Brian Comnes, host of this year's AHBA set up a raffle for the gathering in which proceeds would go the Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music. They raised $565. Pretty cool. "Here's the list of goodies some lucky folks walked away with yesterday. Not bad for a $5 ticket
** Korg Mono/Poly in a flight case (donated by Nick Peck)
** Metasonix TM-6 tube filter (from Eric Barbour of Metasonix)
** $100 gift certificate to Analogue Haven (from Shawn Cleary and Chuck Oken, owners of the store)
** Moog DVD from Moog Foundation
** Several Moog Hats from Moog Foundation and RobotSpeak (Steve Taormina and Alan Stewart, owners of the store)
** Hooded sweatshirt from Livewire Electronics (from Mike Brown of Livewire)
** Moog Tshirts from Moog Foundation and RobotSpeak
** Studio Electronics T shirts from Robot Speak
Please go to www.moogfoundation.org. You can find out about the group's work. You can also contribute online. Their goal is to get to $5mm and to date they only have $30k, plus our $565, so they have a ways to go and could definitely use help from the synth enthusiast community.
The goal of this Foundation honoring this unique and special (Bob Moog) is to foster innovation and curiosity in electronic music.
In my humble opinion, I think the AH local groups should adopt the Bob Moog Foundation for at least all of 2007 and maybe in perpetuity if all goes well.....and beside a raffle adds an element of excitement, tension and anxiety to an otherwise blissful day ...and if they can't get any prizes they can just set out a coffee can and collect.
Peace
Brian"
Great idea Brian.
If you haven't checked out the Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music, please do.
Update: Brian suggested I put up a permanent link to The Moog Foundation. Great idea. I'll be adding the below image shortly.
I sorta wish the BMF was never started because the EMF and EMFI are barely off the ground. With a great deal of respect I have to say that Bob Moog did NOT invent the synthesizer, and Bob Moog himself was a founding supporter of the EMF! Seems like his kids didn't know or didn't care about that, but the result is that donations must be spread thinly.
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http://www.emf.org/
and
http://emfinstitute.emf.org/
well emf is a nice site, didn't know about it til now ....thanks for the link ..maybe I'll join ....BTW the history behind the BMF hook for AHBA06 was a fortuitous bit of timing, I thought a raffle of some sort would be cool, but it needed a purpose bigger than just a chance to get some t-shirts , so when I got a BMF newsletter link 3 weeks before the show the light bulb went off....if you want to push for EMF , then put on a local event , hustle for the prizes and sell the tickets...it isn't that hard ..nobody is saying that BMF is an official AH sponsor, my suggestion was merely designed to get synth heads to use their gear lust for a positive purpose...a lot of folks came up to buy a ticket or two because it seemed right, but when the attendees saw a chance for the Korg Mono/Poly or the Metasonix TM-6 , or a hundred bucks off at Analaogue Haven for a $5 ticket, sales started to take off ....nobody's gonna flame you for doin' something for EMF, they all need help
ReplyDeleteDang, those first two prizes were each worth almost as much as the take. $565 is a great contribution but it must have been disappointing not to net something over a grand at least...
ReplyDeleteThe Metasonix Filter and the Mono-Poly alone could have netted WELL over $565 in the free market. If the idea was to raise as much money for the foundation as possible, they failed.
ReplyDeletePerhaps a silent auction wouldbe a better plan next year.