Car Park Canal Side - performance event
2015-11-25 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Car Park Canal Side: places of transit and rest
Music Hackspace/Sound and Music Embedded Composer in Residence Jack James
welcomes fellow sound artist Gawain Hewitt for an evening of discussion and sonic
research into Regents Canal and The Oval.
Gawain Hewitt will introduce his sound work in development for a performance at
the Ice Music Festival in January 2016. Using hydrophones placed into Regents Canal
he will use the sounds of the waterway to create a live audio broadcast into Music
Hackspace, contributing a performance and soundtrack to the evening.
Jack James will share his current research into informal and ad hoc social interactions
happening within and around The Oval. Talking about parking cars and other workday
movements. Throughout the evening, audience members are invited to share their
knowledge of and thoughts about the local area.

Sound and Music’s Embedded programme is funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation with support from Arts Council England

Music Hackspace’s programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Di Mainstone - Artist Talk
2015-11-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Artist and researcher Di Mainstone is a global ambassador for audio innovators Sennheiser and took part in their international Momentum campaign, which aimed to inspire young people to explore sound in creative ways. Di is also Artist in residence at Queen Mary University London, where she collaborates with researchers from the Centre for Digital Music and Media Arts and Technology group, to develop new musical instruments that are inspired by the body, transforming physical movement into sound via digital technology.
Di has invented the term “Movician” to describe the player of her wearable instruments – a hybrid artist who explores and composes sound through movement. She has been able to expand her research into sound and technology through international residencies at institutes such as Eyebeam Centre for Art and Technology in New York, XS Labs in Montreal, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam and The Banff Centre in Canada. Gathering this knowledge she has created a pioneering method of building wearable sonic instruments on the body of dancers, which she has coined “body-centric design”.
Di is the founder of the acclaimed Human Harp project – a collaborative instrument that transforms suspension bridges into giant harps!

This programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Nebulullaby workshop: lullabies and consciousness altering music
2015-11-28 11:00 - 18:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
The workshop will be led by Eleonora Oreggia aka xname.
With assistance by Chris Wood.
After a short introduction, participants will experiment with different
instruments and techniques in order to create sleep inducing sound
culminating in a short composition. The field of lullabies, far from being
saturated, will be left opened for others to reflect and respond.
Selected readings will be delivered beforehand. Individual projects can be
discussed in advance.
Basic guidance available on aesthetics, electronics, circuit design,
physical computing, Arduino/Beaglebone/Gumstix, software programming
(Java, C/C++, PD) and DSP.
Simplicity is encouraged. Focus is the electronic lullaby. Electroacustic
pieces are also welcome.
Some materials will be provided but you can bring your own. You’ll take
your final track with you.
Saturday 28th November 2015
11h to 18h (with a lunch break)
This workshop is funded by Arts Council England.
Participation is free. Places are limited.
Donations will support Music Hackspace.
UPDATE
PRESENTATION AT 6PM

The day will end with a public presentation of the project NEBULULLABY,
a small preview of the electronic lullabies compilation which will be
released by Nebularosa Records (experimental music label, forthcoming in
2016), and the execution of the participants compositions. On this
occasion the presales of the vinyl will be opened, book your copy!

More info

Audio Synthesis for iPhone/iPad - Workshop 3
2015-12-01 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
This is the third in a series of workshops exploring how Pure Data (Pd) can be integrated into iOS to create sophisticated, interactive iPhone/iPad audio apps. In the first workshop, we learned the basics of how to implement Pd within iOS using libpd, along with some basic UI sliders and switches. In the second, we incorporated gesture recognition and motion sensors. In the third, we will include microphone input and the recording and retrieving of audio files; play with feedback and granulation patches; and look at how to use a barcode reader to algorithmically generate music.
Requirements: you should have Xcode 6 or 7 installed and be able to run a basic implementation of libpd within iOS. Instructions for setting this up can be found in Rafael Hernandez’ YouTube series, or in Peter Brinkmann’s book Making Musical Apps. It will also be helpful to have an iPhone or iPad, though this is not essential.

Buy Audio Synthesis for iPhone/iPad – Workshop 3
http:ronherrema.net
https://github.com/libpd/pd-for-ios

This programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Percussion and distortion modules - Talk and demo
2015-12-03 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
‘000‘ is about aberrant analogue distortion and percussion devices for both stand-alone and Eurorack format. The Spanish/German øpen-hardware team will present at the London Music Hackspace for the fist time their new set of analogue percussive tools, followed by a DIY workshop where participants can build their complete stand-alone – or Eurorack-compatible modular drum system.
An introduction to analogue percurssive synthesis, concept and module design of an aberrant modular drum machine. The talk will also cover the ethos and philosophy of the open hardware team. Come ask questions and test the modules!
The talk will serve as a prelude to the workshops which will take place on the weekend of the 4th and 5th of December. You can choose the modules for the workshop in this link.

This programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Percussion and distortion modules workshop
2015-12-04 - 2015-12-05 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
ab•er•rant (ə ber′ənt, ab′ər-),
adj.
departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type;
exceptional; abnormal.
In this DIY hands-on workshop the øpen-hardware team ‘000‘ is presenting their new set of aberrant analogue distortion and percussion devices, which are both stand-alone and Eurorack.

Participants will build their own device/s from a kit.
No previous experience in electronics is needed but interest and patience is mandatory.
The workshop will cover both theory and practice about analogue circuit design, percussion and noise.
The workshop will run both on Friday 4th December and Saturday 5th December. Both days are independent so participants can choose when to join the workshop.

