Currently 3 active audio, sound and music grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the EU. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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Schlossmediale, the international festival of early music, new music and audiovisual art at Werdenberg Castle in the canton of St. Gallen, invites three solo artists to a five-week residency from 17 May to 27 June 2027. The works developed on site are shown in the castle during the 14th festival edition (17-26 June 2027). The 2027 theme is KLATSCH! (Rumour-Impact): sound and rumour, applause and gossip, oral tradition, collective memory, and the ways every era spreads its information. MEDIUMS: sound art, sound studies, audiovisual art, experimental instrument building, visual art, installation, sculpture, land art and performance; sound installations without a visual dimension are not considered. SUPPORT: CHF 4,000 grant, CHF 1,000 for travel, transport and meals, up to CHF 1,000 for materials, and accommodation in a shared house in Werdenberg (individual rooms, shared kitchen and living areas). ELIGIBILITY: solo artists with professional experience (no groups or duos) who can live and work on site for the full period and complete a finished, functional work by the festival opening; residents present their work on castle tours and attend the whole festival. Working space at the castle is limited and no studios are provided. HOW TO APPLY: exclusively online via the application portal linked from the open-call page. DEADLINE: 18 October 2026.
The NORMA Fonds redistributes copyright remuneration collected by Stichting NORMA into cultural, social and professional projects involving performing artists, and is one of the few Dutch schemes with four intakes a year and a genuinely short cycle. Both arts-sector organisations and individual arts professionals may apply, though the applicant needs a bank account and legal footing and cannot be a BIS-funded institution. The project must centre on performing artists in the copyright sense, meaning people who perform a copyright-protected work: musicians, dancers, actors, voice actors. This fits live experimental music, sound performance and performative media-art work, but not object-based exhibitions or non-performative installation programmes. The maximum grant is EUR 10,000, the total project budget must stay under EUR 150,000, the applicant's annual budget under EUR 500,000, and at least a quarter of the project budget must be earned from audience income, so this is a top-up rather than a primary funding source. Budgets must honour NORMA's 2026 performer wage norms. Applications are submitted online during a one-month window each quarter; the next round runs 1 to 30 October 2026, closing at 23:59. TIMING RULE: decisions arrive no later than eight weeks after the deadline, and the premiere date must fall at least eight weeks after the application deadline. Organisations that already received a NORMA Fonds grant in 2024 or 2025 are excluded, and supporting staff may not exceed 2 FTE.
La Scam's Brouillon d'un reve Sonore category funds documentary, educational or informational audio works for radio or podcast: reportage, narrative, portrait, chronicle, interview and testimony. WHAT YOU GET: a development bourse of EUR 2,500 to EUR 6,000, paid directly to the author 4 to 5 weeks after contract signing. ELIGIBILITY: explicitly no age, residence or nationality restrictions, and open to non-members, though the application process and repertoire are in French. RULES: one application per year across all Brouillon d'un reve categories; the same project may be submitted at most twice; past laureates must wait three years before reapplying. APPLICATION: rolling, via the online form on the Scam site, with monthly consultation slots running September to July; contact brouillondunreve@scam.fr. The fund leans documentary rather than experimental radio art, but it is a solidly current cash fund for radio and podcast authorship.