Please read all of the information carefully and then follow the link below to the application Google Form.
A Google Account is required to complete the application. If would like to create a Google Account, you can do so here. (You are not required to have or create a gmail account.)
APPLICATION DEADLINE
February 1, 2025, 11:59PM Eastern Time
Please see the complete admissions and payment timeline below.
Participation Tracks (NEW!)
Starting this year we now offer three participation tracks. Whether you consider yourself a composer, performer, composer-performer, electronic music investigator, or are entirely new to electroacoustic music, we encourage you to apply to whichever track listed below best fits your interest.
New Works Artists (NWA) are composers, performers, or composer-performers who would like to collaboratively work on a new piece to be premiered at SPLICE Institute.
Ensemble Artists will participate in one of the SPLICE Institute improvisation ensembles that includes a concert performance on Saturday afternoon, AND participate in workshops and other activities.
Workshop Artists will participate in workshops and other activities but not perform.
All workshops (from beginner to advanced), lectures, and non-ensemble hands-on activities are open to ALL participants in each of the three tracks.
Please visit our Participation Tracks page for more details.
PROCESS
Please be prepared to submit contact and biographical information, answer questions about your previous experience with electroacoustic music, and submit composition or performance examples for review.
For sound files and videos, please provide links to Google Drive (with non-expiring links that are shared with anyone with the link), Soundcloud, YouTube, etc...
For scores, please provide non-expiring links to files that are openly available (ex.: Google Drive, Dropbox, a download link from your own website). Since our adjudicators will not use the same account, do not share files with any specific account (share with anyone with the link).
ADMISSIONS and Payment Timeline
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST: Application Deadline
February 7, 2025: Rolling admissions begin. We hope to notify all applicants by March 1.
Ten-days after acceptance notification: Deadline to submit the non-refundable $200 program fee deposit and to confirm attendance.
May 15, 2025: Deadline to submit remaining balance of tuition, housing, and meal fees.
New-Work Artist Collaboration Timeline
Late Feb. (exact date TBD): Initial Zoom meeting with all full participants outlining expectations and guidelines.
March 1, 2025: Deadline for composer and performer collaborators to connect and discuss the new work.
NOTE: performer and composer should both plan for the performer to run the electronics from the stage during the final performance.
All skills needed to do so will be covered during the week of SPLICE Institute.
March 15, 2025: Piece proposal due to performer and faculty mentor - check to make sure all proposals follow our guidelines.
April 29, 2025: Deadline for composers writing a new work to send the collaborating performer and the faculty mentor a draft score of the work. This can be provided earlier, but not later than this date.
May 20, 2025: Deadline for composers writing a new work to send the collaborating performer and the faculty mentor a final notated composition including prefatory materials/notation legend and explanation of electronics.
June 3, 2025: Deadline for composers writing a new work to send performer and faculty mentor FINAL ELECTRONIC SUPPORT materials (sound files, Max patch, etc.) and any other materials necessary for rehearsal prior to the meetings that will occur at SPLICE. Composers should only expect minor changes to be possible after the start of SPLICE, since all participants will be busy during the week.
Sunday, June 22, 2025, by 9am: You must arrive at SPLICE Institute by 9am on Sunday for your collaborative meeting.
