ctm magazine 2024 call for proposals

This worldwide open call seeks proposals from writers and thinkers wishing to engage with the topic of Sustain, as well as ongoing topics within independent music ecosystems and scenes to be published in the context of CTM 2024. Proposals should relate to topics evoked by the festival theme of Sustain, as well as ongoing topics within the independent music ecosystem such as equity, access, cross-cultural exchange, sustainability, technology and tools for production, music aesthetics and practices.

Since 2014, CTM Festival has curated a yearly magazine with the intent of providing a number of entry points into the annual festival theme, and to present voices, ideas, and content that extend beyond the presentation possibilities of a music festival. Over the years, the magazine has collected contributions from various music journalists, researchers, theorists, and artists, as well as poets and writers of fiction, activists, technologists, and photographers.

Article formats are flexible and can include essays, opinion pieces, research, interviews, fiction, performative writing, speculative exercises, photo-based exposés, etc. Creative / unusual formats are possible but must be flexible and open to discussion with the editorial team, to accommodate the limits of CTM’s web architecture. A note to applicants wishing to propose a creative writing style or format: please give examples of how sound and music will be situated or featured in your work. For example specific inspirations and references (people, histories, sounds, tracks, traditions etc) and / or mentioning formats (eg. embedded tracks, sound clips, citations, etc) will make the proposal clearer.

Priority will be given to proposals from BIPOC authors/artists, as well as voices from diverse localities, practices, and communities.