Miha Ciglar presented his interface Syntact™ at the Music Hackspace on Thursday 21st of June 2012. To feel the sound, in this occasion meant to place your hand in a focal point where ultrasonic transducers literally blow acoustic energy on your skin. Similar to AM radio, sound waves are amplitude modulated on ultrasound, thus the ultrasound carries the acoustic information inaudibly. The Syntact interface was developed from Miha’s interest in receiving tactile feedback... Read More

The Music Hackspace is teaming with Sound and Music to host a composer residency from September 2012. “Embedded is Sound and Music’s artist development programme. Funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Embedded places a selection of artists from a range of disciplines into real-world artistic contexts with leading national creative organisations. Aimed at talented artists at an early stage in their career, Embedded is a bespoke programme, providing practical hands-on... Read More

The Audio Podcast interviewed Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut about the Music Hackspace on Monday 25th of June 2012. The interview was part of their 61st show, which is recorded weekly by Scott Hewitt and Samuel Freeman, PhD students from Huddersfield university. The podcast – subtitled All About Audio –  lasts 50 minutes and covers in details a wide array of new technologies and innovations. Follow them on Twitter @theaudiopodcast. The interview is visible here and the... Read More

Robert and Jason, the team behind the new modular synthesizer documentary I Dream of Wires, came to HQ on the weekend. They travelled all the way from the US to talk to us! Actually that’s not true – they came here to interview our friend Dom Butler from Factory Floor. Nice people that they are, after seeing some of what we do here they agreed to point the camera our way. Hopefully the footage will be up on their website at some point. It looks like it will be a fantastic... Read More

We went with the London Music Hackspace to the BEAM festival this weekend. Had a great time, met lots of lovely people and saw some amazing performances! On the Sunday we played a set with the Hackspace Big Band, which was a lot of fun: Stoicheia and a few prototypes featuring as part of the improvised performance. Massive thanks to Atau Tanaka and the organisers, hope to enjoy much more of this in the future.  Read More

Online Sales We made an announcement yesterday on the venerable muffwiggler forum to introduce Stoicheia. It was greeted with such enthusiasm that we decided we should make a few modules available for immediate purchase. We have therefore put a small number of Stoicheia modules … Continue reading → Stoicheia Video Here’s a user video of our Euclidean Sequencer – Jim Credland rockin’ out with one of the very first prototypes! Euclidean Sequencer... Read More

Here’s a user video of our Euclidean Sequencer – Jim Credland rockin’ out with one of the very first prototypes!  Read More