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

Sonic Saturday at the Ars Electronica Festival 2026 invites electroacoustic works exploring the theme "Audible Futures, Silent Decisions" — what is adopted or ignored, increasingly persuasive illusions in sound.

The MEDIUM SONORUM concert is the flagship event of the call.

• Format: fixed media (audio only)
• Speakers: multichannel (8–20.2) or HOA (up to 7th order B-Format)
• Max duration: 15 minutes
• Submission: binaural or stereo link for review

Apply: https://forms.gle/D5XQ2urXKaVf3v6cA

The Korea Electro-Acoustic Music Society (KEAMS) announces SICMF 2026. The 2026 edition particularly welcomes works engaging with traditional music — traditional materials, aesthetics, or performance practices, traditional instruments in electroacoustic or computer music, and contemporary or experimental reinterpretations of traditional music. All works are evaluated equally, but works related to the theme may be given priority.

Categories:

• Fixed-media Music (Tape Music)
• Electroacoustic Music with Instruments (fixed media or live electronics, up to 3 performers)

Maximum duration 12 minutes.

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 "Still Here" for consideration in New Adventures in Sound Art's 2027 programming.

After 25 years, NAISA is "Still Here" — still thriving despite barriers it has faced. Who are the communities and persons that are also "still here" that continue to evolve and develop a unique voice, despite the barriers they too have faced?

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 James Bailey Award (USD 300) — recognizes inventive radio/transmission art by Canadian artists. The Andra McCartney Mentorship Award (USD 300 + residency) — for emerging sound artists in Northern Ontario.

Superpresent is 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 on the theme "Mapping".

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

Open call for the lab.30 festival in Augsburg, taking place 29 October - 1 November 2026 at Kulturhaus abraxas.

Categories:

• Exhibition: Interactive installations and exhibition projects that visually and/or acoustically engage with new technologies and digital possibilities. Works should not be older than three years.
• Stage Programs: Audiovisual projects fitting the venues. Theatre/BlackBox (max. 160 audience, 3x ~4x4 m projections frontal/left/right), St. Thaddäus church room (acoustic and slightly amplified sound performances), Small theatre (installations, performances, smaller experimental projects).
• Urban Interventions: City interventions and facade illuminations across urban spaces around Kulturhaus abraxas.
• Workshops: Innovative technical and artistic projects developed with children, youth, and/or adults. Maximum 120 minutes duration; material costs covered by the organisation.

Selection by curatorial team. Travel, accommodation, food and transport costs are covered. Artists receive an expense allowance. Exhibition works compete for a €1,000 jury prize, plus €500 audience and kids' choice awards.

Project submission should include:

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

Multiple submissions permitted.

Contact: lab30@augsburg.de

International festival of electroacoustic music held in Salta, Argentina. Open call for multichannel acousmatic works, 5–15 minutes, B-format ambisonics preferred.

Two tracks: an international open call without restrictions, and a separate category directed at young Latin American composers (under 35 years old).

• What: Submit audio works exploring the vast and varied realm of insects through sound
• Format: WAV, max 7 min
• Theme: Hexapoda — insect life in all its literal and metaphorical forms

The sixth edition of the re:natura open call invites sound artists, poets, experimental musicians, researchers and sound designers to share their perspectives on insect life.

Gràcia Territori Sonor's 15th global call for sonic miniatures, part of the LEM Festival. Selected pieces are assembled into a "Música i Geografia" radio program and published as a collaborative album on the Gràcia Territori Sonor Bandcamp channel.

• Maximum duration: 1 minute
• Format: AIFF, file named name_{ofauthorcitytitleofthepiece.aiff}
• One piece per participant
• Work must be copyright-free or under a Creative Commons license permitting radio broadcast and dissemination

Welcomes minimal miniatures, musique concrète, field recordings, radio-art, synthesis, samplerism, improvisation, circuit-bending, collages, drones, and unexpected alternatives.

Submission: radio@gracia-territori.com (or via MailBigFile / WeTransfer)

The San Francisco Tape Music Collective seeks acousmatic works for performance in their annual festival, presented over a large multi-speaker system in a darkened hall.

Fixed electroacoustic works only — no real-time electronics, no performers, no visual components. Stereo, multichannel, and ambisonic submissions are accepted.

The 2026 edition of MUSLAB explores "KARMA: Cause – Effect" — the law of cause and effect through contemporary art.

Categories:

• Category A (audio only): stereo, 4.0, 5.1, 8.0 electroacoustic music
• Category B (audio + video): stereo, 4.0, 5.1, 8.0 with video
• Category C (visual works): 70 x 90 cm, 300 dpi
• Max 15 minutes duration
• One work per composer
• No registration fee
• Allowed formats: .aif, .wav, .mov, .mp4

Submission: https://form.jotform.com/karma193/karma-2026

Recorded sound festival for experimental, electronic and electroacoustic music. Open to musical compositions, soundscapes, sound collages, sonic experiments, narrative audio formats and technoid productions characterized by a transgressive impetus that undermines conventional listening experiences.

• Format: stereo and multichannel productions up to 7.1
• Two thematic categories: free category and "Acceleration" (sonic, structural, and temporal processes of acceleration)
• Ten audio productions selected for an acousmatic listening presentation
• Two jury awards and one audience award, each EUR 750
• Each selected work receives EUR 100 fee

Full call: https://soundcinema.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CFS_SCD26_GERENG.pdf

The 30th edition of the Phonurgia Nova Awards — the oldest event in the field of creative radio, sound art and podcast in France, running since 1986.

Five prizes are awarded: documentary, fiction, sound and radio art, field recording, and young creation (artists under 30). Submissions are accepted across the entire spectrum of narrative audio, from documentary to fiction, from speech archives to field recording.

In 2026, six creative residencies are also offered, awarded on written project proposals, in partner studios including INA GRM (Paris), GMEM and Euphonia (Marseille), and the Abbaye de Noirlac.

– All applicants should submit a single zip file containing the following files inside a single folder:

i. A short biography, contact information, and information about the piece in the following formats: (.doc, .txt, .rtf or .pdf). ii. 1 Audio file (.aiff or .wav format, 16bit or 24bit at 44,1kHz sampling rate) containing the stereo version of the piece. iii. Additionally, for multichannel pieces the audio files corresponding to each of the channels inside a separate folder along with set-up/routing information on a separate sheet iv. Please include also a pdf copy of the payment receipt for the 15€ entry fee