sentences:  The original conference, named New Music New York, with concordant (and demonstrative) concerts was held at The Kitchen in New York City in 1979.One of the themes there was to break down barriers created by the segregation of genres, and breaking music journalist/critic-driven pigeonholing.The 12 years of the festival's existence was marked by over 750 performances, exhibits, workshops, installations, and artistic inventions, each festival supplanting the previous in size, expanding its diversity and many bringing "new" music to everywhere conceivable in the United States.