A bit of a return to posts slightly updated and cleaned up from last year: the events of July 1 to 7, 1984, in which I was introduced to New Music America...
That was a week in my life also. I had designed the graphics, the identity, the posters, the billboards, the catalog... and we worked up until the last minute. Hartford is known as the Insurance Capital of the World. In that week, at least, it became the Risk Capital of the World. The designers and production people at The Aetna Insurance Company supported and printed my catalogue design with the 30 degree angled pages. United Technologies paid for my John Cage poster! Legendary music and musicians. Art everywhere. The people I met - like Jin Hi Kim for the first time, in the back of a taxi with Joe Celli when it was pouring rain. Sun Ra and the Arkestra playing some of the most inspiring improvised music I've heard. I hadn't been in America for very long. But after that festival, I started designing a lot of music CD packages. Rzewski was one of the first. It was a life-changing experience for me, and I'm still in that place. Thanks for all you do!!!
That was a week in my life also. I had designed the graphics, the identity, the posters, the billboards, the catalog... and we worked up until the last minute. Hartford is known as the Insurance Capital of the World. In that week, at least, it became the Risk Capital of the World. The designers and production people at The Aetna Insurance Company supported and printed my catalogue design with the 30 degree angled pages. United Technologies paid for my John Cage poster! Legendary music and musicians. Art everywhere. The people I met - like Jin Hi Kim for the first time, in the back of a taxi with Joe Celli when it was pouring rain. Sun Ra and the Arkestra playing some of the most inspiring improvised music I've heard. I hadn't been in America for very long. But after that festival, I started designing a lot of music CD packages. Rzewski was one of the first. It was a life-changing experience for me, and I'm still in that place. Thanks for all you do!!!
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