SoundWok Participation

If you are a Southern California based or linked sound artist, experimental musician and/or composer, you are invited to participate in the first part of a unique sound art and music research artiject and study, conducted by Dr. Chung Shih Hoh and Marco Schindelmann that will involve the mapping of the dynamic social networks and aesthetic consciousness of Southern California artists involved in sound art and/or experimental music. The results of this study will also serve as material for a sound installation for SoundWalk 2008 (September 20th). Your participation in this project is not contingent on your submitting to or taking part in SoundWalk 2008.

A series of questions will be posted online to project participants on a blog (soundwok) and, if preferred, either through direct e-mails or in conjunction with your SoundWalk submission. The text that emerges as a result of your and other participant responses will be processed through a computer program for analysis, interpretation, and visualization so as to cull common themes, conceptual threads, foci, motifs and directed messages. In order to ensure confidentiality and anonymity, all information, collected during this part of the project, will be analyzed in aggregate. Although participant anonymity will be maintained with regard to the response-related data collected, all respondents will be recognized in connection with their participation in the project unless otherwise desired. If you choose to participate, you may withdraw at any time. Also, you may answer all questions posed or as many as you like.

After completion of this part of the study (August 8, 2008), presentations will be delivered publicly in arts and scholarly conferences, journals and arts events (e.g. SoundWalk 2008 [September 20, 2008]) that will serve, in part, to acknowledge you as part of a living community of creative beings (some of whom practice at the peripheries) as well as the ideas generated and the cultures to which you contribute, so as to bring them [community, ideas, cultures] to the attention of a greater intellectual and artistic community. If you have any questions previous to, during the course of , or subsequent to your participation in this project, do not hesitate to call (562 413 5868) or e-mail me (Marco_Schindelmann@redlands.edu).

If you wish to participate via e-mail please contact:
soundwok@yahoo.com