Join us for the 2nd live show where members of the Music Hackspace community will perform, collaborate and be interviewed. 

Where to watch – 

Performance and interviews with: 

• Tobi Hunke: is a professional drummer and music producer. He is an educator and Max for live programmer who releases his work on the website AbletonDrummer.com . Tobi teaches drumming and music production to classes, as well as in one on one sessions. He has developed several Max for Live devices which are enabling drummers to play melodies and chords via acoustic/electronic drums which he is using for his own musical performances. https://blog.abletondrummer.com/about/ 
• Melody Loveless – will be sharing music that she made featuring live vocal sampling, Sonic Pi and Max/MSP. Melody is an artist, creative technologist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NYC. Her work ranges from live coding performance, generative sound installations, multisensory performance, and more. 
• Obscenity State: – Nilly Brook a musician, producer and audio-visual performer, will be performing 2 tracks from her yet to be released EP alongside a live audio-visual TouchDesigner performance. Nilly lectures various visual technologies across a number of institutions including: The National Film and Television School, Central Saint Martins, Wimbledon School of Art, London South Bank University.

Join the second in an occasional series that showcases musical and visual performances and collaborations from members of the Music Hackspace community. After each performance, the practitioners are interviewed about their methodology. Watch the event live from our social media channels. 

Showcase your work to the Music Hackspace community.

What is Jamspace?

Jamspace is an occasional / monthly series that showcases audio and visual performances and collaborations from members of the Music Hackspace community. We aim to create an online space in which community members can showcase their creative practice – be it musical, visual, audio, generative, traditional or experimental pieces.

How does it work?

Jamspace is hosted live by Music Hackspace Workshop Leader Ned Rush. Pre-composed performance videos are streamed and after each performance, the practitioners are interviewed live by Ned about their methodology. Anyone can watch the events live for free from our social media channels. Want to pose a question for the interview? You can ask questions in the chat on social media on the day. 

Can I play / get involved?

Want to show off your work for the next Jamspace? 

Jamspace is hosted by Music Hackspace Workshop Leaders Phelan Kane and Ned Rush. 

Your piece could be anything that demonstrates creative use of technology in the arts. Performance to a camera is not a prerequisite – screen capture, generative visuals, green screen, Max, Jitter, video filters, VJ, sonificiations, Ableton Live and /or TouchDesigner created content is perfect. Anyone from the community can submit, be it student, workshop leader or alumni! 

Tell us more info on this link and a member of the team will be in touch. 

We look forward to seeing your work.

Berlin Code of Conduct

We ask all participants to read and follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and contribute to creating a welcoming environment for everyone.

Workshop series 

Dates & Times: Mondays: 12th / 19th / 26th July and 2nd August 2021 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

Level: Previous experience with Gen~ is required i.e. completion of Getting Started With Gen~ workshop series

Example of topic that students are expected to be knowledgeable with before workshop:

• The Gen~ environment

• Basic audio processing in Gen~

• Gen~ operators and data management

Example of topic that students are expected to be knowledgeable with after workshop:

• Multi Tap Delay operator with cubic interpolation

• Biquad and filter coefficients

• Basic reverb structures

• Basic CodeBox

Develop a myriad of highly efficient signal processing operations in Max using Gen~. In this series of 4 workshops, you will apply signal processing techniques to build and code a variety of patches with Gen~ in Max. The course contains 20 plus custom-made example patches along with audio samples that you will build as exercises during the course and be able to use in your own projects.

Series Learning Outcomes

By the end of this series a successful student will be able to:

• Become confident with the Gen~ environment

• Build various audio processing tools via Gen~ (i.e. flanger, chorus, ping pong delays, multi tap delays, distortion)

• Construct Gen~ filter, equalization and reverb tools

• Become familiar with the Gen~ CodeBox environment

Series Study Topics

• The Gen~ environment

• Audio processing in Gen~

• Gen~ filter, equalization and reverb tools

• Gen~ CodeBox

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A web cam and mic

• A Zoom account

• Access to a copy of Max 8 (i.e. trial or full license)

About the workshop leader 

Phelan Kane is a Berlin & London based music producer, engineer, artist, developer and educator.

