New job! Community and Events Manager
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Update on the role: We currently are interviewing candidates and have closed down applications for the moment. If you would like to send us a spontaneous application, please send a CV and letter to info@musichackspace.org.
The Role:
The Music Hackspace is looking for a Community and Events Manager to join its growing team. You will take a lead role in growing the community online, and launching new hybrid events involving the local community in London. As part of your role with the community, you will report to the team the trends and aspirations of our audience for new courses and creative technologies. You will interact daily with the other members of the team.
Your time will be split between community engagement and event coordination.
Community management
As the community manager, your mission is to drive awareness of our activities online, and engage with the community on social media, forums and our Discord channel.
- Promote all workshops and events through MHS social media channels, forums and relevant blogs
- Manage social media accounts and engage with customers
- Plan and deliver content on social media
- Research ways to improve Music Hackspace’s presence online
- Support the newsletter campaign planning and execution
Online and in-person events management
Support the successful roll out of online events and pilot program for hybrid events
- Working alongside the CEO & Head of Education support the set up and roll out of the curriculum of live online workshops and meetups
- Lead the implementation of the 2022 programme of hybrid events (2 per month)
- Coordinate the creation of assets
- Set up systems to announce events online and manage communications with instructors
Location:
Home working, with some requirements to be in London for in-person events
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £28k – £32k depending on experience
Other perks
- Free access to all workshops
- Flexible hours
- Access to creative software licences
- Pension plan
Join the future of the Music Hackspace!
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Everyone should be able to learn and be on a creative journey. We offer opportunities to learn together, from live teachers and on-demand courses.
We will soon be launching a crowdfunding campaign to offer even more workshops, scale our operations further and launch a subscription model to help you access our full programme of unique live and on-demand courses on musical and creative technologies.
Join us in building the world’s largest teaching platform dedicated to creative technologies.
* This is not an investment commitment at this stage. Once you have registered your interest, we’ll be in touch via email when our campaign is live and open for investment.
** Investment of this nature carry risk to your capital. Please invest aware.
Capital at risk
Crowdfunding is a way for growing businesses to receive investments from their community rather than rely on traditional financial institutions and investors.
This crowdfund gives you the chance to own shares in Music Hackspace and become a key part of our journey. Music Hackspace will be listed on Crowdcube, the UK’s largest online crowdfunding platform.
CrowdCube is an equity crowdfunding platform.
Yes, every investor will receive shares in Music Hackspace. The number of shares you receive will be proportionate to the amount you invest. The final number of shares issued depends on the number of investors and amount of money raised.
We stand for a community based learning approach and want to include you in the next phase of Music Hackspace growth. We invite you to invest in the early stage of our development to help lower the barriers to learning creative technologies.
Our business plan and financial overview will be available on our Crowdcube campaign page once the campaign is live. If, after reading it, you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to contact us. You’ll find our contact details within deck – we’re happy to answer all questions or supply any additional information.
All eligible customers over the age of 18 and resident of the UK or a country where they may legally receive financial promotions of the nature provided. We are partnering with CrowdCube for our seed round. To be an eligible customer you will need to sign-up with CrowdCube.
If you are from US, Canada or Japan please contact us.
To become a shareholder in Music Hackspace please:
1. Register your interest by signing up completing the form on this page
2. Sign up and create an account with CrowdCube
3. Watch out for updates from us
4. Be ready to invest when our share offer is live.
We expect to launch in the Fall. Sign up and register your interest to be the first to know.
The campaign will last up to 30 days, ending whenever we reach our maximum investment target. If we reach our target early, we‘ll give notice 24 hours before the round closes. Please note, there is a limited amount of equity available in this round and we expect the round to fill quickly. We encourage you to invest as soon as the round opens.
Yes all investments will be made on the same terms.
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Jamspace #2
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Watch back the second Jamspace with Ned Rush, Obscenity State (Nilly Brooke), AbletonDrummer (Tobi Hunke) and Melody Loveless.
Performance and interviews with:
- Tobi Hunke: is a professional drummer and music producer. He is an educator and Max for live programmer who releases his work on the website AbletonDrummer.com . Tobi teaches drumming and music production to classes, as well as in one on one sessions. He has developed several Max for Live devices which are enabling drummers to play melodies and chords via acoustic/electronic drums which he is using for his own musical performances. https://blog.abletondrummer.com/about/
- Melody Loveless – will be sharing music that she made featuring live vocal sampling, Sonic Pi and Max/MSP. Melody is an artist, creative technologist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NYC. Her work ranges from live coding performance, generative sound installations, multisensory performance, and more.
