The Sound Studies Institute maintains enthusiastic relationships with many important creative collaborators and institutions, including:
- The Dean and Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta
- The Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)
- Cultures of Sound Network
- Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
- CKUA Radio Network
- The Northern Lights Folk Club
- USchool
- Canadian Heritage Aboriginal Languages Initiative
- National Heritage Digitization Strategy, Library and Archives Canada
- Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- and many other individual supporters and donors