Music Hackspace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

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

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

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

Eight Chapters in Four movements score

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

Film still

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

DIY instrument building with Tom Fox and UAL MAKERS NETWORK
2016-06-20 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
For the first of a series of events UAL Makers have teamed up with Music Hackspace, a place for artists, innovators, entrepreneurs and hobbyists passionate about music and technology.
Register here!
The event will feature a talk and workshop hosted by Tom Fox, 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.
https://vulpestruments.com/
Places are limited so please make sure to book early if you would like to attend.
* Music Hackspace is currently hosted by LimeWharf, a Hackney based cultural innovation hub and artistic laboratory on Regent’s Canal.
http://limewharf.org/

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

Artist Talk – Scanner: Making Music from Ghosts and a few cables
2016-06-27 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Scanner will present a history of work that has slipped between the borders of performance, installation, music and art, from scanning mobile phone networks, composing sound for the dead and collaborating with fashion designers, choreographers, hospitals and the homeless. And how to do all this without drinking tea, coffee, alcohol, meat or smoking.
The talk will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for more music, casual hangout and drinks until close at 9.30pm. For any questions please email curators@stagingmhs.local.

Robin Rimbaud, alias Scanner (1964, London, UK) is a composer whose work traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space and image, creating absorbing, multilayered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music.
Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated on projects with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Miroslaw Balka, Torres, Michael Nyman, Carsten Nicolai, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst others.
He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007), designed the sound for the Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), and campaigns for Nike Hyperfuse (2011), Chanel’s Fall-Winter collection (2012), Sprint Telephones (2012) and FT Weekend (2014). For the UK Olympics Scanner scored The Big Dance in Trafalgar Square for 1000 dancers and the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in the company of Queen Beatrix. He continues to tour his show Live_Transmission: Joy Division Reworked, a striking audiovisual show with Heritage Orchestra. In 2014 he was Visiting Artist at MIT in Cambridge USA.
In 2015 he premiered his score to Dutch National Ballet’s and ISH’s new production Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and in 2016 will present his Water Drops installation Rijeka Airport in Croatia, and Playtime at Cliveden National Trust. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris.
His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
www.scannerdot.com
www.facebook.com/scannerdot
https://soundcloud.com/scanner/draussen-drinnen
https://vimeo.com/156378550
http://www.nighthaunts.org.uk
https://scanner.bandcamp.com/album/venus-and-elgar

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

Artist Talk – Dancing with music, graphics and interactive experience with Jan Lee and Tim Murray-Browne
2016-07-04 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Jan Lee and Tim Murray-Browne are artists who collaborate together to connect the dancing body with music, graphics and interactive experience. They look at the performed moments in which we create our sense of self, in relation to the sensorial worlds that we mould and in turn mould us. This includes interactive dance with body-controlled generative visuals, immersive sound installations and research into sound architectures: how story and place can emerge through bodily sonic interaction with invisible forms.
They will talk about recent performance work, including This Floating World, an interactive dance show questioning the expressive power of the physical body evolved and amplified by technology. Also Oorgavé Oorgavé, a poetry/dance performance in an interactive sound space, telling the story of two travellers discovering the slip between human and animal, speech and sound. They will talk about research completed in Rio de Janeiro last year in a residency with ZU-UK immersive theatre company researching what are the most basic structures of interactive sound and the question ‘Can we feel a sound pixel in space?’
Finally, they will present a preview of their upcoming project Movement Alphabet, combining immersive one-on-one audience interaction with body-driven generative visuals to create portraits of how audience members move and express themselves through their body.

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

'Don’t Press Record, Press Perform' with Tim Exile
2016-07-05 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Musician and technologist Tim Exile is kicking off his new live performance project with a tour of intimate UK venues where he’ll showcase his new self-made instrument and announce exciting news about the project.

Performance is almost always a footnote to composition in the electronic music world and Tim has been working for the last 15 years to turn this on its head by creating his own bespoke instruments for electronic performance. The latest milestone in his quest to combine the fluidity and spontaneity of traditional acoustic instruments with the infinite sound worlds of synthesis and sampling is an instrument deep enough to write and perform an entire album. Join him to experience the first results and hear him share his journey with the project.
Tim’s had an impressive career. As a musician he’s released critically acclaimed albums on seminal electronic record labels Planet Mu and Warp and performed live in every continent. With his technologist hat on he’s released 3 plugin instrument and FX in collaboration with music tech giants Native Instruments. For the last 5 years Tim has been focussed on developing his Flow Machine instrument which forms the centre of his visceral 100% improvised live performances.
Join Tim at one of these dates and watch out for a special announcement nearer the time with some exciting news about the instrument, the project and its future.
Read more about Tim’s ideas in this Medium article here!

