Sonic Saturday 2025
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJLFgdziWWQzWufPLASDIdtHSmXTalPG/view?pli=1
- Deadline: 18.5.2025
Details
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?