GoSpatial 2025 - Open Call for Spatial Sound Projects

We invite sound artists, composers, and sonic experimenters to set new boundaries using our new spherical spatial sound instrument, the Svarog 24 — part of the “Singing Watermelons” family.

What Are We Seeking?

We’re looking for work focused on exploring or leveraging spatial aspect of sound, with a strong conceptual quality, falling into one of 3 categories.

Sound Design
Experimental Pieces

Projects that disrupt conventions, experiment with form, or are built entirely around immersive spatial sound.

Composition

Electronic, acousmatic, generative or algorithmic — any approach that pushes composition into new spatial territory.

Live
Performance

Performances featuring live instruments, voice or electronics and creative live spatialization, with a focus on space as instrument.

Prizes & Opportunities

Grand Prize

1-week collaborative residency in our studio located in the middle of nature in the south-west of Poland, adapting your work for our newest instrument — Svarog 24, a spherical beamforming array 
(prize value: €7000)

3 Runner ups

Weekend hands-on workshop focused on spatialization and adapting your work for spherical beamforming speakers (prize value: €2000 each)

Showcase & Library

All selected/shortlisted works may be adapted, presented, and included in our emerging library of works for spherical speakers (including our "Singing Watermelons", IKO by Sonible & IEM, and #393), with potential royalties from future events.

Terms

• Workshop participants cover travel to Poland
• This is for solo artists, small groups an exception
• Prizes are not exchangeable for cash
• Participants must be english-speaking
• Participants be citizens of EU or hold a Schengen visa
   

Schedule

• Priority Deadline: August 3
• Late Deadline: August 8
• Selection: August 11
• Residencies & Workshops: August 15 - Sept 30

How to Apply

Application form and contact details at:

https://slovox.design/gospatial