This is the first time this workshop is taking place and modules have a promotional discount price. Only 11 places available for this first edition of the workshop, so hurry-up and book your place!
In order to register please book the kit/s you would like to build during the workshop:

Buy Percussion and distortion modules workshop – BSDM Bareback Kick
More info: BSDM Bareback Kick

Buy Percussion and distorsion modules workshop – SCAT 0-logical distortion
More info: SCAT 0-logical distortion

Buy Percussion and distorsion modules workshop – Snore Fist Drum
More info: Snore Fist Drum

Buy Percussion and distorsion modules workshop – WHIP MIDI to trigger interface
More info: WHIP MIDI to trigger interface
Prices includes all materials, pcb, front panel, knobs and custom light button, to be assembled during the 2 days workshop.
The team “000” will also bring some assembled modules and prototypes on our system, for testing and selling purposes.
If you have any questions please email us at workshops@stagingmhs.local

This programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Music Hackspace at LimeWharf - Launch Party
2015-12-17 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
We are moving to the creative lab and cultural innovation centre LimeWharf! Which means celebration is in order! Join us for the inaugural event at our new space, a launch party to celebrate our new partnership with the awesome LimeWharf.
Just a few minutes from our former home at Containerville, we’ll form part of the cultural innovation hub and artistic laboratory that is LimeWharf, surrounded by awesome people, with a larger space to host events & seminars, and even a fully licensed bar.
Featuring performances from:
~7:30 – LESLIE DEERE:
Originally from Tennessee, Leslie moved to the UK to study Sonic Art, continuing from a performing arts dance background in NYC. One of the current Music Hackspace artists in residence, Leslie’s live performances use analogue and digital audio equipment alongside field recordings and her lo-fi video projections, to make abstract and absorbing drone collages.

~8:15 – TOM FOX:
Tom Fox is a craftsman, maker and pioneer in the search for new sounds and the development of truly unique instruments. Many of you probably know Tom’s project, Vulpestruments – a collection of hand-built noise machines fashioned from as much recycled and reclaimed materials as possible. From the strings to the pickups and the tuning pins, these unexpected sources make genuinely remarkable sounds.
~9:00 – ADAM JOHN WILLIAMS:
A familiar face at Music Hackspace, curating this evening we have Adam John Williams, who will also perform some psychoacoustics-infused-electronica from his current project, Research-Driven Dance Music.
+ Special guest DJ: ELECTRONIC ELEMENT
Electronic Element a.k.a. Ivaylo Chichanov will be our DJ for the evening, shepherding us through the void between live performances to keep everybody dancing.
This is the start of a fantastic new chapter for us. Music Hackspace was founded as a creative & social hub for the community that surrounds it, and without that amazing community we simply would not exist, so let’s all celebrate together.
Entry is FREE!
Directions

Speakers Cultures, Monday night group - 4th Jan
2016-01-04 18:00 - 21:30 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
We will resume our Monday evening meet ups on Monday 4th Jan at the new space in LimeWharf (Vyner St, London E2 9DJ)! Get involved in Music Hackspace’s ‘DIY speakers’ project! Alternatively you can bring along a new project to work on independently or to share with the group. To be included in the Monday evening’s ‘DIY speakers’ mail group, email curators@stagingmhs.local

Our new address is LimeWharf (Vyner St, London E2 9DJ). The nearest tube station is Bethnal Green or Cambridge Heath overground.

An Introduction to DIY Instrument making
2016-01-28 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
In this talk, Tom Fox from Vulpestruments will discuss and demonstrate the many different ways to use recycled and reclaimed materials for DIY stringed musical instrument making. You will learn the basic theory on how both inductive and piezo pickups work and where to source the components you’d need for them from everyday sources. Also DIY tuning pin methods and where to source cheap but great sounding strings for your instruments.
Following on from the talk there is an opportunity to assemble your own 3-stringed, amplifiable and tuneable stringed instrument for £25 with all materials provided.

The talk will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for the workshop, discussion and casual hangout until close at 10.00pm.

Befaco Modular Synth Workshop, 6th and 7th Feb 2016
2016-02-06 11:00 - 2016-02-07 19:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
We welcome Befaco for the first of our 2016 Music Hackspace workshops at Limewharf. Join us for a weekend of DIY modular synth making on 6th and 7th February 2016!
HANDS ON WORKSHOP: build your own synth modules on eurorack format. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. Each participant builds her/his own machine during the workshop.
REGISTRATION. Please note a minimum number of participants is required for this workshop to take place, so please book your place asap!

Buy Befaco Workshop registration, 6th and 7th Feb
With this item you will be booking a spot in our workshop.Please send an email to workshops@stagingmhs.local indicating which module/s you want to build. This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit of your choice. Please note there will be no refunds in case of cancelling / not showing.Thanks for the reservation and see you soon!
Choose which Befaco module/s to build:
Spring reverb – 150 GBP
Even VCO – 130 GBP
BF22 VCF – 140 GBP
Rampage – 170 GBP
Instrument Interface – 125 GBP
Output module – 70 GBP
Mixer – 55 GBP
Crush Delay v2 – 130 GBP
Hexa VCA – 150 GBP
Dual Atenuverter – 55 GBP
Slew Limiter – 65 GBP
Sampling Mod – 130 GBP
Power supply + Power bus – 90 GBP
Power Bus – 50 GBP
Required skills: interest and patience. No previous experience in electronics is necessary.
Required materials: Fine tip soldering iron less than 25w is recommended (we can provide some soldering irons and hand tools for participants who don’t have their own).
When: Sat 6th and Sun 7th February 2016, 11am to 7 pm.
Where: Music Hackspace @ LimeWharf Yard. LimeWharf, Vyner Street E2 9DJ London
If you have any questions please email us at: workshops@stagingmhs.local
Befaco is a Synth DIY/open hardware platform focused on designing modules and organizing modular synth workshops regularly in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and London. Befaco Workshops FAQ’s.

