music in the ether

From today through the 27th of September, my audio piece Chilling Effects will be one of the pieces installed as a "sound walk" in the Miso Music Festival in Lisbon (visitors walk through a long hallway listening to the audio).

[Update: Also, a shorter version of Chilling Effects will be part of a concert in the Contemporanea Festival, Citta di Udine, Italy, in October.]

I'm also really happy to have heard about a competition win for a piece I finished in June (which they've asked me not to be specific about in public until they've had time to send letters to all the other entrants).

This has been the broadest travel year, so far, for my music:
Auckland, New Zealand;
Belfast, Northern Ireland;
Denver, USA;
Lisbon, Portugal;
L.A., USA;
New York, USA;
Novi Sad, Serbia;
Omaha, USA;
San Francisco, Oakland & Palo Alto, USA;
Udine, Italy;
Washington D.C., USA.

Where I can go myself (as opposed to where my music can go) depends so much on travel funding and grants and structures that are already in place. So I have a relatively easy time getting to western Europe (and now I have an annual two-week block in Serbia), but I'm still figuring out how I'll get to Iran and Indonesia and Ghana and Senegal and my other musical meccas.

Music travels to competitions and calls for scores when I mail an envelope or, increasingly often these days, just email a PDF or upload an audio file. Looking at my record of applications, 2008 might end up being the first year in which more than a third of my submissions overall are paperless. Viva la datastream!