Call for proposals: Sonic Worldings

Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research

The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC) is an annual event organized by docARTES PhD researchers, bringing together artist-researchers from around the world for dialogue, performance, and exchange.

This year’s theme, the emerging generative concept of ‘worlding’, offers a methodological and theoretical orientation through which artistic practices may bring forth and configure different experiential, epistemic, and material realities. Rather than representing a pre-given world, musical practices can be understood as ontologically productive: they engage in worlding by generating sonic, historical, and conceptual realities that intervene in and reconfigure the social, material, and symbolic conditions of the present.

Contribution types

• Presentations: 20 minutes + 10 minutes for Q&A
• Lecture performances: 35 minutes + 10 minutes for Q&A
• Artistic performances: 25–45 minutes recommended
• Installation: sound / audiovisual

Additionally, we encourage experimental and/or collaborative presentation formats.

Last date for submissions: 21 December 2025

Conference dates: 16-17 April 2026

For details, see here: https://orpheusinstituut.be/nl/nieuws-en-events/call-for-proposals-odc-2026

Contact: communication@orpheusinstituut.be