He is currently running the electronic music record label Meta Junction Recordings and the audio software development company Meta Function. He has released the Max for Live device synth Wave Junction in partnership with Sonicstate.

Monday 5th July 2021 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

Where to watch – Live on Music Hackspace’s YouTube and Facebook channels

Join the first in an occasional series that showcases musical and visual performances and collaborations from members of the Music Hackspace community. After each performance, the practitioners are interviewed about their methodology. Watch the event live from our social media channels. 

Wanna show off your work for the next Jamspace? Visit this link for more details:

Performance and interviews with: 

• Halina Rice

Halina Rice is a London-based electronic music producer and AV artist renowned for her vivid and eclectic style, using multiple effects and sampling to create original and experimental sounds. Uniting elements of ambient, electronic, percussive and bass music, her sound ranges from evocative and melancholic soundscapes to beat-driven, punchy tracks.

• Ross flight – granular synth with connect, fused with contemporary dance.

Artist Name: Boss Kite

Ross Flight works as a sound and interactive system designer for theatre, live art and contemporary performance.  He’s been releasing music sporadically as Boss Kite for 10 years, alongside working on an interactive performance system using skeleton tracking with an infrared camera, to perform live electronic music with the human body.

Links:

• http://www.rossflight.com/
• https://bosskite.bandcamp.com/

 

• Phelan Kane / Bileam Tschepe – AV collaboration and interview 

Phelan Kane is a Berlin & London based music producer, engineer, artist, developer and educator. 

He is currently running the electronic music record label Meta Junction Recordings and the audio software development company Meta Function. He has released the Max for Live device synth Wave Junction in partnership with Sonicstate.

• http://metafunction.co.uk/
• http://phelankane.com/bio/

Bileam Tschepe aka elekktronaut is a Berlin based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide

 

https://www.instagram.com/elekktronaut/

https://www.youtube.com/c/bileamtschepe/

https://elekktronaut.com/

What is Jamspace?

Jamspace

Showcase your work to the Music Hackspace community.

What is Jamspace?

Jamspace is an occasional / monthly series that showcases audio and visual performances and collaborations from members of the Music Hackspace community. We aim to create an online space in which community members can showcase their creative practice – be it musical, visual, audio, generative, traditional or experimental pieces.

How does it work?

Jamspace is hosted live by Music Hackspace Workshop Leader Ned Rush. Pre-composed performance videos are streamed and after each performance, the practitioners are interviewed live by Ned about their methodology. Anyone can watch the events live for free from our social media channels. Want to pose a question for the interview? You can ask questions in the chat on social media on the day. 

Can I play / get involved?

Want to show off your work for the next Jamspace? 

Jamspace is hosted by Music Hackspace Workshop Leaders Phelan Kane and Ned Rush. 

Your piece could be anything that demonstrates creative use of technology in the arts. Performance to a camera is not a prerequisite – screen capture, generative visuals, green screen, Max, Jitter, video filters, VJ, sonificiations, Ableton Live and /or TouchDesigner created content is perfect. Anyone from the community can submit, be it student, workshop leader or alumni! 

Tell us more info on this link and a member of the team will be in touch. 

We look forward to seeing your work.

Berlin Code of Conduct

We ask all participants to read and follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and contribute to creating a welcoming environment for everyone.

Level: Beginner (many fundamentals of SuperCollider will be covered)

SuperCollider is an amazing open-source audio synthesis and composition tool. In this workshop we will gain understanding of SuperCollider while making a musical drone – a minimal sustained sound with dynamic harmonic variations, in the vein of Sunn O))) or La Monte Young. We will also learn how to add drones to the monome norns in your own drone script.

Summary: 

• Learn how to use SuperCollider, starting from the basics

• Learn about sound synthesis with SuperCollider

• Become familiar with sound synthesis elements of SuperCollider

• Integrate a SuperCollider script into a monome norns script

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of SuperCollider code

• Understand SuperCollider UGens for audio synthesis and mixing

• Design your own drone which you can run from SuperCollider

• Add SuperCollider code into a norns script

Session Study Topics

• Basics of coding in SuperCollider

• Workings of audio synthesis UGens and how they can be combined

• Adding UGens for sound modulation

• Communication between norns scripts and SuperCollider

 

We have a number of sponsorship places,if the registration fee is a barrier to you joining the workshop please contact laura@stagingmhs.local.

