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
PERFORMANCE CANCELLED BlackBox Loops by Joe Cantrell
DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
When: Thursday 27th March, 7.30pm
Where: 132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY
BlackBox Loops
This performance piece is an exploration of the sonic possibilities of obsolete sound technology. Antiquated effects processors have their outputs sent via a small mixer into their inputs so that a feedback loop is established and can be manipulated. A stereo line is split out from this loop so that the effects are audible. In addition to the obsolete units, hacked guitar pedals and acoustic instruments are also introduced into the system to direct and affect the sonic output.
Joe Cantrell is a musician and multi-media artist specializing in sound art, installations, compositions and performances inspired by the implications and consequences of technological objects and practices.His work examines the incessant acceleration of technology and media production, its ownership, and the waste it produces.
As a sound artist, Joe has performed and installed in numerous venues, including the REDCAT Theater at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the 2012 festival of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US as well as artist residencies in New York, London and Beijing.
His work has been honored with grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, New Music USA as well as being nominated for a Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship.
Joe holds a BFA in music technology from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in digital arts and new media from UC Santa Cruz. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Integrative Studies at UC San Diego.
Meet Bruno Zamborlin and Play the World with Mogees
When: Thursday 13th of March 2014, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London
What: Presentation of Mogees by Bruno Zamborlin
Join us this Thursday with Bruno Zamborlin to experience Mogees, discover how it works and learn about its successful Kickstarter campaign.
Mogees, an innovative new way for everyone to let their musical imagination run wild, transforming the objects around us into unique and powerful musical instruments.
Mogees consists of a mobile app and a small sensor optimised to work with smartphones which detects and analyses the vibrations that we make when we interact with the objects around us. It uses an audio synthesis technique inspired to audio physical modelling, in order to create a tight, coupling the gesture and the object you selected, altering their acoustic properties so as to make them musical.
Thu 6th Feb: CEEMI’s Test Drive presentation with Gil Teixeira
When: Thursday, 6th of February 2014, 7.00pm
Where: Troyganic 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY
What: Presentation with Gil Teixeira about CEEMI’s Test Drive – A Collaborative Experimental Electronic Music Instrument for an ongoing artistic research on human engagement
The CEEMI is a Max MSP based electronic music instrument aimed at allowing non-musicians of all age groups and backgrounds, a real collaborative compositional/performative experience, by combining a sonic palette derived mostly from the so-called experimental electronic music with pre-existent and widespread technological interfaces.
Inspired by Varèse’s and Cage’s definition of music as nothing more than organized sound, Gil decided to limit the CEEMI’s output to drones, pulses, found sounds, sfx and noise. Definitely not the kind of soundworld typically associated with the community music scene, but one that’s actually free from the specialized jargon of the tempered system, a jargon that so many times scares non-musicians away from actively engaging in a musical creative process.
And by relying on tablets, laptops, smartphones and other familiar devices as possible ways of controlling the CEEMI, he hopes to not only tackle another big obstacle to such engagement – the traditional music instrument with its daunting learning curve – but also to transform and humanize the usage of such gadgets. His research project is not so much about humans interacting with technology, but about technology as a means to explore human interaction.
Gil Teixeira is a musician – founding member of the instrumental post-rock band La La La Ressonance (www.lalalaressonance.com) -, classical guitar teacher and creative workshop leader from Portugal, that has developed in recent years a keen interest in the exploration of technology in collaborative music making contexts as part of his ongoing research. He’s led various creative projects in Portugal, UK, Austria, USA and Tanzania and took on the musical/artistic direction of the original multimedia shows “Daqui a Dili”(2011) and “Giacometti 2.0″(2013) staged at Oporto’s Casa da Música.
With a BA in both Philosophy and Classical Guitar Performance, he’s currently a post-graduate Leadership student in London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
2014 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Friday 17th of January
Where: Troyganic 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY
Welcome
Present and apologies
Music Hackspace vision and objectives for 2014
Accounts (Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut)
2013 programme review
Regular meetings status (location and frequency of events)
Space hunting*
Workshops
MaxMSP meet ups
Projects, collaborations and residencies
Others
Membership*
Roles and responsibilities
Website review
Final announcements
Wed 20th Nov. “his Nameless Is Legion” with Oliver Stummer at Troyganic
When: Wednesday 20th November, 9.00pm (late start)
Where: Troyganic 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY
“his Namelessness Is Legion” is an ambient/electronic/drone side project of Austrian musician Oliver Stummer aka Tomoroh Hidari. Oliver Stummer is an Austrian electronic musician, producer and multi-instrumentalist currently living and working in London.
