Music & Sound

The Music Imbizo - an international music business conference, exhibition and film festival - in South Africa is now calling on curators and promoters to apply for this year’s event in Durban from 23-28 August 2022.

The Giga-Hertz Award endows two Production Prizes through an open application process. These support sound artists to initiate and promote new projects by giving them financial support and time to work at the ZKM | Hertz-Lab in Karlsruhe or the SWR Experimentalstudio. The working stay should last at least two months at the ZKM | Hertz_Lab or two to four weeks at the SWR Experimentalstudio. The new work is then expected to premiere the following year during the award ceremony of the Giga-Hertz Prize, and possibly be broadcast on radio.

The EMC Fellowship Programme offers emerging professionals working in the field of music an opportunity to internationalise their careers and develop professionally. During one year (with the possibility of extension for another year), up to 10 young people are invited to take part in the European Forum on Music, get exclusive access to further EMC events, and be included in the EMC’s internal (membership) communication.

After successful digital editions of the Reeperbahn Festival New York in 2020 and 2021, the organisers are planning two tracks this year: an in-person event if possible, a hybrid/online one if necessary. European music industry professionals are invited to apply to be part of the delegation visiting the conference from 13-16 June 2022. Travel is subsidised, but delegates need a ticket if the event takes place in-person.

Down the Wire Live is a six-month collaborative project between B’sarya (Egypt) and Cryptic (UK). Both organisations will support artists, enabling them to participate in a collaborative research and development project resulting in a live performance/event in both Glasgow and Alexandria. 16 artists will participate in an exchange on 6 July 2022, with 2 selected for a final exchange to take place between October 2022 – early April 2023.

The European network of opera academies enoa is launching a second open call for its programme ‘Opera Creation Journey’. The scheme will offer time and space to creators to develop innovative opera projects. Selected projects will receive support and mentorship, and attend one or several labs at enoa institutions (from 3 to 10 days maximum).

Launched in 2006, the Moritzburg Festival Academy is an annual event that selects young musicians from all over the world to participate in an intensive training programme and form the international Moritzburg Festival Orchestra. The 2022 edition will take place 1-15 August 2022 at Moritzburg Castle in Germany. Open to music students aged between 16 and 26 years performing chamber music.

SHAPE+, a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, runs until 2024. A new open call has been announced for artist submissions for the Year 1 SHAPE+ artist roster. Artists selected for this roster will be invited to activities by individual festivals that are part of SHAPE+.

Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency program in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any of the following formats: photography, video, installation, sculpture, or sound. The theme for 2022 is ‘The Open World, and Beyond’.

The commission of the newly founded Schubert Research Center at the Austrian Academy of Sciences is eager to make contacts with committed young scholars. It invites them to apply for its first Summer School, which will take place in Vienna from 5-7 September 2022 on the topic of ‘Sexuality and Gender in Schubert’s Time’.

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is launching the first call for applications of its new programme: the Sound Art Residency. The museum will pay the winning artist an endowment and finance the production of the sound work, which will be presented to the public and may become part of the museum’s collections. Activity runs from October 2022 - March 2023.