Mohamed Komba

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I go by the name of Mohamed, Momo, better known as. I play in a band called the Diafrix and together for this project called 4DS.

I met up with a lady named Anita Larkin from Multicultural Arts Victoria last year and we sat down and drew up a plan. I explained to her that I really wanted to produce an album that was kind of like urban sounding, but yet old music like. Whenever I came across anything in the application that I didn’t understand I was very lucky to have Multicultural Arts Victoria by my side to explain to me exactly what it meant.

I decided the structure with Anita. We sat down and wrote down the roles, the different roles we play within the project, and then from there we explained how we break it all up in different stages and after that it all just came together.

We sat down had a meeting and drew up a simple flow chart just to nut out all the aspects of the project and if ever we got lost we could always refer back to that. I think what may have caught the boards attention were the amount of people about to participate in the project, and my project gave a lot of people new opportunities. Like some of the artists on the project hadn’t had the chance to record before, some of them had but hadn’t experienced new genres or anything like that. I captured that in my application I think.

What I think was unique about my project was a lot of producers or artists that apply for this grant always do the same kind of thing. Whether it's oh yeah I’m going to do my independent whatever, but I kind of got artists that you would not have thought could collaborate together from different walks, different paths and I just said in my head that would sound good with that and this person with that person and just let my head go wherever it wanted to go.

The amount of time I said I could do the project in was really pushing the envelope. So as soon as I got the okay for the grant I was more or less straight in the studio. You can never have too much planning and I think that if I had had more time to think about a plan b I would have saved a lot more time in the long run.

I would definitely apply for another grant. In all honesty it has opened up a whole new door for me - I wasn’t a full time producer but now I am.

Don’t feel bad if you don’t get the grant there's heaps out there and there's opportunities, and you can only learn from you mistakes and take it as a positive and move on.