Performance and Audio
We receive performance and audio entries from a wide range of establishments, organisations and individuals. Not every secure setting or individual has access to equipment with which to record their work, and for others, it poses a security risk. For this reason, we also provide a Music Composition category, to which written scores can be submitted with the option of a Song Writing category under Writing.
Often performance and music entries are produced as part of projects with specialist organisations such as Clean Break, Changing Tunes, Music in Prisons, Finding Rhythms, and Good Vibrations. To respond to the wide range of work being created across criminal justice settings we have several categories of performance and audio. These include:

- Spoken word
- Performance
- Radio production
- Music composition
- Choral music
- Singer-songwriter – original
- Cover version
- Instrumental
- Hip hop, rap and grime
- Computer-generated music
EFG London Jazz Festival Concert
In 2019, Koestler Arts teamed up with Serious for a unique performance in the atmospheric prison chapel of HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. The performance was open to the public and featured music by Rhiannon Giddens. Listen back to the performance and read our Journey to the Jazz Festival blog.