SHARE SJ Jam October 28, 2009 from Marc Arsenault on Vimeo.

Villa Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

SHARE San Jose open jam. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into a common system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video.

Participants at this meeting included Tim Thompson with his Loopy Cam, Fred Lakin with matchbooks and commentary, Peter Nyboer with Ohm 64 and Block controllers from Livid Instruments, David Tristram with his visual rhythm
drawing app, Electroslate, Craig Latta with a wiimote controlling Ableton Live, and myself, Marc Arsenault with every single sound making app for the iPhone, ever. This was a pretty heavyweight crowd. The interaction was great. I felt a bit less like a crasher since my iPhone signal was getting fed into someone else’s feed and being mightily messed with, and then I’d play off that. The multi-touch interface is wonderful for live, non-quantized, improvised play. Dialing in a tone and tapping out a squelchy bass line on the fly felt very natural. The iPhone apps I used were: Synth Pond, Android FX, Noise.io Pro, BeatMaker, RJDJ Trippy, Pac Man, SignalSuite, Police Radio (with the San Jose Police and Fire channels). I may have to build something special for the next one.