Overlap Salon in SF + All Night Ambient Sleep Sound Event in New Orleans
Tomorrow night if you are in or around San Francisco, please check out the FREE Overlap Salon. Here are some quick details (but the post continues at the previous link):
Wednesday night March 11th, 2009 from 7-9 pm @ Sound Arts – 520 Hampshire street, suite #206 SF, CA 94110
This salon, Hosted by Overlap.org and Sound Arts + led by Barry Threw, will be focusing on Dynamic Buffer allocation. It is encouraged to bring patches, questions, and any sort of libations. We will also be introducing Ableton Live into the Overlap Salon family tree.
Our salons will be a mix of presentations and ad-hoc discussion, dependent upon what kinds of patches and issues are brought to the table. We’ll cover some tips and tricks for integrating preset communication into your patches as unobtrusively as possible. Everyone is welcome regardless of previous experience, and we will try to cater to all skill levels. We also drink beer.
And finally, I wanted to turn more people onto the very interesting concert my friend Tanner Menard is doing focused on sleep and an ambient sound experience over night. Here is a snippet of his press text:
SOMMEIL: A CONCERT FOR SLEEP, beginning at 10:00 pm
on Saturday April 11th and ending at 7:00 am on Sunday April
12th: $15 including breakfast. All participants are asked to
provide their own sleeping bag and pillow.
You can also spend meditation time in the Sleep Space on April
11th from noon till 9:00 pm: $5 per hour and $3 per half hour.
From 6:00-9:00 pm the gallery will particpate in the St Claude
Arts District Gallery Opening Saturday. All proceeds benefit
Antenna Gallery.
Tanner Menard, Antenna Gallery and Experimedia Records
presents Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep, an international collaborative
experiment. Sommeil will be an all-night event beginning
at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending on Sunday April
12th at 7:00 am. Participants are asked to slowly fall asleep while
live ambient and environmental music is performed through the
night by Tanner Menard.
Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be Menard’s reinterpretation of
the sleep concert experiment, first created by Robert Rich in 1982
and will be presented at the Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy
St New Orleans, LA 70117 in the heart of the St Claude Arts
District. The concert will be realized with Rich’s permission and
guidance. Sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience
is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow
and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves
over the course of the night and into the morning. People attending
the event are asked to be willing to sleep during the event or
at least to remain silent during the course of the nine hour experience.
Not merely a recreation of Rich’s original idea, Sommeil is
a conceptual, global remix of a performance type that addresses
one of the most basic functionalities of ambient and environmental
sound; music by which to sleep.
I should note also what makes Tanner’s project above cool is that all audio and video above is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Hopefully more people will spread around Mr. Menard’s tracks and hold more sleep concerts 