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

Artist Talk – Mira Calix
2016-07-11 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Mira Calix is an award winning artist, composer and performer based in the United Kingdom. Music and sound have always been at the centre of her practice, which she continues to integrate with visual media and technological innovation to create multi-disciplinary installations and performance works.
Mira has recently returned from China where she opened the Moving Museum 35, a temporary and site specific sound art installation, where a museum is situated in the architecture of a bus and open to the general public. This project was created in collaboration with students based at Nanjing University Of the Arts, and was supported by the British Council, PRS Foundation and JCDecaux and was part of the UK in China cultural exchange program.
Mira Calix is currently working on a new commission for the renowned American ensemble; Alarm Will Sound, which will premier in New York spring 2016 and directing a new performance by Solomon’s Knot Consort for this year’s Aldeburgh Festival.
Join us to discover more about her work and latest project!

The talk will be between 7-8pm. The remaining time will be used for more music, casual hangout and drinks until close at 9.30pm. For any questions please email curators@stagingmhs.local, we are happy to answer any questions you may have.

More about Mira Calix:
Mira has been commissioned by many leading international cultural institutions, festivals and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre, Performa, National Portrait Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Manchester International Festival and The Mayor Of London.
She has been the recipient of several awards, in 2009 she won a British Composer Award for her composition; My Secret Heart. The installation, commissioned by Streetwise Opera, and featuring the voices of a 100 strong choir, toured extensively internationally and was also the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and finalist for The National Lottery Arts Award 2010. Chorus, a collaborative work with United Visual Artists received an Award of Distinction in the Interactive Category at Prix Ars Electronica 2010. There relationship has continued over the years, most recently with Momentum an installation for the Barbican Curve Gallery in London, which opened in February 2014. In 2011 Mira was once again nominated for a British Composer’s award, for her film opera – Fables – The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
She has collaborated with musicians and other artists from across the spectrum, including Conrad Shawcross, Chris Milk and United Visual Artists to create both permanent and temporary installations in the United Kingdom and internationally.
In 2015 Mira Calix premiered Inside There Falls, a mixed media installation at Carriagworks, in Australia as part of the Sydney Festival. The artwork is a multi -sensory installation of paper, sound and movement created by Mira and features durational performances by members of Sydney Dance Company.

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

SuperCollider with Les Hutchins – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
2016-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Machines Room, 45 Vyner St, London , London, E2 9DQ, United Kingdom
13th July 19:00 – 21:00 @MachinesRoom
SuperCollider with Les Hutchins

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Using SuperCollider for installations. Raspberry Pi, recovering from crashes, and interacting with physical devices 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.
You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
This workshop is part of #SoundUnfolded taking place in the Machines Room classroom.

Buy SuperCollider with Les Hutchins – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
This programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Musica Dispersa at Music Hackspace #03
2016-07-14 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
Musica Dispersa return to Music Hackspace, this time in Limewharf, with experimentation and improvisation as the common denominators, bringing a line up of sound artists and experimental musicians.

Time and date: Thursday 14th July, 7pm-10pm
Location: Limewharf, LimeWharf Yard, Vyner Street, London, E2 9DJ
Price: £5 (cash on door). Please RSVP attendance here. The bar will be closed during the event, you are welcome to byob.

