Build your own Light-Theremin with Moldover aka “The Godfather of Controllerism”
Known as “The Godfather of Controllerism”, Moldover will be visiting the Music Hackspace on his Europe tour.
After this workshop Moldover will give a presentation on the design of The Light-Theremin CD Case, and his other circuit-board artworks.
In this basic soldering workshop, Moldover will take you through the steps to build your own Light-Theremin CD case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8UzSVFUIc0). Even if you’ve never soldered before, this workshop will give you the confidence in two hours. If you do have experience you’ll learn how to solder better, and walk away with a fun and unique instrument, plus a copy of Moldover’s album.
After the workshop Moldover will give a presentation on the design of The Light-Theremin CD Case, and his other circuit-board artworks.
This is an all ages, hands-on workshop
No experience required
No equipment required: soldering stations & Light Theremin kits provided
Cost: £35 for kit/materials
Date: November 5 @ 18:30 – 22:00
Location: Music Hackspace, Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent , London, E2 9DS United Kingdom
Moldover‘s collected work is deep, diverse, and nearly impossible to summarize, but its essence shines clearly when you see the artist on stage delivering emotional and authentic performances with hybrid instruments of his own design. Explore his creations further and you’ll discover a cultural icon who invents new formats for interactive album artwork, cultivates collaboration by building elaborate jamboxes, and has inspired an entire generation of free-culture music-makers by openly sharing his methods and his madness. moldover.com
Workshop: build your own SIGNUM device and reveal hidden sounds
SIGNUM_Portable Analog Instrumentation Amplifier from animazon on Vimeo.
In this workshop participants will build and take home their own Signum device, which is designed to experiment with hidden signals and usually un-hearable sounds. The device includes a transducer, optical, coil, germanium diode and small loop antenna that will allow you to both to listen to and record the sounds hidden in the electromagnetic spectrum. The workshop will also cover the use of the electromagnetic spectrum in art practice.
With Victor Mazon Gardoqui.
Signum is a portable device designed to provide a clean, line level & micro controller friendly output signal to various input sensors: different bandwidth antennas, high impedance transducers, photosensitive cells, infrared, ultraviolet, sound pressure or line level.
The electromagnetic spectrum will be used as a creative resource where participants will build a device capable of modulate the invisible phenomenæ on various media or devices.
SIGNUM performs a fully analogue difference operation between its input and reference output level, multipling by a factor of 100 times in the first stage -controlable by potenciometer- and 10 times magnification on its second stage, providing a controlled amplitude output line suitable to be safely connected to any audio input: sound card, computer or mixer, providing the input signal a maximum magnification ratio of 1000: 1 and a signal-to-noise distortion of 0.007% THD.
The kit contains two amplifier circuits operating in parallel to accommodate different impedances of sensors and a final amplification for line output. The 3 sensors embedded on its surface measures close range electromagnetic frequencies, a central SMA antenna connector for long-range signals and an external line input via the 3.5mm jack to amplify self made sensors and physical devices.
It’s powered by a 9V battery or supplied 1,3mm power jack to USB connector.
The workshop will be lead by Victor Mazon Gardoqui who’s the author of workshop concept, electronics design & documentation | CC 4.0 BY-SA ://victormazon.com/signum
Victor will be also giving an Artist Talk about his practice at the Music Hackspace on Thursday 22 October
SIGNUM Portable Analogue Instrumentation Amplifier
Specifications:
Voltage gain 10 to 1000 (w/ ALPS potentiometer)
Amplitude control (w/ ALPS potentiometer)
Bandwidth set to 15.9kHz (w/feedback capacitors), or 100kHz (w/ caps removed)
Line IN / Line OUT (w/ Jack 3,5mm)
SMA Antenna Input
Self-centering output quiescent voltageBattery operation ~3V–30V
1,3mm power jack to USB cable included
220v to 5v USB adaptor included
Current drain ≤160mA
Size 70×70 mm
8x 30mm. metal stands
Sensors: transducer, optical, coil, germanium diode, small loop antenna included
Industrial PCB manufacture
Material FR4
Thickness 1,6mm
Surface Finish ENIG Immersion Gold on both sides
Black Matt Soldermask on both Sides
When: Saturday 24th October: 11h to 19 h and Sunday 25th October 11h to 15h.
Required skills: No previous experience in electronics is necessary, but interest and patience mandatory.
Cost: 95 GBP (Keep you device! All electronic materials and documentation are included).
