COMPETITION ">SYNC.2026"
The International Festival of Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia ">SYNC" was established in 2006 by the Autonomous Non-profit Organization Yekaterinburg Studio of Electroacoustic Music, the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education "The Ural State M.P. Mussorgsky Conservatory" and the Department of Musical Sound Engineering of the Ural Conservatory.
The festival continues the tradition of holding electronic music festivals and concerts at the Ural Conservatory, including the MIDI-Festival and MIDI-Concerts in 1992, a series of Concerts of electroacoustic music in 1997, the Festival of Modern Electroacoustic Music in 1998, the Festival "10 Years of Electroacoustic Music in the Urals" in 2000, jointly with the Theremin Center (Moscow conservatory) International festivals ALTERMEDUIM.2002 and ALTERMEDUIM.2003, Festival "15 years of electroacoustic music in the Urals" 2005.
Since 2010, this event has been held in the format of an International Festival/Competition. Since its foundation, the International Festival/Competition "SYNC" has been significantly supported by such famous personalities as composers Jon Appleton (USA), Dieter Kaufmann (Austria) and Eduard Artemyev (Russia); musicians and media artists Elizabeth Shimana and Josef Gruendler (Austria), musician and developer of interactive devices Yoichi Nagashima (Japan), pianist and media musician Simon Vincent (Great Britain), and others.
The mission of the Festival/Competition ">SYNC" is to promote the aesthetic ideas of the genre of electroacoustic music in its understanding as the art of sound in a controlled multi-spatial acoustic environment in synthesis with multimedia capabilities.
More information is available in the Competition Rules.