Creative Data Club x Music Hackspace: Track. Translate. Transmit.
2016-11-29 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Date: Tuesday 29th November 2016 (18:30 – 21:00)
Venue: LimeWharf, Vyner Street, London. E2 9DJ
Produced by: Sound and Music in partnership with Music Hackspace and Signal Noise
Tickets: Register for free
In November, Music Hackspace will be hosting Creative Data Club right to the heart of LimeWharf’s cultural innovation hub in East London.
Data Gazing #2: Sound and Music is teaming up with celebrated information design agency Signal Noise for Creative Data Club Data Gazing Trilogy – a series of special future-focused data events. The event will feature a blend of creative speakers to brand new venues across the capital, alongside a special event in Manchester, as part of the Data Gazing Trilogy beginning this autumn.
As artists, scientists, designers and entrepreneurs, we often find that, even through the smallest of explorations, there is a mass of data sitting at the very edge of our fingertips, waiting to be used. But how do we use it? Are we open with it? Do we seek to share it with others? And if so, what does that process of sharing involve? How do we translate and retransmit the data that we have been tracking?
Speakers Tim Exile, Olivia Rzepczynski (what3words) and Alexis Kirke will be joining us to explore a breath of innovative and experimental uses of data sets; from generating sound and multimedia performance to providing an insight into better addressing the complex world in which we live today.
#creativedata @MusicHackspace #SignalNoiseLDN
This is a free event, so join us on a creative expedition of data interpretation today! Audiences will be admitted on a first come, first served basis.

About Creative Data Club
Creative Data Club is a platform for artists, scientists, agencies, designers, marketers, programmers and even the odd data cynic to listen, debate and be inspired by data and creativity. We bring together a handful of speakers from different backgrounds to share their thoughts and experiences, exploring the expanding world of data with the likes of Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, Sandy Black from the London School of Fashion and Jay Short from design agency Inition.
About Sound and Music
Sound and Music is the national charity for new music in the UK. Their mission is to maximise the opportunities for people to create and enjoy new music. Their work includes composer and artist development, partnerships with a range of organisations, audience development, touring, information and advice, network building, and education. Join the network: @Soundandmusic // /soundandmusic
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DIY EURORACK WORKSHOP WITH BEFACO ON 10TH AND 11th DECEMBER
2016-12-10 - 2016-12-11 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
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’d like to build.
This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit/s of your choice.
Please note there will be no refunds in case of cancelling / not showing.
Thanks for the reservation and see you soon!

Join us for a weekend of DIY modular synth making on 10th and 11th December 2016:

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 10th and Sun 11th December 2016, 11am to 7 pm.
Where: Music Hackspace @ LimeWharf Yard. LimeWharf, Vyner Street E2 9DJ London

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
Rampage…………………………….170 GBP
Instrument Interface………..125 GBP
Output module……………….. 70 GBP
Mixer………………………………55 GBP
Crush Delay……………………130 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
Also we have 4ms and Bastl kits available. If you are interested please let us know in advance:
4ms:
PEG 200 GBP
RCD 100GBP
RCD Breackout 55GBP
SCM 100GBP
SCM Breackout 105 GBP
QPLFO 195 GBP
Bastl
Grandpa: 130 GBP
If you have any questions please email us at: workshops@stagingmhs.local

Thunderdrone: Befaco DIY synths, live demo
2016-12-12 19:00 - 21:30 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Thunderdrone is a project by Diego de Leon and Manu Retamero from the Befaco team. After working in different projects like Tilicum or Lautstärke they are joining forces with a new glitch-drone-noise-techno set. Manu and Diego will demo the project, explain their setup and ethos when facing a live set with modular synths.
This demo set is part of “Lords of the Thunderdome Tour,” that takes the project around the globe during 2016.

The demo will start at 7pm. For any questions please contact curators@stagingmhs.local

