Simon Schäfer: artist talk, circuit bending
Thursday 10th of January 2013, 7:30pm
Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY View Map
Simon Schäfer takes things apart.
Instruments, video hardware, clothes, sanity, furniture, information, meaning, televisions, style, sense, religion, politics, computers, noise, silence, chaos, order.
Results include sculpture, installation, sound, live video.
He does audiovisual live performances as ‘der Warst’ and has invented a language not meant for communication.
http://www.der-warst.de
http://www.schaefersimon.de
Bent FX
After having been through the usual chinese toys, casio keyboards and drum computers, my main interest with hacking audio equipment has currently shifted towards circuit bending multi effects pedals and units.
The talk will be an overview of FX units I’ve bent, including a Kaoss Pad KP2 and several members of the ZOOM 50X family. I will demonstrate how versatile and intuitive and awesome they are either in their intended use as effects or as standalone instruments. Also, I can show a bit of the insides and how the mods work.
CHEAP, FAT and OPEN, embedded synthesiser talk with Jacob Sikker Remin
Thursday 3rd of January 2013, 7pm
At Troyganic
Jacob is an artist, curator and project leader. Engineer, designer and gameboy musician. The work of Jacob Sikker Remin (JSR) spreads over many disciplins, but always focuses on the space between people and technology.
Since 2009 JSR has exhibited internationally at NOTCH09+10+11 in Beijing, China, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, MFRU in Maribor, Slovenia, and at Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway.
In Denmark JSR is represented by Black Box Gallery.
I’d love to meet the music hack space hackers, as i am developing the CHEAP, FAT and OPEN arduino based synthesizer. something which could relate a lot to some of the projects i see you working on.
a bit about the synth:
CHEAP, FAT and OPEN (CFO) is an open source synthesizer, mixed with a stylophone, a gameboy, a circuit bent toy, and then some software too. it is open source and designed to be OPEN and hackable.
currently i am working on developing a modular shield version of the synth.
http://8bitklubben.dk/project/CFO
https://www.facebook.com/groups/167642483257322/
Music Hackspace Performances Event ∞5∞
Friday 4th of Jan 2013
20:00 – 23:30,at TroyGanic, 132 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY London
Entrance: suggested donation 5 pounds
Music Hackspace Peformances night ∞5∞ presents an event of performances with sonic, visual acts and improvisation. The first of 2013 curated by Blanca Regina and Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut includes performances by:
Tamer Karaman
” Tamer’s performance is inspired by the phenomenon of memory. The non-linear way (memory) that our brain makes sense of our linear journey (life) is of eternal fascination & wonder. During extended periods of meditation/hypnotherapy or any other activities involving the emptying of the mind, the constant brainwave activity never ceases but brings with it ideas, concepts and memories in waves.
Tamer recommends that you close your eyes & relax during his performance in order to allow the sounds, the music and the vibes to take you on a mental journey…in every sense of the word”
raxil4 – : “Droning dead stations, lumbering low-end static, and piercing mosquito whines combine with long lost choirs of marooned AM signals. Buzzing street lamps, the echoing yawn of flexing metal, and ambient
bleep-scapes are all shrouded in a thick fog of tape hiss and delay. You’re working the night-shift and drinking beef tea in the abandoned drop forge.”
Leafcutter John & Lady Hackspace
Cassiel
Dor Wand Hacked worldbits!
Special performance by Dr. Benway
Visuals live art by
whiteemotion
Available Limited screenprinted Music hackspace T-shirts by Blanca Regina
Music Hackspace Christmas party
Thursday 20th of December 2012 from 19:30 to 00:00
at TroyGanic, 132 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY London, E
The Music Hackspace welcomes you to its last event of the year 2012, a night of performances. To celebrate an abundant year of music, improvisation, hacking, sound and visual arts, we invite you to join our biggest night to date, featuring a record number of acts.
There will be food, drinks and the convivial atmosphere of our beloved Troyganic Cafe in Hoxton. From 19:30 to 24:00 improvisation, unusual constellations and unexpected acts include the following:
Burat
Bioni Samp and Tom Webster
John Garcia Rueda
Martin Klang and Blanca Regina
raxil4 featuring King Sara on musical saw
Cassiel
Murat, Abu and Blanca Regina
Left Hands Cut off the Right
Tasos Stamou & Martin Klang
Ladyhackspace & Hackman
Bas Vellekoop
David Kaplowitz
Dinnoise
Visuals by : whiteemotion , VJ Hash and Jai Rafferty
Master of ceremonies: Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Unexpected constellations and participants
Limited edition of Music Hackspace t-shirts screenprinted by Blanca Regina
Free Entrance
A night of performances, Thursday 13th of December 2012
Thursday 13/12/2012, 7pm, at Troyganic
Desmond Dodechaedron, Ross Knipe and Ladyhackspace
raxil4 and Left Hand Cuts *Off The Right
Dinnoise
Kacper Ziemianin
Andrew Ostler
John García Rueda
Jay Rafferty
+Limited edition of Music Hackspace t-shirts and other screen printed goodies by Blanca Regina
Artist talk by Kacper Ziemianin
Thursday 6th of December 2012, 7pm.
Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY London.
Kacper Ziemianin presents his sound practice and some of his instruments, interfaces and experiments.
Kacper Ziemianin – ‘Cymatic Clock’ from kaziem on Vimeo.
Cymatic Clock: under each of the round containers with water there is a speaker. Each speaker produces a sine tone of a frequency that depends directly on the time at a given moment. The time is projected onto containers. The sound makes the water vibrate and reflections of the water create an interesting result. In order to make the passing time more intensive, minutes get louder with every second.
Max MSP meet-up
Thursday 29/11/2012, 7pm, Max MSP meet up at Troyganic
132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street. London E2 8DY
OpenNight #13: an evening of performances with OpenLab
Thursday, 22nd Nov 2012 , 7-11pm, free entrance
The Music Hackspace is proud to welcome OpenLab , a collective of artists and developers promoting OpenSource work. All artists performing on the night have released part or all of their tools as open source software or hardware.
“Can you hear this noise?”, an Artist talk by xname
Thursday 15th of November 2012, 7pm.
Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY London
xname is a multimedia artist born in Milan and currently based in London. Her live performances are developed through the use of artificial lights and home-made micro-oscillators which generate sound waves. The light, transformed in electric current, passes through the circuit and exits in the shape of a sonic frequency, while the sound, modulated by manipulating the light sources, becomes tactile and synesthetic.
The result is an hypnotic spectacle dominated by stroboscopy and industrial and noise-techno frequencies. Recently she has been experimenting with the effects of network lag and time delay on amplified sounds that, streamed to different servers, feed back to the speakers after travelling through the Internet.
This presentation is about the pleasure to listen to sound and generate it with unconventional instruments.
A night of performance, Thursday 8th of Nov 2012
A night of performance
Thursday 8th of November 2012
Troyganic
132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY
Start at 7:30pm.
Yps Mael (Electronics, voice and objects)
Les Hutchins (Supercollider)
Blanca Regina aka whiteemotion (Electronics, objects, voice and visuals)
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut (Solaris)
Andrew Ostler (modular synths) + Darkroom
Tom Webster (modular synths)
Bioni Samp (hive synth)
Kacper Ziemanin (modified toys/hacked and bent toys/circuits)
Tasos Stamou (hacked toys and more) and Martin Klang
Ivaylo Chichanov aka Electronic Element
Andrew Page (cd players & reverb)
Visuals by nullØbject
Music Hackspace Big Band