- Obscenity State: – Nilly Brook a musician, producer and audio-visual performer, will be performing 2 tracks from her yet to be released EP alongside a live audio-visual TouchDesigner performance. Nilly lectures various visual technologies across a number of institutions including: The National Film and Television School, Central Saint Martins, Wimbledon School of Art, London South Bank University.
Join the second in an occasional series that showcases musical and visual performances and collaborations from members of the Music Hackspace community. After each performance, the practitioners are interviewed about their methodology. Watch the event live from our social media channels.
Showcase your work to the Music Hackspace community.
What is Jamspace?
Jamspace is an occasional / monthly series that showcases audio and visual performances and collaborations from members of the Music Hackspace community. We aim to create an online space in which community members can showcase their creative practice – be it musical, visual, audio, generative, traditional or experimental pieces.
How does it work?
Jamspace is hosted live by Music Hackspace Workshop Leader Ned Rush. Pre-composed performance videos are streamed and after each performance, the practitioners are interviewed live by Ned about their methodology. Anyone can watch the events live for free from our social media channels. Want to pose a question for the interview? You can ask questions in the chat on social media on the day.
Can I play / get involved?
Want to show off your work for the next Jamspace?
Jamspace is hosted by Music Hackspace Workshop Leaders Phelan Kane and Ned Rush.
Your piece could be anything that demonstrates creative use of technology in the arts. Performance to a camera is not a prerequisite – screen capture, generative visuals, green screen, Max, Jitter, video filters, VJ, sonificiations, Ableton Live and /or TouchDesigner created content is perfect. Anyone from the community can submit, be it student, workshop leader or alumni!
Tell us more info on this link and a member of the team will be in touch.
We look forward to seeing your work.
Berlin Code of Conduct
We ask all participants to read and follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and contribute to creating a welcoming environment for everyone.
Our story
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
It’s 2011. Our founder, JB, works for Focusrite as a software engineer. Venturing into the basement of the company, he sees all those PCBs of Novation synthesizers and controllers going to scrap. An e-mail to the London Hackspace, and the next day, two future members (Martin Klang of Rebel Tech and Phil Clevberger) drove to High Wycombe to pick them up.
A week later, 20 people showed up to uncover the treasures that we had brought for everyone to share. The idea of hacking music instruments together wasn’t new, but doing it together was exciting. It was still early days for Arduino, Raspberry Pi wouldn’t launch before 2012, and designing PCBs was hard. Combining skills and ideas, and learn together, on the other hand, was much more appealing.
Among the early participants were Angus Hewlett (FXpansion), Andy Farnell (Designing Sounds), Andrew McPherson (Bela), Blanca Regina, Tadeo Sendon and many more including artists, lawyers, or IT engineers working in the city. The appetite for building one’s own creative device was high.
With so many having creative ideas, we needed a way to sharing them, and once a week the Music Hackspace would gather to listen to someone presenting an idea or an ongoing project. The Center for Digital Music was a stone throw away, and the community grew with some of the world’s best researchers in music technology rubbing shoulder with hobbyists.
Over the next decade, the Music Hackspace would hosted at vibrant places in London: Containerville, Limewharf, Somerset House and Goldsmiths, curating workshops, meetups and seminars.
Running the Music Hackspace always came from a place of passion at the intersection of art and tech. And now that we’ve started expanding our community online, we are on a mission to support artists all over the world to learn, share and make art with tech.
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Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
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AR Rahman, Music Hackspace and Cycling ’74 partner to deliver free online courses to students in India
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, founded by AR Rahman, teams up with London-based online teaching platform Music Hackspace and California-based software company Cycling ’74 to deliver free music programming classes in May 2021. As part of the partnership, Cycling ’74 will provide free 1-year licenses of its flagship programme Max to KM students.
India is home to one of the most dynamic music scene in the world, but still relatively cut off from the US and the UK. As the pandemic rages in India, most students are continuing to learn online. With this new course, we aim to help music technology students engage with new technology with a long term perspective of exchange and training.
AR Rahman says: “There is a huge appetite for music technology in India, but there is a scarcity of tools and teaching professionals. Musicians in India will be able to join in a global community that gives them the opportunity to develop life-long skills. “
Public registrations to the course are open on a first-come first-served basis (register here). The course will be offered to students for free and will be taught by Max Certified Trainer Phelan Kane who has years of experience teaching music technologies.
Cycling ’74 offers a free trial of the software (download here), making this accessible to anyone who is curious about music programming. There is no obligation to buy the software to participate in the workshop.
JB Thiebaut, CEO of Music Hackspace, adds “Our mission is to empower everyone to learn creative technologies and we are proud to enable this partnership on our platform, where visitors will find more free courses on demand to continue their learning journey.”
Max is an ubiquitous software that is taught in over 1,500 institutions around the world. Max is also integrated with leading production software Ableton Live.
