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SOTYA celebrates sound in all forms from all corners of the world. Winners announced 11.05.23

22/05/2025

The winning submission for our Children’s category in collaboration with was a sound recorded by and Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Todmorden / titled ‘ An Ice Fishing Adventure’ A short clip can be heard here.

Mark says, “Mark: “We travelled to the frozen north to catch our dinner out on the ice. We arrived by canoe and walked across the snow, our hole was made and our fish caught when disaster almost struck as the ice cracked beneath us. Luckily we escaped and took our fish home to have for tea.”

Head to https://www.soundoftheyearawards.com/2024 to listen to the full list of winners.

27/02/2025

This year’s theme is “My Big Adventure”. We are encouraging sounds and recordings that encompass the idea of play and adventure.

We are welcoming creative submissions and would encourage you to think about what types of narratives you can build with sound. What journey can you take the listener on?

Prompts:
* What type of adventure are you going on? Where is it?�
* What are you feeling? �
* How can you depict this with sounds? �
* Are there obstacles on the way, are there moments of suspense etc?�

Image courtesy of Mark Williamson () whose submission, produced with the Y5 students at Cornholme School, recreated the sounds of Todmorden Market. It was one of the winning submissions for the Children's Category in 2023.

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/3yyjmwum

25/02/2025

Every year, sounds are fading away into the background and slipping from our memories.

In this category we are looking to capture and raise awareness of the sounds that we may be losing. This could include objects and machines, wildlife but it could also include rituals, languages, music and traditions.

We want you to be as inventive as possible and are looking to use this category to bring back to life and help to preserve some of the beautiful and extraordinary sounds that may be disappearing.

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/y6b6shzb

23/02/2025

For this category, we are looking for submissions that describe or depict sounds. These could be poetic, pictorial, or conceptual and should encourage an engagement with the imagination.

In the words of category judge Will René, what we’re looking for is a “result of an imaginative approach to language and what it can achieve or convey. Whereas a lot of the other categories involve listening to things in the world externally, the Best Imagined Sound category involves an introspective, internal ear. Participants have to listen to their own thoughts and communicate them to others. It’s almost like an exercise in empathy.”

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/4r3m2vnm

21/02/2025

1 week to go before the submission deadline!

Deadline: 28th February 2025
Submit here: soundoftheyearawards.com

20/02/2025

In this new category, we are looking to celebrate the sounds that define your city and offer a platform to document the ways that cities are changing around the world.

What are the soundmarks that are distinct to where you live? Are there sounds that are unique to your location or that help identify the quirks of daily life? From wildlife, to transport, to businesses or music we want to hear it all!
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At a time when cities are growing, landscapes are changing, and we are seeing the impacts of climate change and conflict destroy the fabric of the cities we live in, we are keen to provide space for people to document sounds that might be disappearing, or the changing sounds that might be consuming cities at the moment.

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/yn296t4e

19/02/2025

In this category we are looking to celebrate compositions that have been made predominantly using recorded sound as the primary source material.

**It is important to note that we are not looking for original musical compositions but instead, we are looking for compositions that either reflect on recorded sound, augment or piece together a selection of recorded sounds.

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/5krt352v

18/02/2025

In this category we are looking for submissions that celebrate unpleasant sounds. This can vary from personal gripes to the more generally accepted unpleasant sounds that exist around us!

Previous submissions have included the sounds of bins, tinnitus, screeching animals, sirens etc

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/ye22pmtd

13/02/2025

What are the sounds that have defined 2024? What are the moments, places, and events that we will remember? Are there objects, inventions, or machines that made an impact this year / contributed to our listening this year?

In our Sound of the Year category we are encouraging you to be creative and to submit sounds and sound recordings that celebrate 2024.

Deadline: 28.02.25
Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Occ7md9UD1pvn7d4ZAzUuRRlquRA8bXMk1ysUldkg77w_A/viewform

06/02/2025

JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT

We are excited to welcome Kirsty Whalley who will be re-joining our judging panel this year

Kirsty Whalley is an accomplished scoring mixer with an extensive list of projects to her name, including recent high-profile works such as Gladiator, Deadpool and Wolverine, Chicken Run 2, Barbie, and American Fiction. Passionate about exploring and innovating in the world of immersive audio recording and mixing, she was recognized with the MPG Award for Dolby Atmos Mixer of the Year in 2024. Kirsty is most at home in her unique mix room, Such Sweet Thunder, which she co-designed and runs with her mix partner, Peter Cobbin.

What excites you most about the power of sound?

I love it when the power of sound is revealed by an artist who hears possibility in something raw and ordinary. The shaping of noise and apparent chaos into something meaningful and musical, capable of telling stories and evoking emotions or memories, is truly magical.

01/02/2025

1 month to go before the submission deadline!

This year we’re back with new partners, media collaborators, categories and prizes for our biggest and most ambitious awards yet.

The winner of each category will receive a basicUcho high-quality omni-directional microphone, courtesy of LOM , a minimalistic mount made by Radius windshields | Closed Group and a Bubblebee Industries windkiller.

The winner of the Sound of the Year category will also receive the Weaver by Fieldtone – a handheld audio sampler that takes any sound and immediately produces rhythmical loops and textures.

Submit by 28th February: https://www.soundoftheyearawards.com/

30/01/2025

JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT

We are excited to welcome Christian Ching from Natural History Museum, London who will be re-joining our judging panel this year

What excites you most about the power of sound?

For a large part of the shift over 4.5 billion years, it was a lot of geological rumbling and volcanos, and later sloshing of our primordial soup. Since then, the shifting and proliferation of geographies, ecosystems, and species, all contributed towards the many unique and complex acoustic environments that we have evolved alongside.

Today, we inhabit an acoustic environment radically different from any period since. And while we live in this now, interesting, if not somewhat scary time, I believe in the ability of sound in our thought, through our music, design, or science, to benefit people, and the planet.

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