Enquiries: please email workshops@stagingmhs.local
Music Hackspace Performances Night – 13th December-
Part of the 2014 UK Tour of Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke and Paul Khimasia Morgan , the event in London is curated by Blanca Regina. Join us in this special evening
LINE UP
SIMON WHETHAM
SETH COOKE
PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN
MATTHIAS KISPERT & BLANCA REGINA
Activating objects and surfaces with found sounds and actions, Simon Whetham creates a shifting sonic environment that is comfortably disorientating. Seth Cooke is an improviser and sound recordist based in Bristol, UK. His music is frequently location or process oriented and he often works with material happened upon by chance. As a percussionist he plays traps and waste disposal sink. Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improviser, currently working with electronics, zither and the sonification of low voltage. “…a weft of mysterious hums and clicks that creeps organically across the intervening space between the speakers and my ears, never quite identifying itself but always offering tantalizing glimpses…” – Brian Olewnik, Just Outside Matthias Kispert is a sound artist living in London, founder of ‘Material Studies’ group along the mixed media artist, Blanca Regina. The duo with play an improvised set using voice, electronics, objects and visuals.
Where: 132 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8DY
From : 20.00-23:00pm Tickets on the door 5 pounds/ 4 pounds concessions
There will be special food with special prices offered by TROYganic
Links
SIMON WHETHAM www.simonwhetham.co.uk
SETH COOKE www.sethcooke.eu
PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN http://
MATTHIAS KISPERT www.matthiaskispert.com
BLANCA REGINA www.whiteemotion.com
Pocketclub: Artists looking for Hackers – 06th Nov
WHEN: Thursday 6th November 2014, 7pm
WHERE: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London
WHAT: Camden based trio Pocketclub will present an immersive live music project they’re preparing for the Roundhouse in February 2015. As part of this project, they’re looking to collaborate with a Digital Artist/Hacker. The project will be culminating at the Roundhouse in Camden, with a scratch run at the Axis Arts Centre in Cheshire. Partners of the project include Sound Connections/RBS/The Black Cultural Archives/Manchester Metropolitan University and emerging filmmakers, lighting & sound engineers.
Kinetronic: a motion capture music installation by Ivaylo Chichanov
WHEN: Thursday 21st August 2014, 7pm
WHERE: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, near Hoxton station, at the corner of Cremer street.
WHAT: Kinetronic is a project exploring the possibilities of gestural control over a music performance. The installation uses kinect sensor for motion capturing and custom made software written in max/msp/jitter, consisting of two parts of the software one for music performance and the other one for visuals generated from the incoming audio.
WHO:
Ivaylo Chichanov (from http://www.ivaylo.info/)
Email: ivaylo [at] ivaylo.info
I am a multidisciplinary artist, designer and developer with strong interest in physical computing, virtual and augmented reality and interface design within the context of live audio-visual performance and interactive installations.
I am also a musician, producer and sound engineer known under the artistic pseudonym Electronic Element.
As Electronic Element I have been performing and producing music for over 8 years and have played at all major clubs and festivals in Bulgaria and have performed on several festivals in Europe some of which include Exit Festival (Serbia), Amsterdam Dance Event (Netherlands), Spirit of Burgas (Bulgaria) etc.
I have recently started a collaboration with DoubleGanger (artist and performer) and we are currently working on several records which will be released this summer on Sci Fi Records.
I am also founder and manager of Underground Festival in city of Pomorie, Bulgaria. Underground Festival is a small non for profit, free beach festival giving platform to the latest up and coming artists in Bulgaria and have successfully run for 6 years.
In 2006 I co-founded 8311 Music (record label) with my friend Manol Manolov and managed it until 2009 when I moved to London.
I did a short course in Art and Design in Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London and got my diploma in 2010 with distinction.
Same year I started a BA (Hons) Digital Media Design course in London College of Communications, University of the Arts London and I graduated in June 2014.
While studying in University I worked for Racam Studio as a web designer and developer for an year in 2011. Shortly after that I started working as a sound editor for Reprezent Radio 107.3 FM in Peckham in London.
In December 2012 I founded Sci Fi ltd. an umbrella company for Sci Fi Records (record label and recording studio), Sci Fi Design (in-house design studio) and Sci Fi Technology (software development).
Shortly after I founded the company several artists signed deals with the record label and have released 6 albums. The launch of the Sci Fi Technology is expected in late 2014 as we are working on several software products and also negotiating a partnership with a hardware developer for euro rack synthesizer modules.
