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Short-term contract for network and funding development
Co-organised in 2020 and 2021 by the Akademie der Künste, inm – initiative neue musik berlin / field notes and Ultima Contemporary Music Festival/Sounds Now, the symposium “Curating Diversity in Europe” offered a platform for keeping the discourse on diversity in contemporary music in Europe alive. Due to the pandemic, the symposium was split into two parts. Part 1, […]
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“Listening”, the first Sounds Now publication, is now available!
Listening will be available at all of our partner events throughout the year. Don’t worry, if you can’t get a hard copy, you can also read it online. Print copies are available to order by contacting info@sounds-now.eu. This is the first volume in a series of annual publications planned by the Sounds Now network. With […]
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Curator Raquel Castro selected for sound art project
Raquel Castro is a Portuguese soundscape researcher, documentary director and sound art curator. She is the founder and director of the environmental sound art festival Lisboa Soa and a post-doc researcher at the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies in Lisbon, developing projects that investigate the aural experience of urban territories. […]
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Countdown to SPOR Festival 2021!
September 8-11 in Aarhus, Denmark From the 8th to the 11th of September 2021, SPOR festival examines the diversity that characterizes society today. Contemporary music and sound art lead the way and present audience with diverse artistic universes that pique curiosity, challenge the current perception of the world and create an inner reflection. Artistic and festival directors […]
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Nostalgia and rebellion at Time of Music 2021
Could emphatic escapism in fact be the best reflection of the current time, where all of us wish that we were living in the past? Perhaps a symbolic farewell to that which is past is the best way to proceed to something new? Johan Tallgren, Sounds Now partner and artistic director of Time of Music […]
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CLOSED: Open call for audio/video contributions for symposium
Audio/video contributions to the Curating Diversity symposium 2021 are now being accepted — deadline May 5th. OPEN CALL: audio/video contributions for symposium Audio/video contributions to the Curating Diversity symposium 2021 are now being accepted. Participation in the symposium is not required. Deadline May 2nd. In the weeks leading up to the symposium, we invite everyone […]
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SPOR Festival moves to fall 2021
Due to coronavirus-related restrictions on cultural events in Denmark, SPOR festival will now take place September 8 – 12, 2021. SPOR 2021 will present Eating a Man from Christian Winther Christensen and Eupepsia/Dispepsia from Eva Reiter, both productions in the Sounds Now project! SPOR festival usually takes place in the spring, but unfortunately coronavirus and […]
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OPEN CALL: Curator for Sound Art Project – CLOSED
Sounds Now is looking for a curator who will serve as the central point of contact for the creation of five sound art installations in five European cities. ABOUT THIS PROJECT “Sound Art in Public Spaces: reinventing public space (for all)” The interpretation, importance and even the very definition of public space has been under […]
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An announcement about hcmf// 2020
After many weeks of monitoring the circumstances and restrictions imposed by Covid-19, the hcmf// team and its Board of Trustees have reached the decision that it is not possible to produce our usual 10-day festival this November. Whilst this is a huge disappointment to everyone involved with the festival, the safety and well-being of our staff, volunteers, artists and audiences […]
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Call for research associate Deadline September 21!
Sounds Now is looking to collaborate with a higher education institute or post-graduate student for a period of three to four years. The collaboration will focus on data collection and analysis in relation to our activities in the context of Sounds Now. Specifically, this involves collecting quantitative data on diversity with regards to the artists, […]
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Time of Music 2020 – CANCELLED
Time of Music 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19. The 39th Time of Music Festival was due to take place June 30th — July 5th, 2020. In addition to several Sounds Now productions, this year’s festival would have presented the first Sounds Now Curating Diversity course. Time of Music will be back July 6 […]
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Ultima Festival 2020
The Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival will take place this year September 9 – 19, 2020. The programme will be published this spring. Find out more
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Covid-19
Due to confinement measures, a number of Sounds Now events are being postponed. The music sector has been hit hard by the crisis, and may suffer further as travel restrictions and bans on large gatherings continue. Sounds Now partners are doing their best to support artists by ensuring the continuation of events to the best […]
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SPOR festival postponed
Due to COVID-19, SPOR Festival has been postponed from its original dates in May until this fall. The festival will now take place September 11-13, 2020. A series of pre-events will also take place before the festival on September 4th and 5th. Eating a Man by Christian Winther Christensen, will now take place at next […]