Workshop – Sines Brain Wave and Sound Art Hackathon with AXNS
2017-03-18 - 2017-03-19 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
On 18 – 19th March AXNS Collective, in partnership with Imperial College London and Music Hackspace, will be giving teams of sound artists, neuroscientists and data analysts exclusive access to brain wave data from groundbreaking LSD research.
The two day hackathon event will bring together sound artists to work alongside neuroscientists and data analysts, to explore the brain waves in novel ways and to create mind altering soundscapes, aural installations and musical compositions from extracted features of the psychedelic brain data. We also welcome multi-media artworks that combine aural elements with visual or haptic ones.
The project offers an unprecedented opportunity for sound artists to transform the dynamic structures of consciousness into art. It also encourages scientists to experiment with innovative and novel analysis techniques with the aim to expand the way we usually look at brain wave data. The idea is to provide the creative space for the scientist, with the unconventional input from artists, to work in an unconstrained manner outside of the lab and to turn the results into something other than a number. To access someone’s state of consciousness with the current research methods available remains a challenge. Our pioneering project provides the opportunity to think outside of the box about how we can capture someone’s subjective, mind-altering psychedelic journey.
The hackathon will be a two-day event over the weekend of the 18/19th March, with Dr. Carhart-Harris introducing the dataset and research. The interdisciplinary 5 teams (consisting of 1 sound artist grouped with 2-4 neuroscientist/data scientists) will then spend the remainder of the time working on their responses to the brief.

This event is now fully booked. If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.

Workshop – Programming for Modular Synthesisers with Max MSP and Gen with Rebel Technology
2017-03-25 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Music hackspace presents a one-day workshop with Rebel Technology. Participants will learn how to use Max MSP’s Gen to program synths and effects which can then be run on an OWL Modular synthesiser, and used expressively in a modular environment.
The workshop combines programming with hands-on music making: a fun and effective way to learn new skills!
The workshop is for anyone wanting to learn musical programming and modular synthesis to get beyond the limits of traditional music software, by designing their own personal, unique musical instruments.
Requirements: Computer with Max MSP + Google Chrome installed. Some basic computer skills and enthusiasm for electronic music, no prior knowledge of Max required.
The workshop will be led by Cherif and Adam, and Rebel Technology will be providing OWL Modules.
11am:
1.) Introduction to the Max MSP visual programming environment and Gen
– A quick overview of Max and its applications.
– What is Gen?
– Difference between Gen and Max
– Low level DSP and its applications (e.g. Hardware integration/Filter design)
2.) Project 1: DSP synthesis
– Learn how to build a synth in Gen
– How to upload, compile and run a Gen patch in the web browser.
1pm (lunch)
2pm:
3.) Introduction to Modular synthesis
– A short introduction to modular synthesis, looking at concepts such as control voltage (cv) and triggers.
2.30pm:
4.) Software and Modular Integration
– How to run your sine wave synthesiser on the OWL Modular
– How to control and play this patch on a modular set up, and what this brings to the software.
3.30pm:
6.) Project 2: Effects
– We start building a simple but great sounding tape delay, and then look at how we can improve it with feedback and a low pass filter to create a powerful Stereo Tape Delay.
– Using the push button and our logic from (8), we then make a tap delay to synchronise tempos
4.30pm (Cookie Break. Your music will be 33% better after you go eat some cookies)
5pm:
8.) Recap and modular jam!
– Make some noise with all the patches you’ve been building!

Rebel Technology make innovative, programmable modular synths at Fort Rebel in Finsbury Park. They are the makers of the OWL Modular and the OWL Pedal which can run patches written by the user in Max MSP, Pure Data, FAUST or C++, allowing everyone to develop their own unique hardware instruments.
Cherif Hashizume is a musician, programmer, producer and audio engineer. As head engineer and producer at Cafe Music Studios, he’s worked with artists such as Brian Eno, David Byrne and Jon Hopkins. He releases his own music via De-fence Records and Humble Soul Records.
Dr Adam Parkinson is musician, programmer and teacher. Working in the departments of music and computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, he teaches modules in Max MSP and electronic music, whilst researching new musical technologies. Releasing music as Dane Law on Quantum Natives, he programs Pure Data patches to makes glitchy shoegaze from samples of rave and Celine Dion.

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

Opening event with Look Mum No Computer & Antonia Folguera (Sonar+D)
2017-03-27 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
We’ll be kicking off our 2017 series of artist talks with two very special guests, Sam Battle AKA Look Mum No Computer, and Antònia Folguera of Sónar+D. In addition, there will be an introduction from Music Hackspace about our 2017 programme, location and mission.
Sam Battle’s videos under the Look Mum No Computer name are some of the funniest and most creative we’ve seen. He’s got more ideas that we’ve got resistors, and we can’t wait for him to bring the new and updated Synth Bike version 3 (see below for version 2) for a demo.
Antònia Folguera will be introducing Sónar+D, the international conference dedicated to the communities working at the intersection of creativity and technology. The event brings together a variety of professionals, including artists, developers, entrepreneurs and researchers from across the creative industries. Sónar+D runs in parallel with Sónar Festival, and will take place in Barcelona in mid June.

