SOUNDS OF THE FUTURE

Development of talent, creating networks and further dissemination of sound art among performing artists and audiences is the focal point of the regional sound art project The Future Of Sound Art. A project initiated and developed by SPOR festival together with Sound Art Lab and Struer Tracks, and supported by Region Midtjyllands Culture Pool.

With this project, SPOR festival, Sound Art Lab and Struer Tracks will support and develop the unique sound art environment in Region Midtjylland. By combining skills from education, research, production and exhibition, the partners will create innovative artistic development across art, business, learning and health. Through working with various formats such as workshops, courses, masterclasses, open calls, residencies and work production, the artists' skills in the sound field will develop across domains and disciplines, bringing them into contact with new audience groups.

Sounds of the Future Residency

New encounters between art and audience, between the regional and the international and between the established and the yet undiscovered are at the core of the project, which supports the region's status as a trend-setting hot spot for sound art. The project aims at three different target groups; artists in training, artists without much experience working with sound and artists who already work with sound. During the project period, different formats will be offered that cater to the three target groups.

Most recently, the Sounds of the Future Residency, focusing on developments in sound art, has been made available to artists already working with sound. Supported by Koda Kultur, there are a total of four residencies. Each residency offers studio space, access to sound studios, sound equipment and workshops, accommodation in the Sound Art Lab artist apartment, sparring, networking and more.

Apply for resicencies via KODA Kultur:

https://kultur.koda.dk/legatoversigt/sounds-of-the-future-residency-paa-sound-art-lab/

Sound & Art Annual Meeting #1

During the SPOR festival 2022, the partners also held the first annual meeting for the industry. Under the name Sound & Art Annual Meeting #1: Sustainability, artists, curators and cultural actors gathered to talk about how to work with green transition in artistic practice with sound as a supporting element. The day featured presentations, conversation and sound art in the public space, and on stage were, among others, Paula Toppila, managing director of the art organization IHME (FI), Raquel Castro, curator of the exhibition Sound Art In Public Spaces at SPOR 2022 and Christian Gade Bjerrum, co-founder of Bæredygtig Scenekunst NU.