

Awardees will also have access to Gray Area’s space for recording and an optional video projection display in the Mission District of San Francisco. Imagine future possibilities for collective transformation in the SF Bay Areaģ selected works will be awarded $1,000 each to create an immersive site-specific soundscape and walking map-score for a location in the SF Bay Area.Investigate vestiges of memory materialized through objects, land, and architecture Connect us to the complex weaving of stories, histories, and ecologies of place.Recalibrate our sensitivity to living realities existing beyond the individual self.This open call invites applicants to propose soundscapes to activate sound art in Bay Area locations to: Translocality seeks to unite human and nonhuman communities in the Bay Area socially, physically, and sonically as a living network of sentient beings. The escalating political, economic, environmental, and public health crisis has revealed a tenuous, yet insistent desire for connectivity across space and time.

The unfolding global pandemic has triggered an existential reckoning over our conceptions of place and human encounter. The program invites curators, artists, producers, or collectives to present new performance-based works or productions based in sound. Soundwave Studios become the rehearsal space for East Bay bands and those whod been. Soundwave NEXT is a partnership between Gray Area and Soundwave, two veteran San Francisco arts organizations to explore the future of sound. How Al Lucchesi built the biggest incubator in Bay Area music.
