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Dear friends, colleagues and music hounds, I hope that this note finds you well. Deb Sinha and I are writing to invite you to become part of what we hope will be an important new music movement and community network, Post Traditional Music. Post Traditional Music is the result of many years of music-making, thought and discussion. Deb and I have come to the realization that there's no clear term and intellectual framework for the type of music that we are striving to make. This (in brief) is music that is imaginative, experimental, and original, yet is in some way (or ways) rooted in the music traditions in which we are trained or from which we come. There are others who are pursuing similar paths here in North America, and we frequently have difficulty finding venues, support, and marketing focus because we tend to fall 'between the cracks' of the current system of genres and 'pigeon holing'. Some feel partially aligned to various music communities (improvised, musique actuelle, new/contemporary, traditional, world, jazz, folk, free improvised, ambient.....) but never feel fully part of these accepted forms. Although in many ways we prefer the freedom from just such categorisation, Deb and I wanted to create some way in which we could build a community and raise awareness to facilitate the development of an expanded audience and support-base. Through a combination of grass-roots participation and targeted meme-planting, we hope to build an expanded awareness of this creative music and the community of musicians, composers and improvisers who make it. We are inviting you to participate in a number of ways. The first (and perhaps most important) is to come together, both at events and gatherings (the first such gathering is detailed below) and through the 'net at the Post Traditional discussion group (http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/ptrad/). The first order of business is to introduce ourselves and begin the discussion and clarification of what Post Traditional music is. Deb and I are also running an internet radio station (http://www.eemarecords.com/postrad/listen.html) and we invite you to submit your music for broadcast. This is perhaps this easiest way for us all to hear each other and get to know where we're all coming from. And finally, the Post Traditional web-site (http://www.posttraditional.ca), which we hope will be a source of information, publicity, links and info about you, the artists who choose to align them selves to this idea. This is all in it's infancy, of course, and we're looking to you to bring your ideas, opinions and enthusiasm to this project. Please share this message with your own music community through your news groups, e-mail lists, web-sites and even good old word of mouth! With your help we hope to build an informal community of like-minded artist around the world. Please check out the Yahoo message list, radio station and website and contribute, discuss and promote! To inaugurate and celebrate 'going public' with this rather ambitious, community-building project, (as well as the launch of my website, http://www.macrophone.org, the formation of Deb's record label, Eema Records (http://www.eemarecords.com) and the release of Deb's CDs Tumma and Quell), Deb and I will be performing at the Tequila Lounge, 794 Bathurst at Bloor, Toronto on Tuesday 11th of January. Doors open at 9:30 and the cover is a token $5. Deb's CDs (and perhaps some other goodies) will be available. Please come to meet, discuss and plot and hear some adventurous solo and duo improvisation. We hope to see you there and online too. All the best, Ben and Deb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- Ben Grossman ben@macrophone.org http://www.macrophone.org http://www.posttraditional.ca