Calls
A Curated Directory of Sound Art and Electroacoustic Music Related Calls in and around Austria

Fixed media works in multichannel (8–20.2) or ambisonics (up to 7OA)

Theme

Inspired by the festival theme "Panic yes/no," we pause to listen to how sound and music can reveal and conceal. In the face of ecological, political, and social challenges, music can take many possible roles: sound the alarm, distract and pacify, call to action, etc.

Audible Denial, Sonic Unheard explores these tensions. Does the lush virtual worlds' spatial audio allow the new velvet curtain to offer comfort while the walls crack? Or can they carve out spaces for dissonance, for listening against the grain?

As artists and listeners, we inhabit paradoxes: we perform while the ship sinks, compose while structures fail, and tune our ears to what remains unheard. In this context, does the digital music environment become a sanctuary, a spectacle, an aesthetic pleasure, or an acoustic blindfold?

Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme ”Sound Culture” for consideration in New Adventures in Sound Art’s 2026 programming.

How do the sounds of a community reflect and convey its ethics, philosophies and general way of life? How does the design of space and the sounds found there form the sonic identity and character of a community?

NAISA encourages artists to submit works for interactive sound installations and sound sculptures for indoor and outdoor contexts. NAISA also accepts works for fixed media audio or audio-visual works, performances, livestreaming and any emerging digital formats that include sound as a primary element. Preference is for works that are already completed.

The theme for the Summer 2025 issue is Discomfort.

We are are seeking poetry, short stories, essays, experimental art, video, sound art, all forms of visual art as well as asemic writing and textual arts of all kinds.

Video and Sound Guidelines:

• Send a link to the video or sound file posting (Youtube, etc)
• Provide a short description of the piece (up to 100 words)
• For videos provide up to three still images
• Include a 50-100 word bio written in the third person with your submission.

Please send your submissions to editor@superpresent.org

• What: Submit audio works inspired by the concept of Growth
• Format: WAV, max 8 min
• Theme: Biodiversity in all its literal and metaphorical forms
• Compensation: 100 € per selected track

We invite sound artists, poets, experimental musicians, researchers and sound designers to share their unique and specific perspectives on the concept of growth. In this Open Call, we are looking for short audio productions concerned with topics of biodiversity: These subtopics may concern the specific representation of species, habitats and ecosystems, the influences on biodiversity, the consequences of biodiversity loss and measures against the loss of biodiversity. Metaphorical, representational as well as literal concepts are welcome.

Two Production Awards, each with a prize of €5,000, are available for composers, sound artists, and artist-researchers working in electronic and electroacoustic music.

• Eligibility: Applicants (individuals or collectives) must submit one composition (maximum five years old) and a proposal for a not-yet-realized work lasting up to 20 minutes. Excerpts of the two prize-winning compositions will be performed by composers during the award ceremony.
• Theme: We encourage work proposals aligning with our theme of »Fellow Futures«, critically engaging with listening politics and amplifying voices that challenge linear, exclusionary narratives.
• Production: The awarded project will be produced at ZKM I Hertzlab or SWR Experimentalstudio and will premiere at ZKM I KUBUS in 2026. Learn more about the production facilities at ZKM I Hertzlab and SWR Experimentalstudio here: ZKM I Hertzlab, SWR Experimentalstudio. The production residency lasts three weeks at the SWR Experimentalstudio and four weeks at ZKM I Hertzlab. The production award of €5,000 is intended to fully compensate for travel, accomodation, artist fees, material costs and performance costs.

By applying to the open call, you confirm to be available for a residency and performance sometime between March and July 2026. If the project proposal includes an instrumental piece, the composition may involve up to three performing musicians. All instruments must be transportable by the musicians themselves. Performance fees for the musicians will be covered within the usual framework. Any deviations from this must be agreed upon separately.

Interactive installations and exhibition projects that visually and/or acoustically engage with new technologies and digital possibilities. The works should not be older than three years.

Audiovisual projects that fit the spaces:

• Theatre/BlackBox: The audience (max. 160 people) sits on stands in the room, projections (3x approx. 4x 4 m, frontal, left and right) are possible.
• Church room (St. Thaddäus): Classical church room with large sanctuary and bench seating, especially suitable for acoustic and slightly amplified sound performances.
• Small theatre: Especially for installations that can also be performed or for smaller experimental projects.

Furthermore, other locations in the city or open and green spaces surrounding Kulturhaus abraxas are available as exhibition venues or intervention sites.

Innovative technical as well as artistic projects that are developed together with children, youngsters and/or adults. The duration ofthe workshop should not exceed 120 minutes.

The works will be selected by a team of curators. The organization will cover travel, accommodation, food and transport costs. In addition, all artists will receive an expense allowance.

Project submission

should include the following :

• project description (at least 500 characters)
• video and/or image material
• technical rider
• artist bio
• links

You can apply with more than one project, concert or workshop.