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DanceJS

Mission Statement

  1. To build a community of music lovers, visual artists, and JavaScript hackers.
  2. To create shared spaces for community members to practice, collaborate, program, and perform.
  3. Build some cool open-source music software in Node.js.

Motivation

The Bay Area is a nurturing environment in many respects for artists, in terms of providing community spaces/galleries/venues. However, we find it lacking in shared spaces that are specifically for musicians/audio hackers. We’re also (to a certain extent) tired of the typical nightlife scene, and want to explore new forms of entertainment with a more collaborative lean.

We’re also passionate about hacking, and we’re excited to try our hand at building out software and hardware to fill the needs of our community.

Plan of Attack

We intend to host workshops, talks, and performance events. Initially these will take place in San Francisco and Oakland; in the future, we will expand to other cities.

Talks

It would be nice to have frequent informal meetups in a comfortable space where we can: hack on music technology; practice music performances; and, most importantly, begin to build a community around music hacking in the Bay area.

Informal meetups would culminate in a series of more formal (I'm picturing tuxedos) DanceJS Symposium ™️.

  • events would have awesome speakers, from the community, and from the music industry.
  • hands on workshops, e.g., hack on the lighting system for the dance following the talk.

DanceJS

A DanceJS Symposium ™️ culminates in a Dance:

  • it would be a time for people within the community to show off their performances, which they’ve been perfecting throughout the informal meetups.
  • it would also be a time for people within the community to show off their music-oriented hacking projects: experimental ways to collaborate on music, experimental controllers., etc.
  • In a perfect world we’ll manage to combine these various creative ideas with a fun cohesive performance, which gets people moving on the dance floor.

Sponsors

  • DigitalOcean: Mikeal indicated that DigitalOcean might be willing to put forward some sponsorship.
  • GitHub: there used to be quite a few DJs at GitHub, we should see if we can get any interested.
  • SauceLabs: Nexxy indicated that SauceLabs might be interested in sponsoring.

Venues

Any ideas for where we could have talks? Where we could throw a late night event with music without driving any neighbors insane?

Technology Projects

There’s a lot of room for cool open-source projects to grow out of DanceJS:

  • Collaborative (networked) APCs.
  • Lighting that reacts to music.
  • Node.js bindings for Jack (https://github.com/jackaudio).
  • Something similar to Jack for Node.js.
  • The next Ableton?

Equipment

We currently have access to:

  • Mackie ProFX8 mixer
  • Chauvet Obey 40 DMX controller
  • 4000 watt Behringer Amp
  • 2x 800 watt Behringer Eurolive Speakers
  • 1600 watt Behringer Eurolive Subwoofer
  • 2x speaker stands
  • 4x LED par lights
  • 1x LED wash panel
  • American DJ dekker (the disco ball-like thing)
  • Atmospheric lasers
  • Haze generator
  • all the cables for both speakers & lighting

Is there any equipment that we wish we had?

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