 

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection
• A webcam and mic
• A Zoom account
• A norns device

About the workshop leader 

Zack Scholl is a Seattle, Washington based tinkerer who releases music and norns scripts as “infinite digits”.

He has been programming for 12 years as part of his job developing instrumentation and conducting experiments to understand biophysical properties of human proteins.

Date & Time: Thursday 17th June 2021 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

In this live stream we’ll talk with Dan Tepfer and hear more about his project Natural Machines.

In an age of unprecedented technological advancement, Dan Tepfer is changing the definition of what a musical instrument can be. Featured in an NPR documentary viewed by 1.5 million people, Dan Tepfer shows his pioneering skill in this concert by programming a Yamaha Disklavier to respond in real time to the music he improvises at the piano while another computer program turns the music into stunning animated visual art. Called “fascinating and ingenious” by Rolling Stone, the Natural Machines performance lives at a deeply unique intersection of mechanical and organic processes, making it “more than a solo piano album… a multimedia piece of contemporary art so well made in its process and components and expressed by such a thoughtful, talented, evocative pianist… that it becomes a complete experience” (NextBop).

Music Hackspace YouTube 

Overview of speaker

Dan Tepfer is a French-American jazz pianist and composer.

One of his generation’s extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging ambition, individuality, and drive—one “who refuses to set himself limits” (France’s Télérama). The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has performed around the world with some of the leading lights in jazz and classical music, and released ten albums of his own.

Tepfer earned global acclaim for his 2011 release Goldberg Variations / Variations, a disc that sees him performing J.S. Bach’s masterpiece as well as improvising upon it—to “elegant, thoughtful and thrilling” effect (New York magazine). Tepfer’s newest album, Natural Machines, stands as one of his most ingeniously forward-minded yet, finding him exploring in real time the intersection between science and art, coding and improvisation, digital algorithms and the rhythms of the heart. The New York Times has called him “a deeply rational improviser drawn to the unknown.”

Tepfer’s honors include first prizes at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition, the 2006 East Coast Jazz Festival Competition, and the 2007 American Pianists Association Jazz Piano Competition, as well as fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014), the MacDowell Colony (2016), and the Fondation BNP-Paribas (2018).

Date & Time: Saturday 12th June 4pm UK / 5pm Berlin / 8am LA / 11am NYC Meetup length 2-hours

Level: Open to all levels

Meetups are a great way to meet and be inspired by the TouchDesigner community.

What to expect? 

The meetup runs via Zoom and is 2-hours in length.

This session focuses on interactivity and will feature presentations from TouchDesigner experts.

Speakers:

Crystal Jow: Creating Meditative Spaces

Crystal will be presenting about using physical movement and mindfulness practice to fuel interactive experiences. Her goal is to bridge the understanding of consciousness with immersive design.

Crystal Jow is a Los Angeles-based experiential media designer and movement instructor that specializes in audience-driven immersive installations and meditative experiences that explore motion and media

Germán Greiner: Audiovisual Interactivity with TouchDesigner and LeapMotion

Germán will talk about how he created an “audiovisual” instrument in which he uses hand movements to control both visuals and sounds simultaneously.

Germán Greiner is a Colombian/American software engineer and digital artist currently based in Berlin. He is interested in making innovative experiences that incorporate real time audience interaction, live coding, new instruments and synesthetic audio/visual forms.

Nima Gazestani: Interactive Solutions for Brands

Nima will show a selection of his past design projects and collaborations focused on interactivity, explaining the development and showing the behind the scenes in TD.

Nima is an interaction designer, instructor and developer based in Milan who’s been working with TD since 2008, balancing his work between the ideation, research and development of interactive installations for brands and design studios, as well as working with design schools.

Following these presentations breakout rooms are created where you can:

• Talk to the presenters and ask questions

• Join a room on topics of your choice

• Show other participants your projects, ask for help, or help others out

• Meet peers in the chill-out breakout room

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection
• A Zoom account

Berlin Code of Conduct

We ask all participants to read and follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and contribute to creating a welcoming environment for everyone.

