Sound and Music ACE Funding 2012-15

Sound and Music has heard this morning that following our application to Arts Council England for national portfolio funding we will receive £700,599 for 2012-2013, £716,712 for 2013-2014 and £735,347 for 2014-2015.

Whilst we are grateful to receive this award, it represents a reduction of over 40% in our funding from ACE by comparison with our 2011/12 grant.

In the light of this outcome, we will be reviewing the range of Sound and Music’s activities, to ensure maximum value is gained from the resources we receive from our funders, including ACE. We will remain true to our mission, working with others to establish:

• a generation of contemporary composers, musicians and artists who are considered major figures in our culture;
• a substantial informed and critical audience for new music and sound; and
• a new awareness of the art of listening in our everyday lives.

We are committed to a full season of work for 2011/12. Major projects in development include:

• A first UK retrospective of the legendary French composer, Eliane Radigue
• A large-scale sound installation in Trafalgar Square
• Vision Sound and Music, a celebration at London’s South Bank Centre of innovative music and ideas in sync media
• The launch of Embedded, a new professional development initiative for composers and artists, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
• The roll-out of major national education project 'Minute of Listening' to thousands of primary school children across the UK

For further information, please contact Sound and Music on 020 7759 1800.