In 2014 I finished an online Music Business course at Berklee College of Music gaining a Honor Code certificate.
I am also member of the Music Hackspace in London.
NIME2014: Open Day, Hackathon (Registration Open)
We are excited to announce a one day Hackathon hosted by Music Hackspace during NIME 2014 Open Day on Friday 4th of July, at Goldsmiths Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.
Themed around assistive and adaptable musical interfaces that narrow down the barriers of participation, the Hackathon will feature challenges presented by Heart n Soul and Drake Music.
During the Hackathon there will also be talks, demos & performances by developers and music technologists on-stage.
When: Friday 4th of July (10:00-21:00). We will meet from 10:00am for welcoming and will give out the agenda to start with challenge presentations at 10:30am. Hack presentations, results and prices will start from 6pm.
Where: Goldsmiths University, Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building. SE14 6NW
Registration: Free
Heart n Soul challenge:
“Can you find ways that a player can work with the simplest of control mechanisms, but still feel a real and potent sense of connection with the sound being created?
The challenge is to find a way to create the greatest expressivity of sound with the most minimal of input control from the player. This is an open ended challenge that we hope you’ll approach in all manner of ways.
The phrase minimal input control could also mean a range of things, from simple user interfaces to controls that can work with tiny movements or gestures”.
Prize: Moog Etherwave Theremini
Drake Music challenge:
“To design a musical device that can be easily configured/modified to make music making accessibility to all, including disabled musicians”.
Prize: Koma Elektronic Kommander
JUNE TUESDAYS POST in collaboration with Music Hackspace
JUNE TUESDAYS POST in collaboration with Music Hackspace
WHEN: Tuesday 17th June, 8pm-midnight
WHERE: The Strongroom Bar again. 120-124 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3SQ
FREE ENTRY
Featuring:
STEVE BERESFORD, BLANCA REGINA & SHARON GAL
Blanca Regina – White Emotion. Born in Madrid, Spain 1980, Blanca Regina is currently lecturing at University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid and is a visiting research fellow at University of the Arts London (2011-2014). Her practice encompass expanded cinema, free improvisation, moving image, photography and audiovisual performance. Her research is focused on the study of sound and image processes, multimedia language aesthetics and content. In 2010, she has been awarded a doctorship in Humanities in the University Rey Juan Carlos with the thesis·” El VJ y la creación audiovisual performativa: una estética radical de la performatividad.”
Steve Beresford – http://www.discogs.com/artist/123904-Steve-Beresford
Internationally known as a free improviser on piano and electronics, Steve Beresford has also scored feature films and music for TV and commercials. Steve has worked with hundreds of musicians, including The Slits, Han Bennink, Christine Tobin, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Ray Davies, Ilan Volkov, David Toop, Najma Akhtar, Evan Parker, Adrian Sherwood, The Flying Lizards, Otomo Yoshihide and John Zorn and has an extensive discography.2014 sees the third tour of ‘Indeterminacy’, in which comedian Stewart Lee reads one-minute stories by John Cage whilst Beresford and fellow pianist Tania Chen play music. Beresford plays with and conducts the London Improvisers Orchestra every month. He also regularly collaborates with musicians such as Elaine Mitchener, Blanca Regina, John Butcher, Satoko Fukuda and Shabaka Hutchings, playing at venues like Café Oto in Dalston, London.Steve was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.
Sharon Gal – Voice / electronics / free improvisation / collaborative group compositions / field recordings / radio / mixed media /
Performing solo, and in regular collaborations with Steve Beresford, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, John Edwards, Dylan Nyoukis, Phil Minton / Feral Singers and Andie Brown
Also performing a series of collaborative group compositions ; L’esprit d’escalier – for voices in a staircase,
Long Drone – for a large ensemble of various instruments, Gals with Guitars – For female guitar players,
Toy Orchestra – for children and adults.
I’m a founder member of London’s arts radio, Resonance 104.4 FM and over the past eleven years, have been presenting and producing various programmes, including; Diggers, with Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey, Venus Rising,
In Search of Inspiration , and Stereo Cilia, a weekly sound-diary.
My music was released by Ash International/ Paradigm records/ Chocolate Monk / Emanem / Ecstatic Yod.
with the most recent 7” release, Melancoholic, on American Tapes Label.
