CO-LAB

Internal Call for Composers

Participating composers are invited to write a short piece for guitar or e-guitar (up to 5 minutes maximum) to be worked on and realized by guitarists from the guitar studio. The workshop aims at developing and exploring collaborative strategies with the new works serving as a departure point. Pieces can be purely acoustic or make use of „objects“, pedals, and in some cases, simple electronic set up (performed by the composer).

Four composers will be selected from the call and will be notified no later than 30 March. Apart from the composers writing the new pieces, any composer/performer registered for the Darmstadt Summer Course is welcome to join the workshop (four sessions, 2.5h each) on the basis of available space (class can accommodate approx. 20 guests).
Performances of the resulting pieces are possible (if technical requirements permit) at any of the various Open Space rooms available, and are to be handled independently by the composers-performers of the pieces.

Application

All composers must be registered participants of the Darmstadt Summer Course 2025.

Please submit:

Composers: One PDF with a short CV and links to a cloud containing 2 recent scores and any relevant recordings.

Please merge all links and documents into ONE SINGLE PDF file (LASTNAME_Firstname_CO-LAB2025.pdf) and send it by 20 March 2025 to:

guitar@darmstaedter-ferienkurse.de

Please note that we cannot consider any remarks, links, or information outside the PDF file!

Applicants will be notified by 30 March 2025.

Important: Please take note of our data protection policy.