Promoting inclusion through curating

Sounds Now aims to actively stimulate inclusion by focusing on the curator’s social and artistic role in in contemporary classical music and sound art. Centering on three pillars of diversity —  gender/gender identity, ethnic and socio-economic background — the project includes a range of actions such as labs for curators, mentorship programs, artistic productions, symposia and research. Through these actions, Sounds Now seeks to open up the possibility for different experiences, conditions and perspectives to be defining forces in shaping the sonic art that reaches audiences today.

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Assemblies of Listenings and Voices Across the Souths Akademie der Künste Berlin HanseatenwegAugust 21-25, 2022 What do sounds and music mean to those who do not recognise their tradition, culture or worldview in the globally dominant Eurocentric artistic and intellectual sound art and music practices? Who derive their listening from other origins, other contexts, other […]

Listening will be available at all of our partner events throughout the year. Don’t worry, if you can’t get a hard copy, you can also read it online. Print copies are available to order by contacting info@sounds-now.eu. This is the first volume in a series of annual publications planned by the Sounds Now network. With […]

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 […]

Major international works on the diversity of life at Time of Music’s 40th anniversary The diversity of nature, humanity, and history unfolds in the festival’s programme this year. ”Compared to last year’s emphasis on smaller scale works, this year we will hear larger compositions performed by international ensembles”, reveals artistic director Johan Tallgren. Building on […]

A documentary film by Megan-Leigh Heilig on the 2021 Curating Lab at Musica Impulse Centre

Sound artist Claudia Molitor’s new installationListen to my World tours to 5 Sounds Now partners Launching at Kortrijk-based festival Wilde Westen,Listen to my Worldwill run fromThursday 10 to Sunday 13 Marchbefore travelling toSPOR in late April, and on to Finland, Belgium, Greece and the UK. The installation is now explorable through a dedicated website containing […]

Travelling to five European cities within the Sounds Now project, the Sound Art in Public Spaces exhibition challenges us to look at climate change in a new way. For curator Raquel Castro, our cities should not be “concrete jungles”, but rather enormous habitats for diverse fauna and flora. The urban public space must therefore be […]

An “installative” sound space comes to Brussels Leopold Park During Walden Festival 2022, SN partner Musica and Amadeo Kollectif present the ‘installative sound space‘ Imaginaria. On 17 July from 12 pm, the Brussels Leopold Park will be transformed into an open musical space. No fewer than 9 large sound sculptures will be set up, from […]

Are you interested in music or curious about experimental approaches across all genres? Ultima Festival is looking for people to take part in the Curating Lab: a course for people aged between 20–35 where you can learn how to create great experiences and events involving music and sound art. Deadline for application: June 12 The […]