Calls for Expressions of Interest in the 2019 festival are NOW OPEN and close on Friday 1st December 2017 at 11:59PM AEST
Please read the information below before submitting an application, and
contact us with any questions.
The 2019 Festival is scheduled for Saturday January 19th, 2019.
- Calls are open for the following:
- Projects and performances including notated music,
improvisation, installations, and electroacoustic performance. Tilde
particularly welcomes submissions featuring solo and ensemble
repertoire; female, trans, intersex, and non-binary composers and sound
artists; and site-specific works. APPLY HERE
- Opening Soon Collaborative projects. Artists submit
their interest in participating in a collaboration with other festival
artists. Groups meet in the weeks leading up to the festival to prepare a
10-minute site-specific performance.
- Opening Soon Fixed Media works to be presented at the festival in the sound installation.
- Tilde New Music Festival is hosted at Testing
Grounds in Southbank, Melbourne. This is a unique space and we
reccommend checking it out before you before submitting your EOI.
- Please contact us if you need help tracking down resources for your project.
- What we look for from EOIs:
- Experience of practitioner;
- Aesthetic and ideological suitability (see below);
- Logistics: can we support the project?
- Aesthetic considerations: Tilde promotes
contemporary (new – art music), exploratory and experimental music. Our
program usually consists of contemporary composers (Australian and
international - focusing on Australasia, nothing written before 1969*),
electroacoustic performance, improvisation in a free or post-classical
style (i.e. not jazz), and inter-disciplinary collaboration (previously
we have had dancers, painters, animators, and performance artists). We
also have an installation featuring sound art/electronic and computer
music.
- International and Interstate Applicants: while we welcome EOIs from international applicants, please be aware that we have no funding to support travel.
We will write letters of support for applicants to apply for funding to
travel from other states in Australia, and internationally, and will
help to find cheap or couch-surfing-style accommodation from our network
here in Melbourne.
*Unless programming older but little-heard works