Lydia Kavina
Born in Moscow and currently living in Oxfordshire, UK, Lydia Kavina is one of the leading performing musicians on the theremin. Lydia began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction of Léon Theremin, who was first cousin of her grandfather. Five years later she was ready to give her first theremin concert, which marked the beginning of her musical career that has so far led to more than a thousand concerts and theatre, radio and television performances of classic and contemporary music, throughout the world.
The S&M Accidental Orchestra
Experimentation and Improvisation with this ‘accidental’ band formed by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt and joined for this time by London based artists Edmund Davie, Michael Forrest , Marina Young and Jude Cowan Montague with the direction of Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt.
Heidi Heidelberg
A gutsy electric guitarist and master of the loop pedal she has written music for award-winning films and theatre, and collaborated with a number of innovative artists. Her current collaborations include ‘Bitch ‘n’ Monk’ – an experimental/jazz duo project with Colombian flautist Mauricio Velasierra, with whom she has composed and performed live scores for award-winning cinematographers Yuri Pirondi and Ines Von Bonhorst, showcasing at the V&A Museum and other notable galleries.
Matawan
Gareth Chapman and Barclay Brennan work addresses the relationship that melody has within texture and how this intrinsically relates to the listener.
Each piece is an organically layered composition that is comprised from dozens of micro-melodies. Stratified together, these ordinarily nebulous melodies create dense textures that allude to harmony and musicality in a seemingly abstract way.

Musica Dispersa is a London based platform which operates internationally and is dedicated to the dissemination and diffusion of experimental music through a wide range of projects in radio broadcast, cassette releases, live events and exhibitions.
For any questions please email curators@stagingmhs.local

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

Hybrid analogue and digital MicroFM radio broadcast workshop for raspberry pi
2016-07-16 - 2016-07-17 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
µFM
Hybrid analogue and digital MicroFM radio broadcast workshop for raspberry pi
Learn how to set up a local FM radio broadcast with a raspberry pi, and use digital techniques of reception with RTL-SDR.
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 July 2016, 11 am to 7 pm at LimeWharf

With this item you will be booking a spot in our workshop.
Please send an email to workshops@stagingmhs.local indicating which option you want to make. There are two options to choose from:
BYO KIT – 60 GBP
Bring your laptop (linux by preference) + your Raspberry Pi + SD Card (specs: SDHC / microSDHC; class 10; size 8 or 16 Go) + 1 RJ45 cable (Ethernet cable) + Your own radio/s
RTL-SDR antennas will be provided.
GET THE FULL KIT – 90 GBP
Bring your laptop (linux by preference) & Bring your own radio/s
Get the full kit (Raspberry Pi + SD Card + Ethernet cable).
RTL-SDR antennas will be provided.
This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit of your choice. Please note this £20 booking fee won’t be refunded in case of you cancelling / not showing.
Thanks for the reservation and see you soon! We will be in touch with you to confirm registration and provide further details.
More information:
During the last past years, the radio world has witnessed the rise of numerous initiatives related to the hybridization of traditional radio means with digital standards and systems, nourishing and renewing the classic radio-amateur practises and approaches such as pirate satellite brazilian radios http://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/?currentPage=all
But even if technical protocols such as Software Defined Radio (SDR), streaming and p2p decentralized practices have opened new perspectives, it is mostly the recent new political approaches of radio, such as Kogawa’s MicroFM [A Micro Radio Manifesto http://anarchy.translocal.jp/radio/micro/o] or the Telecomix Internet radio initiative [http://telecomix.org/] that have unveiled new exciting territories.
Nowadays, radio is -in its digital transformation, far from the unidirectional relationship with the listener of the FM band. It is open to very local broadcast and wild transmissions over large spectrum, carrying both sounds and data, and offering to rethink its architecture on the principles of rhizomatic and meshed networks.
Following the Π-Node experiments [https://www.p-node.org], this workshop proposes to explore the use of RTL-SDR antennas:

primary conceived for TNT television reception [dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset http://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/]
subverted to the reception of various signals from the radio spectrum from 20MHz to 2000MHz.

The antenna will be receiving waves of data messages, encoded through Minimodem [http://www.whence.com/minimodem/]
A Raspberry Pi will be transformed in a radio transmitter, using the GPIO 4 and the PiFM software [PiFM: http://icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter]
Participants willl use and connect those tools and techniques, in order to create a chain of radio data relays, and trying ultimately to subvert it by various means (radio interferences, sound transformation, data capture and text substitution, etc…).
Previous knowledge
Participants shall have a basic knowledge of command line programming and a wide curiosity for radio phenomenons.
Languages used will be python, but can also be programmed in other various langages (ruby, java, c++, etc …)
This workshop will be led by RYBN.ORG
RYBN.ORG is an extra-disciplinary artistic research platform, funded in 2000 as a web entity, disseminated into several servers all over the internet and physically present in Paris. RYBN.ORG operates through interactive & networked installations, digital/analog visual cross-performances and pervasive computing. Their projects refer as well to the codified systems of the artistic representation (aesthetic, painting, architecture, avant-garde, music) as to the socio-politic and physical phenomenons, exploring various fields such as economics, data mass analysis, perverted artificial intelligence, disrupting auto-learning, language and syntaxes, sensory perception and cognitive systems.
http://www.rybn.org
This workshop is part of #SoundUnfolded #ACE funded.
The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

