Boreal Electro Acoustic Music Society
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
BEAMS Presents Drone Day 2023
BEAMS Presents Drone Day 2023
WeirdCanada is promoting Drone Day. So is BEAMS.
https://droneday.org/
May 27th 2023 12 noon to midnight mountain time.
We will be hosting a virtual drone day on twitch or youtube. We'll be chatting along side the twitch stream all day :)
Do you want to listen and chat? Goto https://twitch.tv/beamsdotca
Don't want to use twitch? Well at noon on May 27th you can watch it on youtube: https://youtu.be/v5QYR8jnqm4
Still not satisfied? Want to download it? https://archive.org/details/droneday2023
| Artist | Track | Time | Afternoon | Evening |
| skruntskrunt | interstitial drones | 00:00:00 | 12:00:00 | 06:00:00 |
| Bleak House | Condemned Building | 00:45:00 | 12:45:00 | 06:45:00 |
| Nathaniel Sutton | Trippy Cassette Drone | 01:15:00 | 01:15:00 | 07:15:00 |
| Phiqual Poynte | Ambient 7734: music from the second floor of a nine-storey walkup | 01:30:00 | 01:30:00 | 07:30:00 |
| Brick Road | I just want to be in the trees > Medieval Mud | 02:15:00 | 02:15:00 | 08:15:00 |
| Shawn Pinchbeck | Transmission | 03:00:00 | 03:00:00 | 09:00:00 |
| m.o.a.i.n. | Drone Day | 03:45:00 | 03:45:00 | 09:45:00 |
| Wayne DeFehr | Flower Effects | 05:00:00 | 05:00:00 | 11:00:00 |
| J Daniel Cramer | From Viljandi Estonia | 05:30:00 | 05:30:00 | 11:30:00 |
Edmonton Noisefest 2023 Call For Performances
BEAMS is helping out with Edmonton Noisefest 2023, August 26th 2023 in Edmonton at the Aviary.
We're currently looking for live performers!
Email BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com> with the subject:
Edmonton Noisefest 2023 Performance Proposal
Include in the body:
* Project Name: [] (put it between square brackets exact how you want us to write it, skruntskrunt all lowercase would be [skruntskrunt]
* Title of act: [] (put it between square brackets exact how you want us to write it, aTitleWrittenInCamelCase [aTitleWrittenInCamelCase]
* Genre: (Harsh Noise, Harsh Noise Wall, Musique Concrete, Drone, Digital Noise, circuit bending, glitch, power electronics, cut-up, a washing machine, etc.)
* Description: (what are you going to be doing, what setup do you have)
* Estimated length: (anything longer than 17 minutes requires negotiation)
* Safety concerns: should we be aware of anything?
* Links to portfolio (samples, videos)
We cannot guarantee video projectors at this time, but we'll have a sound system that is for sure.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Call for 2023 Droneday Video Submissions
WeirdCanada is promoting Drone Day. So is BEAMS.
https://droneday.org/
Seeking DRONE DAY VIDEOS and AUDIENCE. May 27th 2023 noon to midnight mountain time.
We will be hosting a virtual drone day on twitch or youtube.
Do you want to listen? Goto https://twitch.tv/beamsdotca
For now we're focussed on accepting videos submissions.
We prefer drone videos.
We accept drone videos and live streams.
Video Submissions [Deadline May 24th, 2023]
For videos please use wetransfer.com and email to
"BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com>"
with subject line "2023 BEAMS Droneday Video Submission"
Video Requirements:
- must be Drone-ish music (we reserve the right to deny or accept)
- Videos of 10 minutes or longer are preferred (30 minutes is the sweet spot, 60 minutes max).
- Videos should have a title card that gives your name, contact info, performance name, etc.
- Please in the email provide:
* Project Name and who we should attribute it to
* Title Card Project Name: [] (put it between square brackets exact
how you want us to write it, skruntskrunt all lowercase would be
[skruntskrunt]
* Title of submission: [] (put it between square
brackets exact how you want us to write it, aTitleWrittenInCamelCase
[aTitleWrittenInCamelCase]
* link to download link (wetransfer, dropbox, http, or google drive)
* Description
* Confirmation that BEAMS may post and transmit and share you
submission non-exclusively and for 0 or more compensation (yes this year
we might pay you!)
* Any copyright worries you might have (we might have to censor it
on youtube)
- currently there is 0 payment (may change, no promises)
- communication will be via email to BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com>
For the video, please try to follow these guidelines:
* Resolution 1920x1080 (16:9 aspect ratio, if your videos isn't
then add black bars because we will)
* FPS: 30
* MP4 or MKV format
* AAC or OGG or FLAC audio
* Optionally include your own title-card, you might not like ours.
* At least 10 minutes, 60 minutes at most, 30 minutes is preferred
max length.
I don't know! Long notes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_music People have opinions.
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