Introduction to LittleBits Korg Synth Kit and CV/Midi/Usb modules
2016-02-22 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
This presentation / hands-on demo will be led by Fabrizio D’Amico –LittleBits London Chapter Leader and Founder of the London VideoHackspace, and Carlos Isak -founder of MakerCart and a passionate educator.
In 2 hours we will introduce the concept of LittleBits and some of the many applications of its huge ecosystem for rapid prototyping without soldering; from multiple sensors to remote cloud use and Wi-fi connectivity, with a special focus to highlighting all music related applications.
The Korg Synth Kit and the Midi/Usb and CV Modules will be demoed with hands on sessions for everyone to try.
There is no prior experience required to attend.
The introduction and hands on session will be between 7-9pm. The remaining time will be used for casual hangout until close at 10.00pm.

Soulsby synths talk and demo
2016-03-07 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Join us next Monday 7th of March with Soulsby Synthesisers‘s founder Paul Soulsby, who will present and demo The Atmegatron, a powerful 8-bit synth and The miniAtmegatron, a synth shield kit for the Arduino Uno.
Paul has been using synthesizers since he was a kid and is a member of the electronic band Trademark. He got his first keyboard when he was 7 and started programming computers when he was 8. It took 26 years to think of combining the two skills! He studied Music Technology at the University of York and went on to work in various jobs in the media industry involving either sound engineering or computer programming. The Atmegatron is his debut synthesiser.
The talk and demo will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for discussion with Paul, casual hangout until close at 10.00pm. Attendees will also have the opportunity to try out the synths during the event.

Rebel Technology Workshop - DIY Eurorack Modular Synth
2016-03-13 11:00 - 19:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Build your own Rebel Technology synthesizer at the Music Hackspace!
Date: Sunday 13th March, 11am-7pm
Location: Music Hackspace LimeWharf, Vyner Street, London, E2 9DJ
The workshop is free of charge, you only pay for what you build and take home with you. It’s relatively easy, no previous soldering experience is required. If you are a keen solderer you should be able to build two modules in one day. We will be on hand to help throughout, should you have any problems.
People of all ages and abilities are welcome, under 12s should be accompanied by an adult.
REGISTRATION. Please note a minimum number of participants is required for this workshop to take place, so please book your place asap! The booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit of your choice.

Buy Rebel Technology Workshop – DIY Eurorack Modular Synth, Sunday 13th March
Module Details:
1. Stoicheia : dual Euclidean gate sequencer 90 GBP
Στοιχεῖα is our famous Euclidean gate sequencer. It generates rhythmic trigger sequences, from very simple beats to complex polyrhythms. Never boring, always musical.
2. Logoi : voltage controlled clock divider and delay 95 GBP
Λόγοι is a voltage controlled clock divider, counter, and delay. It subdivides and adds time, creating organic, evolving signatures. Λόγοι brings movement and life to the trigger signal, from a subtle swing to bizarrely complex and intricate rhythms.
3. Klasmata : voltage controlled Euclidean gate sequencer 95 GBP
Κλάσματα is a single channel, voltage controlled version of Στοιχεῖα. It offers a range of 1-32 steps, opening up more possibilities for complex patterns. With voltage controlled sequence length and fills, Κλάσματα transposes, shifts and modulates rhythmic patterns.
4. PowerKit : small PSU 45 GBP (AC adaptor £10 extra)
Combined busboard and power supply. +12/-12/+5v rails, 200mA per rail. Compact and suitable for small to medium sized cases. Powered with external AC adaptor (not included, available for £10 extra).
5. Phoreo module : brand new (not yet released!) 95 GBP
φορέω is a multiplier, repeater and modulator. It packs three different trigger processing functions:
– modulate pulse width from 0 to 100%
– multiply rate by 1 to 16 times
– repeat trigger 1 to 16 times
All three functions have CV control and dedicated inputs and outputs. By combining the multiply and repeat functions you get a burst generator: fully CV controlled and perfect for drum rolls, arpeggios and for injecting life and movement in hats, beats and synth lines. Go on, give us a snare rush!
Phoreo is 10HP wide, requires +5v, and is the new addition to our Euclidean series of trigger processors.

Phoreo (brand new!)

Klasmata

Logoi

Stoicheia

If you have any questions please email us at workshops@stagingmhs.local

This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

CRUX ELECTRONIC AUDIO-VISUAL LIVE PERFORMANCE
2016-03-19 16:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Crux Events are coming to the Music Hackspace with an evening of audio and visual performances and workshops. “This is a meeting space to learn, experiment, collaborate and be entertained…”
FREE ENTRY (please give a donation to artist/event costs)

L I N K J A M
The first London Ableton Link Jam will be taking place between 4-6pm.
This is open to everyone – just turn up, sync up and plug in!
You can check out what Link is here:
www.ableton.com/en/link
(it’s basically a cool, easy and reliable way to sync copies of Ableton Live with a bunch of iOS apps!)
Please bring your own audio cable to get from your device into the mixer.
You will need to join the wi-fi network we will create on the day or bring an ethernet cable to plug directly into the router if you prefer.
Depending on the number of participants we might have to limit the time each person is playing for. Nick and Marcello will be on hand to get you setup and to conduct the proceedings.

W O R K S H O P S
MARCELLO RUGGIU
Mogees is a new way to make music out of any object, we will have a look at this innovative device that, when connected to any computer or smartphone, lets you play any surface as a musical instrument. Marcello Ruggiu will show us how it works and give the chance to try and play this amazing object.
mogees.co.uk
ADAM JOHN WILLIAMS
Another host of this event and Music Hackspace regular Adam will take us through some Max MSP performance techniques and also introduce the macrodactyl performance project that he will be a part of later in the evening.
adamjohnwilliams.co.uk
www.facebook.com/AdamJohnWilliams
ROBIN FENCOTT
Robin will give a whistle stop tour of his musical projects, collaborations and research, which includes academic research, electronic music, interactive installations, heavy metal albums, custom hardware interfaces, sound poetry and performance art.
www.robinfencott.com

L I V E S E T S
MACRODACTYL
Macrodactyl is a music, code & art collective which exists as an open platform that anybody can join. Artworks & pieces of music are released via GitHub as open source software and anyone is free to contribute to or utilise these created works. tl;dr – 4 nerds with laptops creating an audiovisual techno performance.
github.com/macrodactyl
FEDKA THE IRRITANT
Fedka The Irritant is not from Russia but from an equally corrupt place in south-east London called Deptford. In his basement Fedka makes techno and other bass-heavy music at any time of the night or day without bothering his social conscience. The trombone is his weapon of choice, and for his live sets he hooks it up through multiple effects and and weaves it into the Octatrack to make funky bleepy party techno at full wonk ahead.
soundcloud.com/fedkatheirritant
facebook.com/pages/Fedka-The-Irritant
METALOGUE
Metalogue is the alias of London based musician / producer / programmer Robin Fencott. His Indefinite Divisibility EP (April 2015) combines cinematic sound design with elements of industrial, ambient, and experimental electronic sub-genres. Robin is currently working on a followup EP which is heading in a more IDM and synthesizer driven direction. Robin’s Metalogue performance at Crux will be an opportunity to preview work in progress and perform tracks from the first EP.
metalogue.bandcamp.com
NED RUSH
Ned Rush is a sound, vision and performance designer and artist. Known largely for his eccentric YouTube channel exploring genre mechanics and sound accidents, he also develops software for isotonik studios and will perform a fully live meltdown of improvised sound meta events.
Borrowing ideas from jungle, hardcore, avant garde, drone, glitch and comedy, it’s bound to entertain as much as confuse.
www.facebook.com/NedRush
youtu.be/oMGZMw_DO-0

V E E J A Y
L’AUBAINE
L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a VJ, visual artist, graphic designer from Geneva, Switerzerland based in London whose VJ sets are improvised compositions made of layers of organic shapes, figurative elements and an explosion of colours.
All elements used are self-produced, mixing different techniques, analogue and digital, such as hand-drawn animations, pattern design, drawing, typography, photography and videos.
L’Aubaine will perform at CRUX a VJ set using Modul8, Madmapper and a video synth.
laubaine.net
facebook.com/laubainevisuals
twitter @vjlaubaine
vimeo.com/laubaine
ODDSCENE
www.oddscene.com
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www.facebook.com/musichackspace

The venue:
MUSIC HACKSPACE, LimeWharf Yard, LimeWharf, Vyner Street, London E2 9DJ
The London Music Hackspace is a place to share thoughts, knowledge, technologies, processes and aesthetics on music and audio.
Directions: https://citymapper.com/go/zxzkfq
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We want this event to be open to all and a welcoming space for existing performers and people new to electronic music performance. We will be curating each segment, so for future events if you want to jam, perform or provide live visuals please email us: info@crux-events.org
For updates, follow the Facebook event page.
WWW.CRUX-EVENTS.ORG
www.facebook.com/groups/1037659679579014

Habits of thought and motion – position and posture techniques for musicians
2016-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
The human body is the most amazing instrument that we have at our disposal, yet at times we can tend to get stuck in predictable patterns of thought and movement. This short talk will introduce the main concepts involved in learning, and applying to music playing, the ‘alexander’ technique and include practical opportunities to explore our habits of thought and movement and ways in which we may allow for change to occur.
The talk will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for more music, casual hangout and drinks until close at 9pm.
Please RSVP to curators@stagingmhs.local

Magnetic Signals and Radiophonic Soundscapes Workshop – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-03-26 12:00 - 16:00 | Hub 67, 67 Rothbury Road, London, E9 5HA, United Kingdom
Music Hackspace presents: Magnetic Signals and Radiophonic Soundscapes Workshop
Part of the new series of workshops “Sound Unfolded”
Location: Hub 67 – 67 Rothbury Road. London E9 5HA (Hackney Wick station)
When: Sat 26th March 12 to 4 pm
Bookings: 50 GBP

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Join sonic adventurer Dan Tapper to discover a world of sound inaudible to our naked ear. The workshop involves creating a large wire loop antenna to tap into the electromagnetic spectrum allowing us to listen to a variety of strange and exciting sounds; from natural radio emanating from lightning and more exotic sources in the VLF band to the electromagnetic saturation of man made technology generated from household appliances, the London Underground and the electric grid.

The workshop will involve creating large loop antenna coils to allow these electromagnetic sounds to be heard as well as looking at the basic theory of how the antennas work, how best to record and amplify signals and how these sounds can be used in an artistic context.

The workshop will be lead by artist Dan Tapper, who’s been researching Very Low Frequency (VLF) electromagnetic sound for the past three years and utilizing this rich sonic environment to create installations, radio works and compositions. This interest has led him to publish two editions of “VLF: A Sound Artist’s Guide” which provides information for artists and enthusiasts new to the scene to begin their own sonic journeys with electromagnetic sound.

Workshop attendees take home:

Your own loop antenna, built during the day
A PDF version of “VLF: A Sound Artist’s Guide”
Some Call it Noise – an audio-documentary developed as an artistic and informative introduction to the sounds of VLF.
Several maxMSP patches developed for artistically working with and filtering electromagnetic audio.

This workshop is part of the workshop series ¨Sound Unfolded¨, curated by Susanna Garcia.
Sound Unfolded brings together action-based ideas about sound. It proposes an exploration of the relationships we can establish with sound through the act of making. To patch, to code, to reveal, to sonify. This is a workshop series about modular synths, audio synthesis, the electromagnetic spectrum, the transmission of sound and the digital.
For any enquiries please email workshops@stagingmhs.local

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This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Hacking Electronic Music Toys / Circuit bending workshop with Tasos Stamou
2016-03-28 18:00 - 21:30 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Introductory circuit bending workshop teaching all the necessary techniques for designing and making experimental electronic music interfaces out of recycled material. Participant will have the chance to learn all the necessary tricks, experiment with guidance from the workshop leader and design their own electronic instrument. Participants will have the chance to finalise an interface during the workshop and experience the art of circuit bending.

Buy Hacking Electronic Music Toys / Circuit bending workshop with Tasos Stamos, March 28
All materials and devices provided.
– Learn the necessary techniques to turn hackable sound toys into useful sound devices and electronic instruments
– Practical, hands-on workshop, including all tips to the most easy and effective modifications, also presenting musicians who utilize handmade and hacked instruments.
– Everyone is welcome to bring their own electronic toys for bending, otherwise hackable toys will be provided from a large selection. Please contact us with any questions regarding “hackability” of your own devices.

Tasos Stamou
As a music technologist and a professional electronic musician himself, Stamou has developed a personal style in circuit bending which focuses on the details of the final instrument construction as a physical interface. He has equally developed a personal style in teaching electronics, based on his personal experience about practicing this technology (ten years) rather than based on intense reading and use of technical terms. Simple in their electronic manipulation, but precise in their controls and hands-on functions, Stamou’s music gear is made for playing, performing and recording, inspired by previous legendary electronic music designs (synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines, samplers, video synthesizers, etc.). He is focused on second hand, dispatched and recycled resources, as a sort of technological and artistic activism, and he is encouraging the participants of his workshops and lectures to do the same.
Tasos Stamou is an instrument maker/modifier/designer and tutor. He has been leading hardware hacking workshops in festivals (Watermans Arts Centre in London, Green Man Festival U.K, SOTU Festival Lithuania, Athens Video Art Festival etc.) and music tech labs (Cafe OTO and Music Hackspace in London, WORM in Rotterdam, Macumbista Studio in Berlin, STPLN in Sweden, etc.). He was recently mentioned in a “Guardian” article as one of the leading figures of this alternative music technology.
For any questions please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Artist Talk & Demo – 'Mechanical Techno' with Graham Dunning
2016-04-04 19:00 - 21:30 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
We welcome artist and musician Graham Dunning who will be presenting and demoing his incredible ‘Mechanical Techno‘ installation for live performing of hand crafted physical turntables. Attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with the machine after the talk and demo.
Graham Dunning is self-taught as an artist and musician having studied neither discipline academically. He has performed solo and in ensembles across the UK, Switzerland and Norway, and shown solo sound installations in the UK, New Zealand and USA. He teaches Experimental Sound Art at the Mary Ward Centre in London and also gives various independent workshops. Dunning has solo releases on Entr’acte and various DIY labels.
The talk and demo will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for more music, casual hangout and drinks until close at 9.30pm.

MORE EXAMPLES OF WORK
Mechanical Techno Demonstration
Graham Dunning’s Mechanical Techno (excerpt) live at Power Lunches London 19/9/2014
Dear Serge Presents Graham Dunning

This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Signum device with Victor Mazon – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-04-09 - 2016-04-10 | CAFE OTO PROJECT SPACE, 18-22 Ashwin St , London, E8 3DL, United Kingdom
Two day workshop led by artist Victor Mazon.
Date: 9 / 10 April, 11am to 7pm.
Location: Cafe OTO Project Space
Cost: £95 (Keep your device! All electronic materials and documentation included)
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Participants in the SIGNUM workshop will build and take home their own device, which is designed to record and listen to sounds hidden in the electromagnetic spectrum: those invisible frequencies, electromagnetic fields and signals that constantly surround us but that we are usually unable to hear.
The workshop will be lead by Victor Mazon Gardoqui, who’s the author of the workshop’s concept, electronics design and documentation.
The device includes a transducer, opticals, coils, germanium diodes and a small loop antenna, which coheres sonically and allows users to listen to surrounding signals that would fall out of the human hearing range. The workshop will also introduce participants to using the electromagnetic spectrum within artistic practices.
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No previous experience in electronics is necessary, but interest and patience mandatory.
More info and bookings here!
Additionally you can register to the free follow up artist talk taking place at Music Hackspace (in LimeWharf) on April 11.
The Music Hackspace’ programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Artist Talk & Demo – Signum device with Víctor Mazón Gardoqui
2016-04-11 19:00 - 21:30 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Listen to electromagnetic waves caused by modern devices and natural forces. Hear the patterns of ultraviolet and infrared light; the vibrations of ferric objects; the friction caused by insects and underwater sounds. Listen to the noise of tectonic movements, or of lighting phenomena thousands of kilometers distant. These are just a few of the hidden sounds that we will listen during the event on monday 11th April, after the hands on workshop in Cafe OTO on the 9th and 10th April.
We will have the chance to see the signum device in action, exploring how different artists use the device during a practice based event lead by Víctor Mazón Gardoqui and with composer Neil Kaczor as special guest.

The talk will follow from a workshop at Cafe OTO on 9th and 10th of April. Register to the workshop!
SIGNUM device is a translator – it uncovers the encrypted codes of information and the language of man/machine communication- which remain unintelligible without technical aid. Sharpening our awareness about what surrounds us, we will capture radio waves, FM/AM, ultrasounds, translocal network connections, personal broadcast spaces, inaudible electromagnetic fields, photoelectric effects, etc, read with a micro controller like an Arduino, Pic or a raspberry pi. SIGNUM can be used for various applications and in different environments: for the measurement and analysis of different signals through its 8 sensors and inputs, for field recordings, music composition or for aesthetic purposes within the sound or visual art praxis, as it has the unique ability to provide a wide sound palette and hard-to-identify sounds. The device is intended as an experimental tool for educational purposes and artistic practice.

The Music Hackspace programme is support through public funding by Arts Council England.

SuperCollider with Shelly Knotts – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Machines Room, 45 Vyner St, London , London, E2 9DQ, United Kingdom
Learn the basics of setting up a live coding session and making soundscapes and beats with sound synthesis and patterns in SuperCollider.

Buy Live Coding in SuperCollider – class with Shelley Knots, 13 April
SuperCollider is an incredibly powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine listening, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
This workshop is part of #SoundUnfolded and will be the first of a series of software sessions taking place in the Machines Room classroom.
For any questions please email workshops@stagingmhs.local

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This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

DIY Modular Synth workshop with '000' – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-04-16 - 2016-04-17 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
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DIY workshop about percussion and distortion lead by øpen-hardware team “000”
• Aberrant analogue distortion and percussion modules
Modules are both stand-alone and Eurorack.
The workshop will cover both theory and practice about analogue circuit design, percussion and noise. No previous experience in electronics is needed but interest and patience is mandatory.
Please book your place using the button below. The booking price will be discounted from the module at the workshop. We will get in touch with you after the booking about the module you will choose. For any questions please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local

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Both days are independent so participants can choose when to join the workshop.
Modules available are:
BSDM Bareback Kick (Workshop price: £105)
SCAT 0-logical distortion (Workshop price: £85)
Snore Fist Drum (Workshop price: £125)
WHIP MIDI to trigger interface (Workshop price: £130)
TOMS of Finland *NEW* (Workshop price: £135)

This workshop is part of the series ¨#SoundUnfolded¨, which brings together action-based ideas about sound. It proposes an exploration of the relationships we can establish with sound through the act of making. To patch, to code, to reveal, to sonify. This is a workshop series about modular synths, audio synthesis, the electromagnetic spectrum, the transmission of sound and the digital.”

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This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

London Synth DIY meet up
2016-05-02 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Join us at the LimeWharf yard with the London Synth DIY, a group that meets to discuss, collaborate and experiment with electronics that creatively synthesise audio or video.
Any skill level welcome, the aim is to create a relaxed atmosphere with no judgment on your knowledge.
We want to encourage the exchange of ideas related to the design, modification and fabrication of electronic synthesizers; bring projects you are working on from schematics, to PCBs, to finished objects.
Get or ask for advice on how to solder, design, program, construct, troubleshoot or just generally help and encourage others with what they’re working on.
Let’s make some bleeps, and also some bloops.
Join the group here!

Artist Talk – Borders, surveillance and sounds with Sophie Mallett
2016-05-09 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Join artist Sophie Mallett for an insight into ongoing research around borders, surveillance and sounds. The talk will navigate through a topography of competing technologies that all use sound and radio to define and confine territories. Together we’ll explore the politics of control embedded in technologies of sound production and transmission.
Sophie Mallett is an artist exploring sound and the re-territorialisation of networked global economies and people. Incorporating thinking and action around borders, surveillance and sound, Mallett focuses on sounds’ intersection with affect, politics and value. Educated at London College of Communication, Open School East, and Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Mallett’s practice is both interdisciplinary and collaborative.
Recent projects include: Horrid Little Hands, Eastside Projects, Birmingham 2016; Liminal States, RCA, London, 2016; Project Radio, &Model, Leeds, 2015; Live ASMR, Resonance FM and Open School East, London, 2015; Sonic Blind Dates, Tate Britain, London, 2014; Legendary Jobs, Flat Time House, London, 2014, Cycle, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, 2013.
sophiemallett.com

The talk will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for more music, casual hangout and drinks (BYOB) until close at 10.00pm. For any questions please email curators@stagingmhs.local

This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

SuperCollider with Alo Allik – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Machines Room, 45 Vyner St, London , London, E2 9DQ, United Kingdom
Sound synthesis and interactive algorithmic composition with machine learning in SuperCollider
Wednesday 11th May 19:00 – 21:00
This workshop takes place in Machines Room (Classroom). Address: 45 Vyner St, London E2 9DQ

In this workshop we will explore the basics of sound synthesis and algorithmic composition with a particular emphasis on creating interactive synthesizers with machine listening techniques and aiding the composition process with machine learning algorithms. The flexible SuperCollider architecture enables exploring real-time composition from a number of different perspectives. We will be exploring the following topics:

– sound synthesis including modulation, subtractive and granular synthesis
– strategies for scheduling and timing
– building reactive synthesisers with triggers and machine listening
– introduction to composition with machine learning

Alo Allik is a sound artist who has performed his audiovisual works, electroacoustic compositions, eclectic DJ sets and live electronic music throughout the world at a number of festivals, including Transmediale, Piksel, ISEA, TodaysArt, ShinyToys, Pluto, NIME, etc.. His aesthetically and geographically restless lifestyle has enabled him to traverse a diverse range of musical worlds including DJ-ing electronic dance music, live electronic jam sessions, electroacoustic composition, free improvisation and audiovisual performances. In recent years he has been actively participating in the Algorave movement developing a style he describes as noisefunk which combines traditional rhythm patterns with evolutionary synthesis algorithms. Currently, Alo works as a researcher at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, while continuing to perform his visuals and music to audiences worldwide.
website: http://tehis.net
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tehis
https://soundcloud.com/user-665948413

The Music Hackspace programme is supported with public funding by Arts Council England.

Befaco Modular Synth Workshop, 14th and 15th May 2016
2016-05-14 - 2016-05-15 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Join us for a weekend of DIY modular synth making on 14th and 15th May 2016!
HANDS ON WORKSHOP: build your own synth modules on eurorack format. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. Each participant builds her/his own machine during the workshop.
REGISTRATION. Please note a minimum number of participants is required for this workshop to take place, so please book your place asap!

With this item you will be booking a spot in our workshop.Please send an email to workshops@stagingmhs.local indicating which module/s you want to build. This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit of your choice.
Please note there will be no refunds in case of cancelling / not showing. Thanks for the reservation and see you soon!
Required skills: interest and patience. No previous experience in electronics is necessary.
Required materials: Fine tip soldering iron less than 25w is recommended (we can provide some soldering irons and hand tools for participants who don’t have their own).
When: Sat 14th and Sun 15th May 2016, 11am to 7 pm.
Where: Music Hackspace @ LimeWharf Yard. LimeWharf, Vyner Street E2 9DJ London
If you have any questions please email us at: workshops@stagingmhs.local
Befaco is a Synth DIY/open hardware platform focused on designing modules and organizing modular synth workshops regularly in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and London. Befaco Workshops FAQ’s.
Available modules:
Spring reverb …………………150 GBP
Even VCO ……………………130 GBP
BF22 VCF……………………..140 GBP
Rampage…………………………….170 GBP
Instrument Interface………..125 GBP
Output module……………….. 70 GBP
Mixer………………………………55 GBP
Crush Delay……………………130 GBP
Hexa VCA………………………150 GBP
power supply + power bus……90 GBP
Power Bus………………………..50 GBP
Dual Atenuverter………………55 GBP
Joysitck controller…………….120 GBP
Slew Limiter ………………………….60 GBP
Sampling Mod………….130 GBP
Midi thing……………..125GBP
A*B+C…………………95GBP
The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Build high-performance interactive audio systems – Bela platform workshop
2016-05-16 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Building high-performance interactive audio systems with the Bela platform
This workshop presents Bela, an embedded platform capable of ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing. Based on the BeagleBone Black, Bela features stereo audio I/O, 8 channels each of 16-bit analog I/O and 16 channels of digital I/O. It includes a built-in browser-based IDE including an in-browser oscilloscope. Bela projects can be written in C/C++ or Pure Data, with beta support for the Faust DSP language. The platform is a great base for building new musical instruments, interactive audio installations, synthesisers, guitar effects pedals, sound design tools or even kinetic sculptures.
Bela was created in the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, part of the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. The platform is open-source hardware and software. In March 2016, Bela had a highly successful Kickstarter launch, raising more than 10x its original goal with support from over 500 backers worldwide.
This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to the Bela environment, working through a series of example projects in C and Pure Data which showcase some of the exciting possibilities Bela makes easy. Each participant will be provided with a kit to use, including a Bela board, a breadboard, sensors and other parts.
What to bring: laptop (any platform); headphones; optional: personal hacking gear (e.g. sensors, custom circuitry, sound producing devices).
Platform tech specs: Bela features stereo audio in and out (16-bit, 44.1kHz), 8x analog in and out (16-bit, 22.05kHz; 4 channels can be used at 44.1kHz) and digital in and out (16 channels, 3.3V). Stereo audio output is capable of driving line, headphone or 8 ohm speakers (1.1W amplifiers built in). Round-trip latency can be as low as 100 microseconds. Sensors and audio are sampled synchronously to eliminate jitter. The BeagleBone Black on which Bela is based has a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with 512MB of RAM.
Participation in the workshop is free. At the end of the workshop, there will be an opportunity to sign up to join the Kickstarter production run which is currently underway, with estimated shipping in June or July.
For any questions, please email curators@stagingmhs.local

The workshop is supported by the Centre for Public Engagement at Queen Mary University of London.

The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Artist Talk - composing music for weather conditions and forest ecosystems, with Jones/Bulley
2016-05-23 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Artist duo Jones/Bulley create large-scale sound installations that translate patterns and data into ever-changing compositions, often sited in remote and wild environments. In this talk, they will discuss composing music for weather conditions and forest ecosystems, describe some of the technological and compositional challenges encountered through their work, and explain why they are switching towards using their own ground-up open-source audio software.
They will also be giving the first work-in-progress demonstrations of a new work: a sound sculpture that uses a novel notation system to generate tonal music from real-time FM radio broadcasts, running on a Raspberry Pi.
James Bulley (b. 1984) and Daniel Jones (b. 1983) are an artist duo whose collaborative practice explores the boundaries of sound art, music, and process-based composition. Their work draws on systems and patterns from the world around us as ways of organising sound, creating a reciprocal relationship between the two: using sound as a way to illuminate our understanding of the world, and using natural processes as a way to deepen our approaches to composition.
Members of the New Radiophonic Workshop, Jones/Bulley’s critically acclaimed work has been shown at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican, the Museum of Science and Industry, Aldeburgh Music, the Old Royal Naval College, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Design Museum. Their landscape sound work Living Symphonies toured four UK forests over summer 2014, supported by Arts Council England, Sound And Music, and Forestry Commission England.
Their most recent commission, Vespers, was installed at the Southbank Centre (London, UK) from May to September 2015, co-commissioned by the World Wide Web Foundation.
http://www.jones-bulley.com/

The Music Hackspace programme is support with public funding by Arts Council England.

SuperCollider with Holger Ballweg – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Machines Room, 45 Vyner St, London , London, E2 9DQ, United Kingdom
8th June 19:00 – 21:00 @MachinesRoom
SuperCollider with Holger Ballweg

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Collaborative live coding in SuperCollider.
Collaboration in live computer music in general results in interesting performances, as the styles of the performers merge and/or network effects, e.g., delays in the delivery of network packages, are exploited. SuperCollider comes with very good support for networking using OSC messages (Open Sound Control – a standard that enables exchanging messages between different computer music applications easily) and additional libraries make it even easier to collaborate.
We will explore different levels of collaboration, specifically:
– collaborative editing of sound-producing code;
– sharing code between performers;
– sharing data between performers, e.g., a musical scale or a common tempo;
– using and abusing the client-server architecture of SuperCollider to, e.g., play sound on other people’s machines.
We will learn how to set them up, play around with them, and look at examples of them in use – and look at ways to debug them if things go wrong.
You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.

Holger Ballweg is a live coder and programmer living in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
After studying for an M.A. in Music Informatics at Karlsruhe University of Music (Germany), he is now pursuing a PhD at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
He is a member of the live coding laptop band Benoît and the Mandelbrots, with whom he performed over 70 concerts in Germany and Europe exploring different ways of collaboration using SuperCollider, which resulted in the development of their own collaborative live coding library, BenoitLib. In 2012 Benoît and the Mandelbrots received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica. He is also part of the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble (BiLE) and occasionally plays the laptop or saxophone in a duo with Shelly Knotts. As project assistant of the Network Music Festival in 2013 and 2014 he helped realise diverse networked and collaborative performances, as well as being a participant in some of them.

SuperCollider is an incredibly powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine listening, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
This workshop is part of #SoundUnfolded taking place in the Machines Room classroom.

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Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Artist Talk - 'Eight Chapters in Four Movements' and 'Astrology of a Friday' by Teresa Cos
2016-06-13 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Join Teresa Cos for a screening on two recent works combining image and sound emphasising a “collective hypnosis permeating our society”. The mechanical repetition of everyday rituals presented in the first video “Eight Chapters in Four Movements” will be seen in relation to the mesmeric reiteration of socio-political concepts of the second one “Astrology of a Friday”. The result in both cases is a sort of absurd dynamic stagnation.

EIGHT CHAPTERS IN FOUR MOVEMENTS
London Bridge is crossed every morning at the same time by thousands of commuters forming a river moving unidirectionally South to North. The scene is iconic and has been impressed many times in the news, films, documentaries, lullabies and poetry. I observed for some time this phenomenon and calculated with rough mathematics the average pace of the commuters, which resulted of 113 BPM. I decided to impersonate this rhythm, walking robotically in the crowd following the beat of a metronome, but developing four movements that engage and disrupt the linear conception of time embodied by the flow. The movements are intended as four different stages of a ritual and are repeated constantly from 8am to 9am. The performance was documented in first person with an unnoticeable video device fixed to my chest and the entire filmed footage is shown uncut in a life-size video installation. The work is accompanied by a sound piece consisting of the key words of Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Rythmanalysis’, spoken continuosly for one hour at 113 BPM and it includes fragments of music mixed with ambience sounds, as well as references to Steve Reich’s ‘Clapping Music’. The recorded action and soundtrack are phased and only synchronise at the video’s start and end.

2nd movement. Awareness, walking backwards with the flow.

Eight Chapters in Four movements score

ASTROLOGY OF A FRIDAY
The film was shot in the General Assembly Room of the Province of Limburg’s Government Building, where on the 7th of February 1992 the signing ceremony of the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty) took place. Whilst the lights of the eighteen pointed star ceiling perform a choreography that goes in and out of sync with the soundtrack, we hear a non- European voice reading the hopeful words of the preamble to the Treaty.
Teresa Cos investigates the human condition, understood as the endless negotiation between the self and the other and between the individual and society, seen as one and the same. Her range of approaches, which include and combine still and moving image, sound, performance and scoring, are informed by her diverse backgrounds in architecture, documentary photography, and live music. Teresa’s work has been recently exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the MOSTYN Gallery in Wales and the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. She has been attending international residency programs such as the Botin Foundation in Santander with artist Tacita Dean and more recently the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.

Film still

The Music Hackspace programme is supported with public funding by Arts Council England.
