It s a brand. It s a religion. It s the Knitting Factory, and it s coming to Hollywood. If that combination of rapid growth and weird-ass art grates against the postmodern intuition, it s because we re used to thinking of art and philosophy as flaky decals on a global machine driven by force and commerce. But philosophies can still make revolutions.
Improvised music is spontaneous, mutable, inclusive.
Like Christianity and the Internet, it survived underground. Now we get to find out how much of this philosophy carries through into the Knitting Factory s apostolic era. In 1994, he was able to move it to a large TriBeCa compound with multiple stages and advanced audio-visual facilities. Along the way, CEO Dorf s KnitMedia has grown a record label, a recording studio, a concert producership, a booking agency, and a multifingered Web distribution and information presence. And he s just getting started.