Kalmunity Forks in Jazz Direction

Crucial to open systems, or at least to open source software development, is the right to fork. This right is embedded in the culture and licenses of the open source code community: because the systems are always visible and legally available, anyone can take the whole code off in a new direction and use what came before as a new foundation. Because this right is always present when someone goes for it, it’s not a negative or a violation, but simply an organic unfolding that everyone understands may or may not be successful, but best wishes to you, because sometimes this is the way great things get made.

I’m thinking of all this because of an e-flyer I received today, letting us know that the Jazz fiends of the Kalmunity Vibe Collective have branched and duplicated themselves into something a little different from the goodly and generous roots of the original Kalmunity music makers: a whole new night, at a new venue, but with the same open improv vibe and the source still present, with founder Jahsun on drums. If you’re in Montreal tonight and you want to check out this fork and see for yourself how the vibe has survived it, head to a place on St. Denis called Diese Onze.

4115-A rue St-Denis, between Duluth et Rachel
(514) 223-3543 / info@dieseonze.com