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At 3:13 PM -0700 6/3/02, Andre LaFosse wrote: >Well, let me give you my own perspective on the "action," so to speak, >from my vantage point in Los Angeles: > >Los Angeles is infamous for being fragmentary and disconnected, so >it's no surprise that cultivating a sense of looping community here >has been difficult...the scene here is very fragmentary, sporadic in >its convergence, and only just starting to emerge as something with >tangible structure and order to it, thanks to the efforts of a few >people who have been working away at it for years. I've lived in Los Angeles since 1986, and for the first fourteen years of that I felt completely disconnected from any sort of scene. That doesn't mean that there was none, just that it took a great deal of effort to find whatever there might have been and I didn't bother. Then two years ago, as part of some personal creative renewal, I joined the newly formed LA chapter of American Composers Forum. I started doing volunteer work for the Forum and made some new friends who were also keen on building a creative community. It worked out pretty well, and now we have a viable organization with regular get-togethers, Composer Salons, professional development workshops, etc. We even have a performance calendar (both on paper and on the Web) so there's a central information source for performance information. A group of us are in the midst of organizing some technology programs. Check us out at: <http://www.composers.la> -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz