About Us
Sound and Music promotes challenging contemporary music and sound art through a range of projects, incorporating live events, learning, artist development, and digital platforms. We embrace complexity and risk-taking and invite the audience to listen in new ways.
Our ambition is to reach as broad an audience as possible by providing opportunities to experience the enormous diversity of work in this area and different approaches to creating, producing and presenting it. Simply, we want more people to discover the joy and rewards of listening.
People come to contemporary music and sound art from many different directions – actively seeking out the new, by accident, or through other forms and genres. SAM encourages people to embark on such a journey, as well as helping guide those further down the track. We strive to challenge expectations along the way, by combining our creative and development programme with rich, informative, and entertaining online content. And for those involved in making new work, we provide resources and support for creating it and getting it across to the public.
The SAM website itself occupies a unique position in between all these journeys – a gateway with plenty of access-points, a set of signposts, and some stimulating refreshment on the way.