A Rock and Roll Summer Music Camp July 6 - July 25, 2008

3 week summer music academy where students write, perform, record, and tour their music. Program also includes, music videos, band artwork, music industry guest speakers, group lessons, music computer lab, electronic music, and epks.

The Collective Sound

The Collective Sound nurtures tomorrow’s creative innovators and leaders by developing music resources, programs and environments. These include summer camps, summer tours, after school programs, and media content. Our related programs are optimized by centralizing marketing, PR, accounting, production, administration and equipment/resource management.

Our Goal:
The goal of The Collective Sound is to present youth with an authentic musical experience in performance, recording, and touring through the vehicle of rock, electronic and popular music.

Organization Summary:
Our summer camp and after school program curriculum includes instrument lessons, music theory, songwriting, music technology, touring and character building through working with other musicians. These programs address the current state of rock, electronic and popular music and in turn create media content that actualizes in the form of print, audio, video and online content serving as a resource for continued growth and accessibility to a wider audience. The tour component allows for additional media content as well as the opportunity to take field trips and participate in events with our sponsors and partners. Our tours reach out to additional organizations with similar audiences with the goal of creating awareness as it relates to youth health, cultural, social and environmental issues.
The Collective Sound is a lot like marching band, basketball, or even boy scouts. The only difference is that every kid in America is afforded the opportunity to participate in these other types of extracurricular programs. It seems peculiar that creativity in music has few guided and funded options in mass public space. It is a valid plight to create a platform for youth to conceptualize and bring to fruition musical ideas. The Collective Sound is founded on the principles of promoting and empowering young musicians to develop confidence in their creative potential. Students will not only develop a skill set that will aid them in their musical proficiency, but in many of the challenges that will face them in life. The ability to develop ideas, communicate them with others, and share them with the world is an invaluable practice, one that has been provided few spaces in the current education system. The Collective Sound is that confluence, nurturing tomorrow’s creative innovators and leaders.