All for One and One for All : comments [laramie]

Whether or not they should (and since I won't hang around listen to other than very quiet music that I'm not actively enjoying at a given moment, I'm not going to criticize others for doing the same), it's clear that they will, and that about all that the anti-private-music-party folks can do, in practice, is to force/motivate the private music parties to move further away from common spaces than they might otherwise do.

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I'd characterize myself as more 'Pro Open Music' than anti anything. I respect the rights of others to throw and attend private parties. (What I like and what I respect can be two different things.)

I'd like to see the Minicon-sponsored music circles get the facilities and support needed to make for parties enjoyable for the musicians and listeners alike.

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Depending on what you mean by "facilities and support" -- and I don't mean to be Clintoneque here, pinky swear -- that's anywhere from a modest request that's likely to happen (and sounds like it didn't happen this year through a misunderstanding by/with the hotel -- I'm assuming that the originally planned venue was fine with you, although you know what they say about assumptions) to an impossibility.

I think you can get open music parties in a location that isn't metaphorically Siberia; I don't think you've got much of a chance of persuading people whose thing isn't open music parties to participate, either as audience or performers.

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We did get some good music participation at an open circle on Saturday night, but it was located in the Edina room, far from anywhere else where there were people, food or drink. While it was well attended by musicians, there weren't that many people who found it as a place to come and listen and party.

That's what I mean by 'facilities.' And, after talking with Concom members at last night's Dessicated Dodo party, it does look like there's support for putting music closer to the general party area, and the ConSuite's refreshments.

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Orthogonally, he said, (with his head cocked to one side and a look of wry amusement on his lined face), maybe the the MnStf Board should establish a policy requiring those MnStf meeting hosts whose preference is for closed music circles to announce that in advance in Einblatt. . .

Nah. Probably not a good idea, all in all.

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Nah. They would have to publish a list of which musicians were specifically invited - or most would assume that they weren't.

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I think I'd better admit defeat and surrender on this part of the discussion; you do deadpan better than I do.

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A nod. Incidentally; how did you come across this post? It's open, but I didn't expect it to be read by anyone who doesn't have me on their Friend's List.

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http://community.livejournal.com/mnstf/friends -- orthogonally, I'm not sure who is on my own friends list . . .

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Thanks. That looks like a good one to follow.

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