I was in SF this weekend for LessOnline. It's nominally a blogging conference, but in practice it's more of a Rationalist meetup. I was there in my personal capacity, though I did end up having a lot of conversations about biosecurity and may have accidentally done some fundraising. Lots of good parts, but my favorite was calling and playing for a contra dance: youtube This was similar to the house party dances I've called a few times. Two sets, which was very tight (cozy!) but it was a good time! We had a live band: Ben on piano, Aleks and me on fiddle, Catherine on sax, and a volunteer on cajon. I called while playing, which works as long as we stick to simple tunes. We had no sound reinforcement, and I did need to do some shouting when calling, but the low friction and "each musician adds something" feel of an all-acoustic dance is pretty great. It was short enough (55min), and each dance needed few enough calls, that my voice feels fine. Almost all longways whole set dances: The…
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