Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
Seeking to invest in more reliable equipment for our performances. The Crunchy Bunch is a four piece DJ collective based out of Duluth, Minnesota that has been together for over 5 years now. We pride ourselves in our vast array of musical tastes and utilize this to not only play and support a wide variety of events and organizations like hot yoga, Churches United in Ministry's Harrison Park Community Parties, Movies in the Park, and Homegrown Music Festival, but also to promote musical diversity in our local community.Through working with many different venues, non-profits, and local businesses, we are very humbled by the amount of support our local community has given us, and we are always seeking new ways to give back.
Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth, Shannon Sweeney: stage manager for Duluth Playhouse and former production manager for the Minnesota Ballet; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
The main goal in this project is to push our skills and our artistic abilities in the realm of DJing and turntablism. The equipment that we have used in the past has always been a collaboration of equipment we individually own. Although our equipment does work, it only allows us to utilize the bare minimum of not only what is possible through the program we use to make music, but also our musical abilities. Because we have such outdated equipment, we can't use the many new features our digital music program has to offer. Also, due to the low quality of our equipment, many technical difficulties happen while performing that only makes the experience for the public less enjoyable. Through the acquisition of new equipment, technical difficulties would be almost completely absent, and our live performances would enhance greatly through the learning and utilization of newer techniques almost immediately. This would instantly give the public a better experience of our musical abilities. We are constantly practicing and evaluating ourselves as musicians. Our biggest evaluation of ourselves comes through encouraging and pushing each other as musicians and comments from the public. Through the many hours of research we've done on what is possible with fully functional equipment, there are over twenty new techniques we could learn and utilize for live performances and recording. The measurable outcomes associated with ourselves learning these new techniques would be evaluated through comments from the public, other musicians, and our fans. These comments would be important in both a qualitative and quantitative format. This would be our biggest indicator of the positive impact our new equipment has made both on the public and ourselves.
Measurable outcomes include: amount of performances using equipment, amount of musical projects recorded with equipment, amount of time spent practicing with equipment.
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