Sound Travellers first grant round

FIRST GRANT ROUND ANNOUNCED

Musical points of departure, arrival and the spaces between.

From Karratha to Canberra - Darwin to Hobart, Sound Travellers is pleased to announce our first round of funding with tours that cover every state and territory of this wide brown land. Between June and November 2008, Australia will be treated to ome of the most exciting new sounds the artists of this country have to offer.

Sound Travellers is a new project funded by the Australia Council’s Music Board to support individuals and small to medium sized organizations in the promotion and national touring of sound art/electronica, improvised jazz and contemporary classical music.

The artists that will be touring through the second half of the year represent every state and will be travelling the length and breadth of the country, plus many of the places in between. A total of 13 tours, over 60 artists and more than a few roadtrips and flights with over 50,000 kilometres to be travelled, Sound Travellers is helping these musical journeys come to a place near you.

Artist/s

Metalog, - Jim Denley, Ben Byrne, Natasha Anderson, Amanda Stewart, Dale Gorfinkel, Robbie Avenaim (NSW)

Ensemble Offspring (NSW)

Liquid Architecture 9 (various)

Mace Francis Orchestra (WA)

Tom Hall (QLD)

IHOS (TAS)

Alex Masso & Peter Farrar (NSW)

Misinterprotato – Sean Foran, John Parker, Pat Marchisella (QLD)

Colin Offord (QLD) – presented by TURA

Jon Tjhia and Alex Nosek (VIC) ii

Greg Taw, Adam Trainer (WA) Ghost of 29 Megacycles

Room 40 – various artists (QLD) Open Frame

Way Out West – Peter Knight, Paul, Williamson, Dung Nguyen, Ray Pereira, Howard Cairns, Dave Beck (VIC)

Also coming to keep you up to date with the tours, is the Sound Travellers gig guide. Register below to stay in touch.

Media release available please email -jkee@soundtravellers.com.au-
Sound Travellers is a project initiated by the Australia Council and produced by a partnership between Performing Lines and Ceres Solutions.

Sound Travellers on the move

The Australia Council for the Arts, Ceres Solutions and Performing Lines have joined forces to announce the New Music Touring Project - Sound Travellers - a two year project to facilitate and promote the national touring of sound art/electronica, improvised jazz and contemporary classical music.

This project is being managed as a partnership between established touring organisation Performing Lines and arts strategy company Ceres Solutions, with director Joanne Kee leading the project.

The intention of Sound Travellers is to bring these genres to a larger audience nationwide at the same time as securing assistance for existing artists across the country to further develop their practice.

Sound Travellers will:

• Support performance opportunities in a touring context
• Support and broaden existing touring networks
• Develop opportunities and new networks for the artforms
• Leverage the funding with other financial and in kind support
• Provide infrastructure support including marketing/publicity to enable skills growth within the sectors, which enables artistic and audience growth.

There will be two components to Sound Travellers. For artists there is a grant based program designed to assist Australian artists to tour nationally. Sound Travellers will also explore the options to both broaden and strengthen the national touring opportunities for these music genres.

An artistic advisory panel with specialists from each genre has been formed to provide artistic input and advice to the executive committee. This panel includes – John Davis (Australian Music Centre), Professor Andy Arthurs (Queensland University of Technology), Adrian Jackson (Wangaratta Festival of Jazz), Ronny Ferella (musician and Half Bent), Roland Peelman (AD, Song Company) and other members to be confirmed.

If you wish to discuss a project that has the potential to provide infrastructure/new opportunities or will strengthen touring networks or you would like more information about this project please contact:

Joanne Kee on 0414 973 095 or jkee-at-soundtravellers.com.au or
Performing Lines on 02 9319 0066 or info-at-oundtravellers.com.au