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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 …
Introduction to Pure Data by Andy Farnell
Pure Data is a visual environment for programming sound. Andy uses it for sound design and for teaching purposes. He finds it a very useful tool to teach secondary school …
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 …
Chris Jack: hydrophone recordings
On 20/10.2011, we had our first meeting wherre Chris Jack presented the results of a workshop on hydrophone recordings. Chris also demonstrated his project on brainwave music control (EEGs + …