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.

NZ Sound Net
Regardless of what aspects of the audio industry you are involved
in; be it live, location, music composing, performance, post,
broadcasting, recording, mixing, mastering, education or whatever, there's something
here for you

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.

http://thebigcity.co.nz
"... i've tried to accumulate as much information as possible on forgotten and unknown bands, and i encourage anyone with info on new zealand bands to help fleshing out this resource. my general target is to document every single band with at least an ep release since the start of the 80s, and in some cases - even those that haven't. "

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/dunedin/index.asp
Includes articles, essays and interviews with Peter Stapleton, Bruce Russell and Alistair Galbraith among others

The Big Idea
an online community of New Zealand's creative industries

Club Bizzare
General AVANT-GARDE ARTROCK DARK-END ALTERNATIVE POST-PUNK/NEWWAVE EXPERIMENTAL [Acoustic & Electronic] INDUSTRIAL WEIRDO-POP ELECTRO NOISE DARK-METAL scenes.

Creative New Zealand
Our three-step process to getting started will help you work out if you're eligible and understand which funding bodies you can apply to. It will also direct you to the funding programme that is right for your project.

http://url.co.nz/arts/nzarts.html
Contemporary music resources

http://www.obscure.co.nz/
Dance Music In NZ

http://www.zeroland.co.nz/new_zealand_music.html
NZ music web resource

INTERNATIONAL

http://www.the-improvisor.com/sitemap.html
the improvisor is a resource for musicians & composers of free improvisation, to share music, ideas, articles, reviews, scores, and links to interesting sites...your gig dates... information... travel journals, poetry,inspirations and more...

The Living Room - resources for experimental musicians, performance and multimedia artists, and all other persons interested in nurturing creative artistic endeavors.

beepSnort
A New Music Blog Covering the Online Independent Contemporary Music Network

The Soundry
The Soundry is an exciting, interactive, and educational web site about sound. Covering everything from the most basic concepts of what sound actually is to the specifics of how humans perceive it,

Odd Music.com
Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments. So whether you play stalagmites in a cave, the kaval, bow telegraph wires across the Nullarbor Plain, twist electrons by circuit bending, call whales on a Waterphone, or just love listening, this site is for you.

Zu Casa is a resource for artists, producers, and fans of experimental and improvised musics
(mainly US but huge linkage to organisations)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker/

http://www.clatterbox.net.au/
clatterbox believes that the creation of experimental musical instruments plays a vital role in the development of unique musical cultures.

HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC INCLUDING AUTOMATIC INSTRUMENTS AND COMPOSITION MACHINES
compiled and annotated by Dr. Kristine H. Burns

Janek's Sound/Art/Installation & Music Resource
including a list of books about sound art

All that Noise
extensive linkage, some old, to noise sites

http://www.emfinstitute.emf.org/
A history of innovation music and sound from the point of view of the Electronic Music Foundation

http://x.i-dat.org/~csem/UNESCO/1/index.html
The main objective of UNESCOªs Digi-Arts portal is to foster the dissemination of knowledge and promotion of culture in the fields of media arts and interdisciplinary media studies, including computer music. In this context, these Web-based computer music tutorials are aimed at the dissemination of innovative uses of digital technology in music, independent of musical style. With the exception of the first tutorial, which is a general introduction to basic concepts of digital music, all tutorials focus on the work of selected musicians, sound artists and music technology experts.

http://www.icomm.ca/macos
MACOS is a non-profit organization constructing an international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples.

http://www.archive.org/audio/
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build an ÁInternet library,ª with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

European Free Improvisation Pages
Begun in January 1995, EFIP is a comprehensive information resource for all aspects of the type of music known as European free improvisation. Every effort has been made to check the information on this site as far as possible; in most cases the information has been sourced from the musicians themselves.

http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.php
Digital technology and the Internet can empower artists to reach a worldwide audience and to build upon each other's ideas and imagination with extremely low production and distribution costs. Many software developers, through both the open source software initiative and the free software movement, have long taken advantage of these facts to create a vibrant community of shared software that benefits creators and the public.
EFF's Open Audio License provides a legal tool that borrows from both movements providing freedom and openness to use music and other expressive works in new ways. It allows artists to grant the public permission to copy, distribute, adapt, and publicly perform their works royalty-free as long as credit is given to the creator as the Original Author.

www.tsjok.com
Tsjok.com aims to be the central booking directory for leftfield music. The site has been set up as a free service for record labels and booking agencies as well as independent artists. So, we're no booking agency at all, we just develop and maintain a tool which makes the communication between artists/booking-agencies and clubs/concert organizers a lot easier.

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.

http://www.artifact.ac.uk/directory.php?categoryID=32
Artifact is the arts and creative industries hub of the Resource Discovery
Network (RDN)
The term hub is synonymous with gateway or simply guide and at its most
basic Artifact is an Internet Resource Catalogue (IRC) providing searchable
access to a collection of high quality online resources and web sites. Each
site has been chosen by subject specialists for its relevance to further and
higher education teaching, learning and research in the arts and creative
industries. Each site is then evaluated and catalogued by the Artifact
cataloguers along with a description of the site and its key features.

http://www.11-hour.com/music/index.asp
The major aim at 11th Hour is to provide musicians and music lovers with all the resources necessary to enjoy and develop the electronic music scene. In this section you can find hundreds of links to like-minded labels, record stores, artist websites, radio stations, club nights and DJ agencies. (English)

http://fdncenter.org/learn/useraids/music.html
The Foundation Center has identified a range of materials useful to musicians seeking funding for the support of their own creative pursuits (American)

http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/%7Eqamutiik/database.html
Excellent database of experimental music resources divided into seven sections - digital music festivals, labels, performers, radio, shop spaces, and magazines

http://www.onelonelypixel.org/soundart.html
Extensive linkage

Experimental Musical Instruments
If you have an interest in musical instruments with an emphasis on the out-of-the-ordinary, this is the place.

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~chobbs/
Experimental Music Catalogue

http://www.mediascot.org/drift/html/index.php
New Media Scotland announces DRIFT - an exploration of sound art and
experimental music featuring radio broadcasts, moving image, publications,
and live events. DRIFT is a platform for artists from Scotland and beyond, a
gateway to these emerging cultural forms

http://signaltonoisemagazine.org/resources.htm

http://www.hoerspielbox.de/frameset.htm
the project hoerspielbox.de supplies a complete and exhaustive toolbox, which allows children, youngsters and of course all other users of the internet to create their own radio shows, radio plays, tracks for, say, a holiday video, theatre soundtracks, or even acoustic components for websites and CD-ROMs. The heart of this offer is a, to date, unique and publicly accessible sound archive in the internet. As an initial resource, 1000 sounds, voices, and sounds attempting to embody an atmosphere - all satisfying the highest possible acoustic standards - are offered for download.


http://www.ubu.com/resources/
Essentially a gift economy, (concrete) poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics. Freed from profit-making constraints or cumbersome fabrication considerations, information can literally "be free": on UbuWeb, we give it away and have been doing so since 1996.

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/audio/
interesting article on Audio Art

http://noemata.net/nbng/
r  a  n  d  o  m      n  a  m  e      g  e  n  e  r  a  t  o  r

http://www.gnoosic.com/
Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every day. Enjoy :o)

http://www.sysx.org/soundsite/
The online journal of Sound Theory, Philosophy
of Sound and Sound Art.