Electro-Acoustic Music Collective

Sample Music Performance and Discussion

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 7:00 PM

Selected By: Daryl

Needs a location Coming soon!

Hi All, We will have an opportunity to perform our sample pieces from the samples recorded at previous meetups. After the performances we can discuss how we made our pieces, how the limitations of a small sample set promoted our creativity, and anything else about the process of creating our tracks. I'd like to try and find an interesting venue (read coffee shop, art gallery etc) for this, or perhaps simply encourage people to invite friends interested in noise/live electronic music. That said, I'm completely open to feedback on how when and where. Maybe we just want to talk among ourselves this time around. We have some time before this, so don't hesitate to let me know what you think about these ideas.

Art Baum
Hope everyone is doing well.

I am still interested in participating in the meetup group, and apologize for not communicating more recently. I've been busy rehearsing with my band for a performance in Auburn on Friday, December 9th.

I'm will to contribute some money to keep this going. I don't have any idea of the cost, but I'd prefer if we all contributed something, whatever we can personally feel comfortable with paying.

Posted November 29, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Art Baum
Hi folks. I am planning on coming Thursday, January 5th. I am not able to provide a meeting place at this time. Has the fee been paid for continuing the Electro Acoustic Music Collective on Meetup? I'm willing to contribute something to making this continue. art

Posted December 30, 2011 at 9:23 AM
Daryl
Hi All,

Due to my schedule, and location, and not having the previous meetup, we're going to have to cancel this meetup. I would be up for having a social meeting at a coffee shop/bar if others are into it.

Thanks,
Daryl

Posted January 2 at 8:16 PM
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Event Host

Daryl
Assistant Organizer
Mike A
Art Baum

I'm planning coming. Are we meeting? Have fees been paid to Meetup.com?
Dan
Organizer
David L. Simpson

Looking forward to it! Are the samples available for download somewhere, Daryl? Sorry I didn't make the last one, but I heard it was cancelled at the last minute anyhow. :(

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Sacramento, CA

Founded Aug 8, 2008

Read more about us…

We're about:

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Organizers:

Are you a music lover? Of course you are! Here is what we do, and a little further down you'll find what tools we're using.

1. We Socialize

2. We Learn.

3. We Create.

For Socializing, we meet bi-weekly for general discussion / laptop jams, with coffee on Saturdays one week and 'pizza-night' on Thursdays the other week.

We are also putting together a "play and tell" event at the Center for Contemporary Arts in mid-March, with one or two 'dry run' sessions before that in Feb. Like a poetry reading, we'll play a short selection of our music for an audience and discuss it afterwards.

Finally, we schedule weekly NINJAM jam sessions so we can get together online and make some music on Sundays.

For Learning, the theme is Aggregate and Curate. Open to all members, we'll begin working together to find tutorials on areas in which we want to learn more. We'll post these things in the Discussion pages for now to see if it works. We've also got a google sites page (https://sites.google.com/site/eamcsac/home), along with a soundcloud account (username is eamcsac@gmail.com and password is kerplunk1)

For Creating, we developed an Experimental Prototype for a Collaborative Jam Group. The idea is to create some pieces of music that everyone has worked on together. So in a group of 5 people, person 1 will create a 2-4 minute track with the basics and pass it along to person 2. Person 2 will add something to the track and pass it along. The track will go through all 5 people. Since everyone will start with a track, we'll have 5 pieces of music at the end of the experiment.

Our Tools:

We're into the many sub-genres of electronic and electro-acoustic music and use a range of methods, focusing on software & hardware related issues such as Ableton's LIVE, REASON, MAX/MSP, Acid Pro, Logic, Cubase, and others. Sub-genres range from classical art music (acoustic, but could include amplification) to electro-acoustic music for solo performances or chamber groups with electronic accompaniment; and from Loopers, Tape pieces, and DJ’s, to the Circuit Bending and Noise gaggle. It is a true Collective; an organization that is devoted to creating an environment of public interest, performance, forums, and workshops related to new methods of composition in a vast world filled with electronic generating devices. It's a friendly environment in which to share your work, receive feedback, technical assistance and support from like-minded individuals who also share the enthusiasm of electronic music. Since things have shifted to the mobile paradigm, there are loads of music making apps for phones and tablets -