AETHERPHON, global theremin family

So how about a theremin festival in California?

We do [*ahem*] have a lot of the world music scene here, after all.


On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Gordon Charlton wrote:

> Sounds good to me.
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> Not sure what I can offer, being 4000 miles and an ocean away, but
> you have my support.
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> Gordon
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> On 21 Sep 2010, at 17:10, kkissinger@... wrote:
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>> Hi David,
>>
>> Great idea. Will be interested in helping with this.
>>
>> Note that I co-sponser the Kansas City Regional Electro-music
>> festival, which is scheduled for July 22, 23, and 24 2010. As long as
>> a theremin festival does not conflict with those dates, I would be
>> able to help with this.
>>
>> All the best!
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>> Quoting David V <porphyrous@...>:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm sending this message to all of my subscribers on
>> spellboundradio and
>>> aetherphon (I've you're on one but not the other, e-mail me and
>> I'll set
>>> you up), plus Levnet and my Facebook and Twitter resources as
>> well. The
>>> idea is that I establish a critical mass of interest and support
>> so that
>>> it doesn't just become yet another flight of fancy that I end up
>>> forgetting about. :-)
>>>
>>> For a couple of years now, I've been inspired by the theremin
>> festivals
>>> put on by Moog, as well as Gordon's annual event in the UK, and even
>>> Coralie's Swiss event. Last year, Olivia observed that I was perhaps
>>> uniquely positioned to pursue a theremin festival, and I've been
>>> pondering the idea for awhile now. Late last year, I arranged lunch
>>> with Dr. Fred Willman, coordinator of Music Education at the
>> University
>>> of Missouri at St. Louis, who turns out to be the only member of
>> UMSL's
>>> music faculty who owns and plays a theremin! Total stupid luck, I
>> only
>>> picked him to contact because of his position at the school. So
>> he had
>>> some interest, but without more momentum, things didn't go
>> anywhere last
>>> year. I'm hoping that we can get something rolling so that in two
>>> years, Labor Day weekend of 2012 (assuming the world hasn't ended by
>>> then ;-) maybe we can get something rolling.
>>>
>>> I struck upon the idea of UMSL as a host organization because
>> they would
>>> have the facilities to host such an event, would be positioned to
>>> scrounge for money to fund it, has a world class performing venue
>> (the
>>> Touhill Arts Center, home of the Arianna String Quartet), has a
>> radio
>>> station for the inevitable simulcasting, has a movie theatre for
>> showing
>>> theremin movies, plus it's on the light rail line from the airport.
>>>
>>> If you have experience organizing festivals, I would like to hear
>> from
>>> you. I would like to write up an organizational plan by the end
>> of the
>>> year and at least sketch an outline of the event. If you think you
>>> might be interested in attending a festival in St. Louis, please
>> drop me
>>> a quick note about that too. If you have ideas about what you think
>>> you'd like to see and hear at such a festival, I'm open to your
>> ideas.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time, and I hope to get feedback from you!
>>>
>>> David V
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