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The Music Tech Fest's Hack Camp
Last week saw three days fully dedicated to assembling people with a passion for Music Tech. The Music Tech Fest, Co-organised by Ravensbourne college and tech design start-up Stromatolite, has …
Max MSP London meet up
On Thursday 24th of May 2012, the Music Hackspace is hosting its first Max MSP meet up at 7pm. Max MSP is a music programming environment that allows to bring …
An Interview of Tasos Stamou, by Blanca Regina
I interviewed Tasos Stamou ( b. Athens ,1978) after the presentation of his work at the Music Hackspace, the 17th May 2012. When did you start doing circuit bending and what …
Rebel Technology: Open Source Synth Modules
We’re on the cusp of officially launching the Rebel Technology website. Sneak previews available now! The first module we’re publishing is the Euclidean Sequencer, which some of you have seen and …
Audiovisual synthesisers: Tasos Stamou
Thursday 17th of May 2012, 7pm. Tasos Stamou will present his work on audiovisual synthesisers. Tasos Stamou, an electroacoustic composer, free improviser and instrument maker will present some of his …
Synthesizer Day
Big thanks to everyone who came to talk to us yesterday, and big ups to Andreas Schneider for organising the event! We had a great time, and got to talk to other makers such as vxxy and AlphaSphere. We also … Continue reading →
Rebel Technology at Rough Trade
Rebel Technology will be at Rough Trade East on May 2nd, showing the new Stoicheia module. We’re taking part in their Synthesizer Day organised with Schneiders Buero. Our modules will be set up in Schneider’s TestSalon, and you will be … Continue reading →
Howling Monkey: Curating in the Music Space
Thursday 3rd of May 2012, 7pm. Ben Bleet will present the activities of Howling Monkey: creating and curating in the music space. Ben will discuss the innovation opportunities in the areas …
Chapeau to Music Hack Paris
What happens to a charming Parisian factory when it stops making cardboard? It hosts a Hackathon! They called it Music Hack Paris. Although cardboard was not involved, laptops weren’t the …
SOLARIS: visual vinyls
Thursday 26th of April 2012. The SOLARIS project uses painted discs to create music and is led by French artist Thierry Guibert. Thierry crafts beautiful graphics on vinyls. These vinyls …
Record and Ride
Last week, we received a visit by Nicholas O’Brien, a sound engineer embarking on a cycling journey in Europe to record artists along the way. We hope to see Nicholas …
Introduction to SuperCollider
SuperCollider is an interpreted music environment developed by James McCartney in 1996. It was open-sourced in 2002 when McCartney joined Apple. Since then, SuperCollider has been adopted by a growing …
"A Hackday" by Pauline de Zeeuw
Pauline filmed this short documentary at the last Music Hackday in London, December 2011.This documentary reflects well the atmosphere of Music Hackdays as well as that of the Hackspace. Well …
Recycled Tunes: making hits out of Rubbish
On Thursday 22nd of March, Martin Malii-Karlsson will present “Recycled Tunes: making hits out of Rubbish” To promote sustainability and recycling to young people using music and social media. We want …
PatchWerk Radio: Generative Internet Radio
On Thursday the 15th of March, Guy John will talk and answer questions about PatchWerk Radio. PatchWerk Radio is a generative music internet radio station that streams constantly changing audio …
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 …