Sound Arguments 2026 OPEN CALL
Sound Arguments is an innovative laboratory-atelier for creative artists and researchers dealing with sound. Presented by the Orpheus Instituut, Ghent (BE), and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Leiden (NL), Sound Arguments transcends the boundaries of art school or conservatory, art space or university to propose a new kind of creating-researching-learning community. It extends into the broad and complex realm of contemporary art-sound practices. At Sound Arguments, participants will share, invent, listen, learn, and engage in discussions.
A free series of five encounters, it offers a unique opportunity to learn, engage, share, and discuss with a diverse range of guest artists within the context of a constructive, critical, and sustained community.
- Topics include
Microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments; composing movements for electronic sounds. - Craft; critical listening; site.
- Sound art infrastructures; co-learning; networks; knowledge ecology; care.
- Experimentalism in folk music; composition and performance with live electronics; artistic collaboration.
- Obsolete technology and media; acoustic recording; analogue recording.
- Sound archives; close listening; listening to colonial history.
- Fabrication as a narrative tool; craft and materiality.
- Telos / tinkering; thinking with Simondon.
- Guided listening: early electronic music
- Food and sound
Dates
Sound Arguments will meet monthly from February – May 2026. Meetings will be held in both Ghent and Leiden, as indicated on the calendar below.
February 09-10-11 (Orpheus Instituut, Ghent)
March 02-03 (Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden)
March 30-31 (Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden)
April 27-28-29 (Orpheus Instituut, Ghent)
May 18-19-20 (Orpheus Instituut, Ghent)
Last date for submissions: 4 January 2026
For details, see here: https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/news-and-events/sound-arguments-2026
Contact: soundarguments@orpheusinstituut.be