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I'm still a fairly new Bostonian, and I've gotten away from my experimental music recently, but not totally of forever. I think we might find people in the woodwork around here.
matt
David O'Toole wrote: | I would love to see an inclusive, self-organizing, informal group that | invites all experimental music/media folks to participate in | occasional meetings/discussions/performances in the Boston | area. There've got to be Pd-people around here, and people using other | tools... | | While my friends and I did get an occasional gig performing at places | like Gallery Bershad in Somerville (now closed), there aren't many | venues for experimental music in this city, whether on GNU/Linux or | not. I think the musicians are here, ready to be tapped, but the noise | isn't happening out in public. it is hard to get little groups going | here, in part because people in Boston aren't as socially outgoing. | | On a more personal/historical note, | | Most of our shows were in NYC, during that brief period in the | mid-to-late 90's when a small-town college kid with an old Pentium 2 | and some warezed audio software had a chance to make real money | selling ambient / "IDM" / alternative electronic pop records and | getting signed to labels like Warp and Astralwerks. (Except, we | dreamed about being whisked off to the UK when we finally made it big, | instead of Hollywood.) | | Things were quiet on the music front while while I worked on school | and changed careers, but I've just finished building a new performance | rig (see link below) | | http://puredata.org/community/projects/pdcomputer/KarmaPod | | Any folks on this list live in or near Boston, and like the idea of a | mailing list for Bostonian Pd / experimental audio / video people to | get together and jam and create public happenings? | |
Matthew Shanley little secrets records and stuff http://littlesecretsrecords.com/ E-mail: matthewshanley@littlesecretsrecords.com
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