piano pieces on myspace II

i just added piano piece nr.4 on myspace. it is the last piece of the
piano cycles...

tara, blog

alexandre

Dear blog,

uffiduffi, the proposal is almost done .. i have to fine fine fine tune it and then it only needs
a budget and schedule. the schedule itself is almost done as well. its quite a bit of work this proposal.. it took me more than a week just to fix the written part. this is five pages.. not even..i think its worth it... i could not have made it without the help of elke, though. elke gehweiler.. she is a friend who lives in berlin with her boyfriend phillip and justus, the dog. they are lovely and she is crazy about words so she knows a lot about how to put them together, thank god ! .. i will let you know when i hand it in.. oh, i also did a quick run on a proposal for a residency in schöppingen in germany: http://www.stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de .. there deadline was yesterday..(their website is helpful if you are looking for artist's residencies in germany, not as good as the goethe institute, but still very, very helpful) .... it felt good to send something on its way.. i like the excitement to wait for the results of a residency or a grant. i also noticed that it is quite good always to have at least two applications on the go. this means while you are waiting you write new ones and if you do not get one, than it does not matter, because you still have at least one more out. so you can always look out for better news. last year, in 2006 i wrote nine proposals. the result is one
got through and i can do a major project, which is nice and with another one i got invited with my partner merete röstad to an idea's weekend at this place gravenhorst, which is why i am writing a second proposal.. so the rate for me is 1.5 out of 9. i had to learn to get rejected and see that its a lot of hard work that you dont get paid for. at least you get better at writing, structuring your thoughts, talking and writing about your artwork.. and you get through it also lets you do wonderful things. fair enough so far.
i also realised that the more attention to detail you give to a proposal, the more likely it is that you are accepted. this means by making it look professional. so the person gets all the information right there...also if you have an idea, that seems strong, but is not planned exactly to the very least detail.. and as for residencies i think
it also has to do, if you feel that there is something that you can give, as a friend of mine pointed out.. there is still a lot more to it, but this is what comes out of me.. dear blog, i
got completely distracted here.. i thought i would talk to you about listening art.. instead
i go on about proposals... oh well.. just cross your fingers for me, that it will go well..
thanks for listening, blog !

alexandre

next post

i have to concentrate on the proposal for the next couple
of days, so i will not be posting any news.
the next post will be about the subject of listening art
itself..

take care

alexandre

what do i do ?

so what do i do these days ?

i am writing an application for the Da Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (http://www.da-kunsthaus.de). Together with my Partner
Merete Rostad i am working on a Proposal for their Residency Programme 2007.
We already got through to the second round and get a little money to write a second,
more detailed proposal. More later.

Then i am working on a piece for an exhibition in Berlin in February 2007. Location
and dates to be confirmed on this site.

I am also working with little children once a week at the Music and Art School in Jena.

Last but not least i managed to raise a substantial sum to fund a project to make an
audiobook with the community of people in weimar west, a part of the city of weimar where
i live these days... detailed information when the thing gets going ..

Together with Live Artist Roger Hill i proposed a collabourative project in Liverpool to the
Arts Council of England and now i hope to raise money to take the piece to Germany..

Last but not least i am hoping to put in more proposals for this year to the Sonic Arts Expo 2007 and a Residency Programme in Germany..
So I guess my Goal for 2008 is to bundle my energies and focus and less projects ?

Anyways.. wish me luck and i keep you up to date with any new developments !!

alexandre

modes of uses

last night i thought of two things:
1) using this blog as my diary and documentation, so in a year
i can look back at different thoughts.. i think i will also put different blogs up for the different
pieces im working on to be able to put down more general information..
2) i also want to start posting information on the professional side of things:
how does it anctually work to make a living as an artist.. in my case a sonic artist/listening artist/musician and what not.. more and more i discover that this is rarely discussed publicly and i think thats not very healthy.. so little by little i will share my experiences with this blog and gather useful information, so that hopefully in 2 years or so if someone comes across this blog they will get an idea where to start and what can be involved..

(to the readers information. i am currently in the process of establishing myself as an artist.. its very exciting and you can read more soon about where i am right now.. i also hope that this blog will help me to get rid of this worries, just by having somewhere to put them...)

alexandre

piano pieces on myspace

i am currently putting myself into myspace.. had
an interesting comment from phil morton (google for
frakture & liverpool to find about more about this artist's
activities): what does it mean to be on myspace ?
do we know ? i guess for many its fun, and all about representing
themselves.. dont know what it is going to be for me.. but i
find it strange somehow that its all about showing how many
friends you have and how cool you are.. i decided to use it as
a tool to make my doings listenable to a wider audience...
so today i added three pieces i did last year.
you can listen to them at www.myspace.com/alexandredecoupigny

love

alexandre