Where Are The Musicians?

Pretty interesting, if flawed, article online from The Atlantic on where musicians live. Richard Florida contends that more and more musicians live in Nashville than ever before. He postulates that Nashville "turned into the Silicon Valley of the music business, combining the best institutions, the best infrastructure, and the best talent."

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Not surprisingly, the number of musicians in Nashville takes the cake, with others concentrated in NY, LA, and San Francisco. Not many musicians in the midwest and a surprisingly large number in Florida. What Richard Florida (er, the writer, not the state) fails to break down is the genre concentration. How many non-country musicians live in Nashville? What about non-Latin musicians in Florida? Nonetheless, this is pretty interesting and worth a quick scan.

Knitting Factory

A new exhibition by Diva Zappa is coming up at LA's EM & Co. She is promising large-scale wallpieces that incorporate knitting with photography of knitting. Sounds delightfully "meta" and I like the idea of transposing the real texture with a representation of it.

She told me that she knitted the dress that Chloe Trujillo (wife of Metallica's Robert Trujillo) wore to the Grammys!

Email her at handmadebeauty AT zappa DOT com if you're interested in a commission!