Saturday 21st of September – Cave of Sounds at the V&A’s Digital Design Weekend
The Music Hackspace’s very own resident project Cave of Sounds will be part of the Digital Design Weekend at the V&A, an event that celebrates collaborations in digital art, design and science, including interactive installations, bacteria textiles, hacking projects, biotechnology, inventive electronics, family activities and more.
When: Saturday 21st 10.30-16.30 (Cave of Sounds only. To see the full event programme click here).
Where: Victoria and Albert Museum, Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre. Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
Entrance: Free
Cave of Sounds is an interactive sound installation created by artist in residence Tim Murray-Browne with members of the Music Hackspace. It’s the outcome of the Ensemble project, exploring what it means to hack new musical interfaces together. Join us and take part in an interactive sound installation through a circle of networked instruments. Created through Sound and Music’s Embedded Composer in Residence programme with the Music Hackspace. With support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.
The Cave of Sounds is created by Tim Murray-Browne with Dom Aversano, Sus Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendon, Panagiotis Tigas and Kacper Ziemianin. caveofsounds.com
Special thanks for support to Duncan Chapman, Atau Tanaka, Hannah Bujic, Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut, Martin Klang, Nick Sherrard, The Centre for Creative Collaboration, Troyganic, Queen Mary University of London and Mind The Film.
The Cave of Sounds from Tim Murray-Browne on Vimeo.
Thursday 12th of Sept: The aftermath of two kickstarter projects, and a series of performances
On Thursday 12th of September, we will receive the founders of two recent successful Kickstarter projects (TouchKeys and The OWL), and discuss the next phases in their project. They will share their experience at starting the project, what it’s been like during the fund raising campaign, and finally, what’s next, now that they have the money. It is an opportunity for these two projects to find support and resources among the audience, and for the audience to get insight into community entrepreneurship.
As usual, our events are free to attend and open to everyone.
As the Music Hackspace returns to its welcoming Troyganic Café in East London after a month at the Barbican, it will also be an opportunity for multiple performances following the Kickstarter seminar.
WHERE: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London (near Hoxton station)
WHEN: Thursday 12th of September, 19:30 (seminar), 21:30 (performances)
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
Andrew McPherson, who recently successfully reached his goal to fund the production of TouchKeys. Andrew raised £46k out of his £30k target. You can find the project here on Kickstarter).
Guillaume Le Nost, part of The OWL team that smashed their target of £7k with an impressive £33k funding in late July 2013. You can find the OWL project here on Kickstarter.
PERFORMANCES
From 21.30 till 00:00
21.30 Bas Vellekoop http://www.basvellekoop.com/
22.05 diarmo Live Set. www.diarmo.co.uk
22.40 Tom Webster https://soundcloud.com/tamagazzi
23.05 Doctor Benway and Lady Hackspace A/V set
and on visuals a set each
Joe Catchpole
Blanca Regina
In the interludes raxil4
with intermission machines
Thursday 5th of September – back to Troyganic – ‘Plug + Play’ system by Neil Merry
After a month spent at the Barbican center, to where we moved all our events and activities for the whole month of August during Hack the Barbican event (which was a great success) we are back to Troyganic and we are not slowing down!!!
WHEN: Thursday 5th of September, 7pm
WHERE: 132 Kingsland Road, London, Troyganic (in the basement). Tube: Hoxton
The first event will feature a presentation of ‘Plug + Play’ system by Neil Merry , a recent graduate from the Design Products Course at the Royal College of Art.
‘Plug + Play’ is a new way to interact with music production software. Traditionally, electronic music requires the performer to hunch behind a laptop, synthesizer or drum machine pushing buttons and twiddling knobs. Through a series of clip on sensors and interactive lights, this portable ‘toolkit’ translates on-stage actions into audio and visual effects. It bridges this gap between the static production of digital sounds and the front-of-stage energy created by live amplified instruments. Focusing on artists that cross the boundary of music producer, DJ, and live band, Plug & Play transforms a microphone stand into a dynamic music controller, a maraca into a heavy bass line or a raised hand into a pulsating synth wave.
preview video: https://vimeo.com/68624946