Charlie Trindall
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I’m Charlie Trindall and I’m a singer songwriter. This round I have applied for a presentation promotion grant and I was lucky enough to receive it. It's to undertake a recording project of 11 original songs and one cover song and the title of the album is called The Journey.
The process I go through to put an application together starts a long, long time before the application goes in because there is a lot of research that needs to be done - quotes, studio time, costings, the arrangements have to be thought of up front, so I know what musicians that I will need to use and what sort of parts I can do myself.
I’ve done a little bit of project management so that helped me think about the background to it, what I wanted to do, costing, time schedules, time frames and things like that. I looked at my application and thought it's pretty straight forward when you think of it in logical terms like that. So you have to take all these bits and pieces and put them in the right places and then what you haven’t got you go and find and that’s why it takes such a long time.
Indigenous involvement in my project was based around musicians and support people. I didn’t have in Indigenous auspicing body but I used a music auspicing body who had Indigenous project officers and reference groups, that sort of support mechanism within it - built into the agency.
But I tried to think about what Indigenous musicians I wanted to use and what ones I have used before and I’ve identified those people in my application.
The intimidation is the amount of information you have to find, and you have to research, and you have to come up with. But when you think about it it's all logical stuff you need within the project anyway.
Gone are the days you ring up and say 'can you send me 10 grand in the mail and I’ll buy a bit of equipment and try do an album'. You can't do that, it doesn’t work that way. So I look at the application - the first part is your name and address and contact details all those sort of logical things - that’s okay. When it gets to what you want to do and a break down of people you want to use, costings, the venues, the studios, when you look at all that, yeah it can be intimidating. But if you don’t know you really are going to have a hard time trying to do a recording project or any project if you haven’t got that background.
If you get knocked back there’s probably a logical reason why, so go and talk to the project officers, they will help you work stuff out. But don’t give up, go back and do it again if you believe in your project you’ll keep going back. You will find a way.
The process I go through to put an application together starts a long, long time before the application goes in because there is a lot of research that needs to be done - quotes, studio time, costings, the arrangements have to be thought of up front, so I know what musicians that I will need to use and what sort of parts I can do myself.
I’ve done a little bit of project management so that helped me think about the background to it, what I wanted to do, costing, time schedules, time frames and things like that. I looked at my application and thought it's pretty straight forward when you think of it in logical terms like that. So you have to take all these bits and pieces and put them in the right places and then what you haven’t got you go and find and that’s why it takes such a long time.
Indigenous involvement in my project was based around musicians and support people. I didn’t have in Indigenous auspicing body but I used a music auspicing body who had Indigenous project officers and reference groups, that sort of support mechanism within it - built into the agency.
But I tried to think about what Indigenous musicians I wanted to use and what ones I have used before and I’ve identified those people in my application.
The intimidation is the amount of information you have to find, and you have to research, and you have to come up with. But when you think about it it's all logical stuff you need within the project anyway.
Gone are the days you ring up and say 'can you send me 10 grand in the mail and I’ll buy a bit of equipment and try do an album'. You can't do that, it doesn’t work that way. So I look at the application - the first part is your name and address and contact details all those sort of logical things - that’s okay. When it gets to what you want to do and a break down of people you want to use, costings, the venues, the studios, when you look at all that, yeah it can be intimidating. But if you don’t know you really are going to have a hard time trying to do a recording project or any project if you haven’t got that background.
If you get knocked back there’s probably a logical reason why, so go and talk to the project officers, they will help you work stuff out. But don’t give up, go back and do it again if you believe in your project you’ll keep going back. You will find a way.
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