SONIC ARTS SUMMER ACADEMY 2025 – SASA 2025

SONIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2025

16 – 20 June 2025

 

 

Electroacoustic Music Lab [ΕΡΗΜΕΕ] – Department of Music Studies Ionian University, Corfu

TAMLab, Kunstuniversität, Linz

Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz

Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini, Bologna

 

  

  

                                                                    

                    

 

 

The Sonic Arts Summer Academy – SASA and the Sonic Arts Festival have been organized in various forms since 2005, culminating the annual actions of the Ionian University’s Electroacoustic Music Laboratory in the island of Corfu, Greece. Throughout these years, the Academy and the Festival hosted celebrated musicians, artists and educators as well as inventive young artists with innovative action.

Our ambition was – and still remains – to combine contemporary sonic arts with today’s technology, to experiment with new media and aesthetics, and to blend the academic model with the playful mood of improvisation. In this intensive creative framework, participants are invited to experiment and to create musical projects for the final concerts of the program with the help and cooperation of prominent teachers.

The Academy includes intensive workshops on electroacoustic music, 3-D audio, sonic interaction, multi-channel diffusion, soundscapes and acoustic ecology, recording practices and more. The Festival includes daily concerts with a multi-channel loudspeaker system.

The workshops and the concerts will be hosted at the central hall of the Ionian Academy, the Polytechno Arts Centre and selected open spaces in Corfu.

The workshops are addressed to composers of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed music, teachers, students of Music Departments, Schools and Conservatoires, as well as to any musician and artist who uses creatively the new media and music technology.

In 2025, the Sonic Arts Summer Academy and the Sonic Arts Festival of the Ionian University’s Music Department is co-organised by a consortium of innovative Institutions, each specialized in different fields of cutting-edge music technology and aesthetics:
the Tangible Music Lab-Institute of Media-University of Arts Linz, Austria, the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz, Austria and the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini, Bologna, Italy. All of the workshops and concerts of the Academy and the Festival will be offered free of charge to a number of selected participants.

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.