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CASSIEL
Nick Rothwell [cassiel] is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper (choreographer Michael Klien) and for Braunarts, and interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE (Istanbul) and the Kinetica kinetic art fair (London). He has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban Centre), and performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), the ICA, and the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
As part of the Monomatic project he worked on the design and programming of a laser-controlled virtual church bell tower as the headline art commission for Sound and Music’s Expo Festival in 2009, and a magnetically-triggered modular music box shown at Kinetica, Netaudio London (at the Roundhouse) and the BEAM festival.
He has collaborated with body>data>space to develop performance systems and sound scores for projects at CIANT (Prague) and in London. He is currently working on 3D software-based visual artworks for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance at the Wellcome Trust, music composition for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, algorithmic visuals for choreographers Kate Sicchio and Nina Kov, and with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman, having designed and programmed algorithmic physics animations for large-scale outdoor projection in Poland (Skyway Festival), Estonia (Valgus Festival, Tallinn), Cambridge Music Festival and Lumiere Durham.
Web http://www.cassiel.com/
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/cassiel
Twitter @cassieldotcom
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DARKROOM & GEORGINA BRETT
Georgina Brett- ‘s music is created using her voice and effects pedals, creating instant choirs of sound often in an hypnotic style. The point of this music is not only to captivate with extraordinary timing and melodic style but also to help the listener to relax, in our ever increasingly fast world.
Her double album of vocal works with no lyrics, called Nonsense A and Nonsense B highlights the voice as an instrument, and as a vehicle for emotional expression. “So much music is to make us feel something so as to manipulate, buy or to follow.. this album let’s your thoughts be whatever they want to be.” Intellectually, Georgina’s music adheres to some modernist and avant-garde principles but using harmonious parameters, instead of the more dissonant style of it’s post-WW1 WW2 exponents. Georgina’s music is also gradually becoming a great vehicle for more experimental work delving into expressive work which plays with the rich world of the media, politics, history, using matrices, semiotics and phonetics.
latest news?
Youtube of Georgina Brett live at April 2014 Tuesdays Post Here:
New Soundcloud recording of Performance April 25th at St Mary Aldermary, London Here: https://soundcloud.com/georginabrett/bach-c-major-prelude-but-not-as-you-know-it-live-extended-version
Darkroom- The UK-based duo of Michael Bearpark (guitars) and Andrew Ostler (synths) expertly ride the line between luscious, old-school progressive rock and modern ambient electronics. At times reminiscent of early Tangerine Dream, with hints of Fripp and Eno, Darkroom creates clouds of sequenced synths, chewy grooves, and looped phrases to support a variety of acoustic and electric guitar melodies that twist and turn in surprising, occasionally aggressive, ways. Moody and well-orchestrated, this release takes you places.
“The term “progressive electronica” is definitely an apt one for this duo. It’s accessible and addictive, while remaining expansive and exploratory. Quite a feat. I’ve been listening to these guys for nearly 20 years. Darkroom is a constant source of intrigue, wonder and invention.” Anil Prasad April 2014
latest news?
Soundcloud upload of Darkroom live at April 2014 Tuesdays Post here:
Great interview by Anil Prasad with Michael Bearparkhttp://innerviews.org/inner/bearpark.html
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TADEO SENDON
Tadeo Sendon (untitled): Evolving audio samples mixed with a selection of full tracks, generated randomly with a simple button Max based interface. This performative work experiments with the notion of generative sampling and aleatory sound sources used in live sets, while it also confronts the authorship of the performer against the restrictions and lack of decision provided by a generative software.
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ANTWERP: Live performance, Thursday 10th of April
London-based producer Antwerp will showcase at the Music Hackspace presenting a polished blend of dreamy-ethnic sounds with field recordings and feel-good electro music.
When:Thursday 10th of April, 7.00pm
Where:132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY, Shoreditch
Join us!
https://soundcloud.com/antwerpmusic/endless-maze-87-mix-jan13
https://soundcloud.com/antwerpmusic/soft-glee-108-mix1-jan13
A night of site-related sounds
Sprawl in collaboration with Music Hackspace and Strange Umbrellas presents a night of site-related sounds
Performances by:
murmer (Patrick McGinley, Framework radio)
http://www.murmerings.com/
Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina, Jack Goldstein
http://strangeumbrellassite.tumblr.com/
Matthias Kispert
http://www.matthiaskispert.com/
‘Twine’, a short film by Iris Garrelfs
http://irisgarrelfs.com/
Date: Thursday 20th March 2014
Time: 7pm – 11pm
VENUE:
TROYganic
132 Kingsland Road
London E2 8DY
ticket price: £5/3 concs
more info/further biographies: http://www.sprawl.org.uk/