[Monomeet] Oct. 3 in Princeton

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- CommentAuthorstochastic
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
OK. So I guess itr is agreed that we dot organize a van from NYC to Princeton. I will see you people there.
- CommentAuthormarloRIDDLE
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
thesuperorganism,
I'm heading up early friday morning prob around 6am and driving back home when it is over, you are more than welcome to roll with, school is overrated anyways ;), I'd definitely be down to meet up and toss around some sounds. I live in hampton down on buckroe, drop me a email marloriddle at gmail dot com
- CommentAuthormarloRIDDLE
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009 edited
I might bring a new toy also, depends on if its working properly, it is the 1st version of what agent james created in his mad scientist lab/basement
- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
So TSA starts going through my bag.. First thing she asks, "are you military?" because my bag is covered in playa dust.

Then she pulls out my memory man and says "this is a...?"

Guitar pedal.

Then she pulls out my 256 and sorta looks at it all perplexed.. Takes a moment and finally asks, "and... This, this is a ...?"

uhm, music controller?

She gave me a weird look. I was amused.
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
it'll take me 2 airplanes, a bus, 3 cabs, a train, and some metro rides, but i am getting there!
- CommentAuthorAgent James
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
its gonna take me 1 car and 32.5 red bulls ;)

and 3 coffees...
- CommentAuthortehn
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
somehow we have a few left over kits. if anyone is attending and would like one, let me know. cash very much preferred.
- CommentAuthorAgent James
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
were the kits around 300 $ ?
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009 edited
I'm going to try and make some media groupings like last time:

Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/groups/monomeetfall2009

Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/monomeetfall2009/

Content from the last one is up at…

http://vimeo.com/groups/monomeet2009
http://www.flickr.com/groups/monomeet2009/
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
I'm going to try and bring stuff with me that will allow us to Ustream as much of the day as possible. I'll post more details on that as soon as I have them.

Ray, we have wifi there yeah?
- CommentAuthortehn
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2009
http://monome.org/40h/kit

$250
- CommentAuthorthesuperorganism
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
marloriddle: email sent, check it
- CommentAuthormarloRIDDLE
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
agent james, jumbie, thesuperorganism, and marloRIDDLE are red team go, the kentucky leg is beginning shortly, virginia will be following in the wee hours of the morning, joining forces on I 95, gonna be sick cant wait to meet all of you its gonna be "insert tag line"
- CommentAuthorAgent James
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
Thy Agent James and Jumbie Brigade are assimilating convoy counterpart 1 of 2.

Last minute initiatives are underway.

The Eagle is preparing to fly.

into the night . . muuuuuuuAAA aaaahhhhh haaaaaaa
- CommentAuthorAgent James
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
Red Team Go ;)
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
#monomeet on Twitter, make it easier for others to follow what's happening.
- CommentAuthormhenry
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
There should be Princeton guest wifi called "puvisitor"
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/madebyrobot

should be working. Let me know if it isn't, here or ping me on twitter @madebyrobot
- CommentAuthoriambehindu
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
oh it works...
- CommentAuthormaersk (dovemouse)
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
thanks a lot JP :) screen cast as well would have been cool though.
i hope everyone is having a good time!
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 3rd 2009
Yeah sorry screen cast will need to be at the next one sorry!

Hope people can hear ok, streaming tonight could be interesting !
- CommentAuthorhypno|sapien
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
Many thanks for the stream! Awesome for saps like me who couldn't make it...
- CommentAuthorhypno|sapien
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
If anyone at the monomeet is reading this, the bass on the stream is distorting badly. Otherwise, super nice. A little eq?
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
last night was SIIIIICK. i still can't wrap my head around it. thank you ray! and everyone that showed up. monomers are the best people.
- CommentAuthorsimcitizzon
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
another fantastic meet...thank you all for all the love! :)
- CommentAuthormaersk (dovemouse)
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009 edited
wish i was there.
i tried to watch the stream but sleep got the better of me.
soundcyst's mlr presentation was real nice though :)
did anyone showcase any new apps/m4l goodness?
- CommentAuthorpeterkirn
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
Thanks to everybody - yesterday was a mind-blowingly awesome evening. I can't wait for the next installment.

If anyone has photos or video they'd like to share, please send them our way and I'll make sure they land on CDM, too. I got what looked through the viewfinder like really lovely footage; hope to edit it very soon!

JP: Was there any archive of the stream? (Someone has already asked that.) I'm always interested to discuss smarter ways of doing streams - screencasts, great, and as discussed yesterday, perhaps a separate audio stream via icecast or something. But I've heard a lot of positive feedback; people really enjoyed the presentations.
- CommentAuthorpeterkirn
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
PS, rode the train home with a visitor of NY who talked about what an amazing experience this was. He was especially enthusiastic about the quality of music and musicianship of the performances, and talked with his son about how exciting it was to "witness the future" in the event.
- CommentAuthorprimus_boom
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
I need a few days to process what happened this weekend.
It was legendary!
Ray, Thank You for hooking this up.
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
i'm gonna miss the food. specially breakfast.
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
Apparently ustream only recorder your stream if at the very beginning you press the record button. I just read that now, so it didn't record. But I think we probably have every presentation and most of the evening on video. I'll get mine up as soon as possible.

