Brian Crabtree was super awesome enough to drop by and speak about the origins of Monome as a sustainable, opensource company that makes amazingly minimal yet versatile, handcrafted instruments for the digital age.  I really appreciated his “business” ethics and the fact that he was a fellow graduate of the ICAM program at UCSD, my alma mater.  He began and ended the presentation busting out an improvised performance using a 8 x 8 monome using the opensource app (max/msp) mlr he wrote