AIR AIR is a non profit, non government association dedicated to supporting the growth of Australia’s independent recording sector representing record labels and independent artists. Australian Independent Records Labels Association Alexandra Savvides Alexandra Savvides has been writing about music for longer than she'd like to admit She is a co-editor of Cyclic Defrost magazine and presents on Sydney's FBi Radio. Cyclic Defrost FBi Radio Alps Alps, also known as Alps of New South Wales and Alps of New South Whales, plays songs on dated keyboards, tapes, pedals and junk. Alps AMRAP AMRAP is a community radio initiative that works with musicians and community broadcasters to get great Australian music national airplay, faster. AMRAP Andrew Tuttle Andrew organises events, creates sounds, writes words, and reads about micronations on the internet. This is Andrew's first year co-directing Sound Summit. Anonymeye Peer Pressure Anna John Sydney based musician (Holy Balm, Knitted Abyss), artist and broadcaster (The Modern Dance, 2SER). Also the "CEO" of blog-based diy record distro Cloth Ear Music. Holy Balm Knitted Abyss Cloth Ear Music 2SER Aoi Tracing an arc of dusty chopped samples into a texta mess of headnod drum patterns, Aoi has been producing primitive abstract instrumentals since late 2007. Aoi APRA Collects and distributes licence fees for the public performance and communication of its members’ musical works. The Australasian Performing Right Association Australia Council for the Arts The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body Australia Council for the Arts Bernadette Ryan Bernadette has managed bands for the past 15 years and currently works with Dan Kelly, Jessica Says, Luluc, Ground Components and Charlie Parr (US). Blastcorp Devoted Monome user, harpist, music event orgainiser type guy and computer nerd based in sunny Darwin, NT. Likes savoury shapes. And cereal. Blastcorp Blink Blink has toured seventy bands around NZ, has tour managed bands in seventeen countries around the World and runs NZ’s famous DIY music festival “Camp A Low Hum” which this year featured 30 Australian bands. A Low Hum Brutal Hate Mosh Brutal Hate Mosh uses simplistic and repetitive musical patterns; beats; experimental means of producing sound; multi-tracking; and multiple harmonies. Brutal Hate Mosh Castings Castings are a quintet of improvisers. Our music dosn't have title, it's five people in a room attempting to communicate with each other - and hopefully others too....an ode to mistakes that often turn good. Castings Chris Moller Chris Moller is APRA’s NSW Senior Writer Services Representative. He has also been an active APRA member for 13 years, writing, touring, recording, and releasing records. APRA Cleptoclectics Cleptoclectics samples things, plays various instruments, and granulates: to create dense, idiosyncratic music. He doesn’t mind when people think he’s a band. Cleptoclectics Cornel Wilczek Cornel Wilczek, aka Qua, runs Electric Dreams Studio in Melbourne where he works as a record producer and soundtrack artist. He is also very geeky and has a MA in Sound Art. Qua Electric Dreams Studio Crab Smasher Crab Smasher are a NSW based group of improvisational sound sharks crafting a frenzied hodgepodge of weirdo psychedelic noise rock and experimental pop delicious. Crab Smasher Dan Lewis Dan is a Brisbane-based artsworker, promoter & publicist. Working for Q Music as Special Projects Officer, he also curates events through his business, Making Hey. Making Hey Dan Zilber As Music Director at FBi 94.5 Dan listens to all the music, books music interviews, organises CD compilations and FBi's live gigs and fundraisers. FBi Radio Dirty Shirlows Home to a shifting collective of artists, musicians and social misfits, Shirlows has become a community space for allsorts- housing events, gigs n soirees with thanks from neighbours and friends. DJ Ripley As DJ Ripley, Larisa Mann has been tearing up dancefloors, warehouses, and art spaces for 12 years, unseating musical and social preconceptions, and building audiences into ass-shaking monuments. DJ Ripley Dot.AY Alex Yabsley aka Dot.AY is a musician and researcher who focuses on low-tech electronic music creation and performance and is working to solidify the Australian Chipmusic scene. Dot.AY Ducktails Ducktails is the brainchild