Competition – Can you hack it?
Enter our making competition to win a workshop voucher worth £150 and see your work promoted in our channels.
We want to see examples of your music tech hacks, new inventions, homemade sound devices, DIY instruments and projects. Upload your photos or short videos to Twitter or Facebook using #musichackcomp
Entries will be shortlisted by social media likes.
The competition closes on Monday 1st of August and the winner will be announced on Thursday 4th of August.
Please see our T&C’s for more details.
For any questions please email curators@stagingmhs.local
Competition – Can you hack it? – Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
1.How to Enter
1.1 To join the competition entrants will need to upload a photo or video/vines etc to Facebook or Twitter using the unique hashtag #musichackcomp. We want to see examples of your homemade devices making sounds, DIY instruments and music making projects.
1.2 The entrants may enter more than once, each posting counts as a separate entry
2.When to Enter and Who Can Enter
2.1 The competition opens on Friday 17th July 2016 and closes Monday 1st August
2.2 Entrants can enter at any point between these dates
2.3 Entrants may enter as many times as they wish.
2.4 The competition is open to all, however under 16’s would need to be accompanied by an adult when attending the workshops due to health and safety because of the equipment being used. No one professionally connected with the administration of the competition can enter.
3.Prizes
3.1 The prize for winning the competition will be £150 of vouchers to be redeemed against one or more workshops to that value within a 12month period. Final decision on winner to be made by MHS and winner announced and contacted on 4th August.
3.2 The prize is not exchangeable for cash
3.3 The prize is non transferable
4.Data Protection and Publicity
4.1 On entering you consent to your full name, photograph and basic information (as available via social media profiles) being disclosed on MHS digital channels or other media if you win the prize
4.2 Any personal data relating to participants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation. By entering the Competition, you agree that MHS may contact you in relation to the Competition
4.3 The Competition Winner will be contacted by MHS. You must provide accurate contact details on notification
4.4 MHS reserve the right to use the image, voice, photograph, name and likeness of the Winners for publicity and in advertising, marketing or promotional material without additional compensation or prior notice to the Winner. In entering the Competition, all participants consent to such use of their voice, image photograph, name and likeness
5.Competition Rules
5.1 The Competition will run and prize awarded at the sole discretion of MHS
5.2 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the MHS website or apps, and to refuse entry to the Competition
5.4 We reserve the right to change the Competition rules and these terms and conditions from time to time. If we do so, we will always have the most up to date terms and conditions on the website and in the case of discrepancy between these terms and conditions and those on the Website, the Website terms and conditions will apply. Your use of the Website will constitute your acceptance of the new rules/terms and conditions
5.5 All intellectual property rights in the images or materials on the Website may not be used without express permission of MHS.
6. Liability and Indemnities
6.1 Except in the case of death or personal injury arising from it’s negligence, or in respect of fraud, so far as is permitted by law, MHS and it’s associated companies and agents exclude responsibility and all liabilities, whether direct or indirect, arising from:
6.1.1 any postponement or cancellation of the competition;
6.1.2 any changes to, supply or use of the prize; and
6.1.3 any act or default of any suppler which is beyond MHS’s reasonable control
6.2 MHS shall not be liable, whether in tort, contract, misrepresentation or otherwise for loss of profits, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goods, loss
of use, loss or corruption of data or information or any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses
6.3 You agree to indemnify MHS against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of your agreement with MHS
Jurisdiction
7.1 The Competition and these Terms and Conditions are governed by English Law. England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with these terms and conditions.
Hybrid analogue and digital MicroFM radio broadcast workshop for raspberry pi
µFM
Hybrid analogue and digital MicroFM radio broadcast workshop for raspberry pi
Learn how to set up a local FM radio broadcast with a raspberry pi, and use digital techniques of reception with RTL-SDR.
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 July 2016, 11 am to 7 pm at LimeWharf
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With this item you will be booking a spot in our workshop.
Please send an email to workshops@stagingmhs.local indicating which option you want to make. There are two options to choose from:
BYO KIT – 60 GBP
Bring your laptop (linux by preference) + your Raspberry Pi + SD Card (specs: SDHC / microSDHC; class 10; size 8 or 16 Go) + 1 RJ45 cable (Ethernet cable) + Your own radio/s
RTL-SDR antennas will be provided.
GET THE FULL KIT – 90 GBP
Bring your laptop (linux by preference) & Bring your own radio/s
Get the full kit (Raspberry Pi + SD Card + Ethernet cable).
RTL-SDR antennas will be provided.
This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit of your choice. Please note this £20 booking fee won’t be refunded in case of you cancelling / not showing.
Thanks for the reservation and see you soon! We will be in touch with you to confirm registration and provide further details.
More information:
During the last past years, the radio world has witnessed the rise of numerous initiatives related to the hybridization of traditional radio means with digital standards and systems, nourishing and renewing the classic radio-amateur practises and approaches such as pirate satellite brazilian radios http://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/?currentPage=all
But even if technical protocols such as Software Defined Radio (SDR), streaming and p2p decentralized practices have opened new perspectives, it is mostly the recent new political approaches of radio, such as Kogawa’s MicroFM [A Micro Radio Manifesto http://anarchy.translocal.jp/radio/micro/o] or the Telecomix Internet radio initiative [http://telecomix.org/] that have unveiled new exciting territories.
Nowadays, radio is -in its digital transformation, far from the unidirectional relationship with the listener of the FM band. It is open to very local broadcast and wild transmissions over large spectrum, carrying both sounds and data, and offering to rethink its architecture on the principles of rhizomatic and meshed networks.
Following the Π-Node experiments [https://www.p-node.org], this workshop proposes to explore the use of RTL-SDR antennas:
- primary conceived for TNT television reception [dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset http://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/]
- subverted to the reception of various signals from the radio spectrum from 20MHz to 2000MHz.
The antenna will be receiving waves of data messages, encoded through Minimodem [http://www.whence.com/minimodem/]
A Raspberry Pi will be transformed in a radio transmitter, using the GPIO 4 and the PiFM software [PiFM: http://icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter]
Participants willl use and connect those tools and techniques, in order to create a chain of radio data relays, and trying ultimately to subvert it by various means (radio interferences, sound transformation, data capture and text substitution, etc…).
Previous knowledge
Participants shall have a basic knowledge of command line programming and a wide curiosity for radio phenomenons.
Languages used will be python, but can also be programmed in other various langages (ruby, java, c++, etc …)
This workshop will be led by RYBN.ORG
RYBN.ORG is an extra-disciplinary artistic research platform, funded in 2000 as a web entity, disseminated into several servers all over the internet and physically present in Paris. RYBN.ORG operates through interactive & networked installations, digital/analog visual cross-performances and pervasive computing. Their projects refer as well to the codified systems of the artistic representation (aesthetic, painting, architecture, avant-garde, music) as to the socio-politic and physical phenomenons, exploring various fields such as economics, data mass analysis, perverted artificial intelligence, disrupting auto-learning, language and syntaxes, sensory perception and cognitive systems.
This workshop is part of #SoundUnfolded #ACE funded.
The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.