From: "Lesley Groff" < To: <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: Marvin Music Project - Progress Report Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:57:54 +0000 Attachments: MarvinMusicProposal.pdf; 1981-Music_Mind_Meaning.pdf Ori inal Messa e From: To: Lesley Groff Sent: Fri Jan 28 20:35:45 2011 Subject: Marvin Music Project - Progress Report <<MarvinMusicProposal.pdf>> <<1981-Music_Mind_Meaning.pdf>> For Jeffrey Epstein, from Margaret Minsky Dear Jeffrey, I heard from Marvin that you may be coming up to Boston soon, and may even Tod Machover/Joe Paradiso's MIT Symposium. We are long overdue for a progress report to you about the Marvin publications started supporting during the summer: intersect with his music talk at effort that you so generously In summary, we tapped a rich, and preciously overlooked, thread in Marvin's thinking and writing: his extraordinary relationship with music. We are building an iPad app constructed around the text and ideas in his paper "Music, Mind, and Meaning" atop a rich database of new documentary interviews and musical improvisation sessions, new filmed discussions between Marvin and widely-known composers and musicians, archival footage, recordings of Marvin's improvisations and compositions, and music learning experiences designed with Marvin. We have filmed several interviews, we have identified a publication platform for the iPad, and we are actively recording and digitizing music. On the enabling side, we have added two more generous charter sponsors, and we have a new 501(c)3 fiscal agent who is donating services in-kind and who will go the distance with us as we raise the rest of the funds to complete the project. Below the line, I include an expanded description of the project, as well as attaching our full proposal (which includes video clips from the project's Marvin interviews), and a pdf of his stunning 1981 paper "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Since you personally already know the depth of Marvin's musical li