Open Calls for Residencies

Explore opportunities to develop new work, exchange ideas, and experiment with immersive sound. Open calls bring artists, researchers, and makers into the Futures of Listening programme.

Open call
Futures of Listening x Immersive Audio Network
Open Call for Netherlands-based Composers
Deadline 21 Nov 2026
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Architecture on Sound
Open call
Deadline 13 Sep 2026
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Earth Immersion: Trembling Planet
An invitation to explore listening, ecology, and our relationship with the more-than-human world through immersive sound in a residency.
Deadline 13 Sep 2026
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Worlding Narratives: Roaming Sound Space
An invitation to explore worldbuilding, narrative, and shared imagination through spatial sound and immersive artistic practice.
Deadline 13 Sep 2026

General Information about the Open Calls for Residencies

At the heart of Futures of Listening sits a residency programme, inviting artists, both directly and through open calls, to conduct research, experiment, and develop works, as well as present these outcomes to the public. A key objective of those residencies is to provide space for the development of immersive knowledge, methods, instruments, tools and opportunities to explore new approaches.

We aim to connect and support existing professionals with sonic practices and introduce new opportunities for emerging talents to experiment and develop new works in spatial sound. There are multiple open calls inviting artists for different residencies in both 2026 and 2027. Hereby, we present the first set of open calls.

Read about the application process, residency structure, compensation and expected outcomes here.