Hit Factory Music Residency

6 - 9 June 2024 Bankstown Arts Centre

The Sound of Western Sydney

We had a such a great response to the EOI’s we created TWO oportunities for artists to come together and create new music cross cultures.

The launch event on 5 July 6pm Bankstown Arts Centre will feature solo performances and our two groups performing their new music.

Come along and hear the culturally diverse contemporary sound of Western Sydney.

Performers:
Behzad Ansari (Tar, Oud), Isabella Rahme (Soprano vocals and Harp), Imad-eddine Dably (Trad. Morrocan Bass and Vocals), Charnel Rizk (Rnb, Hip Hop vocals), Vivien Vu (vocals, Piano), Gem Kret-Nealand (Producer, Piano)

What we created. The Outcome

Two new ensembles

and

Morocco Blue music video - by our newly formed Hit Factory Ensemble ‘OneSix’

The Residency

What can you do in 16 hrs with people you have just met? When the stars align...

Create and record 5 songs and 1 music video that include Persian, Morrocan, Western Classical culture.

Thanks to our project partners Outloud and Cultural Arts Collective who made this beautiful collaboration happen!

Launching the single on the 5 July at 6pm at Bankstown Arts Centre with a special performance of this (unnamed) ensemble and more…Then onto Culture X Festival in September.

Produced and facilitated by Cultural Arts Collective

Funded by Create NSW

The EOI Opportunity - CLOSED

Sacred Currents Inc in partnership with Outloud and Cultural Arts Collective are looking to connect with 4 artists in Western Sydney who are interested in collaboration and creating new music.

This is a PAID opportunity for artists to work with Music Producer Richard Petkovic to create a song that crosses genres and cultures and demonstrates the innovative new music coming out of Western Sydney.

(See Richard’s work here).

The artists will recieve :

  • professional development support including promotional photos and a BIO for their personal use

  • the chance play at Culture X Festival in September 2024

  • payment to be part of the Residency

  • create at least one new track and a video with the EOI artists

  • paid performance at the Residency song launch on 5 July at Bankstown Arts Centre

So if you sing or rap (in any language), play an instrument (from Yudaki to Indian Tabla to Piano) or produce Beats. Fill out the form below to be considered for this exciting opportunity.

The Hit Factory Residency is from 6 - 9 June 2024 Bankstown Arts Centre 2024 for 4 days/or nights at Bankstown Arts Centre.

Applications close Friday 12 April

Any questions email: info@culturalartscollective.com.au


This project is a Sacred Currents Inc initiated project and is funded by Create NSW

Our Partners:

Outloud is a youth arts organisation based on Darug land in Bankstown, Western Sydney. They provide dynamic, socially-driven arts opportunities for young people in our community.

Cultural Arts Collective is committed to producing contemporary music that represents the multicultural Western Sydney neighbourhoods where they grew up, live and work in. They create a sound that is ‘place based’ and combines diverse music practices and genres into a new contemporary Australian sound…The Western Sydney Sound.

Photos - Gerrie Mifsud of VV Pete, Chocolate Box and Pedro Olympio - All were part of the Pathways Festival (and professional development) project 2022 and 2023, a precurser to the Hit Factory project 2024.