On the hybridisation of digital communication networks and analog radio protocols – Artist Talk with RYBN/.ORG
2016-07-18 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
This talk aims to introduce a few chosen actual digital radio infrastructures, networks and initiatives in the perspective of artistic practices. Starting with the very beginning of the amateur radio movements that have emerged with the radio itself, the talk will also cross roads with the birth of offshore pirate radios, the movement of radio libres and their connection with the minitel in Paris and Bologna, Max Neuhaus, John Cage and the experimental uses of radio in sound arts, optical network of data transmission in Czech Republic, the Frei Funk movement in Germany, micronations and data heavens. The talk will end with a presentation of various actual approaches of radio, from the realms of miniFM to the communication networks of high-frequency trading.
RYBN/.ORG is an extra-disciplinary artistic research platform, funded in 2000 as a web entity, disseminated into several servers all over the internet and physically present in Paris. RYBN.ORG operates through interactive & networked installations, digital/analog visual cross-performances and pervasive computing. Their projects refer as well to the codified systems of the artistic representation (aesthetic, painting, architecture, avant-garde, music) as to the socio-politic and physical phenomenons, exploring various fields such as economics, data mass analysis, perverted artificial intelligence, disrupting auto-learning, language and syntaxes, sensory perception and cognitive systems.
http://www.rybn.org

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

BEFACO MODULAR SYNTH WORKSHOP, 27TH AND 28TH AUGUST 2016
2016-08-27 - 2016-08-28 | 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 27th and 28th August 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 27th and Sun 28th August 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.

Available modules:
Spring reverb …………………150 GBP
Even VCO ……………………130 GBP
BF22 VCF……………………..140 GBP
Rampage…………………………….170 GBP
Instrument Interface………..125 GBP
Output module……………….. 70 GBP
Mixer………………………………55 GBP
Crush Delay……………………130 GBP
Hexa VCA………………………150 GBP
power supply + power bus……90 GBP
Power Bus………………………..50 GBP
Dual Atenuverter………………55 GBP
Joysitck controller…………….120 GBP
Slew Limiter ………………………….60 GBP
Sampling Mod………….130 GBP
Midi thing……………..125GBP
A*B+C…………………95GBP
Also we have available 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

The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
This activity is part of the workshop series #SoundUnfolded, curated by Susanna Garcia. #SoundUnfolded brings together action-based ideas about sound and explores the relationships we can establish with sound through the act of making.

Embedded residencies event: This Is Not A Composition
2016-09-16 18:30 | CAFE OTO PROJECT SPACE, 18-22 Ashwin St , London, E8 3DL, United Kingdom
Date: Friday 16th September, doors open 18.30
Venue: Cafe Oto – Project Space, located just around the corner from Cafe OTO at 1-7 Ashwin Street – E8 3DL
Produced by: Sound and Music in partnership with Music Hackspace
Tickets: The event is free but registration is essential >> Book here
Leslie Deere and Jack James, our Sound and Music Embedded composers-in-residence will present a showcase of their work developed during their 16 month residencies in a one-off event at Cafe Oto project space.
Taking inspiration from their time at Music Hackspace, both composers will present a snapshot of their diverse work exploring conceptual representations of musical composition, the audio-visual experience of music making and the aesthetics of audio-visual technology.
The evening will be introduced by former Music Hackspace Embedded Composer in Residence Tim Murray-Browne (Cave of Sounds).

Instructions to The Oval Car Park
Drawing from a period of social research into the locality surrounding Music Hackspace’s home in Containerville during 2015, Jack James presents his text-based-score Instructions to The Oval Car Park.
Through a performance lecture Jack will explore his use of compositional narrative to document ad hoc social conventions used to navigate The Oval in Bethnal Green, London as an informal car park.
When parking on The Oval, drivers park each other in and leave their mobile phone number on the car dashboard. Upon receiving calls, drivers leave nearby workplaces to let each other out, with cars moving and re parking periodically each day.