As Tomoroh Hidari he has been releasing and performing glitch-infused IDM, Ambient and Breakcore since 2003 on labels such as Isolate Records, Record Label Records, Vienna Wildstyle, Laridae and more.
He also releases as his Namelessness Is Legion, where he focuses on drone music as well as, more recently, entering the sound art & noise field with self built sound devices and circuit bent instruments and effects.
Besides his solo efforts he’s done production- and programming work with industrial outfit Kreuzweg Ost (Cold Spring), Viennese New Wave Band Müde, Breakcore/Industrial crossover project Anathemasochist (with Hecate aka Rachel Kozak), whose debut album should be out in early 2014 and been performing with the jam collective Dystopian Dub Developments.
Together with Austrian author and musician Liesl Ujvary he collaborated on writing and performing new music for the Trautonium, an early electronic instrument made famous by Oskar Sala, which earned them a place on Sub Rosa’s “An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music” compilation series.
www.ivorybunker.com
Wed 13th November. Meeting and space viewing at Autumn Street Studios
The Music Hackspace is moving to a new space. Next week we will have an open general meeting at Autumn Street Studios to get together and view the available space next door (Autumn St., Hackney Wick), to discuss and answer any questions, and to give some clarity about this opportunity. The meeting is open for everyone and it will be a great opportunity for new people to get involved.
When: Wednesday 13th of November, 7:00 pm
Where: Autumn Street Studios 3, 39 Autumn St, London E3 2TT
To give more context, the opposite warehouse to Autumn Street Studios is being refurbished and will be occupied by music startups, artists, musicians and music technology entrepreneurs like us. The site will have recording studios alongside a maker space, hot desk areas and social meeting areas. The Music Hackspace has joined with excitement this project and will have a dedicated space, the mezzanine unit on the top floor, 618 sq ft marked in yellow in the plan below. Here we will mutualise our equipment, share knowledge, run seminars, hang outs, workshops, jams, experiment, showcase innovative music projects and help our members create, produce and sell their products through our website and distribution networks. It is also worth mentioning that the club next door (Autumn Street Studios run by Bloc) is fully licensed and is very welcoming to let us use their space to throw our events, demonstrations, performances and parties.
To fund this project and to organise our access to the space, we are opening a new Music Hackspace membership system. This membership will offer: a place to have more regular meet-ups; a place to work on side projects ; access to mutualised tools and audio equipments; a place for workshops, seminars and concerts; a place to present, test and get feedback ideas and projects; access to job opportunities with the start ups around and through our network; and mostly, a central place to take our activities forward and to keep the community together. Please note that this will not be a permanent hot desking space, but rather a place where members can develop their side projects on booking basis (eg 1 day a week). In addition to this, there will also be regular open hang outs welcoming new people to come to the space.
Become a member!
This weekend, Cave of Sounds at the Digital Art & Performance Weekender
This weekend the Music Hackspace Ensemble team will join a programme of artists, performers, composers and technologists to present the Cave of Sounds installation as part of the Digital Art & Performance Weekender exhibition at Watermans Arts Centre.
When: 12pm-8pm Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of November, 12pm-5pm Sunday 3rd of November. (Cave of Sounds only).
Where: Watermans, 40 High St, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 0DS , 5 min from Kev Gardens tube station (District Line).
Entrance: Cave of Sounds installation is free to attend. See full programme to buy tickets for the events marked with a *.
The exhibition focuses around intersections and collaborations of artists through performance, dance, sound, technology and more! The weekend will include interactive and immersive installations and performances, sound and dance and choreography.
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.
Thu. 24th of October, Ranjit Bhatnagar presents Singing Room for a Shy Person
Join us with sound sculptor Ranjit Bhatnagar, next Thursday 24th of October. Ranjit Bhatnagar will present his project entitled Singing Room for a Shy Person, an interactive sound installation, commissioned by Métamatic Research Initiative and being exhibited, along with nine other MRI commissions, at the Tinguely Museum in Basel.
