1 day of meetings, 3 days of listening, 20 hours of creation, 47 sound proposals that reformulate the art of radio. 

The Phonurgia Nova Awards are an observatory of emerging sound creation. Daring, exploration, sound art and narrative innovation: from radio to podcast, all the sound forms of the 21st century are on show!

Once a year, with the help of numerous European partners, they identify and select authors who explore the real and the imaginary in sound. As in previous editions, the jury will deliberate in public and in the presence of the authors during a 3-day listening marathon, during which all the works (or extracts) in the 2024 selection will be broadcast, and the prizes and creative residencies will be awarded.

With a day of meetings between actors in sound and radio creation accessible to all...

This Marseilles edition marks both the arrival on the scene of a new generation of professionals attracted by the narrative potential of sound, and the stubborn presence of authors with familiar names, whose obstinacy in unfolding the language of radio compels admiration. Eschewing ambient formatting, tackling the shores of "sound film", "acoustic poem" or "phonography of the real", their explorations are part of a poetic vein once the territory of Pierre Schaeffer's studio d'essai, Alain Veinstein's "Nuits magnétiques", in search of a "parole jouant avec le feu" (1) or France Culture's ACR (2).

Both inside and outside the big radio houses, a new generation is seizing on the tools of recording to "take listening further", deepening its power to "unveil" and reshuffle the cards of sound and spoken forms.

(1) Alain Veinstein, interview with Marie Richeux, Le Book Club, May 3, 2024.
(2) France Culture's Atelier de Création Radiophonique, to which this 29th edition pays tribute in its "out of competition" section through the figure of Yann Paranthoën.
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Call for applications
Closed at midnight on July 31, the call for applications received 336 creations and projects from 27 countries, including:
119 creations in Archives de la Parole
27 in "Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer "
38 in Fiction sonore
38 in Paysage sonore
55 in Art Radio.
And 59 applications for 2025 creative residencies at the Avatar Centre studio, Art Zoyd Studios, GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille, Euphonia Marseille and Phonurgia Nova.