Yuri Suzuki - Artist Talk at Music Hackspace
2015-09-03 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work that explores the realms of sound through exquisitely designed pieces.
Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art unit
Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art.
Suzuki’s work raises questions of the relation between sound and people and how music and sound affect people’s mind. Suzuki’s sound art pieces and installations have been shown in exhibitions all around the world. In 2013, Suzuki was appointed as platform tutor at Design Products department in Royal College of Art and member of New Radiophonic Workshop. Following 2014, Museum of Modern Art New York acquired his work OTOTO the DIY musical instrument, comprising of a built-in a synthesizer and sampler and Colour Chasers to their permanent collection.

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

Vahakn + Human Instruments, Artist Talk
2015-09-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Vahakn Matossian-Gehlhaar is an artist with BA’s and MA’s in Product Design from Brighton and Royal College of Art respectively. Alongside his father Rolf Gehlhaar -researcher in assistive technology for music- he runs Human Instruments. A new company dedicated to the design and production of digital musical instrument interfaces for people with varying physical ability. Working closely with the British ParaOrchestra, Human Instruments are currently developing the worlds first commercially available hands free instrument that will give its player total musical freedom of expression, with a resolution of sound as close as possible to traditional orchestral instruments.
Vahakn also runs an independent design studio in East London that specialises in interactive and real-world public projects. His past clients, collaborators and employers include, Yamaha, Troika, IRCAM, Glastonbury Festival, British Film Institute, Innovation Labs, Hulger, and Cybersonica.

Tara Pattenden - Artist Talk at Music Hackspace
2015-09-17 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Tara Pattenden is an artist, musician and maker of electronic noise
instruments. For the past 5 years she has been working with soft
circuitry to create interfaces for audio electronics that manipulate
sound through touch and movement. She will be presenting and
discussing some of her creations.
As Phantom Chips she performs with an array of home made electronic
instruments, samplers and wearable noisemakers. Concocting rhythms
from manipulated found and recorded sounds Phantom Chips invites the
audience to wear and play her costumes and join in with the audio. The
costumes create sound through movement and allow audience members to
experiment with a brand-new form of musical expression. The
deliberately clumsy and awkward interfaces invite playfulness and
improvisation.
Australian-born Tara Pattenden works in the field of analog
electronics, noise performance and soft circuitry. She has been making
interactive noise and mess for over 15 years performing with kunt,
monster zoku onsomb and various other collaborators.

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

Brane Zorman – Artist Talk and performance
2015-09-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Brane Zorman is a composer, sound and radio artist and founder of CONA. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he has composed numerous sound works for theatre and dance performances, new media and internet events and projects. His work examines and explores the possibilities of processing, presenting, perceiving, understanding, positioning, manipulating and reinterpreting the sound and space. Employing old (analogue), digital technologies and techniques his work traverses the fields of music, multimedia and visual space. By using both sophisticated and simple tools he is developing strategies, methods, dynamic and interactive interpretation models, soundscapes, creating electronic and acoustic evolving sound sculptures.
Brane Zorman works with ready-made and transformed images, video clips and databases of vulkanos, lava bursts and explosions from the web and private collections. Out of the photos, locations, temperature variations, chemical reactions and recorded data he creates and manipulates live and pre-recorded sound sculptures and sequences that relate to colors, light intensity, shadows, contrast and shapes of the treated visual materials. He is transforming a visual representation of lava eruptions and flows (lines, points, cracks, amorphic- organic forms) to a sequencer score using various software tools and predefined parameters assigned to sensors thus driving and modulating sounds that are result of his field recording sessions. By analyzing visual sources he is building an unique and constantly changing compositional dynamics and dramaturgy of sound sculptures and sequences presented in a surround spatial performance, giving deep, emotional, sometimes scary and very physically intense low frequency experience, thus contrasting the relaxed, blending and fading, calm and monotonic video slide projection of the transformed photo sources in the background.
Brane will talk about his work and will perform Hidden Materia, a sound composition inspired by and conceived as an ongoing journey of the raw, liquid, vivid force of terrestrial magma carrying the unparalleled and hidden amount of energy and threat. “Hidden Materia” project was created and developed as a trilogy of live sound and video performances between 2012 and 2014.

