Martin Spencer

Dear Moira,

I was dismayed to hear that Resonance FM and the LMC are no longer to be
funded in any way by the Arts Council of England's music department.

My father Robert Spencer was a distinguished musician and a professor at
the Guildhall School of Music; he taught me much about the importance of
music most importantly as human communication. Through him I also came
to understand that the financial position of musicians generally and in
particular those who choose to take their art seriously, and the huge
amount of (often unpaid) work that goes on behind the scenes in order to
make quality possible.

Although much of the output of Resonance FM can accurately be described
as 'challenging', I believe it has done a very good and actually unique
job of fostering and promoting modern directions in music and audio, and
making the work of local musicians more accessible to members of the
public who would otherwise never even consider listening, because of the
accessibility and sound quality of the FM radio platform. Obtaining a
London FM frequency for avant-garde music and other obviously
non-commercial yet culturally and intellectually stimulating audio
material was a huge achievement! And the continuing operation and
maintenance of it continues to be important to the health of music and
more generally to culture in the UK's capital.

This email is to encourage you, as ACE London Director, to look again
and see if there can be some way forward for the Music Department to
support the LMC and their unique platform Resonance FM.

Please would you be so kind as to take the trouble to let me know your
thoughts on this.



Best Regards,

Martin.