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.

Meetup – TidalCycles with Calum Gunn
2017-04-05 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
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.
The first London Tidal meetup features short talks from Jack Armitage, PhD Student in Media & Arts Technologies and musician better known as Lil Data, and Guy John, creator of LiveCodeLab, who will be giving us a brief introduction to Haskell, the underlying language of Tidal.
The meetup is organised by Calum Gunn and the Music Hackspace. Calum makes computer music and runs Conditional, a label, radio show and night based in London.
After this meetup, the Music Hackspace will be hosting a series of monthly Wednesday-evening software workshops focusing on how to make music with computers. The workshops will be led by invited artists including Shelly Knotts, Alex McLean and Alo Allik amongst others.

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.

Workshop – Foundations of Electronics, Sound and Synthesis with Tom Richards
2017-04-22 - 2017-04-23 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Music Hackspace presents a two day workshop with Tom Richards on the 22nd and 23rd of April. This will be an absolute beginners workshop, ideal for those who are interested in DIY electronics and sound but don’t know where to start. It will also be useful for those starting out with analog/modular synths and wishing to get a better understanding of the underlying principles.
Requirements: No prior experience necessary.
Date: 22nd and 23rd April 2017. 11am-6pm
Full Cost: £120.

This includes the workshop + a synth kit you will build and take home. The synth is a basic mono synth incorporating a vco, vcf, vca, envelope generator and a basic sequencer. The design is modular in the sense that any one part can be isolated and used in other contexts. It is designed for speed and simplicity so that it’s do-able in a weekend and it illustrates the principles and prototyping techniques covered during the weekend.
When you book your place, there is a £20 reservation fee that will be deducted during the workshop from the £120 full price. You can pay the remaining £100 on the day (cash only). Please note there will be no refunds of the reservation fee in case of cancelling / not showing.

Over two days Tom will guide participants through the following:

Fundamentals of electronics. Types of components and what they do.
Fundamentals of sound and synthesis.
Different synthesiser building blocks.
Reading schematics.
Using test tools – multimeters and oscilloscopes.
Where to find information and buy components.
Prototyping simple circuits.
How to solder.
Build a simple synthesiser to take home, with notes on how to extend its possibilities afterwards.

After this workshop, participants should be able to better utilise the wealth of internet resources available, and get started in building their own electronic instruments.
Please note this course will not cover arduino, code or embedded applications – just pure old-school electronics.
Tom Richards is an artist, musician, DJ, researcher and instrument designer working in London UK. He has walked the line between sonic art, sculpture and music since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2004. Richards has built his own idiosyncratic modular electronic music system, with which he creates slowly evolving and heavily textured polyrhythmic improvisations. He has performed and exhibited widely in the UK, as well as internationally in the US, Germany, Peru, Japan and Sweden.
Selected works and live performances have taken place at Tate Britain, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Science Museum, Spike Island, Cafe Oto, MK Gallery, Bold Tendencies, and Camden Arts Centre.
He has recently submitted his PhD (Goldsmiths/Science Museum) on the work of Daphne Oram: electronic music pioneer, and founder member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This research included the re-design and construction of Oram’s Mini Oramics synthesizer, a project that has since gained worldwide attention.

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

Artist Talk – Paul Prudence
2017-04-24 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Paul Prudence is an audio-visual performer working with generative video and abstract soundscapes. His work, which has been performed internationally, focuses on the ways in which sound, space and form can be cross-wired to create live-cinematic visual-music experiences.
Using code as raw material in his work, Paul creates compositions that evolve and change form. He also uses data and incoming audio signals as input to modulate visual shapes.
Paul maintains the weblog Dataisnature exploring the historical and contemporary interrelationships between natural processes, computational systems and procedural-based art practices. He also writes for Neural and HOLO magazines.
Portfolio at: transphormetic.com

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 – Making Music with Code, with Shelly Knotts
2017-05-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Learn the basics of setting up a live coding session and making soundscapes and beats with sound synthesis and patterns in SuperCollider.
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.
Requirements: You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape music to live-coded dance music. She performs internationally, collaborating with computers and other humans.
She is studying for a PhD in Live Computer Music at Durham University. Past affiliations include BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and SOUNDkitchen. Her work is published on Chordpunch record label, Absence of Wax netlabel and in Leonardo Music Journal. She has received commissions and residencies from PRSF and Sound and Music.
Current projects include network laptop bands BiLE and OFFAL (Orchestra For Females And Laptops) and live coding performance [Sisesta Pealkiri] with Alo Allik.

