WHEN: Thursday 6th November 2014, 7pm

WHERE: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, London

WHAT: Camden based trio Pocketclub will present an immersive live music project they’re preparing for the Roundhouse in February 2015. As part of this project, they’re looking to collaborate with a Digital Artist/Hacker. The project will be culminating at the Roundhouse in Camden, with a scratch run at the Axis Arts Centre in Cheshire. Partners of the project include Sound Connections/RBS/The Black Cultural Archives/Manchester Metropolitan University and emerging filmmakers, lighting & sound engineers.

 

Music Hackspace Performances Night

• When:  Thursday 23rd, 20.00- 23.oo h
• Where: TROYGANIC 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton E2 8DP
• Free Entry

• TIMING:

  8.30 – TIM YATES & SAIF BUNNI
  9.15 – FINGERHUT FEAT. TERRY DAY
  10.15 – ANDREW PAGE & BLANCA REGINA

Curated by Blanca Regina, the evening features:

TIM YATES & SAIF BUNNI
An improvisation by Tim Yates and Saif Bunni. These musicians and sound and artists run ‘Acoustic Hacking‘a workshop driven meetups that happen the last Sunday of each month at the London Hackspace.

ANDREW PAGE & BLANCA REGINA

Enseñanzas solares is a sonic exploration, performance and improvisation that looks at the Sun, the star, the data and the drone. Featuring Blanca Regina in voice, objects and visuals and Andrew Page with tapeloops and reverbs. Some of the the loops are created from NASA recordings of Saturn, Alpha Centauri, the Diamond Star and GD358, as well as the Sun.

FINGERHUT FEAT. TERRY DAY
Martin Klang (electronics, saxophone); David Kaplowitz (saxophones, keys); Paul Lucas (electric guitar) and Ryan Sarver (electric bass) and the legendary Terry Day on drums.

Fingerhut play improvised music with various standard and custom built electric and acoustic instruments and devices. They like to invite other musicians, wizards and deadbeats to join them to create new sounds. Drawing on free jazz and post rock, experimental noise and more, no two performances are quite alike. No rules and no repeats.

 

 

Andrew Ostler of Expert Sleepers Ltd will present the ‘disting’, a hackable Eurorack format synthesiser module, this Thursday 9th of October at 7pm, at Troyganic Cafe (132 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP).

The disting is based around a commodity PIC32 microcontroller and an audio codec, providing the ability to run surprisingly complex processes on control voltages and audio at high audio sample rates. As shipped the module provides 16 algorithms (selected from a front panel knob), but the microcontroller can be flashed with user code. Expert Sleepers have provided an open source code framework to facilitate this.

Andrew will present an overview of the hardware and software design, and demonstrate the code framework. Attendees are invited to bring along their favourite algorithm for a little live coding demo!

 

We are excited to welcome Metal artist-in-residence Jack James who will be hosting with us an informal ‘sharing event’ of his new piece Temporary Local Broadcast.

When: Thursday 18th September 7pm

Where: Troyganic Cafe, 132 Kingsland Road, corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY

Entrance: Free!

This is an opportunity to hear some of the recordings that Jack has made for the project, all of which have been produced in Peterborough, along with a presentation and discussion.

Temporary Local Broadcast began with a series of recorded conversations in July and August 2014 exploring Peterborough’s multicultural community. Jack James, Metal’s artist-in-residence, walked around the diverse Lincoln Road in Peterborough with his audio recorder and registered distinct talks with the city residents.
By the 20th of August the first sharing event took place at one of the most visited places by the artist – Sado Café – a little Portuguese coffee in the middle of Lincoln Road, where Jack shared some of the stories and recordings done so far.

On the 31st of August a hyper-local FM radio transmission happened where Jack invited the listeners to take part on a shared tuning in event with their own radios or car systems at Chaffeurs Cottage, where Metal is based in Peterborough. In this broadcast he presented a piece made through the conversations recorded in the project. A simultaneous broadcast occurred from Resonance104.4FM and Peterborough FM.

An FM radio installation broadcasting excerpts from conversations recorded as part of Temporary Local Broadcast is at Chaffeurs Cottage until the 3rd of October. An online version of this installation and a project archive is available at www.temporarylocalbroadcast.co.uk

Temporary Local Broadcast has been commissioned by Metal and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Join us tomorrow Wednesday 3rd from 7pm at Troganic Cafe. In the meeting we will go through the final preparations for our participation in the TedXTeen conference, which will take place in London on October 11th 2014.

When: Wednesday 3rd September, 7pm
Where: 132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY

Come around if you would like to volunteer to support and join us in the event!

The TEDx Program is a platform created by TED and TEDxTeen is an all day conference put on by We Are Family Foundation, taking place in New York City. This October they are bringing the 6th TEDxTeen Conference to London at the O2 Indigo Theatre.

TEDxTeen is coming to London on October 11th 2014 and Music Hackspace has been invited to host a dedicated demo booth and feature in the conference speaker sessions.

The TEDx Program is a platform created by TED and TEDxTeen is an all day conference put on by We Are Family Foundation, taking place in New York City. This October they are bringing the 6th TEDxTeen Conference to London at the O2 Indigo Theatre.

If you have a project and would like to take part, contact curators@stagingmhs.local, we will be happy to answer any queries. Please remember when submitting that we are looking for projects that are ready for demonstration and are engaging; these can be ‘work in progress’ or finalised pieces/products.

The theme of the conference is “Remarkable Disruptors”:

“The world is changing faster than ever. Affecting every aspect of our lives. Business models and jobs that we couldn’t have imagined ten years ago, are now the norm. Boundaries are blurring, everyone can play a role.

