call for interest

I wrote a letter with the intention to call for individuals and organizations to get involved in the project. My hope is that we can generate enough community support to convince the train company to collaborate with us in making the event happen. Below is the letter. Feel free to copy and distribute it to friends who would be interested in participating. Thanks!

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Hi,

I'm organizing a collaborative project featuring live sounds by the Buckingham train family. The process of the project is detailed by my blog Train Sound [trainsound.blogspot.com]. The project's goal is to organize a real-time performance involving musicians who will improvise on-site with a Buckingham train at the Buckingham Branch Charlottesville station near the downtown mall under the Belmont Bridge. The performance will be documented to form the "ImprovTrain" series.

As of now, I'm working on generating individual interest and organizational support. So far, several musicians from experimental music group HzCollective [hzcollective.com] and faculty and graduate students at the McIntire Department of Music at University of Virginia, as well as art gallery and community arts group the Bridge [thebridgepai.com] and grassroots music media group Monkeyclaus [monkeyclaus.org] have shown interest and support. Also, a local music journalist who writes for the local arts paper the C-ville [c-ville.com] and keeps a blog about Charlottesville indie music has shown interest in covering the project.

The next step is to convince the train company to collaborate with us. I would imagine that this not an easy task considering issues of liability related railroad hazards. I hope that with enough community support, from individuals and organizations, we can make this happen.

If you’re interested in participating in this project in some way, and if you have any specific skills or social connections you can contribute, please contact me at wendy.f.hsu@gmail.com. Or if you have any questions or concerns regarding the project, write me.

Thanks!

wendy