The stream was an interesting exercise. Especially since I've never done one before. I think next time things will be a lot better. I'm going to take a stream specific rig with me to the event in Nov at the Tank in NYC. Proper camcorder with firewire and maybe a remote mic or two. I just didn't think it was needed this time round (I clearly underestimated the 2,000+ unique viewers and 100+ at any one time we had yesterday).

Huge apologizes to anyone who was there at the end. I think my isight might have shorted or melted. I got a message it was down, and by the time I got round the back in the middle of Ray's set I couldn't get it to reconnect, so we called it a night. I don't think isights are designed to run fro 12 hours straight.
- CommentAuthorJP
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
I really wish I'd had a chance to chat with genko and primus - you guys I somehow totally missed whilst running round. Next time !! :-) Maybe I'll come down to Peru. ;-)
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009 edited
@JP
dude, if you're ever down in peru, just let me know. monomeet downsouth anyone? hahaha.
- CommentAuthorprimus_boom
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009 edited
@JP
Oh man, don't worry I'll probably be around at Tank.
Me and Simcitizzon (Digital Dust) will be performing in BK next week. Details will be posted. Hopefully you can make it.

@i am genko
I see you are making use of the wifi on the bus, haha!
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
@primus
hellz yeah! and the outlet two, don't forget.
- CommentAuthorthesuperorganism
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
good to meet you all, nice conversations, and everyone that performed was really cool, my favs of the evening had to be making the noise and daedeus though....haha i think at one point he went from sampling m83 to having kid 606 and imogen heap and some awesome pounding electro beats on top of eachother, which made me laugh pretty hard, very awesome though, gj all, cant wait to learn more
- CommentAuthorsursiks
- CommentTimeOct 4th 2009
yo, once again a total success. all i've been able to tell people here in prov is that "shit went down." photos should be up soon to provide actual evidence.
only two bad things went down all night: 1. i left my mac's power adapter in terrance (ray, if you find a mac adapter with a long extension attached and a cord wrapped around one side, throw me an email (sursiks.010@gmail.com)), 2. the person who's floor i spent the night on had a kitten with upper-respiratory disease that wanted to curiously prod my face all night, preventing me from getting sleep. luckily i can do that on the train.

shout outs to tehn, ray, kedaar, david, edison, simcitizen, chili, %, soundcyst, daedelus, kirn, those guys who may or may not have been from LA, all those i met but who's name i've forgot, so on and so forth. despite meeting so many monomers, i still feel like i didn't get a chance to meet enough of you guys. there's always next time?
- CommentAuthorrawray7
- CommentTimeOct 5th 2009
Thank you everyone for your amazing presentations/projects/performances/personalities/peaches/pineal glands.

It's been a real honor to meet all of you - this is such an incredibly talented and giving community.

Speaking of giving...your media should be directed to the Vimeo group that JP has setup for us all: http://www.vimeo.com/groups/monomeetfall2009 + HUGE ups to JP for setting up the stream! Also...Peter Kirn said he wanted images and video to throw up for a CDM recap page...hit him up.

Thanks to Joshua for recording the nighttime performances direct to his computer! Saved me so much work!

Special thanks to all of our featured performers, everyone really brought the ruckus. I was completely blown away by everyone.

I can't wait to see you all again. Be well.
- CommentAuthormchenetz
- CommentTimeOct 5th 2009
It was definitely amazing meeting everyone last night. The Monome community is such a great group of people. The music was amazing and I hope to keep in touch with a lot of people I met last night. On a seperate note... Since i didn't get my Monome back yet... I combined two templates on my Lemur. The first page is a clip launcher for Live that populates all of the clip and scene buttons onto my Lemur and then the second page is the Monome emulator that emulates a 40h,128, or 256. I created two OSC connection from the Lemur in order to use both pages simultaneously. The clip launcher obviously works with Live, but through the python LiveOSC api and then the other OSC connection goes to mlr 3. It's pretty cool i can flip pages and have the Live clip and Monome fuctionality right on the screen and i don't have to really look at the laptop.

I am looking forward on callaborating with a bunch of you guys on a bunch of stuff that i saw at the Monomeet...

Again... It was great meeting you guys. I really enjoyed it.
- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeOct 5th 2009
> I need a few days to process what happened this weekend.

this.

ray, thank you so much for putting that together. it was a remarkably amazing experience, and hopefully not one of a kind (in that we can all do this again sometime).

some of my highlights from the performances.

- when ro played memory ramen.
- when me and digital dust and a few others broke out the dance during %'s set
- making the noise using the touch screen and then every now and then, going to the 40h on the floor.. great performance tactic.
- the altitude sickness track dedicated to stretta.
- seeing sursiks doing some crazy funky dances behind daedelus.. also daedelus slaying my face with the bass.. soo meaty and chunky.

also, sursiks, i think i saw your power adapter there this morning. is it the big macbook pro brick (rectangular from back when).. did you stay at emily's with sean and sterling? i heard it was quite the large slumber party.

i'm sure i'm forgetting to say something... what an inspiring day. i love you all.

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