SOUND SUMMIT 2010 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Festival of independent and innovative music.
30th September – 4th October, 2010

Sound Summit is a five-day festival of independent and innovative music featuring national and international artists, occurring annually as part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) Festival in Newcastle, NSW.

Since 2000, Sound Summit has provided independent musicians, producers, labels, promoters, industry, media and fans a chance to perform, discuss, learn, teach, interact and argue in front of an audience of like minded peers in a nurturing and creatively stimulating environment that allows for democratic exchange of ideas, processes and working methods.

Sound Summit is calling for proposals for this year’s festival from passionate music producers, workers and consumers keen to be involved in Sound Summit’s 2010 program. If you’ve got great ideas about the ongoing development of music in Australia and globally, Sound Summit is keen to hear your thoughts. We’re interested in receiving proposals that explore inventive perspectives on contemporary music – be they technological, theoretical, political, media, industry, fan or practice based.

PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS, PANELS, ARTIST AND PROJECT PRESENTATIONS ARE DUE COB WEDNESDAY MARCH 31.

Further information can be obtained by downloading the below document

SOUND SUMMIT 2010 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Sound Summit is excited to announce two new Festival Co-Directors for the 2010/11 events: Chris Hearn and Kirsty Brown.

Kirsty Brown is currently the Editor in Chief of her own large-format publication DEMO Magazine and Senior Writer for the Music Network, and was formerly the Managing Editor of Sydney based street press The Brag. Kirsty is a respected figure in the Australian music community, a regular ARIA and AIR voter, a respected speaker who has participated in APRA and Indent workshops, the JB Seed Managers Forum and panel appearances at Sound Summit and Creative Sydney. Kirsty is the regular editor of the annual Big Day Out program and has editorial experience on a variety of levels – including creation of sponsor editorial, editorial for awards ceremonies and has 200 issues of the Brag magazine under her belt.

Chris Hearn has been active in independent music scenes in Newcastle, Sydney and throughout Australia since 2001, regularly touring worldwide with his solo project ‘Alps’ in addition to actively facilitating live music events with long running club night “Spring Break”, and national touring initiative “Past Futures Presents”. In between international tours, Chris has taken jobs as an Administrator, Sound Engineer, and Online Content Contributor, and continues to organise a large number of local events.

Sound Summit this year will benefit from having two uniquely motivated and talented creative facilitators driving the festival in 2010 with current Festival Co-Director Andrew Tuttle. Moving forward to 2010, we’d also like to look back to 2009 and express our never ending gratitude to Eliza Sarlos for her significant role in driving the success of the 2008 and 2009 festivals. We look forward to her continuing advocacy of the New South Wales music industry in her ongoing role as MusicNSW Creative Director.

Sound Summit will be taking place throughout Newcastle from Thursday 30 September – Monday 4 October (NSW Labour Day long weekend), in conjunction with the This Is Not Art festival.

Sound Summit is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with the current Festival Co-Director, Andrew Tuttle, alongside the Sound Summit Advisory Group, and MusicNSW on the 2010 festival.

Sound Summit exists to give musicians, producers, composers, promoters and fans the opportunity to interact, reflect and collaborate with each other, building communities around what they do and exploring the methodologies of why and how they do it. The festival explores the depths and reach of independent, innovative music in Australia.

Sound Summit is part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) festival that happens annually for five days over the October long weekend. It is held in Newcastle, NSW, along with Electrofringe, National Young Writers Festival, Critical Animals and Crack Theatre Festival.

For further information on this position and for application guidelines, please download the document below this post. The application deadline is COB Monday 8th February 2010.

Sound Summit 2010 CALL FOR FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTOR

A big thank you to everyone who came to Newcastle and participated in Sound Summit this year, as a performer, speaker or punter.

Over five days and twenty six panels, performances and presentations we’ve learned so much, and been inspired from what we’ve seen and heard; and we hope this was the case for you too.

If anyone has any photos, audio, video or recollections of the festival, we’d love to see them to relive the fabulous memories of Sound Summit in 2009. Send anything you have through to andrew[at]musicnsw[dot]com.

Coming to our mega fest today? Here’s playing times so you can gig crawl effectively.

MASONS
10.20 – 11.00     Faux Pas
10.05 – 10.30     Holy Balm
9.20 – 9.45     Gugg
8.40 – 9.20     DJ Stu Buchanan
8.15 – 8.40     Castings
7.30 – 7.55     Blastcorp

RENEW CHURCH
6.50 – 7.15    Moonmilk
6.10 – 6.35    Alps
5.30 – 5.55    kyu

ARTHIVE
4.50 – 5.10    Go Genre Everything
4.15 – 4.35    Brutal Hate Mosh
3.40 – 4.00    Polyfox
3.10 – 3.30    Lucia Draft