The Scottish Awards for New Music will celebrate and champion composers, musicians, sound artists and ensembles that are making innovative and experimental new music right now.
Created by New Music Scotland, the awards will recognise the diversity and quality of music being made by Scottish and Scottish-based new music creators and help create a wider audience for their work.
Categories and criteria summary
Electroacoustic/Sound Art Work
For a new work written and/or performed during 2016 that can be described as either electroacoustic or sound art (or both!)
Small/Medium Scale New Work
A piece of new music, of any style or instrumentation, written and/or performed in 2016 by 10 performers or fewer.
Large Scale New Work
A piece of new music, of any style or instrumentation, written and/or performed in 2016 by 11 performers or more
Recorded New Work
A recording of new music released in 2016 for TV, film, digital/online platforms, or other audio-visual medium. This may include the recording of an existing work released within the calendar year.
Award for Innovation
This award recognises that with innovation comes risk! Innovative ideas, concepts, ways of creating new music may be submitted, which may not require a proven final outcome. The work or event being submitted should have taken place over 2016, and documentation of the project must be included in the submission.
Prize for Collaboration
Celebrating collaborative new music in 2016, including projects that are cross-genre, cross-artform, multi-disciplinary, or those that bring together unique combinations of partners
Community/Education project
Music-making, listening, appreciation, participation projects taking new music as their medium, and widening access to those in Scottish communities and/or education settings. This may take the form of a one-off event, or an ongoing project without specific outcome over the calendar year of 2016.
Achievement in New Music
Marking the achievement of a person or organisation that has contributed significantly to the new music sector in Scotland
New Music Performer(s) of the Year
An award to celebrate musicians who perform new music at the highest standard. This could be the best one-off performance or a number of performances that adds to a portfolio of work.
Location: All Scotland
For further information, please contact nicola@newmusicscotland.co.uk (Nicola Henderson), or visit http://www.newmusicscotland.co.uk/awards2017/
The deadline is Tuesday 20 December 2016 at 23:55.