by Jeff Mach | Jan 13, 2024 | Attractions, discussion, music
“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.” ― Douglas Adams What’s music like for the people who create it? What’s unusual music (assuming that most...
by Jeff Mach | Jan 7, 2024 | Attractions, audience participation, discussion
While we do imagine a good number of new people will come to this chat, we really do invite everyone. One way of looking at it is that a convention (and festival, and fair, in our case) is a massive thing, with so much going on that it really, really helps to have...
by Jeff Mach | Dec 30, 2023 | Attractions, audience participation, discussion
“A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of “monopoly on the means of production.” Since man extends his nervous system through channels of communications like the written word, the...
by Jeff Mach | Dec 30, 2023 | Attractions, discussion
“You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was...
