Music & Sound

Music4Coop invites music professionals to apply for an immersive three-day cooperative experience in Cáceres, Spain from 8-10 November 2023. Applicants should be music professionals who are developing their professional careers in public and private music institutions (orchestras, conservatories, SMEs, universities) established in EU Member States.

Santuri East Africa and Ajabu Ajabu supported by a grant from Ignite Culture: ACP-EU Culture Programme (Eastern Africa) are excited to announce an opportunity for East African musicians to participate in a unique music residency program called Uvumbuzi, bridging the creative landscapes of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. For an intensive two week period in November, Kenyan artists will be hosted by Ajabu Ajabu in Dar Es Salaam (30t October – 12 November 2023), and Tanzanian artists will be hosted by Santuri in Nairobi (13-27 November 2023).

The cultural and civil society organisation zusa is organising residencies in Berlin which will focus on two thematic axes: reflection and re-thinking on the idea of solidarity in Europe; and mental well-being of artists and cultural professionals. The residency is dedicated to artists and cultural professionals based in European countries but with focus on Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Austria, and Germany.

The Bridging Career Take-Off Programme BCTO is designed for DJs-producers, sound artists, sound producers and electronic musicians, musicians with digital music practices, and has both an offline and an online component. Applicants should be resident and/or a citizen of one of the partner countries of the project - Tunisia, France, Albania, and the Balkans.

Orpheus Instituut in Ghent is an international centre of excellence primarily focused on artistic research in music. It is now looking for doctoral researchers who are interested in joining one of the following research clusters: Declassifying the Classics: Technology, Rhetoric, and Performance, 1750–1850; Resounding Libraries: Unfolding Archived Knowledge Through Artistic Research; HIPEX (Historically Informed Performance Practices of Experimental Music); Music, Thought and Technology; Metamusic: Shaping Musical Practices for the Posthuman Age.

For its research residencies, the European project tekhnē welcomes artists, researchers, art educators and cultural workers working with and around autonomous and experimental approaches to technology, and reflections about what can be considered technology. Residency lengths vary between two and six weeks, between December 2023 and December 2024.