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Mediterranean Futures: Everyday Imaginary
6-9 December, live at stegi.radio MED Futures: Everyday Imaginary is a program consisting of sound pieces, music, field recordings and spoken word with a thematic focus on an imaginary everyday life where discrimination and socially unjust systems are overturned. They draw from sounds of protest, sounds that defy and cross borders, sounds that form a sonic […]
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ENGAGING, the latest Sounds Now publication, is here!
Issue #4 of the Sounds Now publication series After the Second World War, all kinds of movements emerged in the arts, and therefore also in contemporary music. Past trauma and new awareness collided and generated diverse outcomes in the Cold War reality. Never-again war and a desire for a new free and tolerant future were […]
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Sounds Now at the New Music Conference
During this three-hour nonstop talk show, Bert Palinckx and Marieke Hopman — the former and new artistic directors of November Music — SN-supported composer Saskia Venegas, SN-supported curator Cường Minh Bá Phạm and SN project manager Anne Appathurai are among a number of guests invited to talk about their work. With moderator Co de Kloet, […]
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Raven Chacon on Stegi Radio (ex-Movement Radio)
As part of Sounds Now, Ultima contributes an episode on Raven Chacon to Stegi Radio. Stegi Radio is an international online radio station based in Athens. It explores the cross-cultural interactions, political and theoretical discourses and reflections of movement of people from the Mediterranean and beyond, through a series of commissioned pieces, thematic mixtapes, interviews, […]
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Order your free copy of BREATHING
Breathing 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 upon request by contacting info@sounds-now.eu. This is the third volume in a series of annual publications planned by the Sounds Now network. In […]
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Sounds Now at the New Music Conference 2023
with panelists Hanan Benammar, Remy Alexander, Teresa Diaz de Cossio and Filippos Raskovic — alumni of the 2022 Sounds Now Curating Diversity course. Moderated by Mirjam Zegers. BumaStemra, the copyright organisation for music authors in the Netherlands, has long been supporting Sounds Now partner November Music. Since 2019, November Music and Buma/Stemra have presented together […]
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Glissando #43 “Diversity. Curating” – a collaboration with Sounds Now
Glissando #43 – Diversity. Curating Sounds Now is thrilled to have collaborated with Glissando magazine on their latest issue, focusing on diversity and curating in music and sound. Monika Żyła, a researcher for the Sounds Now project, served as a managing editor, creating a space for reflection concerning some of the recent curatorial practices in […]
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Raquel Castro named President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Raquel Castro, selected by the SN network to curate the Sound Art in Public Spaces project, has been named the first female President of the WFAE The Sounds Now partnership was delighted to learn that Raquel Castro was nominated last month as the head of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Founded in 1993, the […]
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Order your copy of SEEING, the latest Sounds Now publication!
Seeing 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 upon request by contacting info@sounds-now.eu. This is the second volume in a series of annual publications planned by the Sounds Now network. With […]
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New programmes from SPOR for Movement Radio
New programmes starting October 20, 2022 at 18.00 CET / 19.00 EET Listen at http://movement.radio October 20, 18.00 CET / 19.00 EET: Sophia Sagaradze November 17, 18.00 CET / 19.00 EET: Goodipal December 15, 18.00 CET / 19.00 EET: Anja T. Lahrmann Previous SPOR programmes: March 15, 17.00 CET / 18.00 EET – James Black April […]
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OORtreders Festival 2022: Sound in Times of Fluidity
Sound in times of fluidity21-23.10, Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof (BE) Locations: Theatergebouw Dommelhof, Het Klankenbos, Bibliotheek Neerpelt, Atelier Lucas Pellens, CC Palethe. What is OORtreders? OORtreders Festival is a 3-day happening for art and sound, at a unique location in the middle of the forests of North Limburg. Visitors and artists both local and from abroad […]
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Open call: singers for Freedom to Move residency
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) has launched an open call for an upcoming Sounds Now production Freedom to Move Freedom to Move aims to explore the dynamic between the freedom and boundaries of genre in relation to contemporary classical music, stretching the field of contemporary music. As the human voice is the most personal instrument, […]
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Movement Radio – new fall programmes from Musica
The Radio Forest sessions http://movement.radio/ Movement Radio is an international online radio station produced by SN partner Onassis Stegi. It explores the cross-cultural interactions, political and theoretical discourses and reflections of movement of people from the Mediterranean and beyond, through a series of commissioned pieces, thematic mixtapes, interviews, DJ sets and more. Sounds Now is […]
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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 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 researcher, director and curator. Founder and director of the Lisboa Soa sound art festival and the international symposium Invisible Places. She is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies and is currently teaching at Lusófona University, in Lisbon. Her activities as a researcher […]
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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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CLOSED – Curator for Sound Art Project
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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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 […]