Join a community of open-source creative coders with monome norns Customise your live performance rig and engage in a powerful open-source toolkit made for musicians, with monome norns. Check out our on-demand and live courses dedicated to programming and playing scripts from others on norns. Read More
Meet the reviewers who evaluated the MIDI Innovation Awards entries! Athan Billias, COO MIDI Association Ned Rush, artist and Music Hackspace workshop leader Sam Topley, PhD student and Music Hackspace workshop leader Brett Porter, MIDI Association board member, senior software engineer, Art & Logic Zhao Yitian, CEO of CME, MIDI Association board member Lawrence Levine, CEO of Horn Lele Parravicini, CTO Audio Modeling Ben Schogler, Founder, Playable... Read More
2nd December 2020 For immediate release Music Hackspace, the MIDI Association, and NAMM to host the first MIDI Innovation Awards during Believe in Music week, January 2021. London, England – Music Hackspace, the MIDI Association, and NAMM are proud to announce the first MIDI Innovation Awards, a showcase of grassroots music innovation, hosted during NAMM’s Believe in Music Week. MIDI has been at the centre of music technology innovation since 1983,... Read More
Enter our making competition to win a workshop voucher worth £150 and see your work promoted in our channels. We want to see examples of your music tech hacks, new inventions, homemade sound devices, DIY instruments and projects. Upload your photos or short videos to Twitter or Facebook using #musichackcomp Entries will be shortlisted by social media likes. The competition closes on Monday 1st of August and the winner will be announced on Thursday 4th of August. Please... Read More
Terms and Conditions 1.How to Enter 1.1 To join the competition entrants will need to upload a photo or video/vines etc to Facebook or Twitter using the unique hashtag #musichackcomp. We want to see examples of your homemade devices making sounds, DIY instruments and music making projects. 1.2 The entrants may enter more than once, each posting counts as a separate entry 2.When to Enter and Who Can Enter 2.1 The competition opens on Friday 17th July 2016 and closes Monday 1st... Read More
As part of our ongoing collaboration with Sónar Barcelona to promote networking opportunities among related communities around music and the creative industries, we are offering to our community 20 Delegate Passes with 20% discount to attend Sonar 2016 ( promotional price: 200 euros / price without promotion: 250 euros). Delegate Passes give full access to Sónar+D&Sónar. Contact promotions@sonar.es to get your promotional pass. This special deal is valid... Read More
SIGNUM_Portable Analog Instrumentation Amplifier from animazon on Vimeo. In this workshop participants will build and take home their own Signum device, which is designed to experiment with hidden signals and usually un-hearable sounds. The device includes a transducer, optical, coil, germanium diode and small loop antenna that will allow you to both to listen to and record the sounds hidden in the electromagnetic spectrum. The workshop will also cover the use of the electromagnetic... Read More
An evening of extreme sonic presentations, of extreme sounds made with extreme DIY electronics. Spanish circuit bent orchestra LCDD will be leading a fiesta of handmade live electronics, musical cynicism and playful noise, followed by solos of circuit bending master and free improviser Tasos Stamou and Lithuanian sonic performance star Arma Agharta. When: May 23d @ 20:00 – 23:00 Where: 132 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY BUY TICKETS http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319341 More... Read More
Date: Thursday 2nd of April, 6.30pm Location: Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, E2 9DS “Ether Pad is in the final stages of development. It is an innovative instrument that gives drummers and percussionists a new way to control reverse sample playback in real-time. During this presentation, those attending will have the opportunity to test and play a prototype. This presentation will be particularly useful for musicians who choose to perform with electronic drums/pads... Read More
Join a LAB with deaf dancer Chisato Minamimura to consider visual representation of sound for Chisato, to experiment with a number of sonic/digital elements and their responses to her new score ‘Time’ which she will develop in the next few months with her dancers. This new work explores time within sound & music from a deaf perspective and cultural differences between Japan & UK including the Japanese concept of MA (negative space). The work will be developed... Read More
