Our residency at Somerset House ended in 2019, and we’ve found a new home at Goldsmiths University. I (JB Thiebaut) am now a research fellow in the computing department, where I will collaborate with academics and students to continue to organise seminars, workshops and artist-engineers collaborations.

Long time collaborators of the Music Hackspace, Tadeo Sendon and Susanna Garcia, are now focusing on their respective practices. I am thankful for their outstanding work and look forward to collaborating with them in the future.

I have been working closely with Max for the past 12 months, and I’m excited to organise meetups and workshops starting in April 2020.

We will organise regular seminars and workshops. If you are interested to give a workshop, or would like a topic to be represented, please send us an email.

Workshop topics might include: Artificial intelligence for music, Virtual Reality, Machine learning, Max, Pure Data, Super Collider, MIDI and MIDI 2.0, modular synths, VST instruments and development, Live coding, and more.

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://slightlyoffkilterlabel.blogspot.co.uk/

MATTHIAS KISPERT  www.matthiaskispert.com

BLANCA REGINA www.whiteemotion.com

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.

 

Music Hackspace Performances Night

• When:  Thursday 23rd, 20.00- 23.oo h
• Where: TROYGANIC 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton E2 8DP
• Free Entry

• TIMING:

  8.30 – TIM YATES & SAIF BUNNI
  9.15 – FINGERHUT FEAT. TERRY DAY
  10.15 – ANDREW PAGE & BLANCA REGINA

Curated by Blanca Regina, the evening features:

TIM YATES & SAIF BUNNI
An improvisation by Tim Yates and Saif Bunni. These musicians and sound and artists run ‘Acoustic Hacking‘a workshop driven meetups that happen the last Sunday of each month at the London Hackspace.

ANDREW PAGE & BLANCA REGINA

Enseñanzas solares is a sonic exploration, performance and improvisation that looks at the Sun, the star, the data and the drone. Featuring Blanca Regina in voice, objects and visuals and Andrew Page with tapeloops and reverbs. Some of the the loops are created from NASA recordings of Saturn, Alpha Centauri, the Diamond Star and GD358, as well as the Sun.

FINGERHUT FEAT. TERRY DAY
Martin Klang (electronics, saxophone); David Kaplowitz (saxophones, keys); Paul Lucas (electric guitar) and Ryan Sarver (electric bass) and the legendary Terry Day on drums.

Fingerhut play improvised music with various standard and custom built electric and acoustic instruments and devices. They like to invite other musicians, wizards and deadbeats to join them to create new sounds. Drawing on free jazz and post rock, experimental noise and more, no two performances are quite alike. No rules and no repeats.

 

 

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.

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:
https://soundcloud.com/darkroom/tuesdays-post-15th-april-2014-part-1
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.

On Thursday 8th of May, Paul Pignon will be sharing his 50-year experience of free improvisation and engagement with electronic music instruments.

WHERE:  Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, near Hoxton station, at the corner of Cremer street.

WHEN: Thursday 8th of May 2014, 7pm

 

WHAT: Paul said: “I had imagined it would be some kind of general forum where people talked about what they’re doing or have done, and if anyone was interested I could say a few words about the studio I helped set up in Belgrade and the Synthi 100 custom built for that studio, and/or about some of the programming and composing I have done at EMS Stockholm, and/or about Fylkingen and/or my 50 years experience in free improvisation.

Just off the cuff and brief.

AND ALSO: We invite everyone to come and bring their project to share, get or give advice!

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/

When: Thursday 6th of March 2014, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London
Who: thickear
thickear is an artists’ collective comprising Geoff Howse, Jack James, Kevin Logan, and Tadeo Sendon, who explore contemporary themes through conceptual art and performance.

Originally interested in working within the medium of sound, thickear have expanded their practice to include visual art and performance. Their recent work has been concerned with the ethics of data collection and exchange, including the epic dystopian performance/installation Ministry of Measurement, a major feature of the Barbican Centre’s ‘Hack the Barbican’ season in 2013, and later reconceived as a small, approachable data exchange stand at the ICT and Art Connect conference in Lithuania.

What
Guiding us through their journey from Sound Art to new interdisciplinary fields, the collective will introduce the themes that will conform their next project Pink Sheet Method, which will be presented this spring at Future Everything (Manchester), ODI (London) and Lighthouse (Brighton).