A Composer's Guide Booklet

Introduction

It is an honor for the ‘Post-Orientalism’ community and the ‘Noise à Noise’ music publication to share with you some information about the 2024 collaborative project with a particular focus on “The Plays” and the amazing variety of performances we have received from all over the world.

Goals

1. Audio performances from different narrators, whose list is going to be updated, will be used as the raw material for compositions.

2. We hope that the performances in various languages from across the globe will contribute to the emergence of a shared musical language.

3. The contributions will hopefully lead to rediscovering the affordances of the languages (including, but not limited to, the phonological, morphological, and acoustic features of the languages) and voices from diverse nations and ethnicities.

4. We welcome different approaches to deconstructing the original text and the narrators’ sounds and reconstructing them by the composers with varied artistic tastes and orientations.

5. The composers are free to use any type of instruments, namely the electronic and acoustic ones, in their compositions.

6. We especially encourage a strong interaction among the composers regarding the subject of thinking about the use of microtonal intervals.

7. We look forward to the production and publication of various Spoken-Word albums.


General Points

1. The sound files are uploaded as 16 bit .wav files with 48,000 bit.

2. The albums are provided in a non-mastered version for the composers who want to use the sounds. Each of the composers may obviously have a specific taste, it is a matter of taste that we pay great respect to.

3. Composers can use all of the sounds from each of the albums by the narrators, all by citing the name of the narrators who have performed the primary albums.

4. We welcome all musical styles and genres.

5. We do not impose any deadline as we believe that creating art should not be restricted by deadlines.

6. Free download codes will be allocated to the composers. You can obtain the codes from the ‘Noise à Noise’ label.

7. It is possible to use a portion of or the whole part of the albums that we have from the narrators.


Important points

1. The independent album by the artists should be composed with a duration of at least 17 to 20 minutes.

2. The cover art and the album design can be developed considering the preference and taste of the composer.

3. The loudness level of your final production should be set on an average of -14 LUFS, or you can submit with a lower loudness so that our team at the studio can take care of the post-production process.

4. The single pieces by the composers would be published in the form of a compilation album (Various Artist album), where the duration of each piece should be between 3 to 5 minutes.

5. The cover art and the placement of the pieces in the Various Artist album is going to be designed and set by the publication label.


Legal notes

For more explanation about your rights, stay in touch with the label management at ‘Noise à Noise’ using this email:
noiseannoysrecords@gmail.com