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Together with a number of fellow musicians, he established a music-oriented online information centre in Lónyai utca in the Ninth District of Budapest and, with it, he began developing a highly professional database. He would have needed twenty or twenty-five million forints to realize the idea at the time. There was not much hope of this, so Göoýz developed his music centre slowly and gradually. First he got hold of the place, which was the site where, between 1990 and 1995, one of the best- known avant-garde art exhibition centres in Eastern Central Europe had operated. Leaving the inner space, created by the architect Gábor Bachmann, untouched, he further shaped the interior along guidelines suggested by Bachmann, so that the Centre would be able to fill the role he and his colleagues had undertaken. Next, he began to develop and to build a network using funds donated by sponsors and on his own money. First they had a single com-puter, then two, and now they have nine.

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Most important of all, László Göoýz and his colleagues have set out to develop a database of contemporary Hungarian composers and performing artists. In recognition for their work, they were awarded the Best of Europe Prize of Europe Online in the spring of 1998. They are indebted for this mainly to Zoltán Kocsis, who gave them the discography he himself had systematized, including detailed data on more than five hundred recordings, which they then uploaded to the Internet along with a special search engine. Thus, in future, anyone interested can check, for instance, which pieces by Ferenc Liszt were recorded by Zoltán Kocsis, the length of those works, the company which produced the record, and the other musicians who worked on the release.
Creating the database, which is still far from complete, takes a great deal more time than Göoýz imagined when he began. First of all, he was not really aware of the sheer volume of data and the work it would take to computerize it all. Nor did he foresee the kind of personal relationships and the diplomacy which were required if a really complete view of Hungary's music life was to be provided.

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The BMC has therefore made a bold move. Their latest project, under which they plan to release a series of twenty to twenty-five records of contemporary Hungarian music for the 1999 Frankfurt International Book Fair, is supported by ten million forints they received from the National Cultural Fund and 1.5 million forints from the Soros Foundation. (Hungary is going to be the focus country at the 1999 Frankfurt Book Fair.) The series is to consist of re-releases of BMC's earlier recordings as well as new contemporary music recordings. Among the earlier BMC discs, Bach's Art of the Fugue, Richard Strauss's Metamorphosis and Arthur Honegger's Second Symphony will be released, all three performed by the Cluj Symphony Orchestra under the baton of an outstanding conductor, Erich Bergel, who died recently. The series devoted to new contemporary music will include pieces written in the past five to ten years but never recorded. Of course subjective elements also play a part in the selection. Göoýz and his friends do have certain ideas and specific tastes, which they are not ashamed to admit to. They would like audiences to learn more about what they believe to be really worth knowing. The list of names included in their plans are Gyula Csapó, Barnabás Dukay, Béla Faragó, Zoltán Jenei, Ádám Kondor, György Orbán, Emil Petrovics, József Sári, László Sáry, Zsolt Serey, Endre Szervánszky, András Szoýloýssy, László Tihanyi, János Vajda, László Vidovszky and Leó Weiner.

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