Fol­lowing on from our hugely suc­cessful launch weekend at the end of Feb­ruary, we are proud to be able to an­nounce our first open call for works to be per­formed in an evening of new music on Friday 14 May 2010 as part of Manchester’s Fu­tur­eEverything Fest­ival.

The call is open to com­posers based in or with strong links to Greater Manchester. Se­lected works will be per­formed at Centro Bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and com­posers should con­sider how their music will be­have in and be­nefit from this un­con­ven­tional venue. Sub­mitted works should be no longer than 10 minutes and scored for any com­bin­a­tion of flute, cla­rinet, drum kit, string quartet and tape/electronics. If a re­cording of the work is avail­able, we wel­come its sub­mis­sion with the score. Pref­er­ence is given to newer works.

If you have a strong vision for a work, which cannot be com­pleted without first working with our en­semble, please submit a de­tailed pro­posal of what you would like to at­tempt and we will give it full con­sid­er­a­tion. For ex­ample, we re­cently worked on a dir­ected im­pro­visa­tion which in­cluded live per­form­ance of re­corded samples of our players and used a gesture-based lan­guage de­veloped in tandem by the com­poser and the en­semble to direct the performance.

Don’t hes­itate to get in touch by e-mail with any queries you might have. We look for­ward to seeing and hearing your music!

Sub­mis­sions should be re­ceived no later than 9 April.

by e-mail to:

rai­sey­our­voice­col­lective (at) google­mail (dot) com

or by post to:

Raise Your Voice Col­lective
6, Hey­scroft Road
With­ington
Manchester
M20 4XL

Down­load the Raise Your Voice Call for Scores as a PDF