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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · 14d

Melbourne 🇦🇺
Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio seeks Communications & Membership Lead to develop strategic campaigns, manage social media, and expand engagement with our community. Applications close October 26th.⁠ Full position description and application details here: mess.foundation/jobs

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Sep 13

Barcelona 🇪🇸
Workshop & Masterclass with Francisco López on October 18th at Störung Studios, discussing topics like experimental audio, environmental sound matter, and immersive listening. Seats are limited: [email protected]

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Canadian Arts Coalition canadienne des arts @artscoalitionca.bsky.social · Aug 26

We need your voice now to support arts and culture in Canada!

Please send a letter through our campaign. We need all who care about culture - business leaders, students, artists, audiences, everyone - to submit a letter before Sept 15. canadianartscoalition.com/campaign-for-culture-2025/

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Sep 3

Calgary 🇨🇦
Call for Submissions: Particle + Wave Festival seeks experimental, interdisciplinary, or otherwise boundary-pushing media art, especially work that explores artificial intelligence and the future of technology and art. Deadline to submit is September 6th
emmedia.ca/get-involved...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yellowknife 🇨🇦
Job Opportunity: Cabin Radio hiring a Podcast Producer & Field Reporter
One-year contract, lots of travel. Must be a great interviewer, a good audio editor, ready to meet lots of people, and interested in justice in northern communities
cabinradio.ca/jobs

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Aug 11

Milan 🇮🇹
Open Call: SISS seeking emerging talents in audiovisual art, artists under 35 years old can submit their original work to be considered for a project dedicated to sonic and performative experimentation. Deadline to submit is August 31st: sissproject.eu/call-for-wor...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Aug 11

Belfast 🇮🇪
Job Opportunity: Music Outreach and Engagement Officer at Queen's University Belfast, working with SARC and Sonorities Festival. This is a part-time post, working 3 days per week. Application closing date is September 1st hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jul 28

Łódź 🇵🇱
Call for Abstracts: conference in 2026 to mark 100 years of radio in Poland, open to anyone interested in radio—past, present, or future. Deadline to submit is January 15th: forms.office.com/e/CsEEgKBCGc

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jul 23

Los Angeles 🇺🇸
Call for Works: Experiments in Electronic Sound Festival is taking place at CalArts from September 25th–27th at the Herb Alpert School of music. Deadline to submit is August 10th
forms.gle/CGjrzYu1jdtz...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jul 8

Leeds 🇬🇧
Call for Participation: Synthesizer Research Network one-day symposium event at University of Leeds seeks paper presentations and performance demonstrations, deadline for submissions is July 31st
synthresearch.org/symposium/

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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · Jun 24

We’re very proud to be supporting a brand new call, Echoes for Palestine, which is a global sonic compilation album in solidarity with and raising vital funds for Palestine 🇵🇸

We’re inviting artists to contribute to an act of listening, resistance & remembrance: citiesandmemory.com/2025/06/echo...

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jun 20

Östra Hoby 🇸🇪
Open Call: Schhh Artist Residency this autumn for composers and sound artists working with live electronics, fixed media, sound art, or experimental music. Deadline to apply is July 6th
schhh.se/event/open-c...
#opencall #soundartresidency #electroacousticmusic

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jun 11

Zürich 🇨🇭
Open Call: the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology invites applications for its 2026 residency programme in: Spatial Synthesis, Algorithmic Composition, Moving Loudspeakers, Dance & Generative AI, and Wave Field Synthesis. Deadline to apply is September 1st:
zhdk.ch/icst-air

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jun 5

Bethlehem 🇵🇸
Call for Applications: annual artist-in-residence program to engage with the landscape and culture through creative practice, fostering grassroots connections that challenge commercial and neo-colonial frameworks. Deadline to apply is July 1st:
forms.gle/YEdfpDTUzGUm...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jun 5

Paris 🇫🇷
Call for Proposals & Works: the Electroacoustic Music Studies conference seeks to explore how advances in technology, urban studies, ecology, intercultural theory, and creative methodologies are reshaping the field. Deadline has been extended until June 12th
ems25.sciencesconf.org

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jun 3

Porto 🇵🇹
Call for Abstracts: Explorations on Sound & New Media Art Conference on the theme ‘Urgencies’ will delve into the intersections between sonic agency, conflicts, listening, care, and resistance. Deadline to submit is July 31st.
artes.porto.ucp.pt/en/art-cente...
@kode9.bsky.social

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · Jun 3

Córdoba 🇦🇷
Call for Works: La Hora Acusmática seeks electroacoustic works and experimental videos of 9 minutes or less, deadline is June 30th. Send a download link which does not expire (do not send an attachment) plus program notes, your bio, and a link to your website:
[email protected]

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 31

London 🇬🇧
Call for Works: Happenstance Gallery invites sound artists to submit sound works that explore the state and experience of flourishing and the spaces that enable growth and transformation to happen. Deadline to submit is June 3rd.
happenstance.gallery/submit-artwo...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 29

Derby 🇬🇧
Job Opportunity: Derby Theatre is looking for a 'Head of Sound' to join the Production & Technical department, apply by June 16th
derbytheatre.co.uk/about-us/wor...

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 29

Chicago 🇺🇸
Call for Works: Experimental Sound Studio seeks multichannel sound compositions for the 24 loudspeaker array at Jay Pritzker Pavilion that demonstrate a consideration for the location and architecture of the system. Deadline to apply is June 13th:
ess.org

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 28

Cupertino 🇺🇸
Job Opportunity: Apple seeking an experienced audio engineer to bring up Content Creation and Live Streaming infrastructure for compelling VR experiences
jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 26

Bled 🇸🇮
Open Call for Performers and Composers: year-long residency project to develop and perform new works, consisting of online sessions, a live performance with documentation, and workshops during festival week. Deadline to apply is June 10th
precept-concept-percept.com/precept-conc...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 24

Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Open Call: seeking composers and musicians to research and explore, expand or deepen the genre of music theater for young audiences, deadline to apply is June 13th
www.theateraanderijn.nl/nieuwgeluid/...

Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 21

Cleveland 🇺🇸
Job Opportunity: Great Lakes Theater seeking an Audio Supervisor to oversee the audio departments of three facilities in their consortium, visit their website to apply
www.greatlakestheater.org/work-with-us...

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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · May 20

Yokohama 🇯🇵
Call for Participants: field recording and soundscape composition workshop with Nick Luscombe on Yokohama National University campus, deadline to apply is June 26th:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...