Leafcutter John artist talk & Max MSP meetup
Thursday 31st of January 2013, 7:30pm
Troyganic, 138 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY, London
After a long xmas break the London Max/MSP User’s Group begins its 2013 monthly max meetups with a presentation by musician and artist Leafcutter John. He’ll be showing us his light controlled music hardware which uses sensors, Arduino and of course Max. Come along and join in the discussion.
Also if anyone wants to talk about a project they are involved in or need help with a patch or an object – this is the place to come to every last Thursday of the month.
There’s a couple of videos of the work on Leafcutter John’s blog here http://leafcutterjohn.com/?cat=7
and here’s an interview by cycling74 from a few years back http://cycling74.com/2007/07/06/interview-with-leafcutter-john-musician/
London Max/MSP Users Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/155069101204145/
David Stevens and Gawain Hewitt: Music For Special Needs
Thursday 24th of January 2013
7pm (7:30pm start)
Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London
Music technology has the capacity to break down disabling barriers to music making. Gawain Hewitt, R&D National Manager for Drake Music will introduce some of the concepts, politics and existing technology being used in schools for the disabled and other settings. He will also introduce a hackday proposed for March with Furtherfield and David Stevens of Music For Special Needs will present technology systems he has developed himself that are used in schools across the country to help children with Special Needs make music.
All systems will be available to demo, and this is the first of many call outs for more input in developing tools for this sector.
Mobile electronic human orchestra: artist talk by Sophie McDonald (MzTEK)
Thursday 17th of January 2013, 7:30pm
Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY
The Hacked Human Orchestra is a project by MzTEK, Guerilla Science and Kobakant to produce a series of wearable musical designs for workshops, culminating in a audio mix of the Hacked Human Orchestra. Last December we welcomed MzTek for one of their Hacked Human Orchestra workshops at the Music Hackspace.
Sophie McDonald is a co-founder of MzTEK, she is a media artist, freelance workshop producer, video editor, and educator. Her work includes the online programming platform sketchPatch.
MzTEK provides short courses, workshops, geek-outs and events. Their classes focus on technical training in an arts context, ranging from basic electronics and circuitry to more advanced courses in programming and prototyping. MzTEK is a non-profit organisation based in London with the aim of addressing the imbalance of women artists working in the fields of new media, computer arts, and technology. Among their exciting projects, they’ve recently been invited to manage The Open Data Institute’s data-as-culture art commissions for their launch.
First Annual General Meeting, 20th of January 2013
FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Music Hackspace
20th of January 2013
15:00, Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London
Meeting Agenda
1. Introduction
Welcome
Present and apologies
2. Vision and objectives
Music Hackspace vision and objectives
Accounts (Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut)
3. Report of activities (short reviews)
Seminars
Concerts
Workshops
Composer in residency
Sound Art installations
MaxMSP meet ups
Collaborations
Others
4. Status of the organisation
Membership
Hackspace affiliation
Roles and responsibilities
Elections planning
5. Events strategy and planning
Frequency of events
Organisation and tasks sharing
Location
Collaborations
6. Online activities
Roles and responsibilities for the website, Facebook and Twitter
Online shop
7. Conclusion
Final announcements
Further meetings to organise group activities
Simon Schäfer: artist talk, circuit bending
Thursday 10th of January 2013, 7:30pm
Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY View Map
Simon Schäfer takes things apart.
Instruments, video hardware, clothes, sanity, furniture, information, meaning, televisions, style, sense, religion, politics, computers, noise, silence, chaos, order.
Results include sculpture, installation, sound, live video.
He does audiovisual live performances as ‘der Warst’ and has invented a language not meant for communication.
http://www.der-warst.de
http://www.schaefersimon.de
After having been through the usual chinese toys, casio keyboards and drum computers, my main interest with hacking audio equipment has currently shifted towards circuit bending multi effects pedals and units.
The talk will be an overview of FX units I’ve bent, including a Kaoss Pad KP2 and several members of the ZOOM 50X family. I will demonstrate how versatile and intuitive and awesome they are either in their intended use as effects or as standalone instruments. Also, I can show a bit of the insides and how the mods work.
CHEAP, FAT and OPEN, embedded synthesiser talk with Jacob Sikker Remin
Thursday 3rd of January 2013, 7pm
At Troyganic
Jacob is an artist, curator and project leader. Engineer, designer and gameboy musician. The work of Jacob Sikker Remin (JSR) spreads over many disciplins, but always focuses on the space between people and technology.
Since 2009 JSR has exhibited internationally at NOTCH09+10+11 in Beijing, China, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, MFRU in Maribor, Slovenia, and at Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway.
In Denmark JSR is represented by Black Box Gallery.
I’d love to meet the music hack space hackers, as i am developing the CHEAP, FAT and OPEN arduino based synthesizer. something which could relate a lot to some of the projects i see you working on.
a bit about the synth:
CHEAP, FAT and OPEN (CFO) is an open source synthesizer, mixed with a stylophone, a gameboy, a circuit bent toy, and then some software too. it is open source and designed to be OPEN and hackable.
currently i am working on developing a modular shield version of the synth.
http://8bitklubben.dk/project/CFO
https://www.facebook.com/groups/167642483257322/