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Greetings (and apologies for cross-postings),

Announcing the 2017 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition:

The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is pleased to announce the 2017 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning Program.

The purpose of this program is to stimulate student participation in SEAMUS activities, and to encourage young composers to pursue creative endeavors in electro-acoustic music. The program is administered by SEAMUS and funded by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP): 

The submission deadline is DECEMBER 1, 2016.

For more information, please visit the ASCAP/SEAMUS Competition information page: 

To submit via the online application, please visit the current submission site: 

https://seamusonline.org/2017-ascapseamus-submissions/

Please note that you must be a current member of SEAMUS to submit to the competition. You can join or renew your membership at the SEAMUS website: 

 Joining takes only a few minutes. Once logged into the submission system, you must supply your seamusonline username to complete your ASCAP/SEAMUS submission.

If you previously submitted to the 2016 SEAMUS Conference at Georgia Southern University, your Start Conference submission username and password are still valid. Note that this is different from your seamusonline username.

 All submissions must be anonymous. Non-anonymous submissions will not be considered. Submissions must be made online, through the submission site: 

https://seamusonline.org/2017-ascapseamus-submissions/.

 Only one work of electroacoustic music may be submitted, which must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Audio Files: music submissions must include a representative audio recording of the work. If the submission is a concert work, it must be the complete composition. Installations may be represented by an excerpted recording not to exceed 10 minutes in length. Judging of music submissions for the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Competition will be from audio files in the MP3 format. Multichannel works will be judged from a stereo mix, as an MP3 file. Please assist us by submitting in MP3 format. Audio files must be titled as LastnameFirstname_audio.MP3. Note that this file name format does not violate the anonymity requirement; the submission portal will anonymize your submission filename for the judges. Be sure to also anonymize your MP3 file by removing any metadata (ID3 tags).

• Scores: for submissions involving a score, please submit a completely anonymized PDF score for review. Mailed hard-copy scores will not be considered. Score submissions must be prepared as LastnameFirstname_score.PDF. Again, note that this file name format does not violate the anonymity requirement; the submission portal will anonymize your submission filename for the judges.

• Video Submissions: note that for works involving video, only the audio portion will be considered for judging purposes. You must be the composer of the music for the video. Please submit an MP3 file of the music as specified above.

• Only one (1) entry per student is permitted.

Other than the filename, please make sure to remove your name from all files, including MP3 metadata and PDF scores. Please limit the total size of all files to 40MB.

If you have already submitted a work for consideration in the 2017 SEAMUS National Conference via the conference submission page, this work may also be submitted for ASCAP/SEAMUS consideration, but must be submitted through the ASCAP/SEAMUS Submission Portal. Conference-submitted works are not automatically considered for the ASCAP/SEAMUS Awards.

All finalists in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition must attend the SEAMUS 2017 National Conference. Submissions by High School and Undergraduate students will automatically be considered for the Allen Strange Memorial Award as well.

A maximum of two prizes may be awarded. The decision of the judges will be final.

• Commission of $1,250 for a new work of electro-acoustic music

• Performance of commissioned work at the 2018 SEAMUS National Conference

• Recording of the commissioned work in the SEAMUS CD Series

• Commission of $750 for a new work of electro-acoustic music

Applicants to the 2017 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Competition must be student members of SEAMUS and must be either currently enrolled in an academic program in the United States (high school through doctoral studies) or a United States citizen studying abroad. All completed submissions will be verified for student status against current SEAMUS membership records.

Please consider printing, posting, forwarding, and otherwise redistributing this announcement and the accompanying pdf poster: 

https://seamusonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ASCAP-SEAMUS-poster_2017.jpg

Questions may be directed to eli [dot] fieldsteel [at] gmail [dot] com.

The purpose of this program is to stimulate student participation in SEAMUS activities, and to encourage young composers to pursue creative endeavors in electro-acoustic music. The program is administered by SEAMUS and funded by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP): http://www.ascap.com

For more information, please visit the ASCAP/SEAMUS Competition information page: http://www.seamusonline.org/ascapseamus/

To submit via the online application, please visit the current submission site: https://seamusonline.org/2017-ascapseamus-submissions/

Please note that you must be a current member of SEAMUS to submit to the competition. You can join or renew your membership at the SEAMUS website: http://www.seamusonline.org/ Joining takes only a few minutes. Once logged into the submission system, you must supply your seamusonline username to complete your ASCAP/SEAMUS submission. 

 All submissions must be anonymous. Non-anonymous submissions will not be considered. Submissions must be made online, through the submission site: https://seamusonline.org/2017-ascapseamus-submissions/. Only one work of electroacoustic music may be submitted, which must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Scores: for submissions involving a score, please submit a completely anonymized PDF score for review. Mailed hard-copy scores will not be considered. Score submissions must be prepared as LastnameFirstname_score.PDF. Again, note that this file name format does not violate the anonymity requirement; the submission portal will anonymize your submission filename for the judges. 

If you have already submitted a work for consideration in the 2017 SEAMUS National Conference via the conference submission page, this work may also be submitted for ASCAP/SEAMUS consideration, but must be submitted through the ASCAP/SEAMUS Submission Portal. Conference-submitted works are not automatically considered for the ASCAP/SEAMUS Awards. 

• Commission of $1,250 for a new work of electro-acoustic music
• Performance of commissioned work at the 2018 SEAMUS National Conference
• Recording of the commissioned work in the SEAMUS CD Series
• Certificate of recognition

• Commission of $750 for a new work of electro-acoustic music
• Performance of commissioned work at the 2018 SEAMUS National Conference
• Certificate of recognition

Please consider printing, posting, forwarding, and otherwise redistributing this announcement and the accompanying pdf poster: https://seamusonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ASCAP-SEAMUS-poster_2017.jpg