Calls for proposals are the main tools of the Puglia Sounds project. Since its launch in 2010 they have made Puglia Sounds (and the Puglia Region) a pioneering Italian project in a specific area of culture and live performance: support for the music sector.
Today the project is replicated as a model of good practice in other Italian regions. The calls are addressed to music operators (including those based outside Puglia who work with Apulian music and musicians) and to musicians who were born in Puglia, to support their work at every stage.
With Export, Live and Record the project laid, in its early days, the foundations of a dialogue with the regional music sector – a dialogue enriched since 2020 by further tools: Circuito dei Luoghi, Tour Italia and Producers.
From the start, the calls have set – through transparent criteria and public rankings – financial contributions covering some of the costs of a music project: supporting professional skills without fully funding the productions, and placing the emphasis on communication and promotion, so that the music project can benefit as much as possible and, through its success, so can Puglia Sounds and our region.
Alongside the calls, Puglia Sounds maintains another line of action aimed at establishing and strengthening partnerships and framework agreements with the most important associations and networks: the Memoranda of Understanding.
Partnerships
Partnerships and Memoranda of Understanding
To establish and strengthen partnerships and framework agreements with the most important associations and networks