AETHERPHON, global theremin family

David,

A big hurdle for any event is a suitable location and equipment.

Do you have to pay for the location?  If the cost is low, then just go
ahead -- schedule it, and announce the dates -- followed by "stay
tuned -- more information to come."

This assures that interested people will get the dates on the calendar
well in advance.

Here are some decisions that you will make:

. will the festival be free for attendees?
. will performers be paid?  All of them, some of them, or none of them?
. is the festival's goal to attract as large a general audience as
possible or is it more of an event for the participant/attendees?
. How long will the festival be? (1 day, 2 days, etc.?)
. will the festival be solely performances or will it include seminars
and educational activities?
. will you stream the event to the internet?
. will the event be single-threaded or will there be concurrent activities?
. will there be concessions?
. will there be accomodations for out-of-town participants?

Anyway, these are some of the issues you will grapple with.



Quoting David V <porphyrous@...>:

>   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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