This new music and art center is open 24/7 and conveniently located to wherever you are

Located successful a hep downtown vicinity lined with cobblestone sidewalks and classical cars parked connected the thoroughfare is Monrovia-based instrumentalist Brent A. Nuffer’s caller ambitious one-stop euphony center, creation assemblage and java store called Electric Moon, which helium opened this summer.

It’s unfastened 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week — and don’t interest astir postulation oregon uncovering a spot to parkland due to the fact that getting determination is arsenic casual arsenic logging connected to your computer. Electric Moon isn’t truly existent — well, not successful existent beingness anyhow — due to the fact that this spot is simply a 3D virtual reality arts complex.

“It’s fundamentally conscionable similar if you were to locomotion into immoderate venue anywhere, but we hap to beryllium online,” said Nuffer, who aft hiring a web developer created the tract successful July chiefly to publication euphony lessons and workshops and to big livestream performances.

As soon arsenic you measurement wrong the reddish doorway of the 2 communicative operation emblazoned with a agleam reddish motion that reads “Electric Moon,” you’ll beryllium greeted by a stylish agelong haired dude. His sanction is Sir Orchid and he’s dressed successful skintight pants, achromatic blazer and apical chapeau who’ll beryllium your usher arsenic you stroll astir the spot and perceive to music, play instruments, cheque retired a show, bargain artwork, get immoderate java and, yes, adjacent instrumentality a fewer euphony lessons, too.

“It’s an immersive euphony and creation experience. So immoderate mode we tin uplift the arts it’s benignant of there. It’s besides eclectic successful its plan due to the fact that we privation to springiness guests an acquisition that’s appealing, and it’s besides an creation piece,” helium said.

While lessons and merch volition outgo visitors money, there’s nary request to person immoderate virtual currency connected manus due to the fact that poking astir this spot is free.

Walking done Electric Moon tin beryllium done connected a machine oregon iPhone and is akin to Google thoroughfare maps wherever radical click connected a ellipse successful beforehand of a determination successful bid to get there.

“There’s thing to observe astir each crook with each visit,”  Nuffer said.

While determination person been different sites akin to Electric Moon, including ComplexLand, a five-day virtual world buying and euphony lawsuit created past twelvemonth by the organizers of ComplexCon arsenic a replacement for their unrecorded lawsuit during the pandemic, the online doors to Electric Moon are meant to enactment permanently open.

“We’re trying to animate radical to get into euphony and the arts, possibly acquisition a acquisition oregon acquisition a painting,” Nuffer said.

Here’s a locomotion done Electric Moon

First Floor

At Electric Moon you don’t exit done the acquisition shop, alternatively it’s 1 of the archetypal rooms you tin locomotion into and spot items connected a yellowish array and hanging connected a partition similar sweaters, T-shirts, tote bags and adjacent philharmonic instruments specified arsenic a ukulele. Go up and click connected them due to the fact that everything present is truly for sale.

And if you privation to larn however to play an instrumentality click connected the “Book Lessons!” poster and determination you tin find euphony instructors to publication for online oregon in-person lessons. You tin besides publication a store successful this room. Among the existent workshops is simply a 10-week people teaching Nirvana songs connected the guitar.

Across the acquisition store is the java store wherever radical tin bid Electric Moon marque java to-go, arsenic successful to-go and beryllium delivered to your home. And astatine the extremity of the archetypal level is simply a reddish country which is bare but for a stage, this is wherever euphony shows arsenic good arsenic interviews with musicians volition beryllium unrecorded streamed. Live euphony shows are slated to statesman successful November.

Second Floor

Up 2 flights of stairs is simply a reddish hallway lined by respective yellowish doors. These doors pb to a fistful of rooms wherever radical tin play astir with antithetic instruments.

For example, there’s the Riff Riff Room wherever there’s an acoustic and an electrical guitar each perched connected a stand. Here visitors tin click connected assorted parts of each instrumentality and perceive pre-recorded rifts. “You tin deed the strings, deed the assemblage of the guitar. It’s an interactive happening wherever you tin poke astir and person a small amusive with it,” Nuffer said.

Behind different yellowish doors are rooms that enactment successful a akin mode with antithetic instruments including 1 country dedicated to drums and different to keyboards.

And to observe caller music, locomotion into the yellowish doorway labeled Listening Room. That’s wherever visitors tin click connected images of assorted up and coming musicians and perceive their music. And astatine the extremity of the hallway, down a sliding reddish doorway is the Art Room wherever the enactment of section artists is connected virtual show and yes, the artwork is for sale.

And portion the online Electric Moon venue volition stay unfastened for virtual business, Nuffer besides wants to spell a spot aged schoolhouse and 1 time instrumentality it to the existent satellite level.

“We would really similar to physique what we enactment online, but evidently that would instrumentality a large woody of investing and clip to build, but that is the idea, we privation a ceramic and mortar Electric Moon radical really sojourn arsenic well,” helium said.

Electric Moon

Where: electricmoon.org