Music Liberation Union

We had initially thought that having 12-15 minutes per band is not sufficient. But there is another thought: When artists/architects (hmmmm the "creative people")  are given a platform they tend to be so self-absorbed that they occupy as much time as they can get and that is done at the expense of others. In many presentations which some of us architects have attended, we have often seen how one pompous architect would grab the limelight and the time to so much extent that it would suppress other milder architects who would stand embarassed in a corner.

As an alternative, there is a popular form of presentation called "Pecha-Kucha"  (It loosely means chit-chat in Japanese) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha  Here each presenter is just given 6 minutes 40 seconds to do a presentation. (20 slides x 20 seconds per slide = 400 seconds) Nowadays a lot of cities conduct "Pecha-Kucha" events. It provides a platform for many people to present their works, without any one presenter taking a large slice of the time and thus dictating their presence and philosophy. I think inadvertently, over the last 2 years, we have also re-discovered the merit in conducting MLU in this manner; albeit we give 15 minutes or so per musician/band. It is important that we give due credit and exposure to as many original musicians as possible.

So we do have a good thing going and our format is very well corroborated.