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Embedded Embedded, Sound and Music’s artist development programme, is a programme of residencies for ambitious artists within pioneering arts organisations in the UK. Read about the current residencies and check out the open calls.

Summer School 2012 The Sound and Music Summer School is a life-changing opportunity for anyone aged 14-18 and into creating music. The deadline for 2012 applications has now passed and we are not accepting any more applications.

Off The Page Sound and Music and The Wire present the UK's only literary festival exploring music criticism and contemporary audio culture, taking place on the seaside town of Whitstable, 24 - 26 February 2012.

Minute of Listening Minute of Listening is a new initiative for primary schools encouraging pupils and teachers to engage in 60 seconds of focused listening each day.

Nick Franglen: Hive Nick Franglen’s latest sound installation concentrates the entire radio broadcast output available in north Norfolk into a remote, WWII concrete gunnery dome. If you can't make the event, you can listen to or watch the live stream online.

Listen to This: Micromusic A concert featuring work by Phill Niblock, Yannis Kyriakides and Johannes Kreidler where music is sampled, transcribed, saturated, over-amplified and held under the microscope.

Vision Sound Music Vision Sound Music is the UK’s first event of its kind, a three day festival celebrating the unique relationship between audio and visual cultures.

Sound of Fear: The Musical Universe of Horror An epic two-part event featuring an international cast of artists, critics and composers brought together in a celebration of the music and sound design of the horror film.

Oramics iPhone App An iPhone app replicating the concepts and sounds of Daphne Oram's groundbreaking Oramics Machine

Listen & Talk Listen & Talk is like a book group for contemporary music. You do some advance listening and come along to discuss it over a drink. Our next event is on the Pixies, introduced by Jennifer Walshe.

Audio Explorers Audio Explorers is a sound art bursary scheme that invited primary schools in South Cumbria to explore the creative use of sound through pupil-led projects for Years 5 and 6.

SAM/EMS SAM is collaborating with the legendary EMS studios in Stockholm in the creation of two new works for cello and electronics.

Dean Rodney Singers Sound and Music collaborates with Heart n Soul in a global participatory digital music project

Helena Gough + Lionel Marchetti & Jérôme Noetinger + hamaYôko + Adam Asnan Sound and Music and Entr’acte present a special concert to celebrate the launch of Helena Gough’s new CD Knot Invariants, created following a Sound and Music supported residency at EMS, Stockholm.

Embedded Artist Residency Calls Sound and Music presents three Embedded artist residency calls for applications from early career artists. Residencies are with Pitt Rivers Museum/Oxford Contemporary Music, Forestry Commission England and Manchester Camerata.

Embedded Artist Residency Calls

Call deadlines: 2 April 2012

Sound and Music presents three Embedded artist residency calls for applications from early career artists. Residencies are with Pitt Rivers Museum/Oxford Contemporary Music, Forestry Commission England and Manchester Camerata.

SuperCritical Mass - Call for Performers

1 - 19 May 2012

SuperCritical Mass are looking for all brass players and anyone interested in singing for two huge-scale, mass participation performances as part of the FutureEverything Festival 2012.

Zbigniew Karkowski's Nerve Cell_0

17 May 2012

Sound and Music and noise = noise present a special concert to celebrate the CD launch of Nerve Cell_0, a collaboration between Zbigniew Karkowski and Anton Lukoszevieze on the Subrosa label.

New Music 20x12

New Music 20x12 is a commissioning programme consisting of 20 new pieces of music, each 12 minutes long, delivered by the PRS for Music Foundation. Sound and Music are presenting two events as part of the New Music 20x12 Weekend at Southbank Centre.

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