midwestmicrofest.org now up....

Check it out:

http://www.midwestmicrofest.org

Chris Bailey and I have a dream....

Best,
Aaron.

>Check it out:
>
>http://www.midwestmicrofest.org
>
>Chris Bailey and I have a dream....
>
>Best,
>Aaron.

Rockin'!!

-Carl

AKJ,

{you wrote...}
>Chris Bailey and I have a dream....

Excellent!! Try and get Robert Goulet to sing your theme song before he's gone! :)
http://www.robertgoulet.com/

Cheers,
Jon

CB wrote,

> We've just started planning the thing at this point.
> But there will surely be an electronic "tape" music component,
> and stuff like installations would be welcome.

Oh, hurray. Do you have things like deadlines, length guidelines, etc?
Dates? Submission procedures? I hope you'll keep this list informed of progress!

Re, tape concerts...

Last time I asked about taped music at one of these festivals (maybe
AFMM?) someone (can't remember who) said they didn't do taped sessions
because audiences tended to start talking & not paying attention. Since
then, I've never bothered to pay attention or consider submitting anything
to a festival.

So, if you're going to do any taped sessions, perhaps you'd think of
collaborating with some local improvisational dancers or a local dance
studio, university dance department, or whatever, to entertain the audience
visually while listening -- keep them from chatting while they would
otherwise be looking at nothing on stage... ;-) You could give the dancers
cuts of the music a bit in advance to give some time to formulate ideas &
directions before tuning them loose on stage with music they've never
heard.

Another idea would be to collaborate with visual artists -- hand out CDs
of the music a bit in advance to some film students, painters, or whatever
and let them put together video montages, slide shows, Powerpoint
presentations, or other visual stuff, that could be shown on a screen while
the music plays. Put dancers in front of the screens... ;-) Why not go
whole hog: put the audience on stage with vats of paint & let them
entertain themselves...

Years ago, I had one of my longer pieces (Balinese tuning) played as
rolling background music during a small art show that consisted of colorful
paintings & constructions. You might consider finding a local gallery or
museum that would put on a "micro-reception" with micro-brewed local beer
and micro-tonal music for an hour or so... ;-) Get a bunch of art students
to make giant wacky fake instruments, then wear tuxedos & ball gowns while
pretending very seriously to play them along with the music... Oh, and
Robert Goulet... I hear Jon knows him. ;-)

Thanks,

Rick

I like the way Varese presented Poeme Electrique, piped into the
fairgrounds through loudspeakers. I often stop under such ambient
instalations to listen to what's coming through. Maybe a few
metaspaces could have benches set under staggered loops of programs of
music, much like video instalations at a visual art museum?

--
~Tristan Parker
http://www.myspace.com/rozencrantz
"Western music is fast because it's out of tune"
-- Terry Riley

i like the idea of dance with the tape stuff, but i see no reason now to let them work on it for a while.
Rick McGowan wrote:

>CB wrote,
>
> >
>>We've just started planning the thing at this point.
>>But there will surely be an electronic "tape" music component,
>>and stuff like installations would be welcome.
>> >>
>
>Oh, hurray. Do you have things like deadlines, length guidelines, etc?
>Dates? Submission procedures? I hope you'll keep this list informed of progress!
>
>Re, tape concerts...
>
>Last time I asked about taped music at one of these festivals (maybe >AFMM?) someone (can't remember who) said they didn't do taped sessions >because audiences tended to start talking & not paying attention. Since >then, I've never bothered to pay attention or consider submitting anything >to a festival.
>
>So, if you're going to do any taped sessions, perhaps you'd think of >collaborating with some local improvisational dancers or a local dance >studio, university dance department, or whatever, to entertain the audience >visually while listening -- keep them from chatting while they would >otherwise be looking at nothing on stage... ;-) You could give the dancers >cuts of the music a bit in advance to give some time to formulate ideas & >directions before tuning them loose on stage with music they've never >heard.
>
>Another idea would be to collaborate with visual artists -- hand out CDs >of the music a bit in advance to some film students, painters, or whatever >and let them put together video montages, slide shows, Powerpoint >presentations, or other visual stuff, that could be shown on a screen while >the music plays. Put dancers in front of the screens... ;-) Why not go >whole hog: put the audience on stage with vats of paint & let them >entertain themselves...
>
>Years ago, I had one of my longer pieces (Balinese tuning) played as >rolling background music during a small art show that consisted of colorful >paintings & constructions. You might consider finding a local gallery or >museum that would put on a "micro-reception" with micro-brewed local beer >and micro-tonal music for an hour or so... ;-) Get a bunch of art students >to make giant wacky fake instruments, then wear tuxedos & ball gowns while >pretending very seriously to play them along with the music... Oh, and >Robert Goulet... I hear Jon knows him. ;-)
>
>Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
> >
>
>
> >

--
Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

Rick,

I was thinking the dancers idea myself for tape pieces, when I first had the
back before I sprung the idea for a Chicago festival on Chris Bailey.

