Sound Summit is an annual independent conference / festival focusing on exploratory and innovative independent music that takes place in Newcastle, New South Wales

Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 as part of the annual This Is Not Art

This Is Not Art

This Is Not Art is a national festival of new media and arts organised in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia each year over the October long weekend. Since its humble beginnings in 1998, it has become one of the leading arts festivals in Australia dedicated to the work and ideas of communities...

 Festival. It was founded in 2000 by Sebastian Chan, Kenny Sabir

Kenny Sabir

Kenny Sabir is a Sydney-based Australian musician, computer programmer, record label founder and event organiser. Sabir is perhaps best known as a member and producer of prominent Australian hip-hop band The Herd where he performs under his alias Traksewt...

 and Marcus Westbury

Marcus Westbury

Marcus Westbury is an Australian festival director. He is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where he filmed the TV series Not Quite Art...

 and evolved in part from the involvement of musicians in the Electrofringe

Electrofringe

Electrofringe is a festival of digital, electronic and new media arts. Its focus is on emergent forms and techniques within media based arts practice and places a particular emphasis on encouraging young and emerging artists to interact with established artists...

 festival that took place in Newcastle at that time.

Sound Summit exists to support the development of independent in Australia. It typically consists of a series of artist development workshops examining production techniques, mastering, and sound manipulation and a focus on business development covering licensing, royalties, label management, and promotion focusing specifically on the needs of independent labels and independent artists.

Artists and labels that appeared at Sound Summit

• Kevin Blechdom
  Kevin Blechdom
  Kevin Blechdom, born Kristin Erickson, is an American experimental electronic musician/performance artist from San Francisco, California.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Sage Francis
  Sage Francis
  Paul "Sage" Francis is a hip-hop artist from Providence, Rhode Island.-Biography:Born Paul Francis in Miami, Florida, Sage Francis is a rapper/writer/performer from Providence, Rhode Island. He is the founder and CEO of the independent hip-hop record label Strange Famous Records...
  
  
• Caribou
  Caribou (musician)
  Daniel Victor Snaith is a composer, musician and recording artist under stage names Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni. Under the supervision of Kevin Buzzard, he obtained a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College London.- Career:...
  
  
• Concord Dawn
  Concord Dawn
  Concord Dawn, is a New Zealand drum and bass group, active since mid 1999. It consists of Matt Harvey and Evan Short...
  
  
• Mad Professor
  Mad Professor
  Mad Professor is a dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. He is a prolific producer, contributing to or...
  
  
• anticon.
• Fat Cat Records
  Fat Cat Records
  Fat Cat Records is an independent label based in Brighton on England’s South Coast. Their output includes electronica, post rock, indie, downtempo, minimal techno, noise and punk-pop...
  
  
• b(if)tek
  B(if)tek
  Btek was an Australian electronic music duo comprising Kate Crawford and Nicole Skeltys, originally from Canberra, who released three albums between 1998 and 2003. In 1999, Btek was nominated for an ARIA as "Best Dance Release" for the track "Bedrock" which appeared on their second album 2020...
  
  
• Curse Ov Dialect
  Curse Ov Dialect
  Curse Ov Dialect is a Melbourne, Australia based music group. It was the first Australian and Australian Accented hip-hop outfit to score a record deal in the United States with 2003 album Lost in the Real sky, on Los Angeles Indie Label Mush Records...
  
  
• The Herd
  The Herd
  The Herd may be:* The Herd , the 1960s UK band that launched Peter Frampton's career* The Herd , a hip-hop outfit from the suburbs of Sydney, Australia* The Herd , a 1978 Turkish film...
  
  
• Ducktails
• Hrvatski
  Hrvatski
  In Croatian, hrvatski is the masculine adjectival form meaning "Croatian", used in the same form for plural and singular. Feminine forms are hrvatska and hrvatske...
  
  
• Nasenbluten
  Nasenbluten
  Nasenbluten were a Newcastle, Australia recording and performance group, who pioneered hardcore techno, gabber, amigacore and cheapcore music. The group was founded in the early 1990s by Mark Newlands, Aaron Lubinski and David Melo...
  
  
• Pumice
  Pumice
  Pumice is a textural term for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. It can be formed when lava and water are mixed. This unusual formation is due to the simultaneous actions of rapid...
  
  
• Lucky Dragons
  Lucky Dragons
  Lucky Dragons is an experimental music group consisting of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. Based in Los Angeles, California, the band are noted for their unusual sound, described as having the ability to make "'everyday sounds' become alluringly other"....
  
  
• TZU
  TZU
  For the ancient chinese military strategist and author, see Sun Tzu.TZU are an Australian hip hop group, originating from Melbourne, Victoria. They are known for live shows with significant crowd involvement, at festivals such as Big Day Out, Falls Festival, MS Fest and the Meredith Music Festival,...