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The International Computer Music Conference

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2018 invites makers to submit their works (installations, music, panel proposals, papers, and workshop proposals) for the ICMC 2018, which will be held in Daegu, South Korea from August 5-10 2018. ICMC invites the community to consider this year’s theme Preserve | Engage | Advance as it broadly relates…

Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition

• The composition should be written for one piano (solo or for more than one pianist), and can include all facets of the instrument. • It is of great importance that the pieces be appropriate in their level of difficulty for children / young adults and be suitable for pedagogical use. Therefore the pianistic difficulties…

Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo

Musinfo is pleased to announce the fifth edition of the Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo. With this initiative Musinfo supports the work of contemporary composers in the field of live-electronic. The residency will take place during the 2018 Art & Science Days in Bourges. Read more…

call for Biennale College – Music

La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, announces the new edition of the Biennale College – Music with the launch of the del international call for teams consisting of a composer and a librettist, aged 35 and under. The project for the Biennale College – Music 2018 intends to promote and support the production…

Kalv call for applicants

DEADLINE for Application: 20th of February 2018 ANNOUNCEMENT of participants: 1st of March 2018 6-8 composers (of any age, nationality, occupation and aesthetics. However, precedence will be taken to emerging composers and not established composers) are invited to spend a week in Kalv working, lecturing and presenting their work under the supervision and assistance of…

See & Hear the Piece Which Earned James O’Callaghan the 2017 ISCM Young Composer Award

Immediately following the end of the final concert of the 2017 ISCM World New Music Days at the Vancouver Playhouse on 8 November 2017, Music On Main Artistic Director David Pay and ISCM Executive Committee member Kjartan Ólafsson announced from the stage that Vancouver-born, Montréal-based composer James O’Callaghan (b. 1988) is the winner of the…

The Look & Listen Festival Composers Competition

The Look & Listen Festival Composers Competition is an annual call-for-submissions to foster and support contemporary composers and music pioneers from all over the world. For this upcoming season, Look & Listen Festival is looking to expand the contemporary vocal repertoire by accepting works for soprano, accordion, cello and clarinet. The competition is free and…

Call for papers for conference

4º INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SOUND AND AUDIOVISUAL SPACES,and 22nd COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC DAYS- JIEM 2018 14-16 February. “Creation and knowledge in art and science: from individual to collective practices” This conference seeks to offer a forum of wide and deep debate around the concept of sound space sharing knowledge between temporary arts and spatial arts….

shut up and listen!

Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art LET’S READY! Echoraum, Vienna; December 7th-9th, 2017 „The proof of the music is in the listening“. 2017 marks the centennial celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain — a welcome occasion for the twelfth edition of shut up and listen! to focus on current artistic approaches towards the phenomenon ‘ready-made’….

International composition competition “Città di Udine”

The competition will accept compositions by musicians of any nationality and of any age. Previously performed compositions will be accepted. Compositions must be sent anonymously as explained below. Compositions for chamber instrumental group or solo instrument Pieces should not exceed eight minutes in length, however consideration will be given to compositions which exceed this length…