AETHERPHON, global theremin family

Kevin,

Excellent!  Probably the biggest thing you could do for me is do a brain 
dump on the planning for you KC festival.  I have ideas but I don't know 
what some of the consequences of my ideas might be!

David V

On 9/21/2010 11:10 AM, kkissinger@... wrote:
> 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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