Our friends at music magazine The Quietus, in partnership with Aerial, are inviting artists working in sound for personal reflections from the perspective of 2020. The Quietus and Aerial particularly encourage applications from artists from underrepresented backgrounds – non-UK based practitioners are slso welcome to apply.

The deadline for applications is Monday 37 July 2020, with finished works supplied by 31 August 2020. Funding comes from Great Place Lakes & Dales.

Head to The Quietus webiste for details on how to apply. Here’s a brief for the commission from Aerial:

2020 = Wordsworth 250; a year of seismic events and deep reflection which we must ensure effects positive change, the old normal was an aberration. Wordsworth also lived through seismic events and saw the 1790s as a time of ‘dereliction and despair’, borne out of disillusionment at the course of the French Revolution and written about extensively in The Prelude. Could we see the present time also of one of despair? Wordsworth says that if he retains a faith in human nature, then that is due to benevolence of Nature.

He reflected on this in his epic autobiographical poem The Prelude. Published posthumously, The Prelude recounted the journey of his life from childhood until the point where he began writing the poem in early adulthood, he continued to work on the poem until his death.