ExTunes

The umbrella organisation for Music at Exeter

ExTunes is the collaborative group of all the music societies on campus with four main aims: to promote all styles of music at the University of Exeter and to the local area, to publicise our societies' events to increase our audience figures, to provide a forum of discussion for any music-related issues that may arise and to represent all of our membership (circa 1000) to the Students' Guild and to the University of Exeter.

During the year, we also put on a range of joint social events to allow the members of all of our different and varied societies to get to know each other better in the hope that this will enable us to work towards achieving our aims. We also promote our societies combining forces for concerts as this, in addition to being very enjoyable for the participants, allows more variation for the audience as well as publicising each of the individual societies. We are also a first point-of-contact for any prospective student who may be looking for information on musical activities at the University and any member of the general public who is looking to book musicians for an event.

ExTunes consists of over 20 different societies, who have banded together to help publicize each others' concerts and events, to try and resolve problems between the societies, such as concert clashes, and to work together to promote music and performing arts at the University. Representatives of these societies come together every Wednesday for a meeting, so that we can all keep each other informed of what we're up to, as well as ask for help and advice from other societies. As a group, we also lobby the University and Students' Guild to improve the facilities available to students who enjoy music as a leisure activity. This weekly meeting is known as ExTunes Council.

ExTunes also has an elected student committee to help coordinate the day-to-day administration of the organisation. This generally just means coordinating publicity campaigns for our societies' events, but also organising various joint concerts and social events in the hope of bringing everyone closer together. The committee are always there to help and to answer any questions.

ExTunes was set up in January 2006 by the former Director of Music, Marion Wood as a way of uniting the music societies on campus following the closure of the music department. Supporting the newly-formed group with seminars on a range of subjects including publicity and audience behaviours, Marion helped it to grow into the body we recognize as ExTunes today.

At the start of the Lent term 2007, the need for more student representation became apparent and the ExTunes Executive Committee was born. This elected body of students works alongside the Music Office, ExTunes Council and the Students' Guild with the aim of better representing our members, thus ensuring the interests and concerns of the music societies were being properly voiced to the Students' Guild and the University.

Looking to the future, ExTunes hopes to go from strength to strength, offering vital support to each other and also to those music societies too small to become affiliated to the Guild Societies Association. We are a key point-of-contact for the members of all of our societies, and form a vital link among them, the Students' Guild and the University of Exeter.

ExTunes Online

For more information on ExTunes and the individual member societies, please refer to the ExTunes Website 

ExTunes on Facebook

You can follow the ♫ *ExTunes Live* ♫ Group on Facebook

Please join if you'd like to be updated on weekly events. If you're interested in performing, please get in touch ~ we're happy for people to perform anything from 15 mins to an hour or more. All genres are welcome! Check out previous listings: ♪ Jazz groups ♪ Rock ♪ Campus Bands ♪ A Cappella ♪ Singer songwriters ♪ Folk ♪ Chamber Wind ensemble ♪ Brass ensemble ♪ Flute Choir ♪ Funk bands ♪ Soul Choir ♪ Barbershop ♪ Flash Mob Carmina Burana ♪ World Music and MORE!

Variety is the spice of life as they say! *ExTunes Live* ~ a fun filled musical smorgasbord!

Contact Ali Board (asb213@exeter.ac.uk) for further information.

ExTunes Committee 2012/13

If you would like to contact a member of the ExTunes Committee, the names of this year's Committee members are listed here for you:

ExTunes Committee 2012/13