So, the tour has gone, was good to be part of, and I’m glad how everything worked out in Barcelona, was really nice to see how the people was interested, asking about live sets and about technical stuff.

The firs date in London was great, more like a familiar meeting for the monomers, and the second one, in Brunel University, was really interesting, a lot of shows in one place, poetry, classical music, an actress monologue, and of course light boxes….

And what else can I say from Barcelona, thanks a lot to the guys from Telenoika who was the people giving us the space in Riereta, nice people with a really beautiful mapping projects, check out some stuff here: http://vimeo.com/channels/57732

And I’m still freaking out of what Dani/T4 (http://vimeo.com/user1627400), the man behind my visuals is developing, a pure data patch connected wireless to my monome to create this beautiful squares palette.

Riereta, Barcelona

Brunel University, London

Loop Bar, London

We have almost everything ready for the tour stop in Barcelona.
We will have a nice afternoon at Riereta, c/riereta, 5 in the Raval.
A beautiful european line-up will begin to make some noise from 19 till midnight. But before Mudo and Bite will be here to share with us a little workshop/discussion/demo about monomes and arduinomes.

From Italy Anangel Argonaut, from Austria Poorpot, from Belgium Reno Khart and from UK Myr (and me) will be here to show us how they push their buttons.

Nice! Peter Kirn has just reported about the tour on his awesome blog Create Digital muic.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/08/27/monome-community-tour/

“The monome is coming to your town. Unlike tours organized by commercial product vendors, a grassroots effort by monome users pledges to share the music made with the monome and give back to a larger community.

It’s hard to explain the monome. It’s part tool, part lifestyle. And its openness comes in large part from the community of artists who use it, and embrace the controller’s sustainable production and unique design. In fact, it’s hard to explain just what a monome is: this USB-connected grid of light-up buttons is, by design, a blank canvas. It’s what the community has brought to that canvas that has made the monome a surprise revolution. That passion sometimes even makes it an object of ridicule – but let the monome artists show your their chops and love, and all but the coldest hearts melt. (…)”