Sound Summit is a 4 day festival of independent and innovative music featuring national and international artists, occurring on the October long weekend alongside the This Is Not Art annual festival.

Since 2000, Sound Summit has given musicians, producers, composers, labels, promoters, industry and fans a chance to perform, discuss, learn, teach, interact and argue in front of an audience of like minded peers in an environment that encourages the global exchange of ideas, techniques and trends.

We are now calling for proposals for this year’s festival, from a broader spectrum of participants than ever before! If your practice relates to independent, exciting and emerging music in any way than we want to hear from you – musicians, producers, artists, filmmakers, authors, journalists, publications and fans.

We’re interested in receiving proposals that explore any aspect of contemporary music – be it technological, political, theoretical, media, industry, fan or practice based.

For information about how to apply, please download and complete the information requested in this PDF:

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For musicians and bands, please download and complete the information requested in this PDF:

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Applications will close Monday June 13th.

Welcome on board to our new Festival Co-Director Brooke Olsen. We are incredibly excited to be working with her this year, on the 11th year of the annual Sound Summit festival. Brooke has an incredible amount of experience and in partnership with Kirsty Brown and Chris Hearn, has certainly created a true Triumvirate Of Awesome as we farewell outgoing Co-Director for 08/09 Andrew Tuttle.

Brooke Olsen is a Sydney-based broadcaster, curator, DJ and coordinator of many things. She co-founded and co-directs ‘Dirty Shirlows’ studios in Marrickville, co- runs E.S.P. Events and assists Australian musicians and labels with airplay via AMRAP – The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project. Brooke has been involved with numerous independent music events including ‘Disorientation’, ‘Ailing Fest’ ‘Difficult Music Festival’ (CxFx edition) and the Upcoming ‘International Noise Conference’ (Sydney leg). Under the moniker of ‘Corporal Leper’ Brooke has DJ’ed at Liquid Architecture and Performance Space (for Bio Kino). She has produced and presented oddball music radio shows on 2RRR & Fbi whilst having her radio projects aired on ABC Radio National, 2SER and Fbi – where she currently presents ‘Sunday Night at the Movies: Experimental Audio’. She also runs the ‘Records: Experimental Sydney’ blog (with Jon Hunter) which aims to capture performances by sound artists in unique venues across Sydney.

Contact Brooke for any Sound Summit related enquiries on Brooke AT SoundSummit DOT com DOT Au.

Sound Summit is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with Festival Co-Directors Chris Hearn and Kirsty Brown on the 2011 and 2012 festivals.

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. In 2011 the festival will take place from Sept 29th – Oct 3rd.

For more detailed information on this position, please read the attached SOUND SUMMIT 2011 CO-DIRECTOR POSITION DESCRIPTION. Any further enquiries, contact info[at]soundsummit[dot]com[dot]au

The application deadline is COB Monday 15th November 2010.

Now that we’ve had a bit of time to decompress (and we hope you have too!), we’d like to express our massive thanks to everyone who came to Newcastle and participated in Sound Summit in 2010, be it as a performer, speaker or punter.

Over the panels, performances and presentations that comprised the 2010 Sound Summit festival, we’ve been continually impressed and inspired from what we’ve seen and heard; and we hope this was the case for you too.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be uploading audio, video, and pictorial documentation of the festival this year as a reminder of everything that took place over the duration Sound Summit.

Download and check out our program guide, designed by our most excellent web guru and designer Tom Green. We’re really happy with how it has turned out, so well worth looking at.

Also, have a squizz at the new issue of The Brag – featuring a Sound Summit/This Is Not Art special, including interviews with cover stars kyü, Jason Forrest, Grouper, Sam Hamilton and Songs, as well as a nice little form guide.

See you very soon!