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2025 LIT Music Awards

The LIT Music Awards is an international music competition celebrating and honoring exceptional musical talent from around the world. From music, music video, dance, songwriting, influencers to instrumental performances, the LIT Music Awards is where musical excellence takes center stage in the entertainment industry, celebrating the pulsating heart of the global music scene.

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The LIT Music Awards categories cover the best in music, including soul-stirring compositions and visually captivating music videos. Whether you're an artist, musician, songwriter, composer, instrumentalist, or a music video creator, the LIT categories provide a platform for your talents to shine.

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Sound Art & Music Residency in Brazil

Canil Residency was born out of Canil Recs studios, a community-focused music studio based in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Founded by Everton Surerus in 2018, the name Canil (meaning "kennel") is an homage to scappy DIY beginnings and the studio's mascot, local dog resident Montila. The musician and professional sound engineer was recently joined by Leo Fazio of São Paulo (musician, music producer) and Starly Lou Riggs of Portland, Oregon (musician, photographer, visual artist) to form a new artist residency with a focus in helping sound artists from around the world craft a dream project, while forming ties with an interesting international community. A college city, Juiz de Fora sits in the colorful state of Minas Gerais, a bus ride away from Rio de Janeiro.

Jazz & Sonic Arts 2025

Overview  

The Jazz & Sonic Arts program is an innovative development opportunity for early and mid-career jazz and sound artists. It encourages participants to explore new directions in their artistic practice, become changemakers, and advance their creative potential as performers, collaborators, and creators.

Engage with sound in innovative ways, using improvisation, experimentation, and technology to expand the sonic possibilities of music. Jazz and Sonic Arts are ever-evolving and diverse genres, creating a powerful synergy that inspires creativity and leads to multidimensional, transcendent artistic experiences. They serve as catalysts for cultural dialogue, empowerment, societal change, and ecological awareness.

Babbasawt Sound Lab 2025

This residency offers a fully funded opportunity for musicians, sound artists, and multidisciplinary artists working with sound, currently residing in Europe.

The application is due October 13th, 2024.
The residency takes place from January 6th - February 7th, 2025, in Tunis, Tunisia.

This Babbasawt Sound Lab is a one month long residency based around pairing five musicians / sound artists from a Creative Europe country with five Tunisian musicians / sound artists. The selected artists will work together on new collaborative works, while also participating in mentor led workshops on instrument building and experimental music/sound techniques.

Altered Images

We are preparing the Fifth edition of Altered Images and we are more excited than ever! 

The event is scheduled to take place on October 11Th ‘24 and we are looking for a varied range of artists and proposals:
 

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Banff Musicians in Residence Winter 2025

Overview  
This program provides space and focused time for musicians of all genres to concentrate on artistic development while working on projects that can be either individually or group/ensemble based. You may be working in your established genre(s), or exploring a new one.

Along with the freedom to structure your time around the needs of your project, you will receive artistic inspiration and career advice from well-established faculty. You will have access to a range of artistic influences across the three weeks with the opportunity for interaction and collaboration to produce outstanding, creative results.

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