The European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) 2026

EPARM is an initiative of the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), acting as a resource for artistic research in the specific context of Higher Music Education: sharing knowledge, insights and outputs; promoting and developing the discourse around artistic research; incubating new ideas and developments; and offering support and inspiration to AEC members.

Datum und Ort: 09.04–11.04.2026, Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo
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Symposium: How to live together in sound? Towards sonic democracy

We all communicate through sound and contribute in different ways to constituting and sustaining more-than-human communities in the aural domain. We condition and shape our common life-worlds through the performance of our aural and sonic actions: hearing and listening, as well as producing, processing, and distributing sounds. We outline different forms of otherness and commonalities by mobilizing sonic agencies in encounters that unfold, at least partially, in the aural medium.

As artistic research practitioners we provide new evidence of all these complex and intertwined processes by expanding and enhancing our sonic attention and awareness. We thereby disclose new possibilities of understanding different shapes and ways of individual and collective aural being-in-the-world.

Conference Dates: 12.10.–14.10.2026, Helsinki Music Centre
Deadline: 10.04.2026
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Call for Papers
Orpheus Instituut: Bodies as Transducers

Artistic research operates at the intersection of bodies, materials, and concepts. From this perspective, musical performance appears as an intense transductive process through which energy, information, and materialities undergo continuous transformation. Musical objects emerge not so much as reproduction of fixed works, but as dynamic concatenations of infinite “musical particles”—micro-events of ongoing individuation where affective, material, and conceptual forces momentarily converge, only to dissolve and reconfigure elsewhere. For performers, each particle marks a threshold where muscular, sensory, and imaginative energies convert into sonic form; for composers, these particles constitute generative diagrams that invite further differentiation.

Drawing on Simondon’s concept of transduction, Deleuze and Guattari’s multiplicities, and Paulo de Assis’s differential ontology of music and the notion of performative transductions, this conference examines how performance functions as a field of energetic reconfiguration where the body acts as the central transductive force and bodies, instruments, notations, and concepts mutually transform one another.

Conference Dates: 05.11.–06.11.2026
Deadline: 27.04.2026
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Call for Submissions
Journal for Artistic Research (JAR)

JAR is an internationally recognized, Open Access journal that publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines including (but not limited to) the visual arts, architecture, dance, design, film, literature, music, painting, performance, photography, poetry, sculpture, theatre, video art, urban planning, etc. The journal seeks submissions of artists and theorists focusing on artistic research, with or without academic affiliation, and at all stages of their research curriculum.

Rethinking the traditional journal format, JAR offers its contributors a free-to-use online space called the Research Catalogue (RC) where text can be woven together with image, audio and video material allowing for creative modes of presenting and documenting artistic work. We are specifically interested in contributions that reflect upon and expose artistic practice as research, and welcome submissions from artists interested in opening up the processes that underlie their practice. 

The Journal publishes three, unthemed issues a year. To be eligible to publish in the second issue of 2027, the next submission deadline is the 31st of May 2026. JAR accepts submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English.

Deadline: 31.05.2026
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