Early Music Foundation Announces
Video Equipment Support Project (VESP)
A New Project for the New York Historically Informed Performance Community Will Facilitate the Making of Performance Videos
NYEMC to Make Equipment, Venue and Producer
Available as a Gratis Service to Qualifying Artists
New York, NY, March 23, 2021 – In recognition of the unprecedented restrictions imposed on the performing arts by the Covid-19 pandemic, Early Music Foundation (EMF) announces the Video Equipment Support Program (VESP).
“With an uncertain timetable for the safe resumption of traditional concerts, historically informed performance increasingly is being presented and consumed online,” says Frederick Renz, Founding Director of EMF. “Even after pandemic conditions subside, we anticipate this phenomenon will continue.”
VESP will facilitate the recording of performances on video by historically informed performance practitioners in New York who do not have access to good quality audiovisual equipment.
VESP will be administered through New York Early Music Central (NYEMC), the service-to-the-community arm of EMF. VESP will make audiovisual equipment (camera, microphones, lights, etc.) available to metropolitan area early music artists free of charge.
VESP will supply a recording venue – First Church of Christ, Scientist (where EMF has its office), with acoustic and background options – and the services of a professional sound producer/engineer, Dongsok Shin. Mr. Shin, a well-known historically informed performance keyboard artist, has served as a producer/engineer for many recordings by Early Music New York, the performance arm of EMF.
With a production credit to NYEMC, VESP performances will be owned and can be used freely by the artists. Some will be posted on NYEMC’s YouTube channel and promoted via EMF’s marketing and social media outlets.
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This NYEMC Service-to-the-Field Project is funded in part by:
Marsha Palanci, EMF Trustee
The Constance and Jarvis Doctorow Family Foundation
The Merrill G. and Emita E. Hastings Foundation
