SOUND SHARE LA

dublab has been broadcasting since 1999. More than 300,000 international listeners connect to our audio streams and podcasts monthly. Over the past 14 years dublab.com has been critically acclaimed as one of the premier Internet radio stations in the world. The LA Weekly says, "Tuning into the Dubstream at any given time is a music lover’s dream." dublab is part of Los Angeles’ cultural landscape and continues to create innovative music programming that provides an important voice to the city.

Besides its radio programming, dublab has presented hundreds of free concerts throughout the city of Los Angeles. We have curated the main music stages at the Eagle Rock Music Festival for six years running, at the Abbot Kinney Festival for the past three years and 2013 marks our third year presenting a series of free, dublab curated concerts as part of the Levitt Pavilion summer series. Our organization has also contributed to numerous free, public programs at the Getty Center, Hammer Museum, LACMA, Los Angeles Public Library, Santa Monica Pier, Grammy Museum, REDCAT and dozens of other major arts institutions in Los Angeles.

dublab has succeeded as a community supported organization funded through contributions and underwriting from individual donors and organizations from around the world. In 2011 dublab became the recipient of multi-year grant funding from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the following year received a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Its longevity is in great part due to the organization’s successful fundraising strategy and financial stability.

Following are a few projects that exemplify dublab’s achievements:

dublab 10th Anniversary Series

Vision Version

Secondhand Sureshots

Hammer Made in LA Soundmap App (music curator)

Tonalism

German Sound Exploration (a collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles)

Into Infinity (a collaboration with Creative Commons)

Listen to Art (a collaboration with LACMA)

Light from Los Angeles

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Sound Share LA will tap into dublab’s collective of internationally recognized musicians, DJ’s and filmmakers for contributions to the website. We will invite a wide array of collaborators, ranging from pioneering elders to influential, up and coming musicians to participate in the community radio broadcasts . Prominent journalists and historians will moderate the live discussions and produce features for the website.

We will expand the impact of the project by collaborating with major arts institutions, cultural centers, music venues and media outlets. In addition, we will actively encourage participation of web developers, leading to the creation of third party mobile apps, multimedia art installations and more.

The Sound Share LA initiative will be evaluated by the following metrics:

PUBLIC FEEDBACK:

To evaluate the response from the public, an e-mail survey will be conducted with participants at the end of the project’s first year. Feedback given by the public will be compiled with anecdotal reports from event staff.

MEDIA RESPONSE:

Press received will be taken into consideration alongside public opinion. Positive coverage in at least one major Los Angeles media outlet per event will be considered a success. We will also take into account the depth of social media activity throughout the course of the initiative and the number of followers gained.

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS:

We will collect website statistics, such as number of unique visitors and listeners. In order to consider the project successful, web traffic must be comparable to equivalent online media platforms. Attendance figures and live tune-ins for each community broadcast event will also be recorded. These statistics should expand as the project develops.

PROGRAM QUALITY:

The staff will conduct a review at the end of each community broadcast event to evaluate its success based on enthusiasm of the audience and depth of engagement. At the end of the first year of programming we will determine if the quality of the project's web presence and live broadcasts across Los Angeles County successfully fulfilled the initiative’s goals.

The Sound Share LA initiative will have a positive and lasting impact on Los Angeles by:

- Educating current and future generations by providing free access to the Sound Share LA website featuring exclusive content including hundreds of interviews, performances, DJ mixes and films.

- Enhancing education, research and stimulation of tourism by creating a geo-tagged content map and searchable content database, organized by musician, year, neighborhood and genre.

- Increasing community awareness of the city's cultural heritage, history and value.

- Providing the opportunity for residents to engage with local musicians in a live setting.

- Educating listeners around the world about Los Angeles’ diverse musical contributions.

The monthly community radio broadcasts will have an immediate impact within the neighborhoods where they occur. The public will come together to explore notable LA music phases in the very spaces these genres thrived. Audiences will enjoy a full day of free programming giving them rare insight into the people and places behind these influential music developments: 1950’s Central Avenue jazz scene, 1960’s Sunset Strip music revolution, 1970’s Laurel Canyon folk movement, 1980’s downtown punk rock explosion or 1990’s South Central rap uprising among many others.

Oral histories from the pioneers who forged these music movements will be shared alongside input from the generations who followed in their footsteps. DJ sets and performances will bring the music genres to life. Attendees and those accessing the radio broadcasts will learn about the musical heritage of specific LA neighborhoods. This experience will educate them about truly unique music breakthroughs from Los Angeles. Eventually these radio shows will have a long term impact as they are made available as online archives.

The Sound Share LA project will have a direct impact on the arts and cultural vitality of Los Angeles by creating an ongoing document of not only the past but also contemporary music made in Los Angeles. The Sound Share LA website, in combination with quality live events staged throughout Los Angeles, will expose residents to the rich heritage in every corner of our expansive city.

Los Angeles has long been known as a launchpad for progress, helping advance international culture through innovation. In the year 2050, Los Angeles will be the undisputed cultural capital of the world. It will be the space where sea change takes form and launches across the globe.

LA 2050 will brim with diverse, artistic voices who feel empowered to better their community through creative energy. They will be a populace of philanthropists for whom giving comes as second nature. These informed citizens will have shaped a government that guides the city with empathy and knowledge, finding creative solutions for the issues that impact its residents. The seeds of forward thinking will have been cultivated through an education system that encourages artistic action as central to productive living.

This conscious city will celebrate its wide cultural spectrum. By 2050, artists of all walks should enjoy an abundance of opportunities to make a living through their craft. Media outlets will offer an expansive view of the arts, blurring the line between mainstream and underground. Citizens along with a plethora of neighborhood based arts organizations will participate in the daily conversation of evolving culture. Through the collective energy of a healthy, happy and inspired population, Los Angeles will continue to serve as a beacon to the world. Sound Share LA will help materialize this optimistic vision of a creative Los Angeles in the year 2050 and beyond.