esc medien kunst labor presents the five finalists in the 2025 phonoECHOES Competition, which was organized by ACOM – Austrian Composers Association. The event will also be livestreamed on the ACOM YouTube channel. Together with a jury of experts, the audience—in person and online—will select the three winning works. The award ceremony takes place afterward. 

This year marks the fifth phonoECHOES competition, which is organized by ACOM – Austrian Composers Association in cooperation with Klanghaus Untergreith. Musicians can submit audiovisual works from the fields of sound art, experimental electronic music, and electroacoustic music that contain improvisational elements and also implement artistic design in their visuals.

In line with ORF musikprotokoll’s theme this year, the competition looked for works that question or break existing musical or non-musical rules, thereby opening up new forms of expression in sound and image.