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Creative Music Studio Archive Restoration Project

The nonprofit Creative Music Studio seeks funds to restore, remaster, and digitize over 400 rare recordings made at CMS between 1973-84

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Creative Music Studio Archive Restoration Project

Creative Music Studio Archive Restoration Project

Creative Music Studio Archive Restoration Project

Creative Music Studio Archive Restoration Project

Creative Music Studio Archive Restoration Project

The nonprofit Creative Music Studio seeks funds to restore, remaster, and digitize over 400 rare recordings made at CMS between 1973-84

The nonprofit Creative Music Studio seeks funds to restore, remaster, and digitize over 400 rare recordings made at CMS between 1973-84

The nonprofit Creative Music Studio seeks funds to restore, remaster, and digitize over 400 rare recordings made at CMS between 1973-84

The nonprofit Creative Music Studio seeks funds to restore, remaster, and digitize over 400 rare recordings made at CMS between 1973-84

Karl Berger
Karl Berger
Karl Berger
Karl Berger
1 Campaign |
Woodstock, United States
$150 USD 3 backers
3% of $4,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Short Summary

The Creative Music Studio Archive project is saving, restoring, preserving, digitizing, re-mastering and distributing music from over 400 historic concerts that took place at the Creative Music Studio between 1973 and 1984. Artists include: Jimmy Giuffre, Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Oliver Lake, Colin Walcott and Cecil Taylor, among hundreds of others. We need $4000 to help finish restoration, digitization and production on the first volume of 3-CD box sets, the Creative Music Studio Archive Project Series. The Creative Music Foundation, which operates the Creative Music Studio and its programs, is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation.

Why we need your help 

The Creative Music Studio Archive project has three goals: 1) to restore, preserve and digitize the tapes for posterity; 2) to return the remastered versions to the musicians who made them, free of charge; and 3) to share the music with fans around the world by producing a series of 3-CD box sets. We need $4000 to finish producing the CD box sets so they can be distributed to fans, libraries and scholars around the world.

 

What you get 

 $25 Limited edition 'surprise' CD by CMS guiding artists

$50 First edition of 3-CD box set 

$100 Autographed first edition of 3-CD box set

$250 Your name on the packaging as a member of the ‘producer’s circle’ 

$500 All of the above plus a catalog of the complete CMS Archive from which you can choose one single, complete recording

About the CMS Archive Restoration Project

The CMS Archive Project is historically important, resulting in an international treasury of jazz, world music, and new music from the 1970’s and 1980’s. The Creative Music Studio had a magnetic force that drew musical innovators from all over the world, offering the unique opportunity to work with ensembles large and small away from the restrictive climate of the professional music world. 

With its 45-acre campus as the hub of the Creative Music Studio, hundreds of live concerts were recorded, many heralded as landmark performances. Many of these concerts featured combinations of musicians from jazz, classical and world music traditions that never played together before or after. Ben Ratliff of The New York Times wrote that CMS and its archive is “.. a definitive history of jazz in the 1970s – a book yet to be written – ought to give it (CMS) central importance.” 

The Creative Music Foundation has partnered with Columbia University’s Library to preserve the CMS Archive for posterity. CMS is giving Columbia the full archive of recorded tapes, along with memorabilia and photographs from CMS. CMS co-founder Karl Berger and audio engineer (and former CMS participant) Ted Orr are going through each tape, lovingly digitizing them and re-mastering them, a time consuming process that’s as much a labor of love as it is technical. The digitized, re-mastered recordings will be available at the Columbia University Library for scholars or others who want to enjoy and learn from them. 

As part of its nonprofit mission, CMF is offering Guiding Artists who made these rare recordings a digitized version for their unrestricted use free-of-charge! At the discretion of the Guiding Artists, selections of the re-mastered, digitized recordings will be made available in CD compilations to help raise money for the Creative Music Foundation. CMF is partnering with American Composers Forum and its Innova recording label to release these compilations. Each volume will feature three compact discs full of rare recordings divided into small ensemble, orchestral and world music performances. Two volumes will be released annually, beginning in fall/winter 2013. 

Since history is a powerful teacher, part of the CMS Archive Project also includes obtaining rich oral histories from the musicians and participants who were at CMS. The CMS Oral History Project (http://www.creativemusicfoundation.org/oral-history-project.html) is a natural complement to the CMS Archive Project. The CMS Oral History Project is also a partnership with Columbia University and its Jazz and Oral History Departments, as well as with WKCR-FM, Columbia’s radio station. The goal is for these oral histories to be published on www.creativemusicfoundation.org as well as to be made available through Columbia’s resources. Eventually, select oral history interviews will be broadcast on WKCR. The end result will be vibrant and vital histories of the evolution of jazz, world music and new music. 

More about Creative Music Foundation: www.creativemusicfoundation.org


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