Call for Sounds: Soundcinema Düsseldorf 2026 (Due July 31)
Call for Sounds: Soundcinema Düsseldorf 2026
Deadline: July 31st, 2026
Soundcinema Düsseldorf is a recorded sound festival for experimental, electronic and electroacoustic music that will take place on 28.10.2026 at FFT Düsseldorf. On the day of the event, a selection of ten audio productions, which have been carefully picked by a selection panel in advance, will be presented (as pre-recorded works) in an acousmatic listening situation. At the end of the evening, two jury awards and one audience award will be awarded, each endowed with 750€. Additionally, each of the ten selected works will receive a fee of 100€ (gross).
It is possible to submit stereo and multi-channel productions up to a maximum of 7.1 (please note the channel configuration below). We are looking for musical compositions, soundscapes, sound collages, sonic experiments, narrative audio formats and technoid productions that are characterized by a transgressive impetus and attempt to undermine conventional listening experiences. Contributions can be submitted either for the free category or for this year’s thematic focus Acceleration.
Free Category
For the free category, musical compositions, soundscapes, sound collages, sonic experiments and narrative audio formats can be submitted as well as recordings that deal with the limits of sound and hearing itself and/or that acoustically explore the resonance relationship between sound, body and space.
Thematic Focus 2026: Acceleration
Under the thematic focus Acceleration, compositions are sought that engage with sonic, structural, and temporal processes of acceleration in music—for instance, through changes in density, energy, rhythm and information flow. Acceleration may manifest in microscopic temporal shifts, in the superimposition of layers, in the accumulation of energetic states, or in the dissolution of form.
Cultural and societal phenomena of acceleration may likewise serve as points of departure and be reflected through sonic practice.
Submissions are invited that investigate acceleration not merely as a technical parameter, but as an aesthetic and form-generating force: as a tension between precision and instability, as movement within the material itself, and as an acoustic experience of time.