source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 17:25:28 -0700 Subject: MICROSTOCK report From: neil.haverstick@csst.com (Neil Haverstick) The first MICROSTOCK festival was held last nite in Denver (October 21), and was quite successful. John Schneider played just intonated guitar, Johnny Reinhard and crew from NYC did a number of original pieces (several by Mayumi Reinhard, who is a marvelous composer), and the Haverstick band did all original rock/blues/jazz/country influenced pieces in 19 and 34/oct eq temperament. There were about 120 folks there, and most stayed to the very end (and it was about a 3 hour gig)...we got good press before the show in both Denver daily papers, a radio interview on the local Public radio station (KCFR), and there were a lot of people around town aware of what was happening. Both Reinhard and Schneider were very impressed with the way things turned out, and the audience was really trying to hang in through a wide assortment of some very challenging music...I myself was very pleased. The whole show was financed by personal friends who bought airline tickets, put up the performers at their houses, and generally pitched in in wonderful ways for the sake of the music, not to make money (although that is certainly not a bad thing...maybe next year). So, why can't other people around the world do this exact same thing, in the interest of promoting "microtonal" music? It was not that hard to do, and we generated an enormous consciousness of our music in the Denver area, and hopefully blew a mind or 2 in the process. Come on, you guys with nice day gigs...why not band together and put up a little cash, and let's have festivals like this everywhere...it would go a long way in the interest of changing the incredibly boring state of western music. I want to thank all the musicians who came to Denver to play, and all the people in town who helped to make this event a really unique and special project to be involved in...and believe me, we're just getting started...Haverstick Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 04:37 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA02854; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:36:52 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:36:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199510230235.MAA26651@anugpo.anu.edu.au> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu