SYNC: Sound and Image Conference

Nov. 7–9, 2025

SYNC: Sound and Image Conference is a three-day event from November 7–9, 2025 at Studio Bell, National Music Centre. Designed to catalyze Alberta’s creative economy, SYNC brings together artists, producers, and enthusiasts across music, film, and visual arts for a weekend of collaboration, skill-building, and community connection.

Workshops will cover topics such as film, projection mapping, sustainable practices, and electronic music performance—equipping participants with tools to create competitive and innovative work. Evening performances on Friday and Saturday showcase Alberta-based talent alongside national and international acts, offering artists high-profile platforms to gain exposure and grow professionally.

Two mixers deepen the collaborative energy: a Studio Social-style listening party on Friday, and the Open HDMI jam on Saturday, where musicians and visual artists can exhibit their own works and connect. On Sunday, a Live Electronic Open Mic invites emerging creators to participate and share their work.

SYNC is intentionally designed to break down silos, spark new partnerships, and drive long-term impact.

Key Impact Area: Professional development, industry networking, global exposure for Alberta artists.

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About Oscill8 Collective

Oscill8 Collective is a Calgary-based performing arts society that brings together live electronic musicians, visual artists, and interdisciplinary creators. Through events like the SYNC: Sound and Image Conference, Oscill8 creates opportunities for artists to perform, connect, and grow. The collective emphasizes community building, professional development, and showcasing underrepresented voices in the electronic music and visual arts scene. Oscill8 fosters collaboration through immersive experiences like workshops, performances, and forums that support innovation, equity, and sustainable growth in Alberta’s creative ecosystem

Contact

Email: info@westanthem.com

Alberta spans five treaty territories and eight Métis settlements. Like their ancestors, many Indigenous individuals and families make their homes across the prairies, including the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation. The Métis People of Alberta include the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, both from here and as visitors from elsewhere, have helped care for these lands for generations. We recognize they have traditions and relationships to the land far outstretching the arrival of settlers.

We are extremely grateful for these lands on which we reside, work, and play. We make this acknowledgement as an act of gratitude and reconciliation. While championing the arts in Calgary and across Alberta, we intend for our work to contribute to the valuing of traditional art forms and result in greater opportunity for the creative Indigenous talent who walk these lands today.