esc medien kunst labor presents the five finalists of the phonoECHOES Competition 2025 organised by ACOM - Austrian Composers Association. The event will also be streamed on ACOM's YouTube channel. Together with a jury of experts, the audience will select the three winning works - on site and online - and the award ceremony will take place afterwards.

The ACOM - Austrian Composers Association has organised the phonoECHOES competition for the fifth time this year in cooperation with Klanghaus Untergreith. Musicians were able to submit audiovisual works from the fields of sound art, experimental electronics and electroacoustic music that contain improvisational elements and whose visual realisation is also artistically designed.

In particular, the competition was looking for works that - in line with the theme of ORF musikprotokoll 2025 - question or break existing musical or non-musical rules and thus open up new forms of expression in sound and image.