Our Livecoding meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing making music with code. While these meetups are open to any language that can be used for livecoding, the host primarily holds expertise with TidalCycles. TidalCycles is an open source, accessible livecoding platform. These events are very loosely structured, with occasional short talks and […]
We continue our series of participatory rituals throughout summer. Based on the 12 mythic Labours of Herakles. Forming part of an ongoing research and development project, each event considers the relationship between sound and movement performance, and altered states of consciousness. Each session of the laboratory focuses on balancing a sequential zodiacal energy. We begin […]
This workshop guides participants in the construction of a small robot animated by sunlight. After a brief introduction to the rudiments of electronics, the focus is on building a small oscillator soldering all components directly on the microchip. When hit by lights, the robots emit sound. When connected to a speaker they turn into a […]
A new series of monthly meetups taking place at Somerset House Studios, focusing on new spatial sound technologies, with talks and discussions around creative uses of spatial and AR audio. The meetups will take place on the following dates, you can register here: 12th June - Professor Zoran Cvetkovic from King’s College 3rd July - […]
Will AI generated music one day replace human composed music? Can machine learning help us model listening habits or instrumentalist gesture? Can deep learning model musical style or create novel forms of sound synthesis? We seek to separate the fantasy from reality, and identify realistic research challenges in the midst of all the hype by […]
This Meetup will be live streamed here. Experienced Max users Valeria Radchenko, JJ Burred, Mike Zbyszynski and Nick Rothwell will share some of their practices and patches during this first online event. You will be able to ask questions in the chat and access the patches on the Music Hackspace forum. Max is extensively taught here at […]
Join the live stream on Thursday 9th April, 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PT. In the past three decades, Virtual Reality has been a wall onto which many dreams have been projected. From Minority Report to Ready Player One, VR inspires worlds of possibilities. Today's world seems however far from the film industry's depiction of a […]
Meet Milton Mermikides and Phelan Kane, turning the world's data into music. Watch the live-stream.
Join the live stream on 20th April 2020, 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PT, or watch it later. In music, physical modeling synthesis is a technique aiming to reproduce analog sounds in software. Our guest speaker, Pat Scandalis, along with Julius Smith and Nick Porcaro have worked together since the 90s at CCRMA, Stanford, to create […]
Watch the live-stream here, 23rd April 2020, 18:30 BST / 10:30am PT. Meet Andrej Kobal, from Slovenia. Andrej is an artist and a programmer, who built GranuRise, a rich and complex granular synthesizer for the Seaboard RISE (hence the name, GranuRise). In this live-stream, Andrej presents the vision he worked on for the past 7 […]