[NewMusic] Marco Eneidi's Animal Farm

[Jon Raskin]

Presently working and living here: Fred Frith, Gino Robair, Larry Ochs, Ben Goldberg, John Schott, Moe! Staiano, Graham Connah.  I think Darren Johnston is heading in this direction as well.  Marcus Shelby is doing it in the jazz world.

A littel more difficult to ascertain but the Hub people were really dealing with group sound.



> 5) How does a musician take what s/he knows about a group and 
> develop a compositional language based on that knowledge?

one has to assess the skills and/or weaknesses of the members the best
one can and take it from there. 

> 6) Who are some of the local composers that have dealt with that
> knowledge successfully (in terms of both composition styles/practices
> and results), or non-successfully?