Sound and Music In Motion 2025 (United Kingdom)

The programme is designed to support you to develop clarity around your goals for your artistic and professional development as well as design a creative project that can support you to achieve these goals. You will receive an artist bursary and access a production grant to support you with researching and producing your work, accompanied by one-to-one support and group sessions throughout the programme. They will support you to choose your own pathway and develop a public-facing outcome. This outcome could be an event, an EP, an installation, an educational resource, a work-in-progress sharing, a proof-of-concept, or something else entirely as long as it is public-facing and has a clear connection to your artistic development.

During your time on the programme, you will develop your practice, explore new contexts for your work, create new work to present to an audience and support the next generation of young creators on our In the Making programme.

Focus Areas

• In Motion focuses around what they call a step-change, a significant development or shift in your artistic or professional practice that will make a big difference to you as an artist in achieving your goals and building a sustainable career.
  • For example, you might want to:
    • Develop an area of work that’s completely new to you, or create work outside a ‘pigeonhole’
    • Engage new audiences and communities for your work
    • Explore areas of your solo practice more deeply
    • Bring together previously different areas of your practice
    • Explore and understand how to work with your own access needs
    • Explore what success means to you in your work
    • Explore your working processes more deeply
    • Develop work on a larger scale
    • Take risks in a supportive setting
    • Work with new collaborators or art forms

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible to apply for in Motion you must:
  • Be over 18 years old at the point of applying
  • Not be in full or part-time education (in any subject and including PhDs) between April 2025-November 2026
  • Have been based in the UK for the last two years
  • Plan to remain resident, and have permission to stay, in the UK until November 2026
  • Provide two recordings of your works
  • Not have received an award, grant, or been on one of the artist development programme in the last six months
• For In Motion 2025 they will be looking to allocate:
  • Seven places to composers with fewer than 10 years’ non-continuous practice
  • Three places to composers at any stage in their career
  • One place (minimum) for a d/Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent composer at any stage of their career.

For more information, visit Sound and Music.