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

Introduction to Audio Synthesis & Processing for iPhone/iPad
2015-09-30 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Simple playback of audio files within the iPhone environment has always been relatively straightforward. But what if you want to do something more sophisticated with audio in iOS? In the past, the Apple frameworks for doing this have been relatively inaccessible.

This workshop will focus on how to use Pd (Pure Data) patches as an easier way to create more sophisticated audio-based iPhone/iPad apps. This will include learning how to link audio parameters (e.g. volume, pan, filter cutoff) to standard Apple UI elements (e.g. gesture recognisers, accelerometers, sliders, toggles, etc.). In addition, we’ll look briefly at Apple’s new AVAudioEngine framework as another accessible alternative.

Requirements: You will need to arrive with an Apple laptop with XCode installed. Experience with XCode will helpful but not essential. It will also be helpful to have a basic knowledge of Pd, though we can provide some basic patches if you don’t. Note that any Pd patches you bring should be made with Pd-Vanilla.

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Atau Tanaka - Artist Talk at Music Hackspace
2015-10-01 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Atau Tanaka (eavi.goldsmithsdigital.com) will present twenty years of work in corporeal interaction with computer music systems, with a focus on electro-myogram based muscle interfaces. He will talk us through his artistic practise and academic research as well as his work in the music technology industry.
In addition, the event will feature a demo, and samples of his recent projects on biophysical musical interfaces in collaboration with Myo, Bitalino and Rebel Technology, with working prototypes available for attendees to try out!
The event will also feature composer and sound artist Miguel Ortiz from Goldsmiths University. Miguel will show various EMG data acquisition devices and provide a hands on introduction to the basics of using EMG in Music/Sound contexts using MaxMSP.
Atau Tanaka creates musical instruments using sensing technology to capture movements and gestures of the performer’s body. Atau studied at CCRMA Stanford, and conducted research in Paris at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou. His first inspirations came upon meeting John Cage during his Norton Lectures at Harvard and would go to on re-create Cage’s Variations VII with Matt Wand and :zoviet*france:. In the 90’s he formed Sensorband with Zbigniew Karkowski and Edwin van der Heide and then moved to Japan, playing with Merzbow, Otomo, and KK Null. His work has been presented at the ICA, NTT/ICC Tokyo, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Eyebeam, Wood Street Gallery, and SFMOMA. He has been Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam and is Professor of Media Computing in the Embodied Audio Visual Interaction (EAVI) research unit of Goldsmiths.
@atautanaka

Caption from Global String (2001), a multi-site network music installation, connected via the internet, by Atau Tanaka in collaboration with Kasper Toeplitz.

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

DIY Electronics Course with Ewa Justka
2015-10-07 - 2015-11-14 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
During the six weeks you will build The Ultimate Headbutting Machine – 10 step sequencer with drums and cymbals. You will learn principles of electronics starting from simple circuits to more complex ones. Each class (4h per week) will be focused on building different modules of the UHM, exploring CMOS technology in depth. Participants will be encouraged to experiment with circuits, hack toys and use organic materials implemented in the machine in order to modulate the sounds.
The classes will not only be focused on building final musical device but also on learning principles of electronics. After the course hopefully you will be able to read schematics and build devices yourself.
After each class you will be given hand outs with resources.
All the materials are included in the price and you take the final machine with you.

