Re: Announcing electro-music 2008

["Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

I was there last year (which is where I met Kevin).

I don't get the outrage - you don't like it,
don't participate. The ticket cost was minimal. It was fun - lots of
interesting people there. I doubt that the organizers were turning
much of a profit. I don't think there was hardly anyone there who
wasn't performing. The space was out in the Philly burbs - no walk-by,
no hip urban environment (or hip beach college town environment) to
speak of. Food is included, although it's pretty spotty - but there is
no place in walking distance to eat. And it's a big space (if it's the
same) - don't know what the rental is, but there is a concert hall, an
addl performance room and an events room, along with a jam room
upstairs. something happening pretty continuously everywhere, it
seemed to me.

Hey, I used to belong to bands where we payed for rehearsal space -
that was about as much "pay to play" as this is, really.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:41 AM,  <kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com> wrote:
> Quoting Bob Amstadt <bobld@amstadt.com>:
>
> >
> > Yea, unless a festival can secure enough corporate sponsors, you are
> > forced to run it this way.  Basically, you can think of it as a
> > convention.  People are gathered to share their art with their peers.
> >
> >
>  That is how I view electro-music -- as a convention.
>
>  -- Kevin
>
>