#21

I lurked around for many years as I contemplated first grids and then other aspects of the monome ecosystem. While I still haven’t jumped into the monome ecosystem, I’ve appreciated the thoughtfulness and depth of conversation that occur across a range of topics and generally find the style here better suited to longer form discussion and exploration of ideas.

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#22

someone must have low key mentioned this was here on that other site, but I think what introduced a lot of this to me was @mlogger instagram videos. I just had to figure out the little text grid in the silver box. it seemed so far away from everything I had ever done with sound.

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#23

I was in the art department, but was in design. So we never threw any of the cool parties, we’d just make the posters for them. We had a typeface design class at 9am Friday morning that the teacher chose specifically because of Thursday nights. He did it to weed out the casuals. Ha.

Wish I’d collaborated more.

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#24

oooh

11 years ago…

I had an old and ugly dying windows computer + max and was searching the web trying to find an instrument that will fit my needs.

even had the grid+aleph combo and still regret selling both things years ago.

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met some folks through the old forum. im so so grateful to this community for my friendship with @glia

the inspiration I get from monome is probs one of the main reasons I still make sounds with computers… defs need to buy the arc/grid/norns combo and maybe port some of my max tools.

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#25

i’m pretty new to the forum, but this place has been a huge relief to me since i started reading it at the start of the pandemic. i stumbled on the sp/roland sampler thread last year while reading up on the 303/404 late one night. then i stumbled on the tiny corner thread while exhaustively searching for inspiration. then i stumbled on the old monome posts trying to figure out what “mlr” was. i just kept checking, and eventually read the whole norns pre-release thread over a few days, trying to figure out what all of this was. with everything slowed down & stopped for last year or so, it’s been great to learn so much and find so much knowledge & inspiration here.

this is significantly gushier than i expected the answer to this question to be. thanks y’all.

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#26

Sometimes I feel like I am only going to meet people from CalArts and Mills for the rest of my life. I am ok with that. Mills Alum myself.

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#27

Nine years ago I started participating in a weekly thing called the Disquiet Junto. I have no memory of how I found out about that.

About 4 1/2 years ago Marc emailed the Disquiet Junto participants to say he was moving the discussion to some online forum called lines instead of the Soundcloud groups. Next time I joined in a Disquiet Junto I created an account here and got involved.

I have own no hardware instruments and don’t do any coding. While there’s a lot I enjoy here there’s obviously plenty that I feel has no relevance. So in the last couple of years I’ve increasingly spent time in the Disquiet Slack ahead of posting here.