Europe's Eighth Student 3D Audio Production Competition and virtual Finals are held Nov. 2024

IEM calls for students' works to be submitted to Europe's Eighth 3D Audio Production Competition that is going to be hosted at IEM in Graz, with vdt, ORF musikprotokoll, and sounding future as partners. The call is issued for the three production/composition categories:

(1) contemporary / computer music

(2) audio drama / documentary / soundscapes

(3) music recording / studio production.

The required format to deliver is a 5th order Ambisonic track as multi-channel file in .WAV or .CAF that comply with the AmbiX format (SN3D, full 3D, ACN channel ordering). We also encourage submissions that were originally produced in channel- or object-based formats (e.g. ADM, Atmos). To convert such productions to Ambisonics, decode them first to a virtual high-density loudspeaker setup (e.g. 9.1.6, 22.2) and encode the virtual loudspeaker signals at their positions to Ambisonics using e.g. the IEM MultiEncoder. Below you find a Reaper template project, which already has all the necessary settings and routings to create content for the competition.

Note that while the submission length is still max. 4min for categories (2) and (3), in the contemporary category (1) submission lengths of up to 11min will be accepted that fit common contemporary composition formats.

Please also note that it is important for us to be given a CC-by license by you to enable the competition, its awards, and the virtual appearance of the nominated finalists on https://tonmeister.org. We are working on the opportunities to present these finalist works prior to the awards ceremony  at ORF musikprotokoll  for category (1)  in Austrian contemporary/classic radio program (ORF OE1) around the finals.

Eligibility: participants should active students currently, or recent students who finished studying less than a year ago, so after June 2023. 

For more details, view the official call [pdf].

Submission deadline will be June 30th 2024.
The submission deadline has been extended to 14th of July 2024.

The link to the submission portal is [link-to-easychair]

We are proud to announce that for the winner of category 1 (contemporary / computer music), d&B audiotechnik will provide 2 days of working/experimenting with a large immersive sound reinforcement system in their hall 14 in Backnang, including travel allowance.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via email: s3dapc@iem.at