TechNote 2.0
This past Thursday (May 10th), I had the honor of hosting, with Paul Shaia of Ante Up Studios (check out the studio @ www.anteupstudios.com), TechNote 2.0 - an event where the leaders of technology create music, sweet music for the crowd. I always get juiced for an event like TechNote. It is so grass-roots and free. Creativity is abundant (and also free). Events like this always refresh my great sense of the human capacity. I cannot tell you how fascinating it is to watch musicians just huddled together (after never having met) and jam as if it was they were long-lost members of a band and had decided to play thier greatest hits.
People in the crowd included:
-David Moss, Future Center
-Pat Walker, FourWalls.com
-Andy Tabar, Nashville Creative
-Christopher Axelrod, Urporn.tv (great music website, not what your thinking)
-Jim Eastman, aka Vitruvius, Notacon
-Jacob Kash, OSO Beverages (new energy drink)
(Quick note on Jacob. He brought his nephew to the event who could out right play this Middle Eastern drum and it wasy DYNAMIC.)
-Christopher Galagaza, Project Pathway
-Erik Gerard, Kaiser Permanente (Erik is a great musician and former magician.)
-Tommy Wiggins, Cuyahoga Community College
We had the entire evening recorded ("The TechNote Sessions") and will soon have all the music up on the Ante Up Studios website (stayed tuned). Certainly, TechNote reaffirmed that some of best networking events for the tech industry can focus on other commonalities that involve the creatitve class. Indeed, this was not your typcial networking event. But a lot of great bonds were made and the love of music may involve some new business and new friendship.