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

Artist Talk – Chagall
2017-05-08 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Chagall is a London-based, Dutch electronic music producer, songwriter and vocalist who has been using the gestural mi.mu gloves interface since early 2015. Her performances are a physical manifestation of her electronic music productions, using the movement of her body to directly render the music live to audiences. During an intensive R&D project at Somerset House and Westminster University she will work with a team of artists to further explore the interaction between music, technology, choreography, visuals and lights and develop an immersive live performance to be toured through the UK and Europe in 2017/2018.
In this artist talk Chagall will present the outcome of her recent Arts Council R&D grant to produce new work exploring the interaction between music, technology, choreography, visuals and lights in live performance.

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.

Artist Talk – Nonclassical with Tom Richards and George Percy
2017-05-15 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Nonclassical are a label and club night that put on classical music well outside of its traditional context. Bypassing classical venues and concert halls, Nonclassical present live classical music alongside live electronic music and DJs in pubs and clubs around London. The collective consists of a number of performers and ensembles who play at the nights and release recorded music through Nonclassical as a label.
Tom Richards, a member of the collective and artist in his own right, will be coming in to discuss Nonclassical and provide some demos of what it’s all about.
George Percy is the label and artist development manager at Nonclassical.

Artist talks at Music Hackspace are very open in format, often incorporating demos and short performances. 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.

Workshop – Build a Synthesizer (16 - 19 years old), with V&A's Samsung Digital Classroom and Tara Pattenden
2017-05-20 - 2017-05-21 | Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London , SW7 2R, United Kingdom
Learn how to build your own electronic synthesizer with London’s Music Hackspace and Tara Pattenden and visit The Pink Floyd exhibition: Their Mortal Remains show to see how the synth changed music. The workshop will get you hands on with electronics, teaching you the basics of building a music machine and also experiment to create a sound your unique sound.
Over two days you will learn about electronics while building your very own Lerango Drone machine. This workshop is suitable for beginners and anyone interested in electronics.
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 V&A Samsung Digital Classroom is a series of workshops for 16 – 19 year olds which give practical skills and career insight in emerging areas of digital art and design. All workshops are led by expert artists and designers and give you a unique opportunity to find out more about working in the creative sectors.

When: Saturday, 20 – Sunday, 21 May 2017 @ 10.30 – 17.00
Where: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL, Seminar Room 4
TARA PATTENDEN is an artist, 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 lerando drone machine.
www.phantomchips.com

Software Workshop - Make music with code, with Alex McLean AKA Yaxu
2017-06-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Learn about making music with code using TidalCycles. Tidal has been developed by Alex over many years, initially for making broken dance music at events now known as “Algoraves,” as well as free Jazz improv, although it is now a free/open source software project with a growing community of users applying it to diverse musics. This is an introductory workshop appropriate for anyone, including those with no programming and/or music-making experience. It’ll introduce Tidal’s notation of polyrhythmic rhythm, its library of pattern transformations, how to combine these simple parts into complex results, and how to use them in performance, culminating in an algorithmic drum circle.
Requirements: You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
Alex Mclean makes music under the name Yaxu, along with collaborations under the names Canute and Slub.

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

Meetup - TidalCycles with Calum Gunn
2017-06-19 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Following our first TidalCycles meetup in April, we’re pleased to be bringing this back for round 2 on June 19th.
This one will be more hands on than last time so we encourage you to bring a laptop if you’d like to make some noise. Headphones might be a good idea too. This meetup should be suitable for anyone whether you’re an experienced Tidal user or have never programmed before.
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. In particular, the official website, the Github and previous Meetup performer PixelPusher’s Github.
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. Further celebrity Tidal users to be announced soon.

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.

Artist Talk - Martin & Lucia of SM-LL
2017-06-26 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Martin Thompson and Lucia H Chung run the label SM-LL. Martin makes music under the name Pokk! And Typeface, and Lucia as en creux. Together they produce under the name Reloc. Both their music and label share a minimal, reductionist aesthetic. There is never excess, no clutter. A single musical phrase may be extrapolated over a whole 12”, given far more attention and space than it’d receive elsewhere. No one else is giving music space to breath like this.
Lucia and Martin will be coming in for a public conversation with Tom Mudd, a close friend of the two. They’ll be playing demos and chatting about their minimal approach to music and running a label, and also digging into Lucia’s event series, Happened, which has played host to various friends of Music Hackspace, including Ewa Justka, Graham Dunning, and Aa3_Tzt.[RN500].

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 – Build a synthesizer with Tara Pattenden
2017-07-01 11:00 - 18:00 | 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 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
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 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
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
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Meetup - TidalCycles with Calum Gunn
2017-07-10 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
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 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
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 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
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.

Artist Talk - Anna Meredith
2017-09-04 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Anna Meredith is a composer and musician. She uses a mix of electronic and acoustic instruments and is frequently referred to as being “genre-defying” or “uncategorisable.” Her music sits somewhere between classical, techno, rock and pop. One of her recent projects, Anno, embodied this indefinability. Here she collaborated with The Scottish Ensemble to combine electronic music with a classical rendition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

We’ve invited Anna to talk about her approach and methods when it comes to making music, previous projects and what she’s working on now.

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.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
Image credit: Anna Victoria Best

TidalCycles Meetup with Miri Kat (women and nonbinary only)
2017-09-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex Mclean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They are loosely structured around talks and performance, with various livecoding celebrities in attendance.
This meetup is for any self identifying women and nonbinary people, and will be hosted by Miri Kat. Miri Kat is an AV artist, hacker and designer working with algorithmic, open source environments to create immersive 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 with code. We encourage you to bring a laptop and headphones to make the most of the meetup. 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 Music Hackspace.
Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local
Photo by Antonio Roberts (http://www.hellocatfood.com/)

Workshop – Complete Circuit Bending and DIY synth making led by Tasos Stamou
2017-09-16 11:00 - 2017-09-23 17:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Music Hackspace presents three days of workshops introducing the art and techniques of circuit bending with instrument and toy hacker, Tasos Stamou. These workshops, which can be attended independently or in unison to make an intense circuit bending course, will introduce participants to musical circuits and how to hack them, with all materials provided and no prior experience with electronics necessary. A great opportunity to learn, design, recycle old toys and instruments, and leave with a bespoke instrument.
The workshops aim to lead the participants along different stages of DIY electronic music instrument construction. Research, hack, design and make your own DIY synth interface and own a unique piece of circuit bent art. The workshop will be completed in three meetings, although it is not obligatory to attend all, since each day will focus in different parameters of the circuit bending process. Although it is not necessary to follow all, it is highly recommended to attend the complete course in case you wish to have a COMPLETE CIRCUIT BENDING EXPERIENCE.
Days 1 and 2 will be held at Music Hackspace at Somerset house Studios on the 16th and 17th of September. Day 3 will be held on September 23rd at London College of Communication in Elephant and Castle as part of Design Weekend. You can read descriptions of each day and purchase either a one day, two day or three day pass below. If you buy a one or two day pass, we’ll be in touch to confirm which day(s) you want to attend.
One day pass (£65)(only day 3 still available):
Two day pass (£110):
Three day pass (£150):

DAY 1

Participants will be introduced in the art of circuit bending, including all necessary tricks, tips and techniques to hack simple sound electronics.
The workshop provides an introduction to modifying techniques and alternative electronic instrument designs. It is suitable for beginners as well as to more experienced hackers and sound explorers to push forward their ideas and projects of innovative sound interfaces.
– 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 devices for bending, otherwise hackable toys will be provided from a large selection. Please contact us with any questions regarding “hackability” of your own

DAY 2

This workshop will focus on adding external controls to the hacked instruments. Participants will learn how to control their instruments with a variety of different possibilities, using passive or active components.
Descriptions will be given in adding filters, sensors, LEDs, analogue video applications, connections with USB interfaces (Arduino), adding voltage controls for connecting with modular synthesizers, etc.
All materials and instruments included. There will be a variety of different devices and enclosures to select from.

DAY 3

As part of the Design Weekend held at the LCC, this workshop will focus in designing interfaces for circuit bent, hacked and other sorts of DIY electronic music projects (and beyond sound). Using mainly enclosures from recycled gear and other materials, the participants will learn how to design, to make and to use electronic interfaces. The workshop will present and explain all the mechanical pats of an electronic instrument and will lead the participants into simple but effective solutions to built their own devices. An eclectic selection of enclosures and other material will be included

Tasos Stamou is an electroacoustic music composer and performer, alternative electronic music instrument maker, tutor and sound technologist. He has been collaborating with music/tech communities (Hackspace London & Music Hackspace, Watermans Art Centre, STPLN in Malmö, etc.) and has been leading workshops in various organizations and festivals across Europe (Green Man Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, CologneOFF VIII, Digital Performance Weekender etc). https://www.tasosstamou.com/workshops

The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.

