Home made loop pedal by Josh Shirt
Josh Shirt is a DJ and electronic music producer influenced by a love of Indie rock and roll and electronic dance music.
Under the name Shirty he combines both types of music: www.soundcloud.com/shirty
Shirty has created a homemade loop pedal and controller for Ableton Live from a computer keyboard. He plans to use this to perform his music live during his DJ sets.
His homemade setup offers many advantages over the popular loop pedals available on the market – most of all it’s ability to bring in additional pre-recorded sounds and melodies on demand to complement his performance on guitar.
During his presentation at the hack space he will perform some of his music, explain the building blocks of his setup, and talk through the advantages and possibilities created by using Ableton and a homemade pedal for live music performance.
Hackspace Big Band performs at Gasworks
The Music Hackspace Big Band is invited to perform at Gasworks!
Performance on Tuesday 24th of July, between 6pm and 8:30pm at
Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
Also that night, performances by Sally Golding and Yashas Shetty
http://gasworks.org.uk/events/detail.php?id=781
micro_research: psychogeophysics explorations by Martin Howse
Presentation on Thursday 19th of July 2012, 7 pm
micro_research is a mobile research platform exploring psychogeophysics and asking the question of where precisely the plague known as software executes. micro_research is active in London, Berlin, and Peenemünde and is funded by workshops, exhibitions and the sales of noise modules such as the blackdeath and micro-blackdeath devices.
During this week Martin Howse is working on The Crystal World Open Laboratory, a five day lab of experimentation, crystallization and de-crystallization starting from the premise that computers are highly ordered set of minerals. The Crystal World is part of a Permacultures residency at SPACE.
On the 29th of July he will lead a micro_blackdeath ATmega noise workshop at Music Hackspace.
Hackteria: Yashas Shetty
Thursday 12th of July 2012, 7pm.
Hackteria is a collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty.
As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their expertise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with life science technologies and cooperate on the organisation of workshops, festival and meetings. Yashas Shetty will share some of the projects done within the hackteria framework.(http://hackteria.org).
Examples include the hacked PS3 camera microscope which can be turned into an expanded musical instrument for jamming with live micro-organisms. http://hackteria.org/?p=250