 Supported by

 

Level: Beginner – intermediate

Working with Instancing in TouchDesigner offers a vast variety of possible inputs and outcomes. In this workshop series, we’ll look at how to use SOPs, CHOPs and TOPs to create generative 2D and 3D textures, landscapes and shapes and how to include audio in your Instancing network.

Session Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session a successful student will be able to:

• Fully understand the concept and the possibilities of Instancing

• Use different data formats as a base for instancing

• Create generative 2D and 3D textures in TouchDesigner

• Include audio in the Instancing network

Session Study Topics

• The Copy SOP and SOP instancing

• CHOP and TOP instancing with focus on TOPs

• Rendering and Shading

• Simple audio integration into Instancing

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• TouchDesigner latest version

About the workshop leader

Bileam Tschepe aka elekktronaut is a Berlin based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.

Level: Beginner

By turning off the quantize function on his MPC  J Dilla ushered a new era of groove in electronic music production. Composing beats using both rushing and dragging feels while also making sure that notes remained musically coherent. This workshop intends to equip you with the skills to program hip hop beats and music ideas with a drunk drummerfeel inspired by producers and musicians such as J Dilla, Questlove, Flying Lotus, or Kaytranada.

Session Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session a successful student will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of pulse, subdivision and polyrhythms

• Acquire an understanding of the Groove

• Using the Groove Pool and Warping to program beats with both MIDI and audio content

• Identify & apply the right quantization values to apply to your programming

Session Study Topics

• Drum rack for composition

• Audio & MIDI warping for rhythm programming

• The groove pool and timing features

• Audio effects for enhancing rhythms

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A web cam and mic

• A Zoom account

• Access to a copy of Live Suite or Standard (i.e. trial or full license)

About the workshop leader: 

Simone Tanda is a musician, producer, multi-media artist, tech consultant, and educator.

Based across London & Berlin he is currently creating music for his own project, as well as multidisciplinary artists, film, and commercials.

Level: Some experience of norns required

In the second Flora workshop, you will build your own custom L-system algorithms using Flora’s UI and sequence the script using the preset (PSET) sequencer. The script’s community gardening feature will also be covered to give you a new way to share your sequences with a worldwide audience.

Flora on Vimeo

By the end of the second workshop, you will be able to:

• Design custom L-system algorithms with the Flora UI and maiden

• Share your custom L-system algorithms using Flora’s community gardening feature

• Sequence presets using Flora and other norns scripts

• Use Flora as a sequencer for your external synthesizer(s) using crow and/or midi

Session study topics

• L-system algorithm properties

• Sharing L-system algorithms

• Meta-sequencing Flora and other norns scripts

• Norns integration with midi and/or crow

 

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A norns device with Flora installed

• Optional: A midi-enabled controller and/or synthesizer

 

We have a number of sponsorship places available, if the registration fee is a barrier to you joining the workshop please contact laura@stagingmhs.local.

 

 

About the workshop leader

Jonathan Snyder is a Portland, Oregon based sound explorer and educator.

Previously, he worked for 22 years as a design technologist, IT manager, and educator at Columbia University’s Media Center for Art History, Method, and Adobe.

Level: Some experience of norns required

Flora is an L-systems sequencer and bandpass-filtered sawtooth engine for monome norns. In this workshop you will learn how L-system algorithms are used to produce musical sequences while exploring the script’s UI and features.

Flora on Vimeo

By the end of the first workshop, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Flora UI and parameters menus to build and perform your own compositions

• Create dynamically shaped, multinodal envelopes to modulate Flora’s bandpass-filtered sawtooth engine

• Build generative polyrhythms and delays into your compositions

• Use crow and/or midi-enabled controllers and synthesizers to play Flora

Session study topics:

• Sequencing with L-system algorithms

• Physical modeling synthesis with bandpass filters

• Generate multi-nodal envelope

• Norns integration with midi and/or crow

 

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A norns device with Flora installed

• Optional: A midi-enabled controller and/or synthesizer

 

We have a number of sponsorship places available, if the registration fee is a barrier to you joining the workshop please contact laura@stagingmhs.local.

 

About the workshop leader 

Jonathan Snyder is a Portland, Oregon based sound explorer and educator.

Previously, he worked for 22 years as a design technologist, IT manager, and educator at Columbia University’s Media Center for Art History, Method, and Adobe.