Soundedit Festival
Soundedit Festival | |
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Dates | September/October |
Location(s) | Łódź, Poland |
Years active | 2009 – present |
Founders | Art Industry Foundation |
Website | http://www.soundedit.pl |
SOUNDEDIT (International Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers SOUNDEDIT) − an annual, international festival dedicated to music producers and sound designers. Since its beginning in 2009, the festival has been taking place in Łódź, Poland. The main award of the festival is The Man with the Golden Ear Award.
The main organizer of SOUNDEDIT is Art Industry Foundation established by Marcin Tercjak (a music journalist and Radio Łódź presenter) and Maciej Werk (a music producer and the leader of alternative music group Hedone). The chairman of the foundation and the director of the festival is Maciej Werk.
Aims of the festival
According to the organizers, the festival is an "attempt to honor those who stand behind the tedious process of creating a song or a whole album".[1]
The other basics aims of the festival are:[2]
- to make Lodz a place of annual meetings of the most remarkable music producers and sound designers (...).
- building the prestige of The Man With The Golden Ear Award so that it becomes a well-known and highly desirable award.
- organizing exceptional concerts which will accompany meetings with music producers.
- developing educational activity in the field of music and recording techniques.
- creating in Lodz, a city of rich musical traditions, an annual, important and valued event.
The Man with the Golden Ear Award laureates
2009:
- Daniel Lanois
- Gareth Jones
- Grzegorz Ciechowski (posthumously)
2010:
- Adrian Sherwood
- Andrzej Smolik
- Martin Hannett (posthumously)
2011:
2012:
2013:
2014:
- Karl Bartos
- Howard Bernstein (Howie B)
- John Cale
- Lech Janerka
2015:
References
- ^ SOUNDEDIT '10: about. Retrieved August 03, 2012.
- ^ SOUNDEDIT '10: news. Retrieved August 03, 2012.