<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Hi friends of Oddmusic,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Jacob & Andrew founded a something called ODDMUSIC URBANA-CHAMPAIGN some months ago to create a base for experimental socially-conscious music-making. We don't claim to "be" Oddmusic, but I do claim to have an interest in music-making wherein:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">there are attempts to make something happen that is new</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">there is an analysis of th
social dynamics in which a piece lives (its environment)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">there is an attempt to avoid a familiar language that can be understood in an old way</li></ul>Thus, Oddmusic is a Utopian project, & nothing less than that. When I use th word, I wish to speak of <i>intentional design toward th desirable</i> -- in music-making. <i>Oddmusic</i>, as I use it, is not th same as <i>odd music</i>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">= = =</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">ODDMUSIC URBANA-CHAMPAIGN functions as a nest for projects. We want to help make connections between projects that fit th criteria of "Oddmusic" in U-C & surrounds. That can potentially help give th projects coherence, legitimacy, & a
voice.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Past projects of Oddmusic have included concerts, workshops, a library of acoustic oddities, dance-togethers, junk-builds, a Microtonal Composition Study Group, music lessons, invitations to compose, conversation groups, an open stage, an archive of scores, a blog, a radio guesting, & a rally-sing....</div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Some proposed projects for 2010 include: a weekly radio show, a monthly Microtonal Sing, a new online interface for organizing ideas, photography projects, video projects, a concert of music for th udderbot... & what else?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b>Do you have a project or an idea for a project which can be friends with Oddmusic? Do you have an interest in helping make
Oddmusic happen in 2010?</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">= = =</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Jacob & I intend to host at least two <b>Meetings to Make Oddmusic in 2010</b>. These conversations will take place these next two Monday nights -- January 25 & February 1 -- in th Oddmusic Instrumentarium -- room 21A of th IMC. Th agenda for th first meeting will look something like:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Monday, January 25, 2010:</span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i>5:30-5:40 • pre-meeting schmooze</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
"><i>5:40-6:00 • introductions</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i>6:00-6:20 • project cloud</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i>6:20-6:40 • goaling & making-of-calendar</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i>6:40-7:00 • Oddmusic finances - membership? - & follow-up</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i>7:00-? • post-meeting linger</i></div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">From these meetings, we'll have ideas about What We're Going to Do, Who Is Going To Do It, & When It Will Happen. We'll start a Calendar, a Discussion List (an email list specifically for planning -- separate from th Oddmusic Announce list), & we'll give away our power to call things Oddmusic. We'll have th means to follow up, to change our minds, to start a new thing, to let sit an old thing, to collaborate.</div><br><div
style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">We could decide to schedule meetings weekly throughout th year, if there's interest in that. Or bi-weekly. At this point, I offer two Monday nights as a beginning.</div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">= = =</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">If this sounds of interest, consider yourself invited! Feel free to let me know in advance if you're coming, but you don't have to. If these times are totally awful for you but you want to be involved, let me know that too.</div><div><br></div>Also: feel free to spread th word to others who might want in. New & not-yet friends are as welcome as old friends.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Looking
forward,<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Andrew</div></span></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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