At the beginning of each module the participants will work on breadboards to freely experiment with the circuits and play around with different components in order to familiarize themselves with CMOS technology and feel more comfortable with circuit design experimentation.
Next, after the participants are introduced to the principles of the electronic circuit’s mechanism and they are happy with the design they will solder each module on copper strip boards / or PCBs.
The whole 6 weeks course will be focused on those modules, where participants will start from building simple oscillators to more complex circuits.
For more information contact curators@stagingmhs.local. We are happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Module 1
Date: Wednesday 7th of October (18:00-21:00)
Location: Music Hackspace, Unit 15 (ContainerVille), 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS
Subject: Noisy Oscillators.
TOPICS:
Introduction to electricity: current, voltage, resistance, capacitance, Ohm’s Low.
Basic functions of a circuit.
Introduction to components .
How does the sound look like? introduction to measuring tools.
How does the breadboard work?
Introduction to oscillators.
Combinational logic.
During this module we will work on breadboards, experimenting with different frequencies of oscillators and different resistive materials. We will learn how to build oscillators that modulate each other and use them to control pitch, timbre and speed.
Module 2
Date: Wednesday 14th of October (18:00-21:00)
Location: Music Hackspace, Unit 15 (ContainerVille), 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS
Subject: Melting solder and making noise.
TOPICS:
Introduction to soldering.
Looking at different soldering techniques and different kinds of copper boards.
Troubleshooting principles.
Module 3
Date: Wednesday 21st of October (18:00-21:00)
Location: Music Hackspace, Unit 15 (ContainerVille), 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS
Subject: Sequencing in silicon.
TOPICS:
Introduction to sequential logic.
Building LED driver.
Controlling the sequence with fruit ‘n’ veg.
Audio sequencer vs. Gate/CV sequencer
Driving circuit bendet toys in sequence.
Building a 10 step sequencer.
During this module we will build different kinds of simple experimental sequencers, playing around with various triggers. We will explore decade counters.
Module 4
Date: Wednesday 28th of October (18:00-21:00)
Location: Music Hackspace, Unit 15 (ContainerVille), 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS
Subject: 808 Cowbell demystified.
TOPICS:
What is a harmony mixer?
What is a frequency modulation?
Introduction to XOR gates.
Metallic sounds vs percussive sounds.
Introduction to control voltage.
Transistors and buffers.
We will build the cymbal/cowbell module. We will experiment with different values of components in order to produce various sounds: from metallic ones, to high hats, cowbell and cymbals.
Module 5
Date: Wednesday 4th of November (18:00-21:00) and Saturday 14th of November (12:00-16:00)
Location: Music Hackspace, Unit 15 (ContainerVille), 5–10 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS
Subject: Filters and Drums.
TOPICS:
Active and passive filters.
Introduction to op amps (Operational Amplifiers).
Why does drum sound like a drum?
Simple distortion effect.
During this module we will learn about importance of an amplification. We will build simple drum module, that will be implemented in the final machine.

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

Becky Stewart – Artist Talk at Music Hackspace
2015-10-08 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Becky Stewart will share her work combining music with textiles and will bring along samples to demonstrate. She will show Solo Disco Scarf and Sound Direction, both developed as tools to teach simple analogue audio signal processing through sewing and crocheting circuits. She will also show her current work using textile interfaces as capacitive touch control surfaces for music and dance performance.
‘Solo Disco Scarf’
Becky Stewart is a co-founder and the Head of Learning at Codasign. She is an engineer, developer, and educator working with physical computing and specialising in e-textiles. She recently released the book, Adventures in Arduino(Wiley), teaching programming and electronics to ages 11-15.
Becky completed her PhD in acoustics, spatial audio and interfaces for music search with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London in 2010, an MSc in music technology at the University of York in 2006 and a BMus in music engineering technology and computer science at the University of Miami in 2005. She works on creative technology projects for clients through Anti-Alias Labs and has had her work performed at the Tate Modern and covered by the BBC and New York Times.
More info and projects can be found at theleadingzero.com

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

Ross Flight - sound design interaction talk
2015-10-15 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Ross Flight is and sound and interactive system designer working in designing for theatre for the last ten years.
Ross will present a short musical performance followed by an explanation of the processes involved in the data translation and the importance of mapping when it comes to interactive sound design.
Ross’ work has increasingly begun looking at interactive technologies and new forms of real world sound control. He is currently working on an interactive sound piece supported by the National Theatre Studios generating sound from the blooming of an evening primrose flower in real time, but will be using this platform at Music Hackspace to demonstrate his research into using depth sensing camera technology to create complex sound design interaction through human body gestures.

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

Befaco - modular synth workshop
2015-10-17 11:00 - 2015-10-18 19:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
The Befaco team is back for a DIY modular synth workshop on 17th and 18th October 2015 at the Music Hackspace (ContainerVille).
Information about modules and prices: http://mhproduction.wpengine.com/befaco-diy-modular-synth-workshop-17th-and-18th-october-2015/
Please register via workshops@stagingmhs.local

