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

Theme: Artistic Intelligence — exploring creative choice, algorithmic systems, authenticity, and agency in media arts practices.

Submission via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SI2026/Submission/Index Queries: Sound-Image@greenwich.ac.uk

Categories accepted:

• Sound & Music: Stereo, Quad, 5.1, 7.1, 8-channel, 16-channel, Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D, DTS:X, Ambisonics, IKO arrays (live or fixed)
• Audiovisual: Single/multiscreen HD, immersive 360°, LED volumes, VR/AR (Quest 2), 16mm film projection (live or fixed)
• Other: Talks (20 min), artist statements (10 min), workshops/demonstrations, live performances, installations

Specifications:

• Maximum 15 minutes duration (excluding installations)
• Maximum 3 submissions per artist (one form per submission)
• In-person attendance is mandatory
• Open to all; special consideration for underrepresented groups and emerging artists/students

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

Sound Campus, a format hosted by Kunstuniversität Linz within the Ars Electronica Festival since 2020, returns with the theme "Listening Underground". The edition explores movement beneath the surface, the ongoing and divergent processes felt but not always seen, immersion as a condition that requires giving space to fragility, free-form and the against-the-norm.

Related themes: immersive, continuum, sensory experience, fragility, underground, porosity, free-form, listening, auditory spaces.

Formats:

• Live Set (solo project or collective): acoustic, stereo or quadraphonic, 20–30 min. Fee: EUR 300 (solo), EUR 200/artist (collectives)
• DJ Set (solo or B2B): 1 hour. Fee: EUR 250

Selected artists receive an Ars Electronica Festival Pass. No accommodation is provided; travel is reimbursed up to EUR 50.

Contact: soundcampus@kunstuni-linz.at

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.

New Ear:: SPATIAL is an event series focused on spatial sound works, where the distribution and localization of sounds are a primary compositional parameter. The series considers architectural, acoustical and technological factors in the relationship between sound and space. Formats are open: contemporary sound experiments, electroacoustic multichannel composition, improvisation, non-traditional performance configurations, lowercase artistic presence and workshops.

A call for spatial audio works (8-channel maximum) for the 2026–27 program. The system features an octophonic cube permanently installed at Fridman Gallery. Existing work is welcome, but works created for the cube configuration will be prioritized.

Two presentation forms:

• 20–40 minute sets (live or fixed media)
• Long-form presentations intended to play for several hours

Identify which category you are applying for. Only one submission per creator or group.

Submission requires a Google Drive or Dropbox link to the work. Stems are appreciated; a stereo or binaural mix is required. Ensure the link cannot expire and that access is granted.

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