Getting started with Max Workshops
The series will have 4 sessions of 2 hours each. Participants will learn how to get started with interactive audio and MIDI, and discover the possibilities of the Max environment. They will learn how to manipulate audio, MIDI, virtual instruments, and program their own interactive canvas, and will learn from guided examples and live interactions with teachers and other participants.
Session overviews:
- Session 1, 5th May – Understand the Max environment
- Session 2 , 12th May – Connect building blocks together and work with data
- Session 3, 19th May – Master the user interface
- Session 4 , 26th May– Work with your MIDI instruments
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About KM Music Conservatory
KM Music Conservatory (KMMC for short) is the first institution of its kind in India. A higher education institution established in 2008 by the A.R. Rahman Foundation with A.R. Rahman serving as Principal and Fathima Rafiq as Executive Director. Situated in brand new, state-of-the-art facilities at the heart of Chennai’s film and music industry, we offer a range of part-time and full-time courses in Hindustani and Western classical music and music technology. Faculty are drawn from around the world, with specialisms in musical performance, musical theory and analysis, music history and music technology in order to meet the highest standards of international education.
About Music Hackspace
Music Hackspace’s mission is to develop the largest online learning platform for music technologies. It was founded in 2011 by Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut in London, as a collective of artists and engineers. Starting with weekly meetups and seminars, Music Hackspace now curates over 20 live and online workshops every month on music programming, instrument design, and DIY electronics, for a growing number of artists and hobbyists.
About Cycling ’74
Cycling ’74 creates software for the specialized needs of artists, educators, and researchers working with audio, visual media, and physical computing. Our visual programming tool Max serves as the creative engine behind thousands of innovative projects. Its iPad app Mira allows the user to expand beyond the Max environment for increased flexibility.
For more information:
www.musichackspace.org/learnmax
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut; Founder & CEO @ Music Hackspace
Lilli Wessling Hart
MIDI Innovation Awards 2022
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Voting is now open to the public for the MIDI Innovation Awards
14th January 2021
For immediate release
Voting is now open to the public for the MIDI Innovation Awards
Everyone is invited to attend the livestream awards show, held on January 21 during NAMM’s “Believe in Music” week
London, England – Music Hackspace, the MIDI Association, and NAMM have now closed the entries to the first MIDI Innovation Awards. The difficult process of selecting 10 finalists from 78 amazing entries – including hardware, software, and even installations based on MIDI – is now complete.
The final competition will be live-streamed on January 21, 2021 from 12 – 2 PM PST during NAMM’s “Believe in Music” week. During the ceremony, the finalists will present their inventions to the all-star jury composed of Dr. Kate Stone, Craig Anderton, John Kao, Helen Leigh, Yuri Suzuki, and Shawn Wasabi. The event will also feature exclusive performances from artists SK Shlomo, Tim Exile, Shawn Wasabi, Dan Tepfer, and special guests.
During the awards ceremony, the winner of the Popular Vote will be announced, and the top 3 entries will win prizes worth over $20,000.
According to event coordinator Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut of Music Hackspace, “We were taken aback by the level of creativity, imagination, and innovation in the entries – and believe the livestream viewers will be as surprised and delighted as we were.”
Discover the finalists, and cast your vote, by clicking here.
Watch the teaser of the event and set a reminder for the livestream on YouTube.
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About Music Hackspace
The Music Hackspace’s mission is to develop the largest online learning platform for music technologies. It was founded in 2011 by Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut in London, as a collective of artists and engineers. Starting with weekly meet-ups and seminars, the Music Hackspace now curates over 20 workshops every month on music programming, instrument design, and DIY electronics, for a growing number of artists and hobbyists. Follow the Music Hackspace on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About MIDI Association
The MIDI Association is the non-profit community for both the companies who develop new MIDI specifications and products, and the people that create music and art with MIDI. The MIDI.org website is the central repository of information about anything related to MIDI technology, from classic legacy gear to the next- gen MIDI protocols coming soon.
About NAMM
The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is the not-for-profit association with a mission to strengthen the $17 billion music products industry. NAMM is comprised of approximately 10,300 members located in 104 countries and regions. NAMM events and members fund The NAMM Foundation‘s efforts to promote the pleasures and benefits of music, and advance active participation in music making across the lifespan. For more information about NAMM, please visit www.namm.org, call 800.767.NAMM (6266) or follow the organization on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
For more information:
www.musichackspace.org/mia2021
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut, Founder & CEO, Music Hackspace: jb@stagingmhs.local
Athan Billias, COO, MIDI Association, info@midi.org
Chalise Zolezzi, NAMM, publicrelations@namm.org
2nd Prize: Sonoclast Plastic Pitch Pro
3rd Prize: Playces