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

Spatial-sound residency built around the 4DSOUND system in Budapest, HU. Runs on a rolling/open basis — contact info@spatialsoundinstitute.com with a proposal. Strong fit for spatial/immersive and Ambisonics work.

Rolling, self-directed residency at the OTTOsonics immersive sound studio (Alter Bauhof, AT). No fixed deadline; propose your own timeframe (single days up to two weeks). EUR 50/day lump sum, own travel. Apply by emailing a proposal + short CV to contact@ottosonics.com (subject "CO-FUNDED RESIDENCY").

Soundscape-focused festival curated by APNÉES, seeking works in four categories: A) Stereo, B) Binaural (headphone diffusion), C) Multichannel (8-channel), D) Fixed-media audiovisual. Strong fit for field-recording and acousmatic/spatial pieces. Works are diffused live at festival venues around Grenoble.

Organised by Miso Music Portugal. Studio electroacoustic works for loudspeaker projection only (no live performers besides the diffusing sound projectionist). Up to 8 channels, 5–15 minutes, one work per composer, any nationality/age; works must be unpublished and previously unawarded. Single prize of EUR 1,000; the winning work is performed by the Miso Music Loudspeaker Orchestra. Submit stereo AIFF/WAV plus individual channel files.

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

Sound art festival curated by Transients, focused on field recording and deep listening. The 2026 edition, themed "listen with," seeks fixed-media works based on or including field recordings, presented in a collective Listening Session program.

• Format: stereo audio files
• Submit a work description (PDF, up to 4 pages) plus a download link to the completed work
• Explores listening with others, with places, with memories, and with non-human presences

International call from the NOIS//E Association, building on its 2025 festival in Calabria (50+ artists from 19 countries). The 2026 edition, themed "Practices of Presence in the Post-Generative Age," seeks work that restores value to physicality, listening, materiality, and situated experience, repositioning technology critically within embodied, spatial, and relational practice.

• Themes: presence, body, listening, gesture, matter, space, memory, environment, and the critical use of technology
• Five categories: sound/electroacoustic music and live electronics; audiovisual, film and moving image; installation, space and immersive practices; expanded arts (matter, body, image, space); research papers, posters, talks and lecture-performances
• Presentation forms: live performances, audiovisual screenings, listening rooms, installations, immersive/VR experiences, artist talks
• Selected artists appear in the 2026 programme at a historic venue in Milan; standout artists may be considered for a future residency in Calabria (May 2027)
• Results notified 1.10.2026

The leading academic journal for electroacoustic and sonic-arts research. Each themed issue accepts scholarly articles, often with accompanying audio/media examples. Suits composer-researchers working in fixed-media, spatial, and acousmatic practice.

Annual international electroacoustic composition competition for composers under 40. Winning works are presented in concert in Brno. Channel count, duration, and any entry fee to be confirmed on the official page.

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.

Organised by Productions Totem Contemporain. Electroacoustic works for loudspeakers, no live intervention, stereo or multichannel up to 8 channels, 7–17 minutes, composed primarily from PTC's sound bank (max 50 of ~1,600 sounds). Open to professional composers of all nationalities and ages, all aesthetics.

Prizes: CAD 2,500 / 1,500 / 1,000, plus an AFRIKA Prize, an Akousma Prize (best acousmatic work), commissions, a 10-day residency at Espace Totem, and a CD release on Kohlenstoff.

Week-long spatial-audio residency built around a 35 m² studio with an 8-speaker Genelec cube array, with four days of one-to-one mentoring in ambisonic field recording, editing, binaural/VR production, and deep listening. Residencies run March to October.

– 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