Algorhythm workshop: hacking church bell patterns
2015-10-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
In this workshop percussionist and composer Dom Aversano will demonstrate how church bells ringing patterns can be used to generate a vast array of rhythms. Once demonstrated participants will then be invited to explored how these patterns might be hacked, and encouraged to discover new creative possibilities.
Dom Aversano used church bell algorithms to create an instrument that was part of the award winning Cave of Sounds installation. He will showcase various parts of the patch used in the installation, programmed using the open source environment Pure Data.
Participants are encourage to bring whatever technology they use for music making; whether a laptop with a programming language on, a piece of hardware, or a traditional musical instrument. Ideas will take precedence over tools.
The format of the workshop will be:
7:00 – 7:45pm –– Dom Aversano showcased bell ringing algorithms
7:45 – 8:40pm –– Participants hacking session
8:40 – 9pm –– Participants feedback their ideas

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

Artist Talk by Victor Mazon: The invisible revealed
2015-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Artist Talk by Leipzig-based artist Victor Mazon Gardoqui (Santander, 1982).
“The Invisible revealed_ About presence, perception, control & noise.”
Víctor Mazón Gardoqui’s work questions perception, altered state and vulnerability through un/stable arrangements.
His work materializes in three main fields: actions or site-specific performances through experimental processes, exhibitions as consequences of previous actions and collective work through collaborative groups or seminars in cultural institutions. His work has been performed or exhibited in museums, galleries, billboards, urban screens and TV/radio stations across Europe, Africa, Russia, Nepal, North America, Canada and Mexico.
Victor Mazon will be also leading a workshop at the London Music Hackspace.
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Workshop: build your own SIGNUM device and reveal hidden sounds
2015-10-24 11:00 - 2015-10-25 15:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
In this workshop participants will build and take home their own Signum device, which is designed to experiment with hidden signals and usually un-hearable sounds. The device includes a transducer, optical, coil, germanium diode and small loop antenna that will allow you to both to listen to and record the sounds hidden in the electromagnetic spectrum. The workshop will also cover the use of the electromagnetic spectrum in art practice.
With Victor Mazon Gardoqui.
Signum is a portable device designed to provide a clean, line level & micro controller friendly output signal to various input sensors: different bandwidth antennas, high impedance transducers, photosensitive cells, infrared, ultraviolet, sound pressure or line level.
The electromagnetic spectrum will be used as a creative resource where participants will build a device capable of modulate the invisible phenomenæ on various media or devices.

SIGNUM_Portable Analog Instrumentation Amplifier from animazon on Vimeo.
SIGNUM performs a fully analogue difference operation between its input and reference output level, multipling by a factor of 100 times in the first stage -controlable by potenciometer- and 10 times magnification on its second stage, providing a controlled amplitude output line suitable to be safely connected to any audio input: sound card, computer or mixer, providing the input signal a maximum magnification ratio of 1000: 1 and a signal-to-noise distortion of 0.007% THD.
The kit contains two amplifier circuits operating in parallel to accommodate different impedances of sensors and a final amplification for line output. The 3 sensors embedded on its surface measures close range electromagnetic frequencies, a central SMA antenna connector for long-range signals and an external line input via the 3.5mm jack to amplify self made sensors and physical devices.
It´s powered by a 9V battery or supplied 1,3mm power jack to USB connector.
The workshop will be lead by Victor Mazon Gardoqui who’s the author of workshop concept, electronics design & documentation | CC 4.0 BY-SA ://victormazon.com/signum

SIGNUM Portable Analog Instrumentation Amplifier
Specifications:
Voltage gain 10 to 1000 (w/ ALPS potentiometer)
Amplitude control (w/ ALPS potentiometer)
Bandwidth set to 15.9kHz (w/feedback capacitors), or 100kHz (w/ caps removed)
Line IN / Line OUT (w/ Jack 3,5mm)
SMA Antenna Input
Self-centering output quiescent voltageBattery operation ~3V–30V
1,3mm power jack to USB cable included
220v to 5v USB adaptor included
Current drain ≤160mA
Size 70×70 mm
8x 30mm. metal stands
Sensors: transducer, optical, coil, germanium diode, small loop antenna included
Industrial PCB manufacture
Material FR4
Thickness 1,6mm
Surface Finish ENIG Immersion Gold on both sides
Black Matt Soldermask on both Sides
When: Saturday 24th October: 11h to 19 h and Sunday 25th October 11h to 15h.
Required skills: No previous experience in electronics is necessary, but interest and patience mandatory.
Cost: 95 GBP (All electronic materials and documentation included).
Enquiries: please email workshops@stagingmhs.local

