Music Hackspace

Workshop – Build a synthesizer with Tara Pattenden
2017-07-01 11:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Music Hackspace present a one day workshop on Sat 1 July, 11am to 6pm.
Build your own Lerango drone machine with Tara Pattenden
Price is £95 per person, 12 people max.

This workshop is suitable for beginners and anyone interested in electronics and DIY instrument design.
The Lerango Drone is an electronic instrument that produces drones and atonal rhythms. It features three oscillators each with their own pitch and volume control.
• 3 Oscillators.
• Pitch control for each oscillator.
• Volume control for each oscillator.
• 6.5″ jack output.
Building it yourself will give you the opportunity to tune and experiment with the sound making your own unique instrument. You will learn to solder, read schematics and gain an understanding of basic electronics.
The workshop will be lead by Tara Pattenden. Tara is an artist and instrument maker and educator who has been working in sound and electronic media for the past 20 years. She performs with Goodiepal and Pals, the fckn bstrds and solo as Phantom Chips.
With her Phantom Chips project she makes her own wearable synthesizers that can be stretched and squeezed to create sound, and in this workshop she will be presenting her Lerango drone machine.

Artist Talk – CRISAP Panel with Jennifer Lucy Allan, Kevin Logan and Mark Peter Wright
2017-07-03 18:30 - 21:30
Join us for a panel on sonic art practices with CRISAP members Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Peter Wright and Kevin Logan. Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a research centre of the University of the Arts London dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice.
Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer and researcher looking at the links between sound, weather and landscape. Jennifer co-runs the label Arc Light Editions, and has hosted shows on Resonance FM. She has a weekly slot in the Guardian’s Guide and has written for Wire, The Quietus and others.
Kevin Logan is a Manchester born artist based in London, UK. His work embraces cross-disciplinary fields and incorporates installation, sound, moving-image and performance. He has exhibited and performed internationally, had audio-visual works screened in festivals worldwide, and had sound works on compilation CDs.
Mark Peter Wright is an artist and researcher working with experimental approaches to sound and listening. His practice explores the relationship between humans, animals, environments and their associated technologies of capture: critically and playfully generating debate through exhibitions, performance and collaborative events. Questions that drive his projects pivot around how agency is performed between humans and animals; how technology and media are part of an ecological approach; and how listening can become an ethico-aesthetic arts practice.

Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The talk will begin at 19:00 with time for Q&A afterwards. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our talks please contact info@stagingmhs.local.

Software Workshop – Make music with code, with Alo Allik
2017-07-05 18:30 - 21:00
In this workshop we will explore many different ways to create sounds from scratch, manipulate recorded sounds and compose these into music. Since computers are used virtually in almost any piece of recorded music in some way, it becomes useful to have an insight into how music technology works behind the user interface or perhaps how it can be even more liberating and powerful without it. The SuperCollider programming environment provides an opportunity to explore sounds synthesis and algorithmic composition on a detailed level in real-time. The particular emphasis in this workshop will be on creating intelligent musical machines including interactive synthesizers with machine listening techniques and machine learning algorithms to aid the composition process.
We will be exploring 4 main topics:
– introduction to sound synthesis including modulation, filtering, sampling and granular synthesis
– making musical structures by scheduling and timing the synthesizers
– building reactive synthesisers with triggers and machine listening
– introduction to composition with machine learning

For any queries please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local
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.
http://tehis.net
https://soundcloud.com/tehis
https://soundcloud.com/user-665948413

Meetup - TidalCycles with Calum Gunn
2017-07-10 18:30 - 21:30
Our third TidalCycles meetup will continue the informal, participatory trajectory of the second, but with a little bit more structure. In attendance for your aid will be Evan Raskob (PixelPusher), who’ll be talking about scales and musicality in Tidal, Jack Armitage (Lil Data), who’ll be talking about the evolution of his Tidal code, and Guy John (Rumblesan), Haskell guru and co-founder and developer of LiveCodeLab.
We’d encourage you to bring a laptop and headphones to make the most of the meetup, which should be suitable for anyone whether you’re an experienced Tidal user or have never programmed before. There’s no need to have come to the previous meetups to come to this one.
TidalCycles (or Tidal for short) is a programming language for live coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
Tidal is open source and can be downloaded for free here. If you have any problems with installation we’d be happy to help out in the meetup. If you’re keen to develop your Tidal knowledge beforehand, there are plenty of great resources available. See our document of resources for independent learning here.
The meetup is organised by Calum Gunn and Music Hackspace. Calum makes computer music and runs Conditional, a label, radio show and night based in London.

Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
Image credit to Antonio Roberts.

Artist Talk – Bishi
2017-07-17 18:30 - 21:30
Musician, Artist, Multimedia Performer and Curator, Bishi was born in London of Bengali heritage. Bishi received musical training in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles, including study of the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar. She has recorded two albums , with long time collaborator Matthew Hardern: Albion Voice and Nights at The Circus. Her live performances explore interactive multimedia and video projection.
Bishi has co-founded WITCiH: The Women in Technology Creative Industries Hub, an umbrella to celebrate Women at The Intersection of The Arts & STEM. WITCiH is an online and real world platform for re- search, creation, performance and networking. WITCiH aims to explore & expand our knowledge of women in tech, past, present & future.
Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The talk will begin at 19:00 with time for Q&A afterwards. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.

Workshop – DIY Modular Synth Workshop with Befaco
2017-07-22 - 2017-07-23
Full cost: See price list.

When you book your place you will be charged a £20 booking fee.
Please note there will be no refunds of the booking fee in case of cancelling / not showing.
This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit/s of your choice.On the workshop day please bring cash to pay for your kit/s.
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’d like to build.

Join us for a weekend of DIY modular synth making.

Required skills: Interest and patience. No previous experience in electronics is necessary.
Required materials: Fine tip soldering iron less than 25w is recommended (we provide soldering irons and hand tools for participants who don’t have their own).
When: Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd July 2017, 11am to 7 pm.

Hands on workshop: build your own synth modules in eurorack format. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. Each participant builds her/his own machine during the workshop.
Befaco is a Synth DIY/open hardware platform focused on designing modules and organizing modular synth workshops regularly in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and London. You can read Befaco Workshops FAQ’s for more details.
Befaco modules available

Spring reverb …………………..150 GBP
Even VCO ………………………130 GBP
BF22 VCF……………………….140 GBP
VC ADSR……………………….125 GBP
Rampage……………………………. 170 GBP
Instrument Interface………………125 GBP
Output module………………….. 70 GBP
Mixer……………………………..55 GBP
Crush Delay…………………….. 130 GBP
Power bus…………………………60 GBP
Switching power supply………… 30 GBP
Dual Atenuverter…………………55 GBP
Joysitck controller……………….120 GBP
Slew Limiter ………………………….60 GBP
Sampling modulator…………….130 GBP
Chopping Kinky……………………130 GBP
A*B+C………………………………….95GBP
MIDI Thing…………………………..125GBP
Jumpskiff……………………………. 195 GBP NEW!!
Hexa VCA……………………….180 GBP NEW!!

We also have the 4ms Quad Pingable LFO available to build at this workshop for 195 GBP. If you are interested please let us know in advance.

If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.