of Matt Mondanile. It's a tropical pop collage mega jam. Ducktails Eliza Sarlos Eliza organises, broadcasts, writes, studies and, mostly, multi-tasks. She’s also Creative Director at MusicNSW and directs Sound Summit for the 2nd time in 2009. MusicNSW FBi Radio Elliott Bledsoe Elliott Bledsoe is the Project Manager of Creative Commons Australia, the organisation that administers the Australian CC licences and supports Australian licence users. Creative Commons Australia EMI EMI Music represents recording artists spanning all musical genres and owns one of the finest catalogues of recorded music with over three million individual tracks. EMI Evan Kaldor Evan is the General Manager of FBi Radio, which operates the largest community radio license in Australia. FBi Radio Faux Pas In a technicolor collision of melody and rhythm, Melbourne's Tim Shiel crafts a kind of psychedelic dance music that blindly follows its own warped internal logic. Faux Pas FBi FBi 94.5FM is an independent, community-based radio station, covering music, art and culture. FBi plays 50% Australian music, with half of that from Sydney. FBi Radio Frank Rodi Frank is Online & Mobile Licensing Manager with APRA|AMCOS. His role is to identify new technologies and investigate their possible impact on the music industry and music copyright . APRA Free Choice Duo Analog electronic music made by Jarrod Zlatic (Fabulous Diamonds) & Jessica McElhinney. Long songs for good times. Melodic & Mechanical. Rhythymic & repetitive. Free Choice Duo Gabberobix DO U WANT TO BE A WINNER OR A WEINER? DON'T CHOOSE! GABBEROBIX CHANGES LIVES THRU THE POWER OF TECHNO AND FIERCE SPORTSMOVES. WITNESS THE FITNESS. Glenn Dickie Born Melbourne. Now Sydney. A&R Manager EMI records. 9 years @ EMI. 12 years @ 3 Triple R Radio. Co Founder of The Aussie BBQ 8 years ago. EMI Aussie BBQ Go Genre Everything Complex Sonic Experiment voicing a myriad of environments, traversing and exploring function and situation, form, void and meaning. An organic system, made nearly entirely from human beings. Go Genre Everything Gugg A collaboration between Alex Vivian (Always) and Christopher L G Hill (Moffarfarrah), Gugg is Bosten Celtics leprachaun lemmings trudge through big beats, all part of a f'n GUGG Life! Gugg Always Moffarafarrah Guy Blackman Guy Blackman is a musician, music journalist, and since 1992 the head of one of Australia’s longest-running independent record labels, Chapter Music. Guy Blackman Chapter Music The Age Holy Balm Holy Balm are a three piece psychedelic dance jam Holy Balm Ivan Lisyak Ivan Lisyak is an Electronic artist/ Musician from Sydney. Ivan is involved in many projects including being a member of indie soul group the paper scissors and New Wave sludge core duo Machine Death. Ivan Lisyak James Cecil Super Melody is the nom-de-plume of James Cecil, formerly of Architecture In Helsinki, and currently part of electronica act Qua. James has spent the last year in the studio, writing and producing the debut Super Melody album, entitled "Destination Unknown". Super Melody Jarrod Zlatic Member of Fabulous Diamonds & Free Choice Duo. Toured both the United States & Europe and had releases on prestigious US label Siltbreeze. Fabulous Diamonds Free Choice Duo Siltbreeze Kell Derrig-Hall Kell co runs the Tuff Puffin record label and is involved in the following musical projects; Moonmilk, Tired Hands and The Singing Skies. Moonmilk Tired Hands The Singing Skies Tuff Puffin Kirsty Brown Kirsty wears many hats, as Managing Editor of Sydney street press The Brag, a senior writer for trade-mag The Music Network and Editor in Chief of her very own large-format magazine DEMO. The Brag The Music Network Demo Kris Keogh Skinny white boy from Arnhem Land, NT. Obsessive harpist and Monome devotee. Plays you sweet, glitched goodness while sitting on the floor. Needs his glasses. Blastcorp kyü kyü are a new experimental pop duo from Sydney comprising Alyx Dennison and Freya Berkhout, describing their sound as "a tea party with Beethoven, Bowie, Björk and a Banshee". kyü Larisa Mann Legal ethnographer and DJ (Ripley), recently returned from 6 months djing and researching music-making and copyright in Kingston, Jamaica. DJ Ripley Laurence Pike Laurence is a drummer and producer whose work is acclaimed internationally with the band Pivot (Warp, UK). Laurence