Call for Papers

Special Issue: 'Listening - Drawing - Sounding'

Volume 10, Issue 1

Deadline: 1 May 2024

There is a wonderfully rich and complex intertwining of drawing/image-making and music/sound, forming a rhizome that comprises (but is not limited to) traditional European musical notation, graphic scores, scientific sound analysis, contemporary and modern art, dance and digital imaging techniques. 

Graphic music notation is often associated with composers of the 50’s and 60s such as John Cage, Alison Knowles, and Cathy Berberian, but it has also moved into contemporary art practice with artists such as Samson Young’s Sound Drawings that consider the banality of the sounds of conflict; or Christine Sun Kim’s large-scale drawings which question how sound operates in society. Other forms of technical drawing have been used to portray sound as a means of analysis (the front cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures (1979) album, for example) with contemporary digital drawing of sound such as wave form visualisations and spectral analysis becoming part of an established ‘look’ of sound.  

As well as the material explorations of mark making and sound, contemporary theory also draws on this relationship. Gilles Deleuze and Pierre-Félix Guatarri’s A Thousand Plateaus (1987) starts with an illustration of Sylvano Bussoti’s score for Five Pieces for Piano for David Tudor before discussing assemblages and lines of flight. Henri Lefebvre's Rhythm Analysis (1992) looks at the ‘verticality-horizontality’ of written music as a spatial expression of sound and Salome Voegelin explores the relation between voice and hands in her recent book Uncurating Sound (2023). 

This special issue seeks to initiate a contemporary survey of the multiplicity of ways of working between drawing and sound and invites contributions from all disciplines and fields of research and practice that investigate, expand, and complicate these relationships, as well as those that propose new ways of exploring drawing and sound. The issue will be accompanied by an exhibition/performance of work and contributors are invited to propose scores and performances alongside their submissions.

Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice places particular emphasis on original papers on drawing theories, practices, methods, processes, and research that adopt inventive interpretations of drawing. Papers should not be under consideration by other publications. Submissions can take the form of:

1. Articles (5000 words, 1–6 images)
2. Research Projects or Project Reports (3000 words, 1–4 images)
3. Critical Essays (3000 words, 1–4 images)
4. Profiles (1500 words, 1–2 images)
5. Exposés (1500 – 2000 words, 1–2 images)
6. Featured Drawings (1–2 images and 1000 words) 

Papers can be uploaded via the Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice Intellect webpage, and a copy of the submission should be emailed to the principal editor.

Please submit the following:

• an anonymised PDF Document with embedded images (72 dpi), captioned, as Name_Surname.doc. 
• a Word Document without images as Name_Surname.doc  

Guest-editor: Ben McDonnell, Norwich University of the Arts (NUA)

Contact: Dr Adriana Ionascu, Principal Editor: a.z.ionascu@gmail.com

General Call for Papers

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice places particular emphasis on original papers on drawing theories, practices, methods, processes and research that adopt inventive interpretations of drawing. Authors who have been previously published in DRTP may submit to the journal again after a minimum of 2 or 3 issues, as we prioritize new authors and invite new voices to expand the scope of the journal.

Submissions can take the form of:

1. Articles (5000 words, 1–6 images)
2. Research Projects or Project Reports (3000 words, 1–4 images)
3. Critical Essays (3000 words, 1–4 images)
4. Profiles (1500 words, 1–2 images)
5. Exposés (1500 – 2000 words, 1–2 images)
6. Featured Drawings (1–2 images and 1000 words)

General call for papers other than the current topic is on-going and can be submitted at any time. 

Submission Process:

Papers can be uploaded via the Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice Intellect webpage. 

Please use this link: https://www.intellectbooks.com/submit/drawing-research-theory-practice and make sure you follow the upload instructions. 

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A copy of the submission should be emailed to the principal editor.

Please contact:

Dr Adriana Ionascu, principal editor: a.z.ionascu@gmail.com

• an anonymised PDF Document with embedded images (72 dpi), captioned, as Name_Surname.doc. 
• a Word Document with separate images (300dpi) as Name_Surname.doc  

All contributions should be original and not exceed 20 Mb.

Submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed.

All contributors should submit the Metadata (see Notes for Contributors)

Authors are responsible for copyright permissions (article [author] and images [artist or institutional copyright/photographer’s permission]). Only copyright forms supplied by Intellect are accepted (hand-signed, scanned and returned as PDF files).

Please refer to the DRTP Notes for Contributors and to the Intellect House Guidelines for details. Authors should ensure guidelines are adhered to; failing to do so leads to delays, and may result in the editor having to return or withdraw the submission.