Today I got the chance to do a few workshops that I had signed up for. The first session was done by NC State and took everyone thru doing some WebVR development using AFrame and a site called Glitch. Glitch allows you to setup a WebVR environment quickly and easily. Fun class, reminded me of the early days of ActiveWorlds and second life. I have a quick sample put together in the class. Check it out: https://mr-webvr-moogworkshop.glitch.com

The second workshop was immediately after lunch and was about building a synth in your web browser. Well not really true as it was really about setting up a development environment using The Progressive environment and p5js plug ins. Unfortunately this sessions overlapped getting to see Martin Gore from Depeche Mode and I was not above to do the whole session. The beginning I was in was very slow and a bit dry, so I am hoping to spend some time going thru the sessions afterwards. All the material is located at the following site.

It was great to see Martin gore from Depeche Mode receive his Moog innovation award. As the writer of Depeche Mode music for decades, his music is some of the best in the last 40 years. He did a conversation with the head of mute records. Really enjoyed it, even if he was not much of a talker. The picture above is when the CEO of Moog presented the award.

Every so often a session is absolutely nothing like the description, the session called “Federal Funding for Artists, Technology, and Emerging Forms”, was one of those. While an interesting talk, by a engaging speaker and artist, there was no discussion on funding or getting grants. I ended up heading for an evening of music afterwards.

Two artists were very good. One Spencer Zahn used the stand up bass to fuse jazz and electronica:

The next one, Debit – was pure electronics :

Really enjoyed the evening at the Pinhook!