Music & Sound

The Bridging Career Take-Off Programme BCTO is designed for DJs-producers, sound artists, sound producers and electronic musicians, musicians with digital music practices, and has both an offline and an online component. Applicants should be resident and/or a citizen of one of the partner countries of the project - Tunisia, France, and Albania.

Les Lundis d’Hortense organises a whole range of activities, including more than 100 concerts per season. They currently have several calls for concert series and touring activities in Brussels and Wallonia during 2024.

Nordic Music Days is a festival presenting Nordic contemporary music and sound. The next edition of Nordic Music Days takes place in Glasgow from 30 October – 3 November 2024. Composers and artists associated with Scotland and the Nordic countries are invited to submit one work or proposal on the theme of ‘Word of Mouth’.

MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN is an international festival that creates, curates and co-produces contemporary music theatre, always looking for new connections between music, text, space, technology and artists.

Faroe Islands Songwriting Camp (FISC) is a professional Nordic songwriting camp in the Faroe Islands. The camp will take place mostly in the surroundings of Sandoy and the capital Torshavn and will last for a full week from 2-8 August 2023. The songwriting camp is mainly for young and professional talents from The Nordic countries, but the application is open for anyone.

Thousands of young people from all over Europe will gather in Strasbourg (France) between 9-10 June 2023 for the 5th edition of the #EYE2023 (European Youth Event). Solo artists and bands from EU member states, EFTA countries, candidate countries and former EU members are invited to perform for them by entering the 2023 edition of the European Emerging Bands Contest.

Cet appel s’adresse aux créateur.ice.s inscrits dans une démarche professionnelle en France ou à l’étranger. Il propose une dotation pour un temps de résidence et la réalisation d’un projet de création liant une ou plusieurs pratiques artistiques avec la thématique de l’intelligence artificielle.

The Eastern European Music Academy is a hybrid capacity building project for independent music professionals from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the Baltic region. The Academy runs from 30 September 2023, with some students selected to attend an in-person conference and showcase in Slovenia.

Oscillations: Sonic Inquiries and Practices is a two-year project founded on the premise that sound is knowledge. The current open call covers residencies in Berlin and Cape Town and is aimed at sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in Southern Africa.

Taking place between 1-8 October 2023 in Kraków, Poland, the theme for the next edition of Unsound Festival is DADA. The festival is calling for works for the music and performance programme ‘In(ter)ventions’ as well as for its discourse programme.