NEW ZEALAND

Vitamin S
Vitamin-S was devised as a place where those interested in 'improvised music' could meet, perform, listen to and discuss, and generally interact with, all aspects of this complex and largely misunderstood art form.
There are regular pool driven trios every Wed in AK and monthly workshops

NZ Music Industry Commission
The New Zealand Music Commission is one of the Government funded arts agencies. The NZMIC is committed to growing New Zealand music business.

Independent Music New Zealand
is a group set up to provide a voice for the interests of New Zealand independent recording labels and distributors.

The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand Inc
is a non-profit organisation representing the rights and interests of major and independent record producers, distributors and recording artists throughout New Zealand.

ASRA is an association for those interested in recorded sound.
The Association is made up of private record collectors, professional sound archivists, radio broadcasters and social historians, consisting of individuals and institutions with a strong interest in sound recording history, its development and all related activities.

APRA
The first copyright collecting society set up in Australasia, APRA represents some 5,000 NZ music writers and publishers in their total membership of over 38,000. As part of a world-wide network of similar organisations, APRA also provides local representation for over 2 million music writers and composers worldwide

http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/acma-l
acma-l is a listserv discussion group hosted by the
Music Department at the University of Waikato(Hamilton, New Zealand) for the Australasian Computer Music Association .

http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list
NZ's Digital Media discussion list

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/humanities/music/imp.shtml
IMP is a group of composers, programmers and performers who work collaboratively to develop musical/artistic works using interactive technologies applied to acoustic, mixed and networked media.

Happy
Wellington venue and home of the Improv Charitable trust, Bomb the Space...previously known as The Space in Newtown

http://www.creativesounds.org.nz
Creative Sounds is a non-profit voluntary organisation dedicated to the enhancement of local artistic talent and to the encouragement of musical, artistic and performance activities. (Palmerston North)

Play it Strange
The Trust is established to encourage young New Zealanders to develop interests and skills in music, composing and performance.

SOUNZ
The Centre for New Zealand Music.
SOUNZ is a music information centre promoting the music of New Zealand through a range of services, projects and activities.

Version
MISSION: to promote a wider perspective of emerging electronic music culture.

Artpace
Artspace operates in an expanded field of art practice, taking in aspects of moving image, sound art, new music and architecture. (Auckland)

Window
Curatorial project of Internet art and experimental media

The Eclective
The Eclective functions as a network, unifying and linking scattered artistic communities and individuals.

The Blue Oyster
Dunedin alternative art project space

The High St Project
An artist-run exhibiting space, Christchurch

The Physics Room
Contemporary artspace in Christchurch

Enjoy
Enjoy facilitates contemporary art projects and is liberated from commercial constraints to actively promote critical dialogue.

rm103
* 1st Floor * Achilles House * Cnr Commerce St and Custom St East * Auckland * NZ

cuckoo
Cuckoo is an artists' initiative from Aotearoa/New Zealand, operational since late 2000. We put on shows in other peoples' galleries, or rather, we make people give us their gallery to run our programme in.

Gridlocked
Gridlocked is based in Christchurch, New Zealand. The project is creating an avenue for artists to show work to an audience who are not necessarily aware that what they are seeing or hearing has been made by an artist.

INTERNATIONAL

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
founded in 1993, is an international association of affiliated organizations and individuals, who share a common concern with the state of the world's soundscapes.

http://aliasfrequencies.org
An obscure but vibrant corner of Australian Culture, home of aus-e-music, furthermore & plenum

Collective Jukebox
Collective JukeBox is an open free audio "workspace", which has began in 1996. Since the beginning, the project has taken different forms - an audio compilation to an audio intervention group, to since '98 the development of a project of a networked juke-box - with the concept of a "co-op system server"- in the parallel of the actual "sound-systems" interfaces (as the juke-box machine, ie).

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aaf/sonic.htm
Sonic Gallery is a virtual sonic exhibition space for cross-cultural music on the web

http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/DIY/
This site has been designed to help new artists and labels find out what they need to know to get their own work out into the world. The intention is to provide a forum of information, ideas and resources that will help to dymystify the process of getting started.

Jack Straw Productions
Jack Straw Productions (JSP) is the Pacific Northwest's only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center. A community-based resource since 1962, we provide a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for local artists who work creatively with sound.

23five Incorporated
23five Incorporated (San Francisco) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound works in the public arena, and to the support and education of artists working with and discussing the medium of sound. 23five was founded in 1993, and secured federal 501(c)(3) status in 1995

http://laudible.net/
Acoustic artists from Australia & New Zealand

http://yat.ch/emacm/
Experimental musicians and artists co-operative Malaysia

http://rhizome.org/
Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1996 to provide an online platform for the global new media art community.

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/concept/
Introducing the range of topics related to media and art, «Media Art Net» thus aims at establishing an Internet structure that offers highly qualified content by granting free access at the same time.

http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/site/about.html
The Australian Sound Design Project, is the first national website and database dedicated to researching and publishing original works and the discourse relating to sound and its design in public space

http://www.nomusic.org/
((NOMUSIC ARENA))) is a free platform for audio diffusion via Internet
dedicated to "Players".
Interventions come from two simultaneous countries and follow each
other in a regular manner at the rate of two peoples per hour.
The development of this Network is aimed at promoting experimentation and
creation via Internet.

http://www.sonicseaweed.ca/
experimental music collective in canada

www.expsoundstudio.org
Experimental Sound Studio Home Page

http://www.computermusic.org/
The International Computer Music Association is an international affiliation of individuals and institutions involved in the technical, creative, and performance aspects of computer music. It serves composers, computer software and hardware developers, researchers, and musicians who are interested in the integration of music and technology.

http://www.smallblackbox.com.au/
Small Black Box is a performance and listening space dedicated to experimental music and sound art, held on the last Sunday of each month at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia.

http://www.emf.org/aboutemf/index.html
Founded in September 1994, Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the creative potential of electronic music, in its myriad forms and technologies, in our world.

http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/
Sonic Arts Network is an events, education and information resource with members worldwide. We aim to raise awareness and innovate new approaches to sonic art by providing information and opportunity across the UK


http://www.steim.org/steim/
Center for Research & Development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts

http://www.ableton.com/
Live 3 is the real-time audio production solution that eliminates the boundaries between composition, performance, recording and sound design.

http://www.cycling74.com/index.html
Max/MSP , Jitter

http://www.microsound.org
.microsound is an unmediated mailing list oriented toward discussion of the styles of digital and post-digital music promulgated by the proliferation and widespread adoption of digital signal processing (dsp) tools.

http://www.japanimprov.com

http://www.soundculture.org/
is a festival focused on the creative use of sound outside of the field of music by practitioners based in the Pacific region.