Open Call: #Sounding:EUROPE Award
Call for entries:
How does Europe sound to you?
For the competition and award at the SIRIUS4all-event in Berlin, 9th of May 2025, dealing with music and sound, we ask for audio-contributions, for your sonic impression(s).
The audio-contribution should represent your impression / expression of how "Europe" does sound, does feel to you:
Be it noise, sweet music, rhythmic or off-beat, be it Beethoven or Pauline Oliveros, be it techno or indie pop, one feels united, diverse, separated, Eastern, Western, indigenous, full of questions, full of ideas ... taking the listener on a journey.
Money matters:
3 first prizes (500€ each) and 7 honorary mentions (100€ each) will be awarded in May 2025 in Berlin.
Deadline(s):
Upload your entry (down below) latest January 15, 2025.
Regulations, Specifics:
- any originally composed, created audio artwork: be it a song, music without words, a sound piece, ... whatever
- duration: a maximum of five (5) minutes
- uploaded on our website (below) as an audio-file
- providing some information on the creator/composer/audio designer
- providing some information on what is behind your audio work, on how this came about to represent your Europe.
Eligibility:
- you live / are situated in Berlin being of whatever nationality
- you are younger than 30 years of age
- an individual, or a band, or a cooperation can take part.
The jury:
Ruth McMahon – Songwriter & Musician; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud Berlin
Norman Nodge – Resident DJ Berghain, Independent Producer, Lawyer
Melissa Perales – Concert Organiser, Curator, Music Consultant & Mentor (Music Pool Berlin), Music Supervisor, Activist for Equality in Music
Marco Kuhn – Professor for Sound Synthesis and Computer Science for Musicians, SRH Berlin University of Applied Science.