Chris, what *do* you think of that? (repond to me offline--it's our decision)

Oy!!...one of the many things we have to do.

-Aaron.

On Friday 30 September 2005 7:56 pm, Rick McGowan wrote:
> CB wrote,
>
> > We've just started planning the thing at this point.
> > But there will surely be an electronic "tape" music component,
> > and stuff like installations would be welcome.
>
> Oh, hurray. Do you have things like deadlines, length guidelines, etc?
> Dates? Submission procedures? I hope you'll keep this list informed of
> progress!
>
> Re, tape concerts...
>
> Last time I asked about taped music at one of these festivals (maybe
> AFMM?) someone (can't remember who) said they didn't do taped sessions
> because audiences tended to start talking & not paying attention. Since
> then, I've never bothered to pay attention or consider submitting anything
> to a festival.
>
> So, if you're going to do any taped sessions, perhaps you'd think of
> collaborating with some local improvisational dancers or a local dance
> studio, university dance department, or whatever, to entertain the audience
> visually while listening -- keep them from chatting while they would
> otherwise be looking at nothing on stage... ;-) You could give the dancers
> cuts of the music a bit in advance to give some time to formulate ideas &
> directions before tuning them loose on stage with music they've never
> heard.
>
> Another idea would be to collaborate with visual artists -- hand out CDs
> of the music a bit in advance to some film students, painters, or whatever
> and let them put together video montages, slide shows, Powerpoint
> presentations, or other visual stuff, that could be shown on a screen while
> the music plays. Put dancers in front of the screens... ;-) Why not go
> whole hog: put the audience on stage with vats of paint & let them
> entertain themselves...
>
> Years ago, I had one of my longer pieces (Balinese tuning) played as
> rolling background music during a small art show that consisted of colorful
> paintings & constructions. You might consider finding a local gallery or
> museum that would put on a "micro-reception" with micro-brewed local beer
> and micro-tonal music for an hour or so... ;-) Get a bunch of art students
> to make giant wacky fake instruments, then wear tuxedos & ball gowns while
> pretending very seriously to play them along with the music... Oh, and
> Robert Goulet... I hear Jon knows him. ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

On Friday 30 September 2005 7:56 pm, Rick McGowan wrote:
> CB wrote,
>

> You might consider finding a local gallery or
> museum that would put on a "micro-reception" with micro-brewed local beer
> and micro-tonal music for an hour or so... ;-)

Chris suggested we might capitalize on the 'micro' connection to beer. I then
realized we have a local micro-brewery, Goose Island, that has a cool
exposed-brick type space, where you can see the beer vats and machinery. It
might be kind of cool to do a concert there. They might sponser, who knows.

When I first thought this puppy up, I was excited about a traditional concert
hall space in Evanston with a killer sound system: I've never heard a better
space for tape music. And, I know the director of programming there. She's
really interested in the project.

-Aaron.

On Friday 30 September 2005 11:58 pm, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I was thinking the dancers idea myself for tape pieces, when I first had
> the back before I sprung the idea for a Chicago festival on Chris Bailey.

if you can believe it, i sent this a few minutes ago thinking it made sense!

Hello Tristan,

FYI the Fractal Studies at your myspace page do not play for me.

The Gesture Studies had me gesturing all over the place. Tee hee.

Regards,
George

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Rozencrantz the Sane
<rozencrantz@g...> wrote:
> I like the way Varese presented Poeme Electrique, piped into the
> fairgrounds through loudspeakers. I often stop under such ambient
> instalations to listen to what's coming through. Maybe a few
> metaspaces could have benches set under staggered loops of
programs of
> music, much like video instalations at a visual art museum?
>
> --
> ~Tristan Parker
> http://www.myspace.com/rozencrantz
> "Western music is fast because it's out of tune"
> -- Terry Riley