Soundwave ((6)) explores our sonic connections to WATER, our most important natural resource. This year’s Soundwave includes daring artists, composers and musicians who investigate WATER and examine its ecologies, stories, and properties through sound. It includes experience-driven performances that reinterpret the connections between sound and water through its instrumentation, concept, visual collaboration, immersive installation or environment, audience interaction, or production by local, national and international sound and media artists, technologists, designers, musicians, and composers.
the questions
How can water affect sound and sound affect water? What is the future of our oceans, lakes, rivers, and waterways? How does water sustain us physically, emotionally, spiritually? How do our water histories inform our future outlook and use? How does water give life and how can water destroy it? What will happen to our water planet and the creatures that inhabit it in the face of globalization and global warming?
ideas under consideration
Ice and steam acoustics and instrumentation; SF Bay Area waterways and bodies of water; captains, fisherman and life at sea; ports, docks, piers, and beaches; water legends and folklore; water utopias/dystopias (ie Atlantis); real and imagined water creatures; states of melting/freezing; wave phenomena and patterns; boats, bridges, ships, and ferries; whirlpools and waterfalls; floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis; high/low tides; tears, saliva, and sweat; clean water and health concerns; economic, energy, and environmental issues; and other artists imaginations.
season 6 mission
WATER hopes to engage artists and audiences with a new awareness of water and its importance it plays in our lives. It hopes to inspire thought and action while showcasing sound’s inherent connection to this important resource and the innovative artistic voices investigating the future of this life force of our living planet.
festival details
Dates and Venues: July 10—September 28, 2014. Please come back in May for more details or visit us on facebook and twitter.
Jury: Soundwave ((6)) curatorial committee is made up of Bay Area creative professionals from diverse sonic and artistic backgrounds led by MEDIATE Executive & Artistic Director Alan So and resident curators Jorge Bachmann and Jeff Ray. The committee rigorously juries proposals based on congruity of theme, ingenuity of project, diversity of artists’ perspective, and feasibility of production.