IEM calls for students' works to be submitted to Europe's Ninth 3D Audio Production Competition that is going to be hosted at IEM in Graz, with vdt, ORF musikprotokoll, and Sounding Future as partners. 

Again this year, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) Ö1 and its contemporary music festival ORF musikprotokoll will partner to host a pre-final public presentation (3 October 2025) of the Category 1 finalists at Dom im Berg, Graz.

We encourage all students involved in spatial music, spatial recording, or interested in spatialised sound to participate by submitting short works to the Ninth Student 3D Audio Production Competition for one of the three categories: 

• Contemporary/Computer Music (11min)
• audio drama/documentary / soundscapes (4min)
• music recording/studio production (4min).

The format requirements for preparing a submission and sample tools for checking can be found here:
https://iaem.at/ambisonics/s3dapc/2025 and of course, you can get in touch if you have any questions: <s3dapc@iem.at>

The submission portal https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s3dapc2025 will be open until 30 June 2024.

vdt (German tonmeisters) will host the event in cooperation with IEM Graz and present the final ranks of the finalists in a public ceremony around at Tonmeistertagung in Düsseldorf (Nov. 12th to 15th 2025) live and via internet live stream, complemented by on-demand browser playback via Cat3DA.