[NewMusic] Tom Nunn in today's Chron

[Matt Davignon]

Well, I've learned that us new music people (myself included) are
rarely going to be happy with what's written about new music in the
'muggle' press. I'm much happier to point at the pictures of folks I
know in the paper, and be glad they're getting the attention. See?
We're not such outcasts!

On 3/8/07, Phillip Greenlief was like:

> PG:
> For as interesting as those instruments are, the writer did very little
> to tell us about them, which is too bad. It was nice to see Tom get some
> ink though - he's been doing this for so long and hasn't celebrated all
> that much around here. It's also nice he's getting to go to Australia.
>
> Those instruments though - the reader couldn't know less about what they
> look or sound like from the article...correct me if I'm wrong, but
> couldn't the writer imagine the audience wanted to know something about
> these experimental home-made instruments?
>
> A variety of verbiage could have helped: percussion-based (how many
> people do you think read it and imagined string instruments or
> wind-blown instruments?), some of them use contact microphones that
> trigger electronically-processed signals, they unique tunings; the
> player stands while playing them, all manner of metallic objects are
> driven into a board and struck with various mallets, some of them look
> like their names, etc.).
>
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