Modern Conjuring for Amateurs
Taking its title from the eponymous book by J.C. Cannell, a popular guide to learning tricks, conjuring and ventriloquism, Deere’s performance will combine her performing arts dance background with her sonic arts training, as she creates a shared experience, conjuring up sound and visuals with gesture.
She will control sound and image through gesture, by way of Kinect camera and bespoke software. Drones, chimes, noise, field recordings, found audio, sounds from CERN and the Quantizer Sonification Project combine to create a lilting minimal evocative work.
Leslie Deere (photo by Marie Volognes)

Event details
Venue: Cafe Oto Project Space // 1-7 Ashwin Street – E8 3DL
Time: Doors @ 6.30pm // Event @ 7 – 9pm
Tickets: The event is free but registration is essential >> Book here

About the composers
About Leslie Deere
Leslie Deere is a London based artist. She holds a BA Honours degree in Sonic Art under Hugh Davies at Middlesex University and an MA in Communication Art & Design (Acoustic Images pathway) under Jon Wozencroft of Touch Records from the Royal College of Art. Commissions include sound installations for Kew Gardens, SoundUK and London Fashion Week.
About Jack James
Jack James is an artist interested in events, happenings and the role of technology and media. His practice includes installation, performance and interventions within public space; often featuring domestic technologies, positioned to explore their relationship with people.Jack is part of thickear, with whom he initiated the Data and Ethics Working Group at ICT & Art Connect 2013 (Brussels) leading to a string of European engagements.Past appearances include opening SPILL 2012, Monomania, BEAM Festival, Wysing Arts Centre and Barbican Centre.
During his recent residency with Metal in Peterborough Jack received support from Arts Council England to create Temporary Local Broadcast.

About Embedded
Embedded is a Sound and Music composer and creative-artist development programme. Funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the PRS for Music Foundation, Embedded places a selection of composers from a range of disciplines into extended relationships with leading national arts organisations.

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

'Naked Ear' exploring, recording and listening workshop with Johann Diedrick
2016-09-17 12:00 - 18:00 | New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, London , London, N4 1DN, United Kingdom
This workshop is for artists and researchers wanting to become more familiar with the potential of sound. Our focus will be on expanding our understanding of sound in an environment. This requires a basic vocabulary for talking about sound as a material, as well as the ability to make and use tools for investigating and manipulating sound for creative purposes.
Our frame of reference will be Good Vibrations, a mobile listening kit that allows “acoustic explorers” to find abandoned sounds in their environment. By using hand-made microphones and amplifiers, listeners can tune into the subtle vibrations that usually go unnoticed. The project encourages listeners to reimagine their sonic environment by playfully exploring the world through their ears.
The workshop will introduce participants to the world of sound art, while providing techniques for making tools for creating these experiences. This will include the fabrication of hand-made microphones and amplifiers for use in installations, performances, and scientific research. The goal of the workshop is to take these tools into the field and use them for artistic investigation and public engagement.

With this item you will be booking a spot in the workshop. All materials included!
Please note this £50 booking fee won’t be refunded in case of you cancelling / not showing. Thanks for the reservation and see you soon! We will be in touch with you to confirm registration and provide further details. For any questions please email curators@stagingmhs.local.

Johann Diedrick makes installations, performances, and software that allow people to play with sound.
His work has been exhibited internationally in numerous group exhibitions, conferences and festivals, including the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference in Daejeon and Seoul, Korea, the Invisible Places, Sounding Cities conference in Viseu, Portugal, and the Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn, New York.
He received his Masters in Professional Studies at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, focusing on sound art. During time at ITP he was a researcher at the InterLab at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Yamaguchi, Japan. Afterwards he worked as an interactive software developer at Qosmo in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a software developer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Sounds Like You – Artists Talk with Johann Diedrick
2016-09-19 19:00 - 22:00 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
In his talk Sounds Like You Johann Diedrick will present some of his past work and delve deep into his Good Vibrations project: the project’s inspirations, works that have influenced the project’s developments, and some of the insights he has had along the way.
Good Vibrations is a mobile listening device that allows users to tap into of the least audible sounds of a city. With the use of three different types of microphone: a contact mic, a hydrophone and a probe mic, the user can tune in to subtle acoustic vibrations in the environment and explore the city’s cracks and surfaces. A field guide for urban listening directs users to acoustic ‘points of interest.’
The talk will take place between 7pm and 8pm, the remaining time will be used for networking, casual hangout and drinks until close at 10pm. You are welcome to byob.

