Kenny Sabir

Sabir is a co-founder and former manager of the Sound Summit, an independent electronic record labels conference in Newcastle, as part of the annual This Is Not Art Festival.

Sabir is a computer programmer, in 2000 he developed the DASE (Distributed Audio SEquencer) which allowed musicians to jam in near real time over the internet.

After leaving school he played drums in a lo-fi rock band for a couple of years and studied a Bachelor of Computer Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney.

In 2000 he co-founded, with Sebastian Chan and Marcus Westbury, the Sound Summit, an independent electronic record labels conference in Newcastle, as part of the annual This Is Not Art Festival.

[5] In 2001 Sabir, as Traksewt (on piano, accordion, clarinet, and beats), was a founding member of The Herd in Sydney as an Australian hip hop and rap group.

[6] Kenny wrote the music and produced four songs from Future Shade including one of the singles 'A Thousand Lives' that was a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition 2011, where it received an honourable mention.