The meeting on November. 23rd attracted an impressive turn-out with a wide variety of producers tuning out to offer some insight as to what their needs might be with a collective space. We have a couple places in mind for the space to lease. Ideally with enough member we have our sights set on the 72 Princess Street space, which I must say is incredibly immaculate and gorgeous old architecture. Basically with our current financial projections we estimate that we only need 40 committed members contributing $60 a month for full space rental and access to equipment. That's really all we need to turn this place into a full out music production collective space.
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Our level of excitement really grew when a representative from the real estate company distributed pictures of the interior, which could easily be designed to hold a DJ up top the dance floor and accompany fund raising events. The more revenue this place generates with fund raising events, sponsorships and the grants that have already come in, will reflect in the membership pricing. We hope to have the membership pricing just below $40 dollars a month by the end of 2013.
Pictures of the inside, be prepared to be amazed:
http://www.shindico.com/index.php?option=com_estateagent&act=showEO&id=298
During the course of the meeting we managed to divide the core planners including myself and 8 other professional sound engineers into departments to handle the diverse duties and challenges that are present with getting this dream off the ground. I will be handling seminar programing—which I will piece together with many years of teaching audio production and music theory—and also I am on the board of financial planning and membership. This venue can comfortable hold about 30 working producers at one time, more if additional gear from the individual is brought with (laptop to patch into the sound system.) I am proud to announce that one of our executive directors is part of the PK Sound crew, western Canada's most recognised custom sound system engineering firms. PK provides the sound for the Shambhalah Music Festival and Burning Man festival and are always on tour with the biggest names in electronic music, Skrillex and Bassnectar just to name a few. I'm not giving away any hints, but our new venue could definitely in the near future be fitted with the best PK has to offer. I believe there is a strong market for this space and will continue planning to achieve the best scenario for our members, I recommend reserving year memberships before they run out due to the limited work space. Drop in fee pricing will be released in January. Our goal is to acquire the space before February 1st, 2013 and we are well on track.
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