#124

New England Synthesizer Festival this Saturday 12-6 in Burlington, MA!
http://nesynthfest.org

Tons of cool stuff, talks, vendors, performances, jam space, quadraphonic room. Chris Konopka and I are doing analog visuals for the performances. Space for drop-in A and V performers still.

It’s also Together Festival week!
https://togetherboston.com

I’ll be doing video Wednesday (Antal and Ron Trent) and Thursday (Baltimoroder) at Middlesex.

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#125

Bumping this because that Non Event show at City Hall is tonight. It’s free, and should not be missed! Really excited for this show :slight_smile:

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#126

Wondering if anyone else lives on the north shore?

I’d love to find some folks to hang with a bit and getting into Boston on the weekend is really challenging, since I’m in there all week for work…

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#127

Not on the north shore (Somerville, here), but I’d be happy to take the commuter train up – it’s nice to get out of town once in a while! Traveling back to Canada for a family visit this week and next, but would be down to hang out sometime later in the month if you are.

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#128

i’d be down to come up from PVD sometime to hang. would just need to plan in advance a bit.

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#129

I’m in Medford, would definitely be into more north-of-city hangouts. I keep meaning to get up to the Lowell events.

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#130

Thanks to the folks who responded to my query about north shore get togethers…

It got me wondering about the possibility of a Boston area monome user group…

I know there’s a Boston area modular meetup, but that’s a broader swath than I am specifically thinking about here…

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#131

It’s funny - I feel like a good chunk of us are also getting crow, and will perhaps be scratching our heads a bit as we get started. Could be fun to hang and hack together!

But in general I’m totally down for a Monome group :slight_smile:

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#132

i was thinking that too! i’m still working toward getting a monome piece (i ended up here pretty randomly), but would love to hang out and tinker & riff & learn.

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#133

I started with Ansible and Grid. While I would still recommend that as a great starting point, I’m now thinking I’d recommend Crow for the price, size and max/m4l capability not to mention First. It’s able to be used totally stand alone (from any other Monome/Mannequins modules or controllers anyway) but it can grow into numerous interrelated roles as your arsenal expands…

Ansible can be used with a midi keyboard but it really shines with a Grid… or Arc, or Teletype (which I don’t have yet)…

Others may have different perspectives, this is merely my own personal experience…

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#134

A couple of us drove down from Portland for this, excellent night. My first non-event city hall show, beautiful space.

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#135

The Boston Modular meetups have had pretty heavy monome representation in the past, though the proportion has gone down a bit now that it’s a larger event.

If there was interest in a meetup specifically focused around norns/crow hacking I’d be happy to look into hosting something either in Medford or at Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville.

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#136

yoooooooooooooo CrowHack at Artisan’s sounds like a great time

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#137

stares out across Galway Bay in the vague direction of Boston, nodding solemnly
now i understand why my ancestors made the journey

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#138

The Irish folks are still coming to Boston, some to visit and some to stay…

The connection runs deep…

Come see us!

I can’t wait to get over there!

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#139

if anyone’s in the providence area on the 16th, my friends HXXS:

are playing at the News Cafe, in pawtucket.

https://www.newscaferi.com/

there’s no event page on FB yet, but if folks are interested, i’ll update when i have the deets.

i’d love some company while supporting these two wonderful creatures, and would love to meet some lines folks :blush:

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#140

Deep in norns/crow hacking this week! Would people be interested in a meetup this Saturday afternoon (the 12th?)

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#141

Taking a red eye back from Canada the previous night, but could be down - if slightly groggy and slow - later in the afternoon!

#142

I’ll be at a conference in NY!

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#143

i’m otherwise occupied. my saturdays tend to fill up pretty quickly, so best bet on my end would be scheduling a few weeks in advance. but i don’t have a relevant machine yet anyway (working on it!) so i’d just be coming to catch stuff via osmosis. enjoy!

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