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Audio Synthesis for iPhone/iPad (workshop 2)
2015-10-27 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Following the strong interest shown in the first iOS (iPhone/iPad) audio synthesis workshop, the Music Hackspace will be offering a follow-up workshop with Ron Herrema.
Having learned the basics of implementing Pd in iOS using libpd, we will work on incorporating gesture recognition and motion sensors, as well as microphone input and more sophisticated Pd methods. We’ll also sneak a peek at a more recent framework, AudioKit.
Requirements: you should have Xcode 6 or 7 installed and be able to run the most basic implementation of libpd. Instructions for setting this up can be found in
Rafael Hernandez Making Musical Apps.

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It will also be helpful to have an iPhone or iPad, though this is not essential.
ronherrema.net
https://github.com/libpd/pd-for-ios
http://audiokit.io

Build your own Light-Theremin with Moldover aka “The Godfather of Controllerism”
2015-11-05 18:30 - 22:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Known as “The Godfather of Controllerism”, Moldover will be visiting the Music Hackspace during his Europe tour.
After this workshop Moldover will give a presentation on the design of The Light-Theremin CD Case, and his other circuit-board artworks.
In this basic soldering workshop, Moldover will take you through the steps to build your own Light-Theremin CD case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8UzSVFUIc0). Even if you’ve never soldered before, this workshop will give you the confidence in two hours. If you do have experience you’ll learn how to solder better, and walk away with a fun and unique instrument, plus a copy of Moldover’s album.
This is an all ages, hands-on workshop
No experience required
No equipment required: soldering stations & Light Theremin kits provided
Cost: £35 for kit/materials
Moldover‘s collected work is deep, diverse, and nearly impossible to summarize, but its essence shines clearly when you see the artist on stage delivering emotional and authentic performances with hybrid instruments of his own design. Explore his creations further and you’ll discover a cultural icon who invents new formats for interactive album artwork, cultivates collaboration by building elaborate jamboxes, and has inspired an entire generation of free-culture music-makers by openly sharing his methods and his madness. moldover.com

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

Yuli Levtov - reactive and generative music talk
2015-11-12 19:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Yuli is co-founder of Reactify, a company specialising in interactive, reactive and generative music in the form of installations, web-based experiences and mobiles apps.
In this talk he will present a range of Reactify’s work including reactive music for cars, generative dubstep sound systems, and interactive fire sculptures installations that have been exhibited at Burning Man, Glastonbury and more.
The talk will also cover the world of dynamic music more generally, and give examples of how technology can offer different formats for pieces of music to exist.
All of Reactify’s work is done in Pure Data and Yuli will gladly dive deeper into the internal workings of any particular installation.

The talk will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for discussion, casual hangout and drinks until close at 9.30pm.

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

Alois Yang – Artist Talk at Music Hackspace
2015-11-19 19:00 - 22:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Aloïs Yang, is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work that explores the relation and interaction between people, sound, and the external world. His work is influenced both by scientific reference and human imperfection of understanding the nature.
Alois will present his work Hear The World Ending,
A sound installation made according to the orbits’ timeframe, with its musical content only being complete at the exact moment an asteroid might impact earth, or put it another way – the end of the world. Each asteroid will be given a sound character according to the data given by NASA’s Near Earth Object program.
The actual installation exists as a star map projection which is aligned to the actual position of the stars. The unseen and uncertain asteroids will be played through a four channels speaker system surrounding the audience, sponsored by The Sound Junky, which features the best bookshelf speakers under $1000.
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This programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

DADA Machines at the Music Hackspace
2015-11-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
The amazing Johannes Lohbihler will be in London for a short period and will be bringing with him his incredible DADA Machines (https://www.facebook.com/dadamachines).
“The DADA Machines toolkit can be combined with any physical object and enables you to explore novel ways of creating and making music.”
Johannes will give a brief talk about his creation before we all get a chance to play with, manipulate and build stuff based around it.
Check out the videos below to get an idea for what can be achieved with these machines.
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https://twitter.com/MakerHungary/status/650590399682244609
https://www.facebook.com/dadamachines/videos/vb.1591829641071149/1639137799673666/?type=2&theater

Car Park Canal Side - performance event
2015-11-25 19:00 - 21:30 | 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.
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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!

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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.

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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
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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.
