[Fmpro] Working outside L.A./ relocating to Tampa Bay, Florida

[Job M. van Zuijlen]

That sounds like good advice, Chris.  Any special tips for the Washington, 
DC, area, where I'm located?

Job van Zuijlen

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From: "Christopher Alpiar" <chris at alpiar.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:39
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Working outside L.A./ relocating to Tampa Bay, Florida

> Embrace your local scene, be active locally. That and stay involved
> with as many libraries as possible. You wont be hired to write custom
> scores for films in LA or NYC but you can still do a lot of good
> stuff. Being in Tampa you should get involved with the local
> entertainment folks, Busch Gardens, Disney, etc. and all the cruise
> lines as well. Also I would suggest learning spanish and getting in
> touch with salsa, cumbia, meringue, calypso, souca and all forms of
> Caribbean and South American music forms. Latin Dance music and Salsa
> is the mainstay of the music for South Florida, but it has many many
> flavors, there are hundreds of styles of Cuban salsa alone, much less
> various South American flavors. But you are going to the place where
> caucasian and african american people are the minority, so being
> excited to dive into the Hispanic and Caribbean culture and music will
> take you far ;) I think you will find the music business saturated
> with Latin pop music and if you don't speak Spanish it will be
> difficult to be involved. There are small trickles of other musics
> there, and with quite a few TV shows being produced in Miami, there is
> a lot of big business down there. But again the clique that runs that
> scene is almost exclusively Cuban or South American. So understanding
> that culture, politics, music and language will set you apart from the
> other non hispanics. Understanding why the majority group of Florida,
> Cubans, are vehemently loyal to Cuba and refuse to leave that culture
> even though they hate Castro even more and willingly have left family
> in Cuba to escape his rule, and all of the emotional experience that
> comes with and around it. I miss South Florida often, other than the 2
> inch+ flying cockroaches affectionately known as Palmetto Bugs... But
> it is a really wonderful place where you can learn so much about those
> cultures which still are strongly independent and not homogenized and
> yet still all co-existing in the hispanic melting pot called South
> Florida: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands,
> Puerto Rico, and of course all the major countries of northern and
> Eastern South America: Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, and even
> further reaching areas like Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Paraguay, these
> places are all represented strongly in South Florida. Its really amazing
>
> Good Luck with it Todd, sounds like a lot of fun!
>
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> On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Todd Burns wrote:
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>> This is a bit hypothetical, but would any of you fine folks care to
>> comment on working outside a "major" music center like Los Angeles or
>> NY? There's a possibility we'll end up in the Tampa Bay area. My
>> current situation isn't location based, so (in theory) I can move to
>> anywhere with a   power generator and a high speed Internet
>> connection. But, sure, that's a little scary. Any work in that area,
>> and maybe nearby Orlando?
>>
>> Thanks! Really!
>>
>> Todd Burns
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