Open Call: Sonic Tuesdays — Student Program, Summer Semester 2026
Sonic Tuesdays is an ongoing evening series hosted jointly by the professorships of Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies and Experimental Radio — a regular gathering point for listening, performing, presenting, and thinking together through sound. This summer semester, we open two Sonic Tuesdays evenings to student contributions: Tuesday, 23 June 2026 and Tuesday, 7 July 2026. Please submit your proposals by 4 June 2026.
Each evening of the Sonic Tuesdays takes a different shape: concerts, multichannel diffusions, workshops, lectures, radio pieces, listening sessions, experiments that don't yet have a name. What holds it together is the room, the sound system, and an audience that listens carefully. The evenings take place in the Klanglabor — Marienstraße 5, room 204, Weimar — equipped with a multichannel Genelec system, a video projector, and DMX-controlled lights. Evenings begin at 7 p.m. and typically run 1 – 2 hours.
We're looking for proposals that take the room, the sound system, and the format of a shared evening seriously. Contributions can be individual or collaborative, and might take the form of concerts, multichannel and spatial audio works, radio pieces and on-air formats, field recording and phonographic compositions, lecture-performances, listening sessions, workshops, live coding sets, installations, score performances, or formats we haven't thought of yet. We especially welcome proposals that engage with the space and system in ways that wouldn't be possible elsewhere — spatialisation, site-specific listening, longer durations — as well as proposals that test the boundary between broadcast and presence, between radio and room.
What to submit:
- a short description of the proposed contribution (max. 1 page)
- your preferred date (23 June / 7 July / either)
- duration and format
- technical requirements (channel count, playback, inputs, lighting, any other setup)
- a link or short sample of related work, if available
- a brief bio (3–4 sentences)
Send proposals tomarcin.pietruszewski[at]uni-weimar.deby 4 June 2026.
Eligibility: open to all students at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt.
Conditions: contributions are unpaid, but the Klanglabor, its multichannel system, technical support during rehearsal and performance, and a listening audience are provided. We expect to programme 3–4 contributions per evening, selected together by the two professorships. Selected contributors will be contacted by 11 June 2026 to confirm programming and arrange rehearsal time.
Questions welcome before submission — marcin.pietruszewski[at]uni-weimar.de
We are looking forward to your proposals!