When: Thursday 24th of October 2013, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton, London
Entrance: Free
Singing Room for a Shy Person is and installation that consists of a sound-isolating booth, in which visitors can go, seal themselves off from the world, and sing, recite, blabber, or whatever they want. On the outside of the booth, a set of computer-controlled musical instruments interprets their voice in a rickety, mechanical way. “The installation is a way for a shy person to perform for an audience, in an odd sort of way, without revealing themselves too much. It’s software runs with Max/MSP, doing a fairly simple spectral analysis to extract peak frequencies from the singer’s voice, and sending them back off. The instruments are all controlled via MIDI, using note on and note off commands to activate various solenoids and motors”.
Singing Room for a Shy Person. Outside of the room, the musical instruments abstractly interpret the participants singing
Ranjit Bhatnagar is a sound sculptor who works with technology, language, and found materials to create interactive installations and musical instruments. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Ranjit received a BA from U.C. Berkeley and an MS from the University of Pennsylvania. His works have been exhibited across the United States and Europe, and have appeared in performances as far from New York as Shanghai. As part of an ongoing annual project, he creates a new homemade musical instrument each day of the month during February: the Instrument-a-day project, which is now in its sixth year. He has also worked with the art collectives Flux Factory and Rabid Hands to build a large-scale installation at the Palais de Tokyo Museum in Paris this summer.
More info: http://moonmilk.com/
Thursday 17th of October, Marco Donnarumma presents Xth Sense
Join us this Thursday with performer, sound artist and teacher Marco Donnarumma. Marco will present Xth Sense, a biophysical instrument that amplifies the muscle sounds of the human body and uses these as musical material and control data.”When a performer contracts any muscle, low frequency sound are produced. By capturing these sounds with a microphone embedded in the Xth Sense sensor and live sampling them with a computer you get music in real time.”
When: Thursday 17th of October 2013, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton, London
Entrance: Free
Marco Donnarumma performing Music for Flesh II with Xth Sense| Interactive music performance for enhanced body (Xth Sense) from Marco Donnarumma.
Marco Donnarumma was born in Italy and is currently based in London. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London, funded by the European Research Council and supervised by Prof. Atau Tanaka and Dr. Matthew Fuller. Marco looks at the collision of critical creativity with humanized technologies. He is known for his body-based performance works and creates custom open biotechnologies and physical interactive systems. He is a Harvestworks Creativity + Technology = Enterprise Fellow (New York, US) with support by the Rockefeller Foundation.
In the past 3 years, Marco has performed over 100 concerts and spoken in 50 countries including US and South America, Europe, India, China, South Korea and Australia. His works have been selected at leading art events (ISEA, Venice Biennale, WRO Biennale), specialized festivals and venues (FILE, Panorama, EMPAC, New York Electronic Arts Festival, Sonorities, Némo, Mapping, Piksel, Re-New, Laboral) and major academic conferences (NIME, ICMC, Pure Data Convention, Linux Audio Conference @ Stanford CCRMA, SICMF). He curated a comprehensive journal publication on biotech and performing arts entitled Biotechnological Performance Practice (eContact! 14.2). His writings have appeared in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press), in the book “New Art/Science Affinities” (CMU and Studio for Creative Enquiry, US), and several times in specialised conference proceedings.
His biophysical system, the Xth Sense, (XS) was recently awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech, US 2012) as the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument”. The XS was publicly launched during summer 2012 at the Scotland Music Hack Day.
His latest work “Nigredo”, a private installation for altered self-perception with Marije Baalman, was recently awarded the 2nd prize in the TransitioMX New Media Art Award (MX). He has been artists in residence at STEIM (NL), Inspace (UK), and National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (DK). His work has been funded by the European Commission, British Council, Creative Scotland, New Media Scotland, and the Danish Arts Council. His projects have been reviewed on BBC, Reuters, Wired, RTVE, El Pais, Weave, Create Digital Music, We Make Money Not Art, Rhizome, and Digicult.
More info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/