Re: Looper Moving!

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

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>
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