music.metafilter meetup?
July 27, 2010 7:53 PM
music.metafilter meetup/jam/performance?
Chococat (not that it's his fault) mentioned that he'd love to see a music.metafilter meetup. This got me thinking -- why not? Especially if we could hire a stage and some sound equipment and invite the rest of MeFi. Maybe Divabat could do some burlesque?
I'm pretty sure a good time could be had, since we have the means to learn one another's songs. And a fantastic excuse to travel someplace new. Anyone got any thoughts? Toronto is my first thought since there are a few of us around, but NYC also seems like a possible, but maybe somewhere exotic would be even more fun.
Could it be combined with a wider MeFi meetup?
posted by unSane (19 comments total)
Chococat (not that it's his fault) mentioned that he'd love to see a music.metafilter meetup. This got me thinking -- why not? Especially if we could hire a stage and some sound equipment and invite the rest of MeFi. Maybe Divabat could do some burlesque?
I'm pretty sure a good time could be had, since we have the means to learn one another's songs. And a fantastic excuse to travel someplace new. Anyone got any thoughts? Toronto is my first thought since there are a few of us around, but NYC also seems like a possible, but maybe somewhere exotic would be even more fun.
Could it be combined with a wider MeFi meetup?
Oh man don't pin this one on me. I fear that my vision of it is a bit unrealistic and overly-romantic. Like we'd all meet at micayetoca's place in Argentina or in some old barn in the English countryside or something.
But ya, my take on it would be more of a super-casual group play-along or something with the really low-pressure possibility of recording, more than a performance, per se. I'd likely chicken out anyway.
The logistics do seem a bit tricky, though.
posted by chococat at 9:02 AM on July 28, 2010
But ya, my take on it would be more of a super-casual group play-along or something with the really low-pressure possibility of recording, more than a performance, per se. I'd likely chicken out anyway.
The logistics do seem a bit tricky, though.
posted by chococat at 9:02 AM on July 28, 2010
No sweat. I can put you all up in my place, in Tokyo.
As long as you all don't mind sleeping in a heap.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:26 AM on July 28, 2010
As long as you all don't mind sleeping in a heap.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:26 AM on July 28, 2010
Yeah, I'm with chococat, let's all meetup in Argentina! Or Tokyo in heaps of sheep! You buy, I'll fly.
posted by sleepy pete at 10:09 AM on July 28, 2010
posted by sleepy pete at 10:09 AM on July 28, 2010
You buy, I'll fly, words to live by.
We would have to set up something like SponsorThesePoorStrandedMusiciansWhoHaveNeverHadTheChanceToPlayTogetherInOneRoom.metafilter.com and accept donations there.
It would be really cool, but I'd had to warn that there are several musicians here that if I ever get to be in the same room as them, there's no way I'm gonna resist the urge to kidnap them and bring them here to form my dream band. You'd all would make my plan a lot easier if we do meet here, come to think of it.
Coming back to subject, definitely, if Karlos the Jackal buys, I'll fly.
posted by micayetoca at 1:02 PM on July 28, 2010
We would have to set up something like SponsorThesePoorStrandedMusiciansWhoHaveNeverHadTheChanceToPlayTogetherInOneRoom.metafilter.com and accept donations there.
It would be really cool, but I'd had to warn that there are several musicians here that if I ever get to be in the same room as them, there's no way I'm gonna resist the urge to kidnap them and bring them here to form my dream band. You'd all would make my plan a lot easier if we do meet here, come to think of it.
Coming back to subject, definitely, if Karlos the Jackal buys, I'll fly.
posted by micayetoca at 1:02 PM on July 28, 2010
Coming back to subject, definitely, if Karlos the Jackal buys, I'll fly.
Lemme count my buckets of 20 Franc French Roosters and I'll see if I can swing it.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 3:28 PM on July 28, 2010
Lemme count my buckets of 20 Franc French Roosters and I'll see if I can swing it.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 3:28 PM on July 28, 2010
If anyone's ever in Oklahoma, you're more than welcome to join a gyrophonic meetup, most thursdays.
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 4:28 PM on July 28, 2010
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 4:28 PM on July 28, 2010
Why not? Wherever it may be?
At the very least, it would give me an excuse to renew my passport.
posted by Zenabi at 5:19 PM on July 28, 2010
At the very least, it would give me an excuse to renew my passport.
posted by Zenabi at 5:19 PM on July 28, 2010
Providence is near Boston + NYC and closer to Canada than some other cities.
Plus Mulp + I are here already.
So...Yeah.
posted by reklus at 8:36 PM on July 28, 2010
Plus Mulp + I are here already.
So...Yeah.
posted by reklus at 8:36 PM on July 28, 2010
I wonder if we can get an NEA grant for this.
That is, if art hasn't been scratched from the budget.
I think this idea is worth pursuing. Certainly somebody out there on the blue has experience in grant-writing and loves us enough to contribute their expertise.
Plus, if we've got grant money behind us, that should give us an excuse to have more than just a day or two to get together and make some art.
posted by man vs sun at 4:02 PM on July 29, 2010
That is, if art hasn't been scratched from the budget.
I think this idea is worth pursuing. Certainly somebody out there on the blue has experience in grant-writing and loves us enough to contribute their expertise.
Plus, if we've got grant money behind us, that should give us an excuse to have more than just a day or two to get together and make some art.
posted by man vs sun at 4:02 PM on July 29, 2010
I wonder if we can get an NEA grant for this.
