Re: [microsound] Re: funding in canada & cultural globalization

["the.kurtz.quartet" <kurtz@xxxxx>]

It is not unusual that grants are given only to new real experimental stuff
that would be impossible otherwise.

If you look at the number of commercial CD-releases (by small record cos,
but still) within the electronic experimental/EA/microsound etc. it is
fairly obvious that this area can fund itself.

There are *lots* of artists in this area (look at the list projects for
example), much more than in experimental non-electronic music it seems. I
recently looked at the mp3.com lookalike "vitaminic" interenet-service (they
may be europe only) and "experimental" was the second biggest category after
the generic "techno"-category. Bigger than drums'n'bass and all the others.

Den 03-06-09 23.04, skrev "macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>> 
>> Don't you need an "indie deal" before you can get a Factor grant?
>> and be an oppressed native 3rd generation lesbian married to a
>> bastard son of an interned Japanese ceramic maker with a degree
>> in Inuit totem pole studies?
> 
> Ha!  Hilarious.  Getting college funding is the same (in the US).
> 
>> yes...another entity is needed.
>> 
>> things are growing and changing in this land that
>> just recently discovered electricity, computers
>> and music once our igloos thawed due to global
>> warming.
>> 
>> sarcastic mode off-EH?
>> 
>> kerry
> 
> My question is if you have a computer and a job what the hell do you need
> money from some organization for?  I admit, it would be nice to have a fat
> grant check to throw into some big project but it's not like you can't
> make music without external funding.  I see a possible strain of hurt
> pride throughout these kind of endeavors.  The "It's not fair" cry.  Do we
> need recognition from some uptight farts that pretend they are being
> charitable by giving money to orchestras?  Institutions have always been
> years behind the emerging artforms.  It is their nature as bureacracies.
> Walls are torn down by visionaries and artists, institutions pick up the
> rubble and build another wall.
> 
> just my humble opinion,
> e
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