CALL - #Sounding:EUROPE Award How does Europe sound to you?

          

SIRIUS4all

Open Call for entries

 

#Sounding:EUROPE Award 

How does Europe sound to you?

 

For a competition and award dealing with music and sound, we ask for audio-contributions, for your sonic impression(s).

The audio-contribution should represent your impression / expression of how "Europe" does sound, does feel to you:

Be it noise, sweet music, a song with lyrics or not, rhythmic or off-beat, be it Beethoven or Pauline Oliveros, be it techno or indie pop – something that feels united, separated, diverse, claustrophobic, Eastern, Western, full of questions, full of ideas?  

 

A Bit More Info:

The #Sounding:EUROPE Award is part of the independent, artistic, collaborative SIRIUS4all-project (www.sirius4all.eu) dealing with a next narrative for Europe. Find out more on the website. The award will be handed over at the SIRIUS4all-event in Berlin, 

9th of May 2025.

 

Why apply:

3 first prizes with 500€ each and 7 honorary mentions with 100€ each will be awarded in May 2025 in Berlin. 

Providing: public exposure, awareness, international networking and exchange.

Deadline: 

-              Submission: January 31, 2025 - midnight CET

-              Using the submission form via the website: https://www.sirius4all.eu/soundingeurope-award/

 

Regulations, Specifics:

-              any originally composed, created audio artwork: be it a song, music without words, a sound piece, ... whatever

-              duration: a maximum of five (5) minutes

-              uploaded on our website (below) as audio file

-              providing some information on the creator/composer/audio designer 

-              providing some information on what is behind your audio work, on how this came about to represent your Europe.

 

Eligibility:

-              you live / are situated in Berlin being of whatever nationality

-              you are younger than 30 years of age

-              an individual, or a band, or a cooperation can take part.

 

 

 

 

 

The jury: 

-              Ruth McMahon – Songwriter & Musician; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud Berlin

-              Norman Nodge –  Resident DJ Berghain, Independent Producer, Lawyer

-              Melissa ­­­Perales – Concert Promoter, Curator, Music Consultant & Mentor (Music Pool Berlin), Music Supervisor, Activist for Equality in Music

-              Marco Kuhn – Professor for Sound Synthesis and Computer Science for Musicians, SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences

 

Interested?

Go to the submission form­­­ here.

 

Contact:

wuensch@sirius4all.eu