SPACE is pleased to announce the grantees of our 2025 Sonic Visions Fund! These five boundary-pushing and imaginative projects have been awarded $3,000 grants through the fourth season of our grant-making endeavor for Maine musicians. The commissions bring together multimedia performance, collaborative art-making, and communal experiences, with unmistakable visionary spirit.
These projects were chosen by a jury from 50+ submissions collected over the summer of 2025. We hope to grow the size of the individual awards and the total amount of musician grantees in future years and are actively seeking funding support to do so. Individuals, foundations, or organizations interested in contributing to these ongoing efforts should contact director@space538.org.
We are deeply grateful to the Onion Foundation for their continued support of this unique grant program and SPACE’s efforts to create funding opportunities for musicians across the state of Maine.
2025 Sonic Visions Fund grantees
Patrick Carey & Ron Harrity
Aftersound
An ongoing series focused on multi-channel and spatial audio performances and installation works presented in non-traditional spaces.
Athena Lynch & Candice Gosta
CTRL+ALT+SZZL: Frequencies of the Cultureverse
A community-centered celebration of BIPOC creativity and multicultural futurism through music, art, and cultural storytelling. A dynamic environment where sound, movement, and interactivity converge.
Iris Marion
Prayer w/o a God
A multi-sensory stasis zone combining minimalist sound, flowers and herbs. An environment for audiences to exist within for minutes or hours. A soothing balm in a burning world.
Katherine Hulit & Sarah Moody
Other Portland: An Oral and Living History of Portland’s Underground
A short-format documentary series that explores the past, present, and future of Portland, Maine’s underground music scene through interviews, archival footage, and storytelling.
Windier & the Broken Telescope Choir
Let the Blue Air In
An album, a choir, and a moving picture book in three acts.
