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The community and international cultural significance of Musikprotokoll for the last 4 and half decades is NOT to be underestimated and must be kept on as one of the very top vital & visionary Austrian Festivals for music and the intermedia arts in its long and vibrant history. Having attended and partially participated in their very progressive program during the recent years I can testify that the experience, education and inspiration that I and my students, scholars and critical public has ever felt in Graz and Austria has emanated from this very special festival still at the vanguard of the wide realm of contemporary musical relevance and powerful forward thinking concerts, installations and broadcast production excellence from the ORF that has conveyed the brilliant substance of the Musikprotokoll momentum for convincing composition exhibition. I am the founder and artistic operations director of the worldwide Recombinant Media Labs (RML) from the USA plus now in Europe who is a partner to ECAS (EU) festival coalition that Musikprotokoll (MP) is a proud and important member of along with CTM in Berlin, Today's Art in the Netherlands and a number of others . MP's leadership linkage to a broader international base of essential dedicated institutions continues to pull in profile, attention and focus on Austria's heritage for outstanding public arts engagement and Graz's legacy for connecting consecutive refreshed cultural innovations on the world stage. Long Live the MP!