Issue #43 Diversity. Curating Sounds Now is collaborating with contemporary music magazine Glissando on the upcoming #43 issue on Diversity. Curating. Contemporary music and sound art. We invite you to submit abstracts/project proposals (up to 2,000 characters) and, after acceptance, full articles (30-35,000 characters), medium-length texts (12-15,000 characters) including interviews, or shorter texts (up to […]
The Work that Music Festivals Do in the World Curating for Change: The Work that Music Festivals Do in the World is a two-part online conference on music festivals as resonant – even if at times contested – sites of activism, equity, environmental stewardship, and community-building. It brings together scholars, practitioners, artists, organizers, and patrons […]
November 12, 2021 with Christos Carras, Raquel Castro, Maud Seuntjens, Monika Zyla A panel discussion organised by the New Music Conference brought together professionals associated with the Sounds Now project. They shared their experiences on curating for inclusion in sound art and contemporary music, and took questions from the audience. The event took place during […]
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, […]
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 […]
Dutch institute ArtEZ launches Curatorial Practices in Music, a new Masters-level course in curating. Deadline for applying: December 15 14 musicians and music professionals will have the opportunity to explore ways to collectively and individually redefine what it means to be a music curator. Reassess relationships between music and audience, develop new hybrid formats, and […]
From Issue 47 of ONCURATING: In this article, I outline a concept of data-informed curation, proposing how curators and institutions can use audience data to help them understand how audiences approach new music and to develop more open, inclusive atmospheres around attendance. I report an overview of findings on tastes, demographic factors, and concert experiences […]