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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>We are looking forward to your artistic, scholarly or scientific proposals for our event:<BR>
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<B>The Global Composition<BR>
Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment<BR>
</B>Darmstadt/Media Campus Dieburg (Hochschule Darmstadt), July 25-28, 2012<BR>
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<B>Info: </B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org/index.html">http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org/index.html</a><BR>
</U></FONT><B>Call: </B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org/call.html">http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org/call.html</a><BR>
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Contact: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>fabienne.rudolph@stud.h-da.de<BR>
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Deadline for submission: <B>March 1, 2012<BR>
</B>Notification: <B>April 20, 2012<BR>
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<B>Proposals </B>are invited for roundtable discussions, workshops, papers/posters, applied and artistic contributions, relating, but not limited to the conference’s main focus. The conference’s official language will be English.<BR>
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Providing a specially positioned “Next Generation”-thread, the conference is very interested, to create a forum for young scholars, scientists, artists as well as for students, and encourages them to send in their proposals. Please send abstracts for roundtable discussions, papers/posters, workshops & proposals for compositions or other artistic contributions by March 1, 2012.<BR>
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As <B>keynote presenters</B> we expect Bill Fontana, R. Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp et al.<BR>
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Please note, that our venue is situated <B>not far from Frankfurt airport </B>in beautiful historic surroundings, providing not only the productive frame for an interesting conference, but also <B>attractive landscapes, very good wine, culinary highlights</B>, therefore good conditions for exchange and conviviality. All this makes, too, a central starting point for your summerbreak, be it locally, nationally or internationally. <BR>
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We hope to welcome you in summer on our Media Campus Dieburg of Hochschule Darmstadt.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
Sabine Breitsameter<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11.0px'><I>The conference is supported by the “Understanding Canada”-programme/Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Embassy of Canada Berlin, in collaboration with Darmstädter Ferienkurse/Darmstadt Summercourse, Cork Institute of Technology/School of Music, Ireland and endorsed by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.<BR>
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Project Direction:<BR>
Sabine Breitsameter<BR>
Professor for Sound and Media Culture<BR>
Media Arts and Sciences<BR>
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Claudia Soeller-Eckert<BR>
Professor for Basics of Media Design <BR>
& Interactive Media Design<BR>
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Postal address:<BR>
Hochschule Darmstadt<BR>
Faculty of Media<BR>
Haardtring 100<BR>
64295 Darmstadt<BR>
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Visitors’ address:<BR>
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Max-Planck-Str. 2 <BR>
D-64807 Dieburg</FONT></SPAN>
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