We are happy to announce our first open call for written and visual materials to be included in our first book publication! There will be a fee for the chosen participants.
Deadline 15.03.2025
Results by 31.03.2025
The open call asks authors to reflect on the cultural aspects of microtonal music as well as its musical sides.
Some questions we have been thinking about: What is microtonal music, how and why do we make it? What does it mean to make microtonal music rather than other types of music? Why is it needed? What’s it for? What resources are necessary for microtonal music? How can institutions build those resources and what can people do to make a more diverse-sounding world possible? What are the historical as well as contemporary aspects of microtonal music? What are diverse cultural approaches to microtonal music? How does the experience of microtonal music differ from other types of music? How and which technologies are related to microtonality?
Submissions can be academic or poetic, structured or freeform, pedagogical, decolonial, theoretical, and/or ontological.
Written content may include: texts, abstracts, articles, and other kinds of writings.
Visual content may include: posters, diagrams, and other kinds of visual explorations.
The book, titled “Microtonal Music Studios: Music Outside Keys and Cultures”, will be published as a PDF with a small print run in Autumn 2025.
The book will be edited by Timo Tuhkanen and published by Pteron Press.
10 participants will be chosen, with a fee paid to chosen authors totaling 400€. For chosen authors, finalised texts will be due by 15.05.2025; the extension for these should span from 5 to 20 pages (1,000-10,000 words) –exceptions to this may be accepted nonetheless. In the case of visual materials, the open call accepts single-image submissions.
Please send your submission to microtonalmusicstudios@gmail.com by the deadline 15.03.2025, results will be published by 31.03.2025.
If you have further questions, please address them to microtonalmusicstudios@gmail.com