Nordic-Baltic Sound Residence Network invites established composers and sound artists to fulfill their creative ideas, applying for double rėsidence programs. This project connects four residence centres: NOTAM - Norwegian centre for Technology Art and Music, (Oslo, Norway), DAR - Druskininkai Artists’ Residence (Druskininkai / Vilnius, Lithuania), Inkonst (Malmö, Sweden), Sound Art Lab (Struer, Denmark). The artists selected for the program will visit 2 different residencies and spend 2-3 weeks in each of them, working on their projects with professional technical support.

The selected artists will receive a fee of 2 711 eur, travel allowance up to 300 eur for each residence visit (600 eur in total), additional green travel allowance (350 eur), free accommodation and studio space, as well as administrative and tutorial assistance. 

Application must include:

1.  CV, contact info and portfolio (max. 3 pages) with 2-3 most relevant audiolinks;

2.  Short description of the project with the estimated results at the end of the project period (up to 1000 characters);

3. Priority list of the residencies and dates preferred;

4. Motivational letter explaining why the particular residencies are chosen, as well as expectations from the visits (up to 1000 characters).

The application form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHc5qWE9XH8IaegmXwEdZZYLasKjYRpaB7UtDEzKEJ6xQtDg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

The residence periods:

Residence	Duration of the stay	Periods available
DAR (Lithuania)	21 days	September 2026  April 2027
Notam (Norway)	14 days	October 17 - November 30, 2026 February 1 - March 15, 2027
Sound Art Lab (Denmark)	21 days	August or December 2026 January - August 2027
Inkonst (Sweden)	17 days	All months from May 2026 to June 2027 (except July and August)

 

Regulations / Requirements 

Applicants  must be established artists.

Applicants must be based in the Nordic / Baltic region.

The application deadline is April 19, 2026.

The jury will share the application results by May 19, 2026 via email contacts provided in application forms.

Other questions: [email protected]

The information about residencies’ facilities

Notam

As an artist in residence at Notam, you work independently while having access to a strong professional environment and custom facilities. At Notam, we offer studios and workspaces designed for a variety of purposes, including work with sound and music, visual arts, performing arts, and electronics. Our facilities include a studio for recording, mixing, and producing audio in stereo and 5.1, a studio customized for digital visual projects, a speaker dome studio for working with ambisonics and multichannel audio, an electronics workshop, and a project room suitable for production of dance, installations, chamber music, electronic music, and more. Read more about our facilities here: https://notam.no/en/your-project-at-notam/our-studios-and-facilities/. 

For this residency, accommodation will be provided in an apartment located close to Notam. In addition, we offer free access to our facilities, an introduction to your chosen studio, and some hours of technical support from our staff.

More info:  https://notam.no/en/

Inkonst 

During your stay at Inkonst, accommodation will be provided at our partner apartment hotel, The More, located just 50 meters from the venue. Your work will take place in our dedicated residency space, The Studio (https://inkonst.com/en/p/the-studio).

At Inkonst, you will become part of a highly active and international artistic environment. Throughout the year, the programme includes residencies, guest performances, concerts, and public events featuring local, national, and international artists. The venue functions as a natural meeting point for artists working in the region.

Together, we aim to provide a strong working context that includes access to technical facilities, curatorial dialogue, connections to research contexts, and participation in an interdisciplinary artistic platform.

More info: https://inkonst.com/en/studio/

Sound Art Lab

The artist residency at Sound Art Lab aims to facilitate and support the development of high level artistic projects within any field of sound and listening and to foster exchanges with local, national and international networks. We provide facilities for artistic production accessible around the clock, private room in our shared artist apartment central in Struer, artistic and technical supervision in any phase of your project as far as possible, space and equipment for public presentations, connections to local audio technology companies and other local partners.

We have three sound studios equipped with studio monitors, high-end audio interfaces and computers with audio and video editing software, as well as a multi-purpose space that can be used to spatialize installations, for performances or for multi-channel speaker setups. All four studio spaces are newly refurbished floating rooms that have been acoustically treated. We have three ateliers. Artists can be assigned their own atelier on arrival, for the duration of their stay. The ateliers provide a light and open space, which can be configured for any purpose.

More info:  https://soundartlab.org/

Dar

At DAR, the residents will live in cosy Lithuanian resort Druskininkai, in spacious apartments, provided with free wi-fi connection and some basic technical equipment (speakers, mixers, microphones). DAR are long-term partners with the Music Innovation Study Centre in Vilnius (130 km from Druskininkai), so the artists could visit the studio there several times and develop their works with professional assistance. Music Innovation Study Centre is equipped with 3 acoustically sensitive rooms: an auditorium, a spherical sound recording studio (with setup designed for high-order ambisonic sound format), a studio editing and control room. The center focuses on digital music technology innovations and synergies for the development of national and international art, science and study programs. 

More info: https://www.artdruskininkai.lt/en/

 

Project is funded by Nordic Culture Point.