Darwin Grosse

One of the groups that has always enthusiastic about Max is the Monome community. After years of gathering on the 

 forum, Brian Crabtree started a new site called “lines”, found at 

, but also provided the following statement in response to my query:

my goal was to foster a community -- which really only requires providing infrastructure and setting a tone.

many people have come together around monome given its open-ended and open-source nature, but having a product-driven community narrows the scope of conversation and discourages discussing of wider ideas.

before the transition, the monome community had become quite large and very active: over a dozen user-organized compilation releases, more max patches than we can sort, even a festival in new mexico where grid users converged and played for several days. but instead of trying to own that energy or attempt to take credit, i wanted to liberate it -- to have this identity and momentum remain in the hands of those people who've invested their time.

so there is still a lot of talk about monome devices on lines (these are objects that promote discussion in their very being) but also now there are extensive threads on topics as varied as:

It’s cool to have another location for like-minded people to talk about their artistic passion, and I encourage you to add the [lines] site to your often-visited islands on the Web.

One of the groups that has always enthusiastic about Max is the Monome community. After years of gathering on the monome.org forum, Brian Crabtree started a new site called “lines”, found at http://llllllll.co.

Brian kicked off the website with a post explaining the intent, but also provided the following statement in response to my query:

http://llllllll.co/t/experimental-music-notation-resources

http://llllllll.co/t/on-revision-in-creativity

http://llllllll.co/t/ux-of-music-instruments-tools

http://llllllll.co/t/mechanical-sound-sculpture

It’s cool to have another location for like-minded people to talk about their artistic passion, and I encourage you to add the [lines] site to your often-visited islands on the Web.


One of the groups that has always enthusiastic about Max is the Monome community. After years of gathering on the monome.org forum, Brian Crabtree started a new site called “lines”.

lines-is-a-place-to-discuss-sound-process-and-technology

Brian is one of the guy I admire the most in our technology, minimalism & art galaxy !

The community there just put out vinyl of their first remix project, in case anyone's interested in supporting it; some beautiful music:

https://qrates.com/artists/brahminykite/items/11873

The community there just put out vinyl of their first remix project, in case anyone's interested in supporting it; some beautiful music:
https://qrates.com/artists/brahminykite/items/11873


Lines is a Place to Discuss Sound, Process, and Technology