All ICAS members have spent years crafting unique festivals and events, each with its own identity grounded in strong local connections and context. ICAS members uphold the cultural value of music and sound creation in both an absolute sense, and in the multifarious forms that meld music and sound with other cultural practices. Unlike the standards of the entertainment industry, ICAS members adopt an alternative set of criteria rooted in arts & culture to measure the success of their endeavours, which favours quality, critical reflection, innovation, and exchange over profit. Using a palette of transdisciplinary approaches, ICAS organisations actively engage in building bridges between art disciplines, cultural fields, scenes and genres, geographical regions, academic musical traditions and experimental music and pop (sub) cultures, and between the arts and technology.
The ICAS network is an open structure that welcomes the participation of new members through criteria and context that shares defining aspects of the ICAS network as a whole.