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ArtSound Listener Survey

ArtSound FM Community Radio would like to know more about its listeners’ reception of ArtSound programming. Please complete our simple online survey, available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9N6VJWG (or use the QR code) As one way to show our appreciation for your assistance, we’ll have a prize drawing at the end of December with a year’s membership to […]

ArtSound Newsletter — November 2024

  A lot is happening at ArtSound! Read on for news about: ArtSound 2024 Radiothon Radiothon concerts ArtSound’s new transmitter installed ArtSound selects new console vendor Eric McDonald retires from presenting Ambassadors visit ArtSound ArtSound’s podcasting meetup Call for radio drama scripts ArtSound’s Big Year of Fundraising GoFundMe campaign passes $10,500 of $15,000 goal How […]

Arts Diary, week of November 16, 2024

Art Song Canberra‘s last concert of 2025 will be Young Voices of America. Presented by soprano Rachel Mink, with Canberra’s own Ellery Quartet, the program will include favorites by George Gershwin, the Australian premiere of Caroline Shaw’s song cycle ‘By and Bye’, as well as the world premiere of Aaron Mencher’s Atmospheres of the Night. […]

Exhibition Rundown, week of 17 November 2024

ANCA – “On Scale” – ANCA Artist Group Show (12 artists) from 20NOV Australian Centre on China in the World – “Brukim bus!” – Lisa Hilli from 21NOV Australian National Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre – Above | Below” – Karin Beaumont, Jack Buckley, Sharon Field, Emma Kelly, Natalie Maras, Sharon Peoples, Brenda Runnegar, Julie Ryder […]

ArtSound Newsletter — October 2024

ArtSound Newsletter — October 2024 A lot is happening at ArtSound! Read on for news about: ArtSound 2024 Radiothon Concerts coming up at the Polish Club and at ArtSound September Winter Concert Young Virtuoso Competition ArtSound’s new transmitter ArtSound goes to Technorama conference Rotary outside broadcast Jazz Haus at Tuggeranong Arts Centre concert recording Call […]

ArtSound Newsletter — September 2024

The ArtSound gardens in blossom, Manuka Arts Centre; photo: Julie Finch-Scally   A lot is happening at ArtSound! Here’s some of it. Read on for news about: Concerts coming up Book launch Call for radio drama scripts Vale Glenn Gore Phillips Introduction to Radio Broadcasting course Rotary outside broadcast Poetry competition ArtSound submission to broadcasting […]

Strategic Aims

ArtSound will be the leading community operated arts organisation in the ACT through the production, promotion and preservation of new and innovative arts outcomes. 

Production

ArtSound will use its resources, including member skills/experience and technology, to collaborate with ACT artists to produce enduring work.

ArtSound will also offer opportunities to artists to develop their skills in the production and promotion of their works.

Promotion

ArtSound will use its community position as well as strengths as a broadcaster to promote the work of ACT artists to the wider community and to reinforce Canberra’s reputation as an arts capital.

ArtSound will use its unique technology advantage and public access to build the profiles of individual artists (including those within underrepresented groups) and their work.

In addition to broadcasting, ArtSound will also support arts activities and live events within the Manuka Arts Centre. 

Preservation

ArtSound is dedicated to the preservation of arts created in the ACT, and to that end will progressively digitise its sound archives, including all historically significant work recorded by ACT artists.

The work of new artists will also be recorded and retained for future generations. In addition to work specifically created in collaboration with ArtSound, this will include the capture of concerts, live events, exhibitions and other appropriate arts activities.

Programming Aims

Here are ArtSound’s Programming Aims, adopted in 1999 and reviewed/revised in 2004, 2011, and 2019. This document stems from ArtSound’s Programming Philosophy as articulated in documentation that has formed the basis of licence applications in 1994 and 2000, and licence renewals in 2005, 2010, and 2019.

Here is an excerpt from the Aims, which can be read in full in the document attached below.

ArtSound aims to provide a mixture of music and spoken word
programming to its community of interest with objectives
encompassing specific areas.
These are:
* the broadcasting of quality music, primarily jazz, world,
folk, and classical music (and their various and evolving
hybrids);
* the encouragement of local musicians, choral groups,
singers, chamber groups, etc. through the broadcast of
concert recordings, live broadcasts, and studio
recordings; this should include airing and supporting
historically important, as well as contemporary and
experimental music in chamber, jazz, and other fields,
in preference to easy-listening varieties.
* the provision of a much-needed communication network
and information exchange in Canberra’s arts and
cultural community;
* the encouragement of other artists in Canberra such as
writers, actors, designers, drama producers, poets,
craftspeople, dancers, critics, and visual artists. The
nature of the programming to achieve this aim varies
according to the field. Some examples have been the
commissioning of works, provision of technical and
production assistance, broadcast of works directly,
programs about artists and their works, review of works,
and educational programs about techniques and trends;
* the provision of programs for and by young people to
help foster creativity and social and cultural skills and
interests.

ArtSound-Programming-Aims 2024

 

Program Schedule

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Sponsorship

ArtSound FM has a brand new range of Sponsorship Packages, enabling you to align your brand with arts and culture, and reach a brand new audience who generally don’t listen to commercial radio.

Services

 

ArtSound has a range of audio services available for hire to the Canberra community. This includes hire of our professional studios, podcast recording, audio transfer and restoration, and concert recording.

We invite you to browse our audio services page, and please contact us for a custom quote so we can look after you.

Acknowledgement of Country

ArtSound acknowledges the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honours their Elders past and present. We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways, and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations Peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions.