As part of our final residency in 2018 we're collaborating with Somerset House Studios in a jointly produced workshop presenting French artist NSDOS in November, also part of the Studios’ new experimental music programme– ASSEMBLY. Paris based NSDOS –aka Kirikoo Des– is a hybrid artist who works simultaneously on music, dance, digital art, and builds […]
Somerset House Studios residents Music Hackspace have joined forces with London event curators Individual Collective; to present a panel celebrating the 25th anniversary of the eponymous electronic music label: Downwards. Born in 1993, Downwards was launched from the gritty industrial heartland of Birmingham. In doing so, founder Karl O’Connor AKA Regis, crystallised a definitive direction […]
Rebel Technology will be teaching participants how to use Max MSP’s Gen to program synths and effects which can then be run on a hardware synthesiser, and used expressively in a modular or desktop environment. The workshop is for anyone wanting to learn musical programming and modular synthesis to get beyond the limits of traditional […]
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex Mclean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They’re very loosely structured, with occasional short talks and performances. No programming experience is necessary for these meetups. They are open to all abilities and are an excellent opportunity to learn how to start making music […]
This is an informal, participatory meetup focusing on the visual programming environments Max MSP and Pure Data (Pd). A place to share knowledge, patches and ideas relating to visual programming. While this meetup primarily caters to existing users of Max and Pd, we encourage those unfamiliar with the platforms, but with a strong interest in […]
We're pleased to welcome accessibility instrument builders Human Instruments presenting their new project, Haptic Baton, a conductors baton that communicates to visually impaired players. The baton captures the speed, angle, attack and sway of the conductor’s hand in real time and beams it directly to all players wearing receiver bands. They feel the expression and timing […]
Ritual Laboratory - Labours of Herakleos Join us for a series of participatory rituals, based on the 12 mythic Labours of Herakleos. Forming part of an ongoing research and development project, considering the relationship between sound and movement performance, and altered states of consciousness. The embodiment of each myth functions as an interface, to […]
We continue a new monthly series of visual programming meetups, a place to share knowledge, patches and ideas relating to Max and Pure Data. The next event on Thursday 14th March will focus on Jitter patches, co-organised by the London Max Group, hosting at Stour Space in Hackney Wick. Presenting 19:15 Chris Speed 19:45 Open Mic&Beam […]
/**/ Barcelona based synthesiser designers Befaco will lead two days of workshops where you can build their DIY modular synth kits. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. Befaco is a Synth DIY/open hardware platform focused on designing modules and organizing modular synth workshops regularly in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and […]
Artist, musician, and electronics wizz Dr Tom Richards (Mini Oramics, Nonclassical) will be teaching the foundations of electronics in this new workshop series. Divided into two courses, participants will be guided through different component types, reading schematics, and translating them into real prototypes. In the beginners course we will focus on discrete components and basic ICs, […]