The Independent Music Project (IMP) brings together industry professionals and emerging talent with researchers from Music, Creative Industries, Business, Law, Information Technology, and Education to understand and respond to the changes, challenges, and opportunities facing the music industry. The project is centred around the development and creation of new music, and includes research into copyright, business models of the future, new technologies, and new audiences.

Hosted by QUT’s Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, the IMP is located in one of Queensland’s finest recording facilities, the QUT Gasworks studio. IMP is partnering with Brisbane’s most successful independent labels to create a living history of Brisbane’s amazing independent music scene. If you’ve played a part in Brisbane’s music history, we’d like to hear your story.

To launch the IMP, students, staff, and industry partners got together to put on The Big Jam to set a world record for continuous performance and recording. The official record attempt was for “the longest continual recording of multiple acts”. If you took part in the event and haven’t joined our list, please do so on the link provided and claim your place in Brisbane Music History.