NEWS!
2009-01-03
Happy New Year, everybody!Please join us in on Sunday, Jan 11th, in Champaign-Urbana, IL for an instrument building summit and concert event...please see the EVENTS page HERE for more info.
2008-11-10
It's been a while since there has been news posted.Check out some video footage from the July 31st event here and here.
We are now an official Illinois non-for-profit organization, a significant symbolic milestone has been passed! Plans are underway to start a nice season of activities and concerts, and we have already contacted some high profile artists, who were very enthusiastic about eventually appearing on our series.
We wish to say thanks again to all those who came out to support the cause, and/or those who contributed money in the form of checks or online donations. Your belief in the power of our music and presentation is inspiring. We hope you will continue your support in this, the crucial early stages of bringing the vision to life. This brings us to the next point--dollars. Although our July 31st event was a great success as a concert, it basically left us breaking even as far as fundraising. We need a coherent plan, and that is what we, the board, are scheming.
To eventually bring out-of-town artists into the fold of this series, we have drafted a 3-tiered plan:
1) With a limited budget in mind, we play any shows in the immediate future ourselves with our growing core ensemble of musicians, educating and entertaining our local audiences with our compositions, improvisations and educational musings on the art.
2) Bring in our friendly colleagues who are passionate and sympathetic to our cause who are willing and able to play for us without breaking our bank. We have 1 or 2 such artists in mind for the next year.
3) All the while, we generate momentum and interest and dollars through fundraising, and --- membership!
Regarding the last point, the board of UnTwelve is still in a planning stage working out a fundraising and membership path. What will future events look like? What will membership cost, and what will it offer?
Stay tuned for more details!
2008-6-20
There will be a benefit event on July 31st at the new venue in Evanston, IL called SPACE. Tickets will be available for sale by Monday, June 23rd.
2008-5-27
MidwestMicrofest is now UnTwelve. The new name reflects our desire to increase the scope of our project beyond any kind of geographical bounds, to make the name reflect broad ideas, including a concert series as well as educational components and web presence, as well as to simply make the name a bit more 'hip' and able to sum up a rather complex topic rather briefly.
2008-3-06
We had a preliminary 'proto-board' meeting in March, and are planning the rest of the series, and getting down to the business of making this a working and continually active organization
Older news:
BUY YOUR TICKETS to the October 20th concert HERE
check out the info on the concert itself here
Listen to an interview with co-founder Aaron Krister Johnson on Chicago Public Radio, October 19th, 2007, between 9am-10am Central Time.
Mission Statement
The dimension of pitch in music (how high or low a certain musical sound is) remains largely tied to a standardized set of 12 notes.
UnTwelve is dedicated to exploring the current and historical frontiers of music beyond that 12-note tuning system. We have made it our mission and vision to commission and perform musical works which display the excitement and beauty available to those who venture into this new territory, both for audiences and musicians.
In addition, we seek to set up musical education programs that highlight the wide-open expressive possibilities of such systems, and to promote and foster their usage by the current and next generation of musicians and composers.