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

Musica Dispersa is a London based platform which operates internationally and is dedicated to the dissemination and diffusion of experimental music through a wide range of projects in radio broadcast, cassette releases, live events and exhibitions (more info www.musicadispersa.co.uk). When: March 26 @ 18:30 – 23:00 Where: Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, E2 9DS Entrance: £4 Following recent collaborations and a residency in Haggerston, Musica Dispersa are coming to... Read More

Nuno Correia will present his artistic work and research on audiovisual performance. The first part of the presentation will focus on his artistic work with Video Jack (www.videojackstudios.com), which was the subject of his PhD thesis and book: “Interactive Audiovisual Objects”. The second part will focus on work with tools for audiovisual performance: the vector graphics oriented AudioVisual Vector eXchange – AVVX (www.avvx.org) and the recent project on generative... Read More

Date: Thursday 26th February, 6.30pm Location: Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS “The project revolves around trying to make sound using analogue optoelectronics. We have a plan to build a keyboard that allows light to filter through etched microscope slides that traverse the light beam as they are pressed, with a sensor that will pick up the variances in the light that passes that will create a unique tone to the sound. We also hope to make spinning... Read More

With the new Embedded residency with Sound and Music for Spring 2015 announced, we welcome you to meet our previous composer in residence Tim Murray-Browne. When: Thursday 19th of February, 6.30pm Where: Unit 15, 5-10 Corbridge Crescent London E2 9DS Tim Murray-Browne will speak about his ten month residency at the Music Hackspace through Sound and Music’s Embedded Composer programme,. This composer in residency programme resulted in The Cave of Sounds, an interactive... Read More

This Thursday’s event at the Music Hackspace will feature Andrew McPherson talking about the results of his EPSRC-funded project Hackable Instruments, summarising the results from both the study of appropriation and the D-Box study, along with a live demo of the D-Box and a discussion of future directions. When: Thursday 12th February, 6.30pm Where: Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent London E2 9DS The Hackable Instruments project (Victor Zappi and Andrew McPherson, Queen... Read More

This will be our first AGM at the space, and an opportunity to review how we’re doing and take actions for the activities for the rest of the year. The Music Hackspace Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday 12th Mar 2015 18:30 – 20:00, at Music Hackspace Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent London E2 9DS. AGM agenda: – Review of mission and objectives – Accounts and legal structure report – Seminar program report – Workshops programme... Read More

For this week’s presentation, Gawain Hewitt from Drake Music will host a session introducing the work being done by their Research and Development department to encourage and support the development of new Accessible Musical Technology (AMT). The presentation will take place at our new space (Unit 15, 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS) this Thursday 5th of February from 7.30pm. “The social model of disability says that disability is caused by the way society... Read More