[NewMusic] Fwd: Free Public Relations and Marketing Strategies Workshops

[Travis Johns]

skronk away!!!

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:22 PM, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:
> On May 21, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Alicia Byer wrote:
>> re: low turnouts....
>>
>> Does the Transbay Calendar drop calendars off in many different
>> places?
>>
>> What about a PR compilation CD-R!!! haha just kidding.
>
> In the early days, Rent Romus helped organize the local venue
> distribution
> for the Transbay circulation desk.  Many of us had our routes for
> dropping
> a handful off.  (I did Oakland/Berkeley music stores.) M-Ingalls also
> encouraged
> taking a bunch to distribute at concerts and shows in a larger
> musical sphere.
> But then, as now, participation in the publication shrank, and we
> just went to
> (mostly) mail.
>
> A free CD compilation would be a great thing to hand out everywhere,
> really.
> The trick is to find the volunteer who would do it even-handed and
> judiciously,
> and for free.  (The Transbay might be able to contribute or raise
> some basic
> CDr production funds.)  The real task is arbitrating the contents.
> We all have a
> different idea of what is representative (lower case, ecstatic,
> laptop, compositional).
> It probably would be best to be Cage-ian and do it by lottery, for
> both inclusion
> and track order.  Then you get John Lee and Matt Ingalls to stream it
> from Bayimproviser
> and sfsoundradio.
>
> We (the Improvised Music Society?) did this 15 or 20 years ago on
> cassette.  Even
> though it was produced by a person from one extreme faction (Chris
> Milner of The
> Molecules), it actually came out pretty inclusive.  I think we mailed
> it out with the
> pre-cursor of the Transbay Calendar.  Was called Free-way then?
>
> Is it too soon to start talking about the Skronkathon?
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