By P. Elizabeth Cawein

Imagine a web where every point connects to every other point. It becomes so entangled that as you try to follow one connection, you end up somewhere else and can’t quite remember where it was you came from in the first place. Now imagine at each of those points a person, a musician, an instrument and a musical style.

It’s an interconnected web of sorts. An inter-web? Taylor Shell from Turkuaz calls it a “cluster fuck.” However you describe it, it’s this music school phenomenon — or more specifically, this phenomenon of a music school sitting smack in the middle of a culturally vibrant city — and the bands that come out of it, totally interconnected with one another and thriving off a community of musicians that no longer requires geography as glue.
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