Good luck with that - just don't expect any contribution from across the pond. What passes for our current government is hell bent on slashing public spending. I'll be fortunate if I still have a job this time next year. I daresay you'll be able to get a franchise on the Royal Family soon - don't be surprised to see Queen Lizzie appearing on a MacDonald's burger box saying "One Does Rather Enjoy A Big Mac, What?".
No chance of me getting to the US or Canada (or anywhere else not already planned) this year. The Brit contingent could, however, consider a meet-up in Blighty?? Perhaps with a live link-up to a US/Canada/Japan shindig. Actually......oh noooo, this has got me thinking....couldn't we organise a "virtual" meet-up somehow using this infernal internet contraption?? Wouldn't that just be easier and more inclusive....?
posted by MajorDundee at 4:27 PM on July 29, 2010
Good luck with that - just don't expect any contribution from across the pond. What passes for our current government is hell bent on slashing public spending. I'll be fortunate if I still have a job this time next year. I daresay you'll be able to get a franchise on the Royal Family soon - don't be surprised to see Queen Lizzie appearing on a MacDonald's burger box saying "One Does Rather Enjoy A Big Mac, What?".
No chance of me getting to the US or Canada (or anywhere else not already planned) this year. The Brit contingent could, however, consider a meet-up in Blighty?? Perhaps with a live link-up to a US/Canada/Japan shindig. Actually......oh noooo, this has got me thinking....couldn't we organise a "virtual" meet-up somehow using this infernal internet contraption?? Wouldn't that just be easier and more inclusive....?
posted by MajorDundee at 4:27 PM on July 29, 2010
"virtual" meet-up. Isn't that how Matt, jessamyn and cortex do the podcasts? It's been a while since I've done anything like that, the last time I tried the buffer times made it impossible to actually "jam". But what do I know, do we still have buffering with skype and the like?
posted by snsranch at 4:57 PM on July 29, 2010
posted by snsranch at 4:57 PM on July 29, 2010
I most definitely can't travel, but it would be pretty awesome if we could (somehow) jam/collaborate/etc together in a live-sorta way.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:49 PM on July 30, 2010
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:49 PM on July 30, 2010
I'd love to see stuff like this happen. I've thought off and on about the idea of trying to stage some sort of tiny Mefi Music Fest thing.
The obvious problem is, yeah, travel logistics and cost, though I'd like to think it'd be possible to at least do something at a regional level now and then, like a Pacific Northwest show/jam one time and another one in New England, etc. It's not as inclusive as I'd like something to be in theory, but it'd probably be doable and make for a nice little event, and we could be sure to record (and possibly stream!) the thing so that folks who can't make it can watch and enjoy.
(Imagine live streaming of the show out, and live commenting/twittering on a big projector at the event so it goes both ways. Heh.)
Beyond that, exploring ways to do not-really-an-event virtual jammery would be neat. There was discussion (if not super hopeful, as I recall) about some live remote jamming stuff in Music Talk a while back, wasn't there? I feel like the conclusion was "doing this well is hard at best", but I don't want to assume that's the case if I'm misremembering.
More random asynchronous collaboration stuff would be fun too. I've enjoyed the stuff like that that has come before, the only real challenge in anything like that is someone being willing to take the time and energy to wrangle all involved.
posted by cortex at 4:38 PM on July 30, 2010
The obvious problem is, yeah, travel logistics and cost, though I'd like to think it'd be possible to at least do something at a regional level now and then, like a Pacific Northwest show/jam one time and another one in New England, etc. It's not as inclusive as I'd like something to be in theory, but it'd probably be doable and make for a nice little event, and we could be sure to record (and possibly stream!) the thing so that folks who can't make it can watch and enjoy.
(Imagine live streaming of the show out, and live commenting/twittering on a big projector at the event so it goes both ways. Heh.)
Beyond that, exploring ways to do not-really-an-event virtual jammery would be neat. There was discussion (if not super hopeful, as I recall) about some live remote jamming stuff in Music Talk a while back, wasn't there? I feel like the conclusion was "doing this well is hard at best", but I don't want to assume that's the case if I'm misremembering.
More random asynchronous collaboration stuff would be fun too. I've enjoyed the stuff like that that has come before, the only real challenge in anything like that is someone being willing to take the time and energy to wrangle all involved.
posted by cortex at 4:38 PM on July 30, 2010
I'm not technically savvy about these things - but I do know that at my workplace we have video-conferencing. Seems to work reasonably well. My simple rationale is that if the chimps in charge of administration at my workplace can organise that, it should be a piece of piss (as we say this side of the pond - it means "real easy" in rough translation) for MeFites to deal with. I think it would be cool to expore this cortex - as you're well aware, not all the regular gang on MeFiMu is domicile in the USA/Canada. It may come down to something as simple as all of us downloading a piece of software to enable this to happen....
posted by MajorDundee at 5:39 PM on July 30, 2010
posted by MajorDundee at 5:39 PM on July 30, 2010
Indaba looks like it might be a nice way to organize some asynchronous collaboration. Has anyone used it?
posted by unSane at 8:28 PM on July 30, 2010
posted by unSane at 8:28 PM on July 30, 2010
If something ends up happening within reasonable traveling distance from Los Angeles, I'll drag my ukulele out. Perhaps less emphasis on performance and more on gathering in a place where loud sounds wouldn't be frowned upon would be the way to go. And, uh, alcohol and food are always nice.
posted by davejay at 11:32 PM on August 2, 2010
posted by davejay at 11:32 PM on August 2, 2010
I'd be interested in Seattle or Vancouver and maaayyyyybe Portland.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 3:45 AM on August 4, 2010
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 3:45 AM on August 4, 2010
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