Futuresonic 2006

Dear Eileen and Ben,

Good to meet you at your event the other day!

It is great to see a project like Open Music Archive happening in Manchester, and I thought the live element was really well done.

The Futuresonic festival is coming round again, scheduled for 20-23 July. Alongside the music gigs we stage a lot of media art exhibitions and workshops, and much of that world revolves around open source, grass-roots, collaborative culture.

As it is our 10th year we have decided to take Collaborative Cultures as the main festival theme - so there is a lot of overlap with your project!

Our funds are as ever limited, so not in a position to propose a commission as such right now. But if we could find a way to involve Open Music Archive in the festival I would be very keen to explore.

Drew