Software Workshop - Bela + SuperCollider
2017-09-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to using SuperCollider on Bela, an open source embedded platform for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing based on the BeagleBone Black. Bela is designed to generate and process audio while connected to the physical world using all sorts of analog and digital sensors.
During the workshop we will show how you can adapt your existing SuperCollider-based instrument to the Bela platform. Also we will show how you can go from developing and testing by executing your code interactively, to a fixed setup where your code runs automatically at startup of the Bela to create an embedded instrument.

Bela is an embedded system for real-time audio processing with ultra-low latency. Based on the BeagleBone Black single-board computer and featuring a custom hardware and software environment, Bela integrates audio processing and sensor connectivity in a single high-performance package. Bela is an ideal platform for musicians, instrument designers, audio enthusiasts and interactive artists.
SuperCollider is a powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine learning, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

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

Workshop – Sketching an Interactive Musical Instrument with Sensors, Arduino and PureData
2017-10-07 12:00 - 2017-10-08 17:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
This workshop was developed as a result of the ‘DIY electronics’ Kacper Ziemianin’s class at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague. This is a two day workshop taking place over October 7th and 8th, 12:00-17:30.

During the workshop you will be introduced to the basics of working with Arduino micro controller and interfacing it with a computer software in order to generate, control and manipulate sound. We will use open source hardware and software (Arduino / pure data) to create a sound control patch using buttons, switches, potentiometers and sensors. We will start by looking at the basics such as setting up Arduino and running sketches, analog vs digital pins, Arduino programming environment, basic electronic, etc. From there we will get a bit more advanced by looking at the serial communication, connecting various sensors to Arduino, reading and remapping values from sensors, and controlling sound parameters with them. By the end of the workshop every participant will have built a project that they can take home and develop further.
In the meantime we will look at some interesting examples of projects made with Arduino,
where to look for more information and where to go next.
Please note: All participants are required to bring a computer with installed Arduino IDE
and PureData, both of which are available for Windows, Mac and Linux and are free.
Downloads:
arduino: https://www.arduino.cc/
puredata: http://puredata.info/downloads

Here’s an example of what you can do with Arduino and Pure Data if you work hard:

And another video example of where these experiments might take you (especially relevant 0-2:20):
https://vimeo.com/31704855

Artist Talk - Kacper Ziemianin’s LightSeq
2017-10-09 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
LightSeq is an award-winning DIY instrument and performance system for live electronic music. It allows users to program any sequence of lights which are then translated into sound. This combination opens up a lot of possibilities for controlling, structuring and interacting with sound. This instrument tries to addresses an issue of ‚liveness‘ of electronic music performance. How does the audience know if the performance is really live? How can we relate to the actions that the musicians are taking onstage? In case of ‘LighSeq’ every sound is created and manipulated by various light sources. This creates a direct link between the visual and sonic realm. Watch LightSeq in action.

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.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.

Workshop – DIY Modular Synth Workshop with Befaco
2017-10-14 11:00 - 2017-10-15 19:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
This workshop is part of Nocturnal City: London – Barcelona. This second event in the Nocturnal City series explores the London – Barcelona interplay with an evening of panels, installations and music performances with a focus on independent creators, DIY practices, breaking down barriers and building new structures. For this event we’ve invited Barcelona based synthesiser designers Befaco to lead two days of workshops where you can build your own modular synthesiser.
If you come to this workshop you’ll receive a discount code giving you 30% off the cost of the main Nocturnal City event.
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.
We will email you to find out 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 14th and Sun 15th October 2017, 11am to 7pm.

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.

Artist Talk & Performance - Maria Chavez
2017-10-16 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Born in Lima, Peru, Maria Chávez is an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Accidents, coincidence and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations and other works with her solo turntable performance practice.
Maria will be performing a solo turntable show, followed by Q&A from the audience and the chance to try out Maria’s methods yourself.
Maria is the author of OF TECHNIQUE: Chance Procedures on Turntable, a book of essays and illustrations that guide the novice turntablist to explore the world of needles and vinyl through the lens of deterioration, destruction and the unexpected.

Doors for this event will open at 18:30.The performance will begin at 19:00. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
