Links
This page provides links to the websites of various music-related industry bodies including New Zealand music-friendly websites and organisations that operate around the country.
NZM’s website also includes a number of annually updated national service Directories that include: Musical Equipment Distributors Directory; the tertiary education-focused Music Industry Training Courses Directory; a Studio & a Label Directory as well as the directory of Music Video Directors.
For links including websites, phone and email addresses for a sector-wide range of businesses, organisations and service providers we recommend that you check out the NZ Music Services Directory, published in print annually and available online at www.musicnz.co.nz
Music Industry Organisations
Acoustix Hearing Technologies
Acoustix Hearing provide the service and technology enabling people producing, playing and enjoying music across the industry to ensure their hearing is safe while still enjoying the highest quality sounds. They also provide state-of-the-art In-ear monitors and other technologies that may be of interest to those in the music scene. Phone: (09) 520 5648
www.acoustix.co.nz
APRA/AMCOS
Australasian Performing Right Association + Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Association
The songwriters and publishers’ association which collects performance monies on behalf of its members internationally. APRA’s NZ office is located in Mt Eden, Auckland. APRA presents the annual Silver Scroll, SOUNZ Contemporary and APRA Maioha awards.
www.apra.co.nz
Audioculture
Through a partnership with online video archive nzonscreen.com, audioculture.co.nz (otherwise known as ‘the noisy library of NZ music’) works with artists, historians and music industry people to tell the stories of our homegrown music over the last hundred years through articles, reviews, interviews, images, recordings, music videos, discussion and commentary from fans and artists.
www.audioculture.co.nz
Centre for NZ Music (SOUNZ) – see SOUNZ
www.sounz.org.nz
Independent Music New Zealand
IMNZ is a group set up to provide a voice for the interests of New Zealand independent recording labels and distributors. Amongst other activities, IMNZ presents the annual Taite Music Prize.
www.indies.co.nz
Music Managers’ Forum
MMF’s main objective is the defence of, and promotion of, the interests of music managers and their clients.
www.mmf.co.nz
Muzic.net.nz
muzic.net.nz is a voluntary organisation with the purpose of getting NZ music onto the web. Along with services for musicians they also provide a gig guide, reviews and discussion groups.
www.muzic.net.nz
New Zealand Music Commission
The NZMC provides support with a range of domestic and international programmes including a music mentoring programme in schools, NZ Music Month and funded attendance at a number of international music trade shows.
Phone: (09) 376 0115
www.nzmusic.org.nz
Music Helps
Music Helps is a not-for-profit charitable trust, created to provide financial assistance to members of the NZ music community. The aims of the foundation are to provide financial support to suitable entities that work toward enriching the lives of New Zealanders in need through music, and to provide emergency financial assistance to members of the NZ music community who are suffering hardship, illness or distress.
www.musichelps.org.nz
New Zealand Music Month
The official website listing events throughout the month of May; you can also register for updates.
www.nzmusicmonth.co.nz
NZ Music Services Directory
An invaluable source of information about up-to-date NZ music contacts under a wide range of categories including: production, media, recording, support and equipment. Published annually (each January) by Southern Exposure.
www.musicnz.co.nz/
NZ On Air
NZ On Air is a broadcast funding agency with a music division. NZ On Air funding pays for Radio NZ and Concert FM to record and broadcast NZ music and funds access radio stations who carry specialist NZ music shows.
NZ On Air also provides New Music Single and New Music Project funding for artists and labels, as well as supporting a variety of other new NZ music initiatives and annual events. Details of music funding and application deadlines are easily found on the website www.nzonair.govt.nz/music
Recorded Music NZ
Recorded Music NZ (formerly PPNZ) is a non-profit organisation established to administer the rights of local and international record labels and recording artists in the NZ territory. It is responsible for licensing and collecting income from the broadcast, public performance and communication of the sound and video recordings of its members, distributing income back to them as annual royalty payments.
Phone: (09) 360 5085 or 0800 88 77 69.
www.recordedmusic.co.nz
Te Auaha
Te Auaha brings together the arts and creative programmes of Whitireia and WelTec under one roof in our purpose-built campus in the heart of Wellington. Te Kāhui Auaha is a world-class institute, delivering leading programmes in creativity and innovation, proud of our place in the Pacific, in our home of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Here we offer programmes in music which are taught by industry connected tutors.
