I’ve been invited to partake in the jury of this music contest. Good luck if you partake! Copy paste from the IDIL Awards page:
In Darkness Is Light – Dark Experimental Music Awards (Sponsored by Eighth Tower magazine and Avant Music News).
The IDIL Awards is dedicated to all forms of experimental music in its “dark” declination and promotes the innovation and research in the field of dark electronics and dark electroacoustic music. An international jury composed by radio djs, podcasters, reviewers, will assign a score to every track determining the winners of the prizes below:
Prize for the 1st classified project: € 200,00 + a full special on the magazine;
Prize for the 2nd classified project: € 100,00 + a full special on the magazine;
Prize for the 3rd classified project: 6 months free subscription to the Eighth Tower magazine
Participation Guidelines:
- the preliminary condition to participate is to be subscribed at least for 2 months to the Eighth Tower magazine (tier Apprentice Supporter or upper tier): https://www.patreon.com/eighthtower
- submissions of a single track for each project (maximum 8 minutes, .wav or .flac format) to info@unexplainedsounds.com
- tracks must be unpublished and exclusive made for IDIL;
- it’s requested a bio and a description of the project;
- multiple projects from the same person won’t be allowed;
- track submission via link by Wetransfer, Google or similar transfer services (no Dropbox);
- deadline December, 31, 2023.
Jury members:
Raffaele Pezzella – Eighth Tower publisher, Mike Borella – Avant Music News web zine, Dj SpaceTerrapin – Enclosure Three radio program, David Loveless -The Dungeon In Deep Space blog, Rich Dodgin – This Is Darkness webzine, Bram Hagers – Horae Obscura podcast, Bepi Crespan – CITR 101.9FM, David Warmbier – Spectrasonicsound podcast, Paul Casey – Independent reviewer, Dominic Castelli – Elysian Fields radio program, Peter Van Cooten – Ambientblog, Ivan Tibos – Concrete Web.