Call for producers: Sónar Calling

6 déc 2017 - 10:59

Published under the Creative Commons Licence

The organisers of Sónar Festival in Barcelona, Spain, are calling on all producers to submit a 10-second original music piece that will be sent to space. The electro event, which is now in its 25th edition, is seeking to make contact with extraterrestrial beings through music.

Sónar Festival wants to send your music into space in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence.

The deadline for applications is 1 March 2018 and selected musical pieces will be announced via email on 23 April 2018.

Running under the theme, Uniting Music and Science to Connect and Communicate With Alien Life, Sónar will attempt to do what the Voyager mission is still trying to accomplish through the Voyager Golden Record. This might sound crazy, but the Sónar organisers say there’s probably no better way to bond with aliens than through music.

Three selected musical pieces created by the public will also be sent beyond the solar system together with 33 tracks made by artists. The three participants, whose pieces are selected, will receive four VIP passes to attend the 2018 edition of Sónar Festival in Barcelona from 14 to 16 June 2018.

The winners will be chosen by members of the Sónar Calling GJ273b scientific and artistic team who will evaluate the submissions entered.

Requirements:

Sónar reserves the right to disqualify and eliminate any piece of music that does not meet the following requirements:

You are the sole author and owner of the rights to the musical composition and the submitted recording;
That you have the right to submit the composition to participate in the competition;
That the composition or recording does not contain illegal, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, pornographic content;
That the composition or recording does not violate the regulations pertaining to copyright, trademarks, rights to contracts or other intellectual property rights of third parties or entities, or violates the rights of individuals to privacy or publicity and that does not include third-party trademarks; materials with third party copyright rights; names, similarities, voices or other identifiable characteristics of famous people or other characters, living or dead.
Any composition or recording that contains commercial content that promotes any product or service other than Sónar will automatically be disqualified.

Before submitting their music, artists should consider the following:

Only original musical pieces composed exclusively for the Sónar Calling transmissions will be considered.
Only artists that are above 18 years old are allowed to compete.
Artists are encouraged to send high quality sound clips as low quality files can get lost in high frequencies (above 4kHz).
Artists are recommended to take into consideration the imposed digital format limitations being used in the transmissions.
Artists should upload a 10-second long musical piece in Wav file format or send via this email address sonarcalling@sonar.es

Here are the full terms and conditions of the call.

Watch a short documentary about the project below: