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DOMINIK
DOMINIK 10/24/2011 6:29 PM
Some images and videos from passed festivals:

video compilation on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=without+touch+2.0)
Images by Thierry (http://www.myspace.com/thierry.frenkel/photos/10973973)
Images by Dominik (http://subscope.de/w...)
Amethyste
Amethyste 10/25/2011 2:35 PM
Dominik ~

Is it one of your Theremin (not her T-Vox)that Lydia is playing in your pictures?
DOMINIK
DOMINIK 10/25/2011 4:53 PM
Lydia was so kind to give one of my early Theremins a try. To be seen on just one of the pictures. This one. (http://subscope.de/without_touch_02/without_touch_gallery/Seiten/05.htm)
My Theremins cannot compete with the Tvox (she performed on the Tvox in the concert).
Anyhow - it was a good point of program to let the attendees demonstrate some equipment (e.g. i remember a Xotic sample and hold filter).
Thierry
Thierry 10/26/2011 12:22 PM
ok... just got an email from Wolfgang, the director of the Lippstadt Music school... not enough registrations... cancelled... :-(
Jason
Jason 10/28/2011 2:34 PM
Ugh, that's really a shame. I can see that in this economy, people might not be willing to spend a lot on festivals like this. Or maybe we're still just not reaching a large enough audience with the "theremin mission".
Thierry
Thierry 10/28/2011 4:25 PM
I got the impression that the general interest is decreasing due to external factors - at least in Germany. Most of German amateur thereminists which I know and which I contacted in order to make them sign up had either financial problems or problems with their job and thus couldn't allow to participate.

The problem might also have been the schedule, the autumn holidays would be already finished in most regions of Germany at that time.
coalport
coalport 10/28/2011 9:13 PM
One of the problems with musical ateliers, conferences and conventions I have observed over the years is that a shared interest in a particular instrument is not always enough to bring people together. What is of more interest often seems to be a festival or event dedicated to a particular type of music for the instrument in question. Sometimes you need to narrow your special interest group.

If I were to organize a harp festival, and announced nothing more than that harp enthusiasts from everywhere were invited to participate, I would probably have fewer people interested in attending my event than if I announced a far more specialized and targeted sort of happening. Something like, THE REVIVAL OF THE CELTIC HARP, or THE ELECTROACOUSTIC HARP AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, or perhaps THE BAROQUE HARP....THE JAZZ HARP.

Precision thereminists who have attended various theremin events around the world, have told me privately that they would have enjoyed themselves much more if the conference had not been dominated by aleatoric players (whom they consider to be no more than noise makers). I have no doubt that players of new music, FX and the experimental genre, feel the same way about having to listen to somebody play one more mediocre version of THE SWAN! Deep in their musical souls, traditionalists and experimentalists don't mix very well - lip service notwithstanding.

The passion for a particular type of music is, I believe, a stronger draw than vague general interest in a musical instrument. The cancellation of the Lippstadt event is a shame but it is not the first time this sort of thing has happened.

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