Eight is Not Enough

Eight is Not Enough

Today we’re celebrating our eighth anniversary online, but it seems like we’ve still only scratched the surface.

Written By

Frank J. Oteri

Frank J. Oteri is an ASCAP-award winning composer and music journalist. Among his compositions are Already Yesterday or Still Tomorrow for orchestra, the "performance oratorio" MACHUNAS, the 1/4-tone sax quartet Fair and Balanced?, and the 1/6-tone rock band suite Imagined Overtures. His compositions are represented by Black Tea Music. Oteri is the Vice President of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and is Composer Advocate at New Music USA where he has been the Editor of its web magazine, NewMusicBox.org, since its founding in 1999.

Today is a special day here at NewMusicBox: We’re celebrating our eighth anniversary online. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been doing this for 96 months, 416 weeks, or 2,922 days, depending on how you’re counting. But there’s so much more to do.

Over the years, friends have said to me things like: How much longer can you keep this going? Aren’t you going to run out of people to talk with? Aren’t you going to have to start recycling ideas at some point? But no matter how long we’ve been doing this, it seems like we’ve still only scratched the surface. That’s how much is going on out there. I know that for me, every month is still a process of discovery. And I hope that anyone reading this site feels the same way.

At the end of this week, the staff of NewMusicBox will burrow itself away for a day-long retreat to project site content for the coming year. But we’d also like to hear from you. What topics would you be interested in us developing further? Who should we focus on whom we have not spoken to yet? What other components would you be interested in seeing on this site? All suggestions are welcome.