From SHARE San Jose

Welcome to SHARE San Jose

SHARE is a global organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. Local SHARE groups hold free, open jams and workshops in their communities. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. SHARE furnishes the amplification and projection. SHARE happens weekly to monthly in cities around the world, where interesting things happen. This site is dedicated to the San Jose chapter of SHARE. We will be having monthly get-togethers and intend to have a lot of fun! The pictures to the right are from some of our get-togethers.

Contents 1 The Mailing List 2 Next Meeting 2.1 2008 Aug 8 3 Previous Meetings 3.1 2008 July 16 3.2 2008 June 6 3.3 2008 May 14 3.4 2008 Mar 26 3.5 2008 Feb 21 3.6 2008 Jan 23 3.7 2007 Dec 12 4 Other Stuff

The Mailing List

To find out about our activitivies, Join the SHARE San Jose mailing list.

Next Meeting

2008 Aug 8

We've been invited to participate in Villa Montalvo's Starry Night on August 8. If you're interested in joining us, send email to Tim.

Previous Meetings

2008 July 16

We met on Wednesday July 16, 7:30pm, at South First Billiards (420 South 1st St in downtown San Jose). They have a fantastic space and PA. Wednesday is student night there, so there were a fair number of people there. Matt (from South First Billards) joined in the jam with some very nice keyboard work.

2008 June 6

We had a great time at the subZERO street fair on 1st Street in downtown San Jose. Special thanks to Tim Conrardy for being a great ambassador for the group, explaining what SHARE San Jose was about to anyone who was interested. We had all sorts of things for people to play with - both musical (circuit bent toys, trigger pad, airfx) and visual (finger painting with planets installation, realtime camera processing, and David Tristram's visual looping app). Here are some pictures from the June 6, 2008 meeting. Lots of people took the business cards with outr web site address, and hopefully they'll be joining the mailing list to find out about and participate in future meetings.

2008 May 14

We had a great jam at Tellme in Mountain View (same place we had the March meeting), thanks again to Holt Sorenson for hosting. Here are some pictures from the May 14, 2008 meeting. MIDI clock was distributed by Craig Latta again, and we had a nice evolving variety of sounds and grooves. Will Grant gets the award for travelling the longest distance. We had fun putting Will's keyboard through Craig's AirFX. Every meeting we see a few new people - some came to watch and listen, and some said they'll be bringing their own instruments next time.

2008 Mar 26

We met at Tellme in Mountain view. Alessandro Sabatelli (who works on Quartz Composer at Apple) brought his Lemur controller (!) and demonstrated some Quartz Composer visuals. Tim Conrardy demonstrated the new AlgoMusic product called Atomic (a step sequencer algorithmic tool). We started talking about OSC experimentation that we'll be doing in future jams.

2008 Feb 21

Here are some pictures from the February 21, 2008 meeting, at Anno Domini Gallery ( http://galleryad.com ) where we had a fun jam, and succeeded in distributing MIDI clock so that a variety of applications (including several instances of Live) were synchronized. Peter Nyboer brought the brand-new and beautiful Ohm controller that his company Livid has just released. Tim Conrardy brought an M-Audio Trigger Finger and played some wicked leads on it - here's a [YouTube video showing Tim playing a flute lead with the Trigger Finger].

2008 Jan 23

Our second meeting was Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 7:30pm at the Orchard Valley coffee shop in downtown Campbell, where we had a good time talking and getting demos of various software.

2007 Dec 12

Our very first meeting was Dec 13, 2007 at the Works Gallery - here's a short youtube video, some pictures from the December 13, 2007 meeting, and an mp3 file of some of the music.

Other Stuff

SHARE-SJ is looking for venues. Please chime in if you know of a place we can meet to make some noise.

SHARE-SJ loves to help locate opportunities in our san jose vicinity for cutting edge performers and explorers.

Promoting SHARE-SJ is easy when you know the best places to do that. If you can think of somewhere we can tell people about what we're doing, please help document it so we'll do a better job getting the word out for our next meetup.