“Sweetsounds” “Sweet As...” “Raw to Refined”  CD/DVD sales  Background

The Sweetsounds of a Sugar Town project was completed in Dec 2005.

This innovative project maps the Soundscapes and Rhythms of the sugar industry in Bundaberg, combines them with drum compositions inspired by these sounds and with images (video and still) of the industry and environment. The drum pieces that drive the sequences were composed and performed by Dane Costigan. Sweetsounds is comprised of a CD and DVD, each of the eight tracks tells the story of one step in the production of sugar. Additionally, the DVD has an extra 50 minutes of oral history surrounding the industry. Funding came from the Faculty of Informatics and Communication, the CQU Regional Council of the Arts, CQU, and the National Library of Australia.

Sweetsounds has been performed live at a number of festivals including opening the National Folk Festival in Canberra, 2006. It has also been performed at the Childers Multicultural Festival 2005, the Pacific Edge Regional Arts Conference 2006, and Bundy in Bloom 2006.

Sweetsounds was also presented on ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program on Friday 23rd June, 2006. Follow this link to Sweetsounds on Bush Telegraph.

Excerpts from Sweetsounds are exhibited online at the VideoChannel "Image vs Music" Online Exhibition which is viewable at http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=38, and also the Cologne Online Film Festival, 2nd Edition at http://coff.newmediafest.org/index.html, and will be screened at the PI 5 Video Festival, Szczecin/Poland, October 2006.

Copies of the CD + DVD sets of Sweetsounds project are available for purchase — follow this link for details