Part 2: Initial Approaches, New Influences
Part 3: Finding Communities
There have been several events going on on the local level that united local electronic music makers, instrumentalists and visualists. Some of these musicians inspired and did interesting stuff, but often I felt the way they were being presented didn’t do their talents justice. The events sometimes felt like a free-for-all.
Either case, I sought an electronic music event that was focused and curated, but didn’t skew towards DJs and solo acts. I wanted to push would-be musicians who had potential to really raise their game playing electronic music, ideally in ensembles that grooved hard. I wanted to aspire to the professionalism and fun of amazing events I’d been hearing about in other parts of the world, but this would be our unique response to those events. Ultimately, what we did wouldn’t be about the process of creating this music, but the quality of the music itself.
Earlier this year, a several colleagues and I launched our first event in NYC that would lay out this mission. We called it The Vectory. The event was a success on every conceivably level. Great acts, great sound, great turnout, great response, genuine enthusiasm, the works. There was a genuine feeling of carving a unique mark in the musical landscape of the city that was our mark. Since then we’ve done a few more, and the approach continues to show promise… but where to from here?
To be cont’d…
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