Open Call re:natura #05 – Crescere

#Open Call #Experimental Musics #Compilation #Concept #Growth #Biodiversity

Submission Form:
https://forms.gle/Lp9LtFyt9tJL94BZ6

Synopsis

• What: Submit audio works inspired by the concept of Growth
• Deadline: June 29, 2025
• Format: WAV, max 8 min
• Theme: Biodiversity in all its literal and metaphorical forms
• Compensation: 100 € per selected track
 

Why do we grow? Should we advance? How should we develop? When do we thrive? Where do we spread?

After last year's breezy topic Æther, our fifth annual compilation, re:natura #05 – Crescere asks crucial questions about the concept of growth. Derived from Latin Crescere (to grow – think Crescendo), we want to encourage you to dive deeply into the concept of growth in natural sciences with a focus on biodiversity.

Ranging from reproduction and corporal development to population control, from invasive species to degrowth strategies, from metastases to social insects, we invite you to dig into a wealth of subtopics. The more specific, the better: Get inspired by rabbit holes, asian carp, mathematical growth models, Lemmus lemmus, Feedback cybernetics or Ailanthus altissima. 

In our forthcoming audio compilation we want to examine growth ranging from a microscopic to macroscopic scale – from single cells to whole populations. 

🎶 Birds do it, bees do it

Even educated fleas do it […] 🎶

We invite sound artists, poets, experimental musicians, researchers and sound designers to share their unique and specific perspectives on the concept of growth. In this Open Call, we are looking for short audio productions concerned with topics of biodiversity: These subtopics may concern the specific representation of species, habitats and ecosystems, the influences on biodiversity, the consequences of biodiversity loss and measures against the loss of biodiversity. Metaphorical, representational as well as literal concepts are welcome.

Submission Form:
https://forms.gle/Lp9LtFyt9tJL94BZ6

Submissions are due Sunday, June 29, 2025