Look Ma, I made the news (again)

loopdokter

Some of you old school people may recall the last time I made the news about fifteen years ago when I was going through a rough employment patch. It became a bit of an in-joke.

Anyway, a mate of mine and fellow aging raver is a cameraman at our local TV station here in Kitchener, ON, Canada. He has been helping us promote a new non-profit community organization I co-founded called the Tri City Synthesizer Society and doing his best to get us on the local news.

Essentially we host Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) nights where people play short twenty minute live sets in front of an audience, along with various educational sessions and workshops related to electronic music and synthesizers to our region of about 600,000 people. https://tricitysynthsociety.com/ @tricitysynths

Our first (K)EMOM made the news back in September 2023:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vmto9b639me2665xt49hg/EMOM-video-long.mov?rlkey=u9eislu47fl7ihlqebboqe1hs&dl=0

Then last night we had another event at the downtown branch of the Kitchener Public Library:
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video/c2859364-synth-workshop-at-kpl

C_J

loopdokter Some of you old school people may recall the last time I made the news about fifteen years ago

Oh don’t worry 😂

How could we forget 😂

Smallman1

Kitchener sink!

loopdokter

Smallman1 we used to be called Berlin due to the large number of German immigrants in the area at the turn of the 19th Century.

During WWI, that was considered to be a faux pas so they renamed the city after Lord Kitchener to be more allied with Britain and the Commonwealth.

As it turns out, Lord Kitchener was a rather distasteful character of a man who needlessly sent hundreds of thousands of men to become cannon fodder during WWI.

Millsy

Nice one Jay. Looks like a great initiative

loopdokter

Millsy Thanks mate!

It’s a fun thing to do and a way to give back to the area where I’m from. There’s about five of us who run things and the hope is to be able to scale up to proper large scaled live events with well known names in the future, along with a yearly conference where manufacturers, developers, artists, etc. can all come together. It’s still early doors.

KW-Cambridge’s music scene suffers a bit because we’re only an hour west of Toronto. People from here tend to go to Toronto to get access to the big music and cultural events. We’d like to make it easier for people to stay in our own community and get some of the same quality they can get by driving into the megaopolis of Toronto.

Old-Dutch

loopdokter As it turns out, Lord Kitchener was a rather distasteful character of a man who needlessly sent hundreds of thousands of men to become cannon fodder during WWI.

Your kitchen sink needs you

C_J

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs though Jay, to be fair.