your submission must be made using the form on the Sonus website. The video will NOT be integrated in Sonus.

Personnel and Contact

Who supports this project?

JTTP is supported by CEC membership dues and funding provided by the SOCAN Foundation, as well as by generous donations from a number of individual and institutional Project Partners.

Who can I contact for more info?

For any questions that have not been answered on this page or in the longer and more detailed explanation, email the project administrators at jttp@sonus.ca.

Project Schedule

1 May — Deadline for submissions
15–31 May — Jury deliberations
15 June — Results announced to the participants
August — Results announced publicly

Fondation SOCAN

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