Ready to submit to our eleventh annual Electronic Music Composition Contest?
Read the rules below and ENTER here.
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Musicworks’ annual juried contest spotlights new musical talent from around the world and offers cash prizes and opportunities to be published and heard.
PRIZES
First prize is CAD$500, a composer profile in Musicworks 142, Spring 2022 issue (print and online), and the composition released on the Musicworks 142 CD.
Second prize is CAD$200 and composer coverage on musicworks.ca in 2022.
Third prize is CAD$100 and composer coverage on musicworks.ca in 2022.
The Marcelle Deschênes Prize in Electronic Music / prix Marcelle-Deschênes pour la musique électronique is CAD$300, coverage in Musicworks 142, Spring 2022 issue, and the composition released on the Musicworks 142 CD. Learn more about the prize here.
MUSIC
Compose and submit an experimental piece(s) in any electronic-music genre—acousmatic, electroacoustic, glitch, soundscape, intelligent dance music (IDM), turntable art, or video music etc.
ELIGIBILITY
The contest is open to entries from anywhere in the world and from artists at any stage of their careers. Pieces must be previously unpublished, i.e. not released on a commercially available recording at the time of submission.
LENGTH AND FILES
Maximum length: 10 minutes. Accepted file types: MP3 or MP4 only.
This is a juried contest. Jurors will not know the identities of the entrants.
Please do not include your name in the filename / title of your submission. Please remove credits if you are submitting video music.
CONTEST CLOSES DECEMBER 20, 2021.
Meet the first-place winners of previous Electronic Music Composition Contests and get inspired by their winning works!
2020 Rocío Cano Valiño (Argentina / France)
2019 Alex Buck (Brazil / California)
2018 Manuella Blackburn (Manchester, U.K.)
2017 Erik Ingalls (Windsor, Ontario)
2016 Craig Aalders (Vancouver, British Columbia)
2015 Juan Camilo Vásquez (Bogota, Colombia)
2014 James O’Callaghan (Montreal, Quebec)
2013 Margaret Noble (San Diego, California)
2012 Bennett Jenisch (Los Angeles, California)
2011 Ian Battenfield Headley (NYC)
