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din is noise: a Free software musical instrument
On Thursday 1st of March, Jagannathan will present din is noise: a Free software musical instrument. From Jag’s website: “If Puredata and Supercollider are two synths, din is a synth …
Augmented Piano: Andrew McPherson
Andrew McPherson (Queen Mary, University of London) will present his work extending and enhancing the piano keyboard. The presentation will include a live demo of a multi-touch capacitive sensor system …
Traditional analogue synthesis systems (Tom Webster and Peter Foreman)
The evening (9/02/2012, 7pm) will be a retrospective look at ‘traditional’ analogue synthesis systems, with some demonstrations and comparison between a pre-configured vintage hardware analogue synthesizer (probably a Roland SH101) …
Bioni Samp: Hive Synthesiser
Bioni Samp demonstrates his Hive Synthesiser on 16/02/2012, 7pm. Talks about its making, modular 6 oscillator design and its use in creating his experimental electronic music. ***Numerology of bees and beehive habitat …
Ariel Elkin: AriVibes, a musical augmenter for iOS
AriVibes is an iOS app designed to enable users to musically transform the sounds of physical objects. In other words, it is a portable, self-contained augmented reality system that allows …
90MIN SONGWRITING CHALLENGE 19/01/2012
Tonight we had our second songwriting challenge. Two teams of music hackers who’ve never worked together before. 90 mins to write a song…. Here’s what happened! Team 1: Ariel, Bushra, Jean-Baptist > …
Enrico Bertelli and David Ibbett: percussion live electronics
Enrico and David are classically trained composers. Enrico has been inspired by Xenakis and performs regularly compositions by Steve Reich. David studied composition at Cambridge and together they composed musical …
Xmas Present Show and Tell
Music hackers were invited to share and enjoy their Christmas presents and projects with the group. Here are a selection: Guy’s Tenori-on Guy demoed his new Tenori-on. Ten minuts later …
90min Songwriting Challenge 23/12/2011
Tonight we had our first ever songwriting challenge. Two teams of music hackers who’ve never worked together before. 90 mins to write a song…. Here’s what happened! 90 Min Challenge 23/12/2011 …
Marek Bereza: 5 audio projects
Marek started doing audio in his teens. At 14, he wanted to use pedals and started making his own ones! Then he wanted a guitar, so what did he …
Michael Page: hardware step sequencer and machines
Michael brought an impressive collection of home made hardware machines built to make sounds. Michael Page The Victorian Synthesizer The circuit bent Bontempi toy synthesizer bent toy synth Bent toy …
Enrico Bertelli
Enrico Bertelli PhD candidate in Contemporary Performance – Percussion and Electronics. Website. Deeply interested in alternative performance solutions, focussed on the theatricality of the percussive gesture. The regular performances in various …
Inspirational Audio Projects
Creative Applications is one of the few blogs that I follow. Showing a wide range of interesting experiments and installations. A fair few of them happen to be sound related. …
Music Hack Day report
A few of us attended Music Hack Day, held at the Barbican this week end. Martin had taken some gear and soldering irons from the space that were put to …
Mick Grierson: Maximilian and OpenFrameworks
Thursday 24/11/2011 Maximilian is an open source C++ toolkit for audio dsp. https://github.com/micknoise/Maximilian http://maximilian.strangeloop.co.uk Maximilian is an open source, MIT licensed C++ audio synthesis library. It’s designed to be cross …
Electronic music legends are back
I’m sure that many of you are just like me. “If I only had [insert piece of gear of your dreams] My music would be so much better”. The grass …
Martin Klang and Adrian Gierakowsky
Thursday 17/11/2011 Martin presented Taquito, an electronic wind instrument. Adrian presented a piece of software, which he has been developing since May 2010 and a multitouch iPad controller, which was especially designed …
Tim Murray-Browne and Tiff Chan: Impossible Alone
IMPOSSIBLE ALONE is an interactive installation where music, movement and video-games collide, created in collaboration with Tiff Chan from Central School of Speech and Drama. A vast soundscape awaits discovery, …
Sam Duffy: Augmented Saxophone
Thursday 03/11/2011 Sam Duffy is a saxophone player with audio engineering experience, currently undertaking research on the Media and Arts Technology PhD programme at Queen Mary University. She has just finished a project with British Telecom …
Arduino based Harmonic Clock project
Thursday 27/10/2011, Filip (Zambari) Filip Tomaszewski aka Zambari is an audiovisual artist, working in the fields of live video, experimental electronic music, and creating workflows and tools for live and …