Much of the change is driven by technology. Disrupting conventions to allow us to live in new ways, try new things and make stuff more easily than ever before.

Young people understand this better than anyone, being the first generation to be younger than the Internet. Many of these young people are driving the change, proving that if you’re good enough you’re old enough.

We challenge you to see the world through their lens. To see not just the future they are building, not just the new norms they are creating, but the now that they have already impacted.

Pay attention. Life is moving quicker than ever. With each blink our world shifts.

Make. It. Count.“

WHEN: Thursday 21st August 2014, 7pm

WHERE: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, near Hoxton station, at the corner of Cremer street.

WHAT: Kinetronic is a project exploring the possibilities of gestural control over a music performance. The installation uses kinect sensor for motion capturing and custom made software written in max/msp/jitter, consisting of two parts of the software one for music performance and the other one for visuals generated from the incoming audio.

WHO: 

Ivaylo Chichanov (from http://www.ivaylo.info/)
Email: ivaylo [at] ivaylo.info

I am a multidisciplinary artist, designer and developer with strong interest in physical computing, virtual and augmented reality and interface design within the context of live audio-visual performance and interactive installations. 
I am also a musician, producer and sound engineer known under the artistic pseudonym Electronic Element. 
As Electronic Element I have been performing and producing music for over 8 years and have played at all major clubs and festivals in Bulgaria and have performed on several festivals in Europe some of which include Exit Festival (Serbia), Amsterdam Dance Event (Netherlands), Spirit of Burgas (Bulgaria) etc. 
I have recently started a collaboration with DoubleGanger (artist and performer) and we are currently working on several records which will be released this summer on Sci Fi Records.
I am also founder and manager of Underground Festival in city of Pomorie, Bulgaria. Underground Festival is a small non for profit, free beach festival giving platform to the latest up and coming artists in Bulgaria and have successfully run for 6 years.
In 2006 I co-founded 8311 Music (record label) with my friend Manol Manolov and managed it until 2009 when I moved to London.
I did a short course in Art and Design in Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London and got my diploma in 2010 with distinction.
Same year I started a BA (Hons) Digital Media Design course in London College of Communications, University of the Arts London and I graduated in June 2014.
While studying in University I worked for Racam Studio as a web designer and developer for an year in 2011. Shortly after that I started working as a sound editor for Reprezent Radio 107.3 FM in Peckham in London.
In December 2012 I founded Sci Fi ltd. an umbrella company for Sci Fi Records (record label and recording studio), Sci Fi Design (in-house design studio) and Sci Fi Technology (software development).
Shortly after I founded the company several artists signed deals with the record label and have released 6 albums. The launch of the Sci Fi Technology is expected in late 2014 as we are working on several software products and also negotiating a partnership with a hardware developer for euro rack synthesizer modules.
In 2014 I finished an online Music Business course at Berklee College of Music gaining a Honor Code certificate.
I am also member of the Music Hackspace in London.

We are excited to present for the first time in our blog the Acoustic Hacking Meetups.

Led by Saif Bunni, Acoustic Hacking are workshop driven meetups that happen the last Sunday of each month at the London Hackspace. We meet to share, discuss, make, explore and collaborate together to make sounds! We have a focus on the hands-on and the physical, and to create objects and devices that make music and sound, either manually or without our interference. Join us on this journey to explore the hidden world of acoustics!

For this month’s meetup, we have a guest, Tom Fox from Vulpestruments, who works with upcycling materials to create instruments. Come and join us to have a chat, maybe bring your project so we can discuss, introduce yourself and meet others around the space!

What: Acoustic Hacking Meetup
When: 7pm, Sunday 27th July (Last Sunday of Each Month)
Where: London Hackspace

Visit the blog for latest news. Any queries email acoustichacking@gmail.com
Looking forward to see you there. Thank you.

 

About our guest: Tom Fox is the owner of Vulpestruments, a UK-based instrument design company which specializes in upcycled materials. Tom has undertaken numerous commissions from performing artists internationally. He has also had articles published on MAKE online and worked with the Prostate Cancer UK charity to produce Moustache-shaped instruments for the Movember fundraising campaign. He currently works for the Royal College of Music, London.

 

When: Saturday 21st June, 4pm-3am

Where: The Hive Project Unit 2A Queen’s Yard, White Post Lane; Hackney Wick E9 5EN

Theatre Entrance: Register for theatre section day ticket in advance, or £3 on the door.

Bar Entrance: Free

æstival: sound art and music is an all day programme proposing many and various ways of understanding music and sonic arts, featuring 24 artists, from artistic and experimental to the most organic and visceral music makers. With a common focus in music, sound art and other formats of audiovisual expression, the day will showcase a set of performances, installations, concerts and DJ sets.

Theatre (£3 on the door):
thickear (16.00-17.30)
0AH (18.00-18.40)
Harmegeddon (19.00-19.40)
Tom Richards (19.45-20.20)
Steve Beresford, Terry Day & Blanca Regina (21.00-21.30)
Syd Kemp (22.15-22.50)

Bar (free entry):
Shelley Parker
Miguel Colmenares
Cave of Sounds presents Animal Kingdom by Daniel Lopez (installation)
OSCILLA by Andrea Santini (installation)
Jack James (participatory performance)
Tropicana
Camila Fuchs
Antonio Mingot

Curated by Tadeo Sendon and Blanca Regina in collaboration with MILAGRO, thickear, Music Hackspace and The Hive Project, we hope you can join us in this journey for the first day of summer. Many thanks to all the artist involved who have made this initiative possible.