Mission Statement

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Many current or previous Sound Museum Tenants and members of the Boston Music community filled out petitions or polls in support of the sustainability of the Sound Museum this past year, and we want to thank you.   As they have for over 30 years, your voices and your choices matter to us, and in response to the current disruptive situation we and all our tenants find themselves in we're forming a Musician's Voices-led Non-Profit we'd like you to join to support your wants and needs as music creators of the Boston area. Please subscribe to our email list at Sound Museum Boston:  www.soundmuseumboston.com to be kept up to date on our plans to work collaboratively with all of you and other musicians to secure practice and music maker space that is affordable, and not owned by municipalities but instead by providers of your choice. 
As musicians ourselves who have owned and run 8 different music maker spaces in the Boston and Cambridge area over the past 38 years, and incubated many thousands of musicians, whose bands, in turn, have brought hundreds of millions into these cities by virtue of patrons coming to see their shows in these city’s venues over the past 38 years, I think this is LONG overdue, and am thrilled to see interest from so many musicians to collectively participate in deciding where and how they want to practice. 
As many of you know we're currently in a huge disruptive transition having lost our building of 32 years that housed our music rehearsal business the Sound Museum, which the city of Boston declared an “Anchor Institution” and “Vital Cultural Asset” to Development. We will continue to work with our fellow music community and some of our new partners to find solutions to keep us in business, and to help our clients, some we’ve had for decades,  and hundreds of small music businesses,  continue to patronize their chosen provider.
We're excited to get involved with this project to address keeping municipalities who get involved in these businesses focused on keeping businesses that support these communities alive, and the process of getting involved with companies like ours and other music maker space providers honest and ethical. 

After 40 years of artist advocacy, it becomes clear that as this region's primary provider of affordable workspace to musicians and music makers, the thousands of musicians we have supported and hundreds we are currently working with and for are demanding we find solutions and municipal representatives they can trust to listen to their needs and voices, so they aren’t repeatedly forced to scramble to find affordable maker space. 

There has to be a better way for the originators of musical work and practice spaces like ours to work with cities without them taking over small multigenerational family businesses.

Several tenants of ours and other interested parties have already joined us in creating Sound Museum Boston to work with grantmakers and other philanthropical organizations to create permanent solutions to these issues that support businesses you've patronized and asked the city to sustain as opposed to them becoming city-owned businesses. 

Join our mailing list to be kept informed of the upcoming events we'll be hosting in the near future and our plans to continue to make sure every musician's voice is heard when it comes to their continuity of lifestyle and creativity. 

Thank you all for your support and words of encouragement through these challenges. We are truly fortunate to be a part of such a diverse and creative community. 

Katherine Desmond

Bill "Des" Desmond

RSI

Sound Museum Boston

617 823 4403

RSIbands@gmail.com