Post by vickibonet on Jan 17, 2007 0:27:17 GMT 10
I can't see why we cant have a Melbourne Musician's Collective too. The London Musicians Collective is a registered charity and an amazing organisation (see below).
Forget marketing contemporary jazz as jazz. The 'brand' has been destroyed by appalling marketing and well intentioned people who sadly can't see the bigger picture of music as art.
You can not re-brand contemporary jazz as anything with 'jazz' in the title. It is never going to happen. Never.
So, a way forward might be to begin again. For example by bringing together a new collective of thinkers/musicians as one organisation based on the LMC model. People who play and are supportive of improvised and experimental music and who are driven by the need to create rather than achieve. A primary mission statement might be:
Bringing Australian contemporary improvised music to a wider audience.
My personal interest is to see an expansion of the audience for these types of Australian music so that the rest of the world may benefit from hearing it.
Anyone interested, please send me an email or personal message here. This is not about funding for festivals, or cds or films, this is about exploring new ways forward to reach wider audiences.
Meanwhile here is an extract from the LMC web page and a link below for more info:
The London Musicians' Collective has been active on London's new music scene for nearly 30 years, promoting the best in experimental and improvised music concerts, running festivals, tours and workshops, producing special events and publications, and for the last three years realising radio broadcasts via the acclaimed Resonance 104.4 FM. Among our recent successes have been this year's 30th Anniversary concert series; 2005's "Immaterial" series; and summer 2004's "Feedback: Order From Noise" tour for the Contemporary Music Network, curated by Knut Aufermann and featuring Alvin Lucier, Otomo Yoshihide, Nicolas Collins, Sarah Washington, Billy Roisz, Xentos Fray Bentos and Toshimaru Nakamura. Our current plans include a second volume of the best-selling Your Favourite London Sounds CD, compiled by Peter Cusack, the launch of our new CD series, more issues of Resonance magazine - as well as regular concerts and our pivotal activity in the ongoing 24/7 broadcasts at Resonance 104.4 FM, a project reliant on two hundred volunteers and which uniquely showcases the work of thousands of radical artists. LMC is proud to have established and to run this incredible venture. The only arts organisation in Britain with a truly 24/7 public presence, LMC continues to expand and respond to new demands, encouraging access to and use of this unique resource - and forging collaborations with the leading musicians, sound artists, agencies, writers, thinkers and activists in the capital and beyond: no other arts organisation thinks like us or acts like us.
See more on LMC success @ www.l-m-c.org.uk/
Forget marketing contemporary jazz as jazz. The 'brand' has been destroyed by appalling marketing and well intentioned people who sadly can't see the bigger picture of music as art.
You can not re-brand contemporary jazz as anything with 'jazz' in the title. It is never going to happen. Never.
So, a way forward might be to begin again. For example by bringing together a new collective of thinkers/musicians as one organisation based on the LMC model. People who play and are supportive of improvised and experimental music and who are driven by the need to create rather than achieve. A primary mission statement might be:
Bringing Australian contemporary improvised music to a wider audience.
My personal interest is to see an expansion of the audience for these types of Australian music so that the rest of the world may benefit from hearing it.
Anyone interested, please send me an email or personal message here. This is not about funding for festivals, or cds or films, this is about exploring new ways forward to reach wider audiences.
Meanwhile here is an extract from the LMC web page and a link below for more info:
The London Musicians' Collective has been active on London's new music scene for nearly 30 years, promoting the best in experimental and improvised music concerts, running festivals, tours and workshops, producing special events and publications, and for the last three years realising radio broadcasts via the acclaimed Resonance 104.4 FM. Among our recent successes have been this year's 30th Anniversary concert series; 2005's "Immaterial" series; and summer 2004's "Feedback: Order From Noise" tour for the Contemporary Music Network, curated by Knut Aufermann and featuring Alvin Lucier, Otomo Yoshihide, Nicolas Collins, Sarah Washington, Billy Roisz, Xentos Fray Bentos and Toshimaru Nakamura. Our current plans include a second volume of the best-selling Your Favourite London Sounds CD, compiled by Peter Cusack, the launch of our new CD series, more issues of Resonance magazine - as well as regular concerts and our pivotal activity in the ongoing 24/7 broadcasts at Resonance 104.4 FM, a project reliant on two hundred volunteers and which uniquely showcases the work of thousands of radical artists. LMC is proud to have established and to run this incredible venture. The only arts organisation in Britain with a truly 24/7 public presence, LMC continues to expand and respond to new demands, encouraging access to and use of this unique resource - and forging collaborations with the leading musicians, sound artists, agencies, writers, thinkers and activists in the capital and beyond: no other arts organisation thinks like us or acts like us.
See more on LMC success @ www.l-m-c.org.uk/
Theyre very cool
*blows kisses