Soundwave NEXT explores space and time through TRANSLOCALITY

The unfolding global pandemic has triggered an existential reckoning over our conceptions of place and human encounter. The escalating political, economic, environmental, and public health crisis has revealed a tenuous, yet insistent desire for connectivity across space and time.

Translocality seeks to unite human and nonhuman communities in the Bay Area socially, physically, and sonically as a living network of sentient beings. This open call invites applicants to propose soundscapes to activate sound art in Bay Area locations to:

• Recalibrate our sensitivity to living realities existing beyond the individual self

• Connect us to the complex weaving of stories, histories, and ecologies of place

• Investigate vestiges of memory materialized through objects, land, and architecture

• Imagine future possibilities for collective transformation in the SF Bay Area

3 selected works will be awarded $1,000 each to create an immersive site-specific soundscape and walking map-score for a location in the SF Bay Area. Awardees will also have access to Gray Area’s space for recording and an optional video projection display in the Mission District of San Francisco.

As part of Soundwave’s continued commitment to support artists from underrepresented communities, we will prioritize BIPOC, LGBTQI, and disabled applicants. Acknowledging the disproportionate effect the pandemic has had on marginalized communities, our goal is to provide support for works that use creative expression for collective liberation.

SUBMISSION PERIOD OPENS
April 15, 2021

SUBMISSION PERIOD CLOSES
May 7th, 2021

ARTIST NOTIFICATION
June 2021

EVENT DATES
September through November 2021