ELECTROWAVE, the Rocky Mountain Electroacoustic Music Festival hosted at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), seeks original electroacoustic works from composers living in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming or Utah for a “FRONT RANGE WAVES” Special Feature Concert during the 2025 ELECTROWAVE Festival.

The festival takes place March 14-16, 2025, at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, in and around the breathtaking Ent Center for the Arts.

Requirements:
This year’s Call is open to creators of electronic music living in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.
There are no restrictions on age, gender, race, ethnicity or institutional affiliation.

Submission Guidelines:
Please submit a fixed-media work for 2 or 4 channels (submit 4-channel works as a stereo mixdown for submission purposes please) in WAV format, with or without video; Reaper or Ableton Live will be used for playback, and our large projector will be used for those works with video.

Duration: 13′ max. Preference will be given to works less than 10′ in duration.

Composers are invited to submit up to two (2) works, using a separate Google Form for each submission.
Please do not submit more than one piece in a single form.

If proposing a 4-channel work, please submit a stereo mix for consideration purposes. We will ask for performance files for selected 4-channel works.

Deadline: Sunday, February 9, 2025, 11:59PM MST.

Festival Profile: ELECTROWAVE is three days (March 14-16, 2025, Friday to Sunday) of concerts, presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and conversations. Our goal is to share and enjoy electronic music in all its various forms as well as expand the ever growing electronic music community in Colorado Springs, CO. ELECTROWAVE’s concert events feature electronic music of various genres from experimental to techno and everything in between and beyond.

Please note*

For ELECTROWAVE 2025, we are unfortunately NOT able to provide travel funding or honoraria, but we guarantee that a good time will be had by all. We are more than happy to help with language and/or letters of commitment for grant applications to support your participation to funding institutions.

There are no application fees, no registration fees, and no ticket fees for ELECTROWAVE. All events are freely available to the public.

If accepted, attendance is encouraged.

Any questions regarding this Call for Contributions may be addressed to:
ElectrowaveMusicFest@gmail.com

Organizers:
Dr. Jon Forshee (UCCS)
Mike Berry aka Karnblack (CMSS)