has performed in 30 countries internationally, as well as appearing on over 25 releases to date. Pivot Lorna Clarkson Lorna Clarkson is a Sydney DJ, presenter on Sydney's FBi Radio and the originator of CDR Australia. CDR Australia FBi Radio Louie's Louie’s is an independent performance space never intended to emulate the licensed venue environment. …cheap…party…open……party…accessible…safe…fun…party …beer…sex…drugs & RAWK!!! Lucia Draft Quirky bedroom storyteller, Lucia Draft crafts delicate and whimsical multi-instrumental melodious drafts for skeletons and scumbags. Lucia Draft Lucy Phelan Lucy makes music with Naked On The Vague and Knitted Abyss. She has booked a few US tours of cities with the best vegan restaurants, op shops and record stores. Naked On The Vague Knitted Abyss Intense Nest Maggotville Running as a venue and a home for around 8 years, the people that live at Maggotville maintain a sustainable rehearsal and underground show space for the D.I.Y. community. Marcus Wright Newcastle born Marcus Wright plays in bands and works in music. He is the partner in Big Apachee Bookings, Regin Records and Bigtix. Big Apachee Bookings Reign Records Bigtix Marni Jackson Marni Jackson is General Manager and Board Secretary of Renew Newcastle, maker of soup, stitcher of things. Sometimes all at once. Renew Newcastle Martin Flex Martin Flex is simply a music-obsessed Mancunian who now lives in Sydney. He's an on-air volunteer at FBi and jumped at the chance to be part of the CDR crew CDR Australia FBi Radio Matt Mondanile Matt, as Ducktails, constructs tropical mixed tapes using collage as the songcraft of neo-psychedelic music. Matt also makes music as the Parasails, and with Real Estate and Predator Vision. Ducktails Real Estate Predator Vision Max Becker Max Becker is the Indent Partnership Grants Manager. He started at MusicNSW after completing Journalism at uni and loves to write about music and listen to drum n bass. Occasionally at the same time. Indent MusicNSW Meg Williams Meg is the communications manager for MusicNSW, when she’s not communicating she’s trying to finish a degree Indent MusicNSW Millie Millgate Millie Millgate is responsible for overseeing all international activity as executed under the Sounds Australia banner, the new national platform for contemporary music export market development. Sounds Australia Moonmilk Moonmilk create fragile and physical sound worlds. The duo combine elements of pop music and spontaneous composition with a healthy dose of technology talking to itself. Moonmilk Nadia Mizner Nadia Mizner has worked in independent music as a tour promoter, tour manager and festival organiser. Nadia has toured the US extensively and also works in band management. BRM Nadia Onus After managing bands etc Nadia’s taken up the role of Communications Coordinator at Amrap where she handles the promotion of Australian music to community radio. AMRAP Nick Milligan Currently the Editor of the music and culture publication, Reverb Magazine, Nick Milligan has been an entertainment journalist for seven years Reverb Magazine Nick O'Byrne Nick brings to the AIR years of experience on the ground a musician, music educator, blogger and band manager. Nick is also a co-ordinator of John Butler's Arts Grants Scheme 'The JB Seed.’ AIR Nick Senger Nick Senger is believed to be a musician by his parents (!) He would like to take this opportunity to thank them for the money that they have spent on him to keep him alive. Maybe that houseboat was a better investment? Castings Spanish Magic Vox Cyclops ollo ollo have done loads of stuff but are not very comfortable blowing their own trumpets. They would far rather blow yours. ollo Paul Mason Paul Mason is the director of Music with the Music Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body. Australia Council for the Arts Penelope Benton Penelope is a photographic artist, curator and arts administrator, active in Newcastle’s artist community before moving and becoming active in various aspects of Sydneys community in 1998. The Red Rattler Peter Keogh Peter Keogh is a Program Officer with the Music Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body. The Australia Council for the Arts Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts A fox wanders into a grey forest, the grey forest inspires in the fox heart the polychameleon elements of its fox circulatory system, lighting fires of forest greens through its fox fur. Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts Predrag Delibasich Predrag Delibasich left Serbia almost 17 years ago and ended up in Perth where he has been making racket since 2001. In last 4 years he has released over 10 CDs, 3 7" singles and one vinyl LP, both with bands and solo. Predrag Delibasich Pumice Its always a struggle. The instruments are wearing out, the guitar gets harder and harder to tune, the tape loops get sicker and the batteries get flatter, but Pumice perseveres. Pumice Pure Being Pure Being perform sonic absolutions in sheet-forts constructed to reflect the performance environment. They are interested in genuine expression, psychic balance, mystery and infinite love. Pure Being Qua Qua is Cornel Wilczek from Melbourne. Live he is joined by the fabulous James Cecil. With four albums and seven years of touring, Qua is a well-oiled, abstracted, electronic machine. Qua Red Rattler In response to systematic shut downs of many artist run spaces, five Sydney women have hocked themselves into debt buying an industrial warehouse. The Red Rattler Theatre is now Sydney’s first legally licensed non-profit venue. The Red Rattler Shaun Prescott For as long as he can remember, Shaun Prescott has written about music. He is currently a deputy editor at Cyclic Defrost and also writes for Mess+Noise. Cyclic Defrost Mess+Noise smRts One of Perth’s most exciting artists, smRts is the brainchild of Predrag Delibasich that, when performed live, is 2 drums/ 3 guitars/ rhythms and melody aplenty. smRts Sofie Loizou Sydney based music producer, studio owner and DJ, Sofie also dabbles in mixed media artworks and hand made instruments. She blogs, podcasts, promotes local events and co-runs CDR. Sofie Loizou CDR Australia Spatula City Spatula City is the spiritual home of the Spatula. Stefan Neville Born in 1974, Raised in NZ's far north. Plays & records music solo as Pumice, but also drums/participates in many other loose outfits. Draws Pictures and comics. Pumice Steph Hughes Co-host of triple j's Australian music show 'Home & Hosed', Steph also manages to put on shows, play music, help run all ages gig spaces and multi task like wild. Triple J Dick Diver Stuart Buchanan Stuart is Executive Producer of Creative Sydney and recently launched newweirdaustralia.com - a label, free compilation series and radio show on Sydney's FBi, exposing experimental Australian music. Creative Sydney New Weird Australia FBi Radio Teresa Avila Teresa Avila is an engineer and Project Manager in heavy construction. She is a part time film maker and has contributed creatively to collectives over the years like Sheila Autonomista, Gurlesque, Scooter and Slit. She project managed the construction works and development approvals for the Red Rattler. The Red Rattler Sheila Autonomista Gurlesque Scooter The Abyss The Abyss are Sydney dubstep producers Boot & Sook. No similes, allegories or waffling flowery statements are needed to describe the sound: Badass teched out take your pants off dancefloor punk filth, plain and simple! Boot Sook The Brag The Brag is Sydney’s coolest street press with over 32,000 copies distributed weekly, the Brag is a direct window into the youth and entertainment industries. The Brag The Vivian Girls Part 1960s girl-group, fuzzy garage rock and post-punk with blasts of shoegaze + skuzzy DIY charm straight outta Brooklyn. The Vivian Girls Tim Shiel As electronic artist Faux Pas, Tim both makes the music and manages it. An intuitive and irreverent thinker, Tim is also a blogger, and a radio DJ with Melbourne's 3RRR FM. Faux Pas 3RRR Tiny Vipers Tiny Vipers (Sub Pop) is Seattle's Jesy Fortino, whose deep voice is accompanied by sparse yet deft acoustic guitar, with haunting melodies that lend from the avant-garde and the natural world. Tiny Vipers Sub Pop Toecutter The sun is going down on electronic music. As we enter into a new dark age where marksmanship and butchery are set to eclipse deft sampling and piss-take production, Toecutter turns a leaf by burning a book. Toecutter Will Stroud Will Stroud operates Kleenbeats, Australia’s premiere music licensing company specialising in synchronisation services, and promotes hip hop on the Sunshine Coast. Kleenbeats