TRANSMEDIALE: Berlin avante garde music festival too cool for the U.S.

Transmediale is a festival held in the Club Transmediale since 2001, which receives a major grant from the German government to invite music and video artists from around the world for a several weeks avante garde noise and video extravaganza.

The U.S. government doesn't put up money for this kind of thing. But a much smaller percentage of the U.S. population is into this kind of art. Now if the government did fund it, then there would be an event which would get a bigger audience for it. But I can only imagine it really working out in New York City. And even though New York City is New York City, it's still not Berlin, which really specializes in this kind of hipster avante garde scene. I can imagine this festival happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn -- and attracting a lot of Germans, especially.