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News about the Sounds Now project.
News about the Sounds Now project.
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 […]
Sounds Now is one of the few structures to offer a course on curating contemporary music. The ArtEZ University of the Arts is another. This year, ArtEZ presents the fourth edition of a course on curatorial practices in music, which will be fully online. There are only 14 places for musicians, music programmers and promotors […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]