September 19th
One-month residency in Lithuania
Open-call for composers and sound-artists affiliated with Inter Arts Center/Lund University (including alumni)
deadline: 30 September
Lithuanian Composers’ Union, together with Druskininkai Artists‘ residency and Culture Moves Europe program, invites artists to apply for the international residency, gathering artists from Austria, Sweden, and Ukraine to compose new works for Jauna muzika contemporary music festival, which will take place in April 2024 in Vilnius.
In March 28–April 28, 4 composers from Hållnäs, AIR Krems, Inter Arts Center, and Kyiv Contemporary Music Days organizations will live and work in Druskininkai Artists’ Residence house, creating new pieces for the experimental music festival “Jauna muzika”. Launched in 1992, “Jauna Muzika” is one of Lithuania’s oldest arts festivals. It is aimed at artists working with sound as a form of experimental creativity.
The selected artists will get a fixed amount of 25€ per day, as well as a travel allowance of up to 350€ (plus 350€ bonus top-up in case of green mobility: a travel of more than 600km without using airplanes), free accommodation, technical equipment, and mentoring support by composer and sound technology expert Mantautas Krukauskas.
The topic of the festival
“Creativity is not about certain knowledge. It exists wherever human intelligence is actively engaged.” – Ken Robinson (author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts).
Terms, conditions, selection process
The applicants could be artists, working with sound, experimental, and electroacoustic music, as well as interdisciplinary art in various artistic formats (with videos, installations, etc.). In the case of the call by Inter Arts Center, the applicant must hold a Swedish Citizenship or live in Sweden; and be (or have been in the past) affiliated with Inter Arts Center (for example, having a project there) or Lund University.
Read more under “Calls” or the following webpage: https://iac.lu.se/lithuania-open-call/
Lithuanian Composers’ Union, together with Druskininkai Artists‘ residency and Culture Moves Europe program, invites artists to apply for the international residency, gathering artists from Austria, Sweden, and Ukraine to compose new works for Jauna muzika contemporary music festival, which will take place in April 2024 in Vilnius.
In March 28–April 28, 4 composers from Hållnäs, AIR Krems, Inter Arts Center, and Kyiv Contemporary Music Days organizations will live and work in Druskininkai Artists’ Residence house, creating new pieces for the experimental music festival “Jauna muzika”. Launched in 1992, “Jauna Muzika” is one of Lithuania’s oldest arts festivals. It is aimed at artists working with sound as a form of experimental creativity.
The selected artists will get a fixed amount of 25€ per day, as well as a travel allowance of up to 350€ (plus 350€ bonus top-up in case of green mobility: a travel of more than 600km without using airplanes), free accommodation, technical equipment, and mentoring support by composer and sound technology expert Mantautas Krukauskas.
The topic of the festival
“Creativity is not about certain knowledge. It exists wherever human intelligence is actively engaged.” – Ken Robinson (author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts).
Terms, conditions, selection process
The applicants could be artists, working with sound, experimental, and electroacoustic music, as well as interdisciplinary art in various artistic formats (with videos, installations, etc.). In the case of the call by Inter Arts Center, the applicant must hold a Swedish Citizenship or live in Sweden; and be (or have been in the past) affiliated with Inter Arts Center (for example, having a project there) or Lund University.
Read more under “Calls” or the following webpage: https://iac.lu.se/lithuania-open-call/
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