Madison, maybe....

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi. Sorry I haven't decloaked during some of the more
recent discussions, but I've had the occasional gig and
have been at work on te new Max/MSP release documentation.

However, something else has come up. I have recently been
elected to the board of the small but active Madison
Music Collective - a volunteer organization in Madison,
Wisconsin which has heretofore focused its energies in
the occasional promotion and hosting of improvisational
music of various sorts [Erhard Hirt was here last night,
Ninh Lê Quan, William Parker, and so on]. There's been
some turnover in the board, and I've approached my
colleagues about the possibility of quietly beginning to
broaden the definitions of what might be considered
"improvised" music to include some of the work we
discuss here. Since it's particularly necessary to create
some concensus and to work quietly at starting to create
a constituency outside of my radio audience, I'd like to
make the next steps very carefully. This means that I'd
be very interested specifically in those of your who see
your work as primarily improvisatory.

I know that there are any number of you who travel
between Chicago and/or Milwaukee and Minneapolis
during your occasional fits of touring. As you plan
ahead for these things, it might be worth your while to
consider discussing doing a show in Madison, too. The
farther in advance this could be discussed, I think the
better then chance there'd be of working something out.
Since this isn't the big city, we're obviously not going to
be able to pay big city prices. But sometimes a gig in a
place full of nice people can be enjoyable.

If this is something that interests you at all, please
contact me via email at gtaylor@xxxxxxxx, and we can
start talking. We're looking at putting together a grant
for a local performance series, so knowing who's out
there would be a good start.

Thanks for your attention, and we now return your to
your regularly scheduled microsound already in progress
(white noise convolved with the Bush "reach out" speech).

for the Madison Music Collective,
Gregory Taylor
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knowledge is not enough/science is not enough/
love is dreaming/this equation/Gregory Taylor/
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