Response to "Who is Creative Placemaking? New Music, Integrity, and Community"

The question is who has been commissioned in this context and what were the results?

Its true that market forces rule and if a grants organization wants to emphasize a particular style of art or music they do that, and not just at “artplace.” The fear that trained classical composers are an unlikely fit here and that these opportunities seem more appropriate for sound artists seems real enough.

Yet who are composers that artsplace intends to place? Not our leading or star composers certainly. Who is left? On the other hand there is a tension between a composer and the community even if that has been denied on these very pages by a few of our very successful fellow composers. That artists are an agent for community revitalization there is no doubt, that a plan can be created to keep them in place is speculative but perhaps worth trying.

Just because 1920′s Paris, among others, is gone does not mean that all artist colonies devolve into tourist traps or gentrification.

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Article to: Who is Creative Placemaking? New Music, Integrity, and Community of Daniel Siepmann

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