Salt Lake City Public Library’s HUM (Hear Utah Music) is a digital space celebrating Utah’s local music community. Free streaming access is available to everyone, with downloads available to Salt Lake City Public Library cardholders. The HUM music collection is curated by a jury of local music advocates, who work to select a diverse collection representing our music community. We open up submissions twice a year to music produced in Utah within the last 5 years.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES: February 22 & August 22

The submission period opens three weeks prior to the deadline. Please submit your music using this online submission form. A jury with members from the local music community and library staff will review the submissions and consider them for inclusion. The number of submissions accepted and the criteria that is used to judge the music for inclusion is subject to change. We will contact musicians in the event that your music was either accepted or declined.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Musicians are invited to submit their music for consideration through the HUM Submission Form on The City Library's HUM website. The form is available three weeks prior to the submission deadline. It is not available any other time.

Submissions should include the following elements

• One example track from the album you’d like to submit. We prefer high-quality masters in FLAC, WAV, or AIFF formats, but we’ll also accept high bitrate Mp3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis.
• Information about you and your music, including your connection to the local music community and recent performances.

WHEN A SUBMISSION IS ACCEPTED

Musicians that are selected will sign a license agreement and receive a one-time honorarium of $200 per album or $100 per EP for sharing their music through HUM. The agreement is non-exclusive so you can share or sell your content anywhere else you want. We are defining an album as a collection of compositions featuring a collective length of over 20 minutes or a minimum of 7 unique tracks (only needs to fulfill one of these requirements). We are defining an EP as a collection of compositions featuring a minimum length of 10 minutes or 2 unique tracks.

Here's a non-binding plain language summary to explain the most important details of our license agreement:

SLCPL can:

• make your content available for permanent download and streaming to site users
• promote your content as a part of the site

You:

• confirm that you have the right to license all the content you are sharing, including cover songs and album art
• continue to own all the rights to the content. The agreement is non-exclusive so you can share or sell your content anywhere else you want
• can ask us to take your content off the site after two years. Just contact the Library, and SLCPL will take it down
• will be given a one-time payment for your contribution

For additional information, contact The City Library at 801-524-8200, or email Jason Rabb: jrabb@slcpl.org.