re:natura #05 – Crescere | Soundart Compilation

Why do we grow? Should we advance? How should we develop? When do we thrive? Where do we spread?

After last year's breezy topic Æther, our fifth annual compilation, re:natura #05 – Crescere asks crucial questions about the concept of growth. Derived from Latin Crescere (to grow – think Crescendo), we want to encourage you to delve deep into the concept of growth in natural sciences with a focus on biodiversity. Ranging from reproduction and corporal development to population control, from invasive species to Degrowth strategies, from metastases to social insects, we invite you to dig into a wealth of subtopics. The more specific, the better: Get inspired by rabbit holes, asian carp, mathematical growth models, Lemmus lemmus, Feedback cybernetics or Ailanthus altissima. In our forthcoming audio compilation we want to examine growth ranging from a microscopic to macroscopic scale – from single cells to whole populations. We invite sound artists, poets, experimental musicians and researchers and sound designers to share their unique and specific perspectives on the concept of growth. In this Open Call, we are looking for short audio productions concerned with topics of biodiversity: These subtopics may concern the specific representation of species, habitats and ecosystems, the influences on biodiversity, the consequences of biodiversity loss and measures against the loss of biodiversity. Metaphorical, representational as well as literal concepts are welcome.

*** Submissions are due Sunday, June 29, 2025 ***

re:natura is a non-profit artist collective, music label and experimental laboratory with a clear, shared vision. With a focus on topics of biodiversity, we explore animals, plants, landscapes and natural phenomena. In the critical tradition of naturalists, we compose, publish, perform and convey experimental musics that are concerned with the specifics of life.