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.
A night of site-related sounds
Sprawl in collaboration with Music Hackspace and Strange Umbrellas presents a night of site-related sounds
Performances by:
murmer (Patrick McGinley, Framework radio)
http://www.murmerings.com/
Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina, Jack Goldstein
http://strangeumbrellassite.tumblr.com/
Matthias Kispert
http://www.matthiaskispert.com/
‘Twine’, a short film by Iris Garrelfs
http://irisgarrelfs.com/
Date: Thursday 20th March 2014
Time: 7pm – 11pm
VENUE:
TROYganic
132 Kingsland Road
London E2 8DY
ticket price: £5/3 concs
more info/further biographies: http://www.sprawl.org.uk/
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.
thickear, Sound Art Collective, Thursday 6th of March
When: Thursday 6th of March 2014, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London
Who: thickear
thickear is an artists’ collective comprising Geoff Howse, Jack James, Kevin Logan, and Tadeo Sendon, who explore contemporary themes through conceptual art and performance.
Originally interested in working within the medium of sound, thickear have expanded their practice to include visual art and performance. Their recent work has been concerned with the ethics of data collection and exchange, including the epic dystopian performance/installation Ministry of Measurement, a major feature of the Barbican Centre’s ‘Hack the Barbican’ season in 2013, and later reconceived as a small, approachable data exchange stand at the ICT and Art Connect conference in Lithuania.
What
Guiding us through their journey from Sound Art to new interdisciplinary fields, the collective will introduce the themes that will conform their next project Pink Sheet Method, which will be presented this spring at Future Everything (Manchester), ODI (London) and Lighthouse (Brighton).
Songwriting and Music Technology: Aimée Lê, 27/02/2014
When: Thursday 27th of February 2014, 7pm
Where: Troyganic Café, 132 Kingsland Road, London
Who:
Aimée Lê is a poet and artist of Vietnamese and American descent. She is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, in their practice-based programme.
What:
Aimée has been working on several different strands of music & performance. She was involved in hip-hop workshops in Chicago & produced her own songs using loops and diegetic sounds. She also co-leads an experimental songwriting workshop. Most of Aimée’s poetry involves live performance and vernacular language. Her current poetry project uses tape recordings to document family narratives from the Vietnam War. However, the technology she has used so far has been very bootleg (electric banjo made of coffee cans, recordings on her cell phone, etc.), and she is hoping to branch into engineering, building & programming sound equipment herself. All kinds of D-I-Y advice welcome!
Project M, Jean-Philippe Rio-Py, Thursday 20th of Feb 2014
When: Thursday 20th February 2014, 7:00pm
Where: Troyganic 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY
About Jean-Philippe
Jean-Philippe Rio-Py is known as a fantastic pianist, chosen at a young age to be a featured Steinway artist. He has performed at the Royal Opera House and opened the first night re-launch for the prestigious Arts Club in Mayfair. Jean-Philippe has composed music for labels such as Air-Edel, EMI and Warner, while some of his other works have recently been broadcasted worldwide, and featured in ad campaigns by Hulu, Samsung, Mercedes and many more.
The Project M
As a composer for films and production music, Jean-Philippe encounters the limitations of software instruments to reproduce the sounds of acoustic instruments, in particular string instruments. How to reproduce a string sound without hiring a violinist and going to the studio? Despite the great progress in digital audio to replicate acoustic sounds, it is still possible for a trained ear to distinguish a digitally created string instrument from a recording of the real instrument.
Jean-Philippe is in the early stages of addressing this problem, not by creating another software, but by creating a hardware to perform and amplify string sounds. Using real strings, a robotised bow and plectra, Project M will receive MIDI instructions to mechanically play string sounds, allowing for exact reproduction of acoustic recordings of strings.
Jean-Philippe has the passion and drive to take this project forward and he’s going to present his project to the Music Hackspace community, to receive feedback and create connections to build this ambitious music box.
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!