music at the anthology 2011

Two weeks ago I had a brief stint in NYC, but I was in town long enough to participate in MMNY/MATA's 2011 Make Music Winter Workshop with Phil Kline. And yes, he was there.

I was excited to go because, holy cow, my proposal was not rejected and also because I was able to meet the other people invited to this workshop. (AND I would finally meet James Holt, curator for "My Ears Are Open" and the person who encouraged me to apply to this workshop in the first place. If you're not familiar with this podcast, please check it out.)

We all met at the Cornelia Street Cafe that afternoon, which I thought was a nice casual environment to meet other people and discuss our proposals. We were taken to a room downstairs where we waited with our name tags and laptops waiting to present our material.

Yotam Haber had an orderly list of those who were supposed to present that day. I had to go second, and after hearing Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson, and Cameron Britt's techy iPhone proposal, I felt a …