Afterwards he will present some new projects he is working on.
– Website: www.johanndiedrick.com
– Instagram: www.instagram.com/johanndiedrick/
– Twitter: twitter.com/jdiedrick

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

MAKING MUSIC WITH LIGHTS – 2 days course
2016-09-24 - 2016-09-25 | LimeWharf, Vyner St, London, E2 9DJ
* When: Sat 24th and Sun 25th September 2016 – 11am to 18pm
* Where: Music Hackspace – LimeWharf. Vyner St, London E2 9DJ
This workshop intertwines practice (musical and performative), theory
(historical context and aesthetics) and technique (electronics). It
culminates with a performance and a composition.

1 day = £70
2 days = £120
*Concession 60/100 (students, unemployed, lone parents)
**Participants who make a booking for one day can choose which day they want to come.
*** Price, with this item you will be booking a spot in our workshop. Please send an email to workshops@stagingmhs.local indicating which day you want to go. This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit of your choice. Please note this £20 booking fee won’t be refunded in case of you cancelling / not showing. Thanks for the reservation and see you soon! We will be in touch with you to confirm registration and provide further details.
The workshop is led by xname (aka Eleonora Oreggia) with assistance by Astrid Bin.
DAY 1
Sat 24th September 2016 – 11am to 18pm

Construction of simple oscillators powered by solar panels
Why solar panels and what do we learn from them?
Basic of electronics and soldering for beginners
Reading schematics and reproducing a circuit
Modifying a circuit and fine tuning your noise
Sensing systems and LDR (light dependent resistors)

At the end of DAY 1 each participant will have built at least 3 light controlled oscillators. Beginners will learn how to start with electronics, solder and read schematics.
More advanced users will learn how to modify a circuit and increase the complexity of an instruments by connecting different modules to process the signal (oscillate, amplify, filter), reasoning in block diagrams and using an oscillator to control another oscillator.

Resources will be delivered before and after the class.
All components will be provided.
Participants keep what they make.

DAY 2
Sun 25th September 2016 – 11am to 18pm

Imagining a live set using a choreography of lights and the oscillators constructed.
Composition and synaesthesia with light controlled electronics.
Understanding frequencies in terms of colour and sound.
Melody as colour, beat as pulsation.
Manipulating interferences.
Expression, gesture and interaction in performance.
Rhythmics, tempo, syncopation, cacophony.
Examples from contemporary composers.

Aesthetics: analog synths and generated sounds working with silence and granularity overlapping and subtracting textures Techno, noise, musique concrete timbral and vertical music.
The day will start with a short lecture (optical music and live composition) and some space for reflection. The focus will be on practicing with the instruments created, imagining a system of notation for live performance.

Participants will learn how to construct a live composition.
The workshop will end with a performance: solo / in duet and all together (directed).
The performance will be filmed and recorded.
Video and sound files will be delivered to each student as additional didactic material.
A small anthology (non compulsory but recommended) will be emailed to the students a week before the course. Individual feedback will be provided upon request.

This workshop is lead by xname (aka Eleonora Oreggia) with assistance by Astrid Bin.
“xname” is an interdisciplinary artist born in Milan and based in London. She makes interactive installations and live performances. Made of self built electronics, lines of code, and other inert matter (noise, dust), her alchemic constructions often contain a live element, something that has to happen, yet unpredictable.
Her live compositions transform light and other electromagnetic frequencies in sound waves through self built synthetisers and complex semi chaotic machines. The result is a hypnotic spectacle dominated by industrial and noise-techno frequencies.
She is currently associated with the Augmented Instruments Laboratory at Queen Mary University where she is developing electronic musical instruments within the Antennas & Electromagnetics Group. She is also the founder of Nebularosa, a record label promoting electronic music that challenges the established modes of music production.
http://xname.cc
http://nebularosa.net

The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
This activity is part of the workshop series #SoundUnfolded, curated by Susanna Garcia. #SoundUnfolded brings together action-based ideas about sound and explores the relationships we can establish with sound through the act of making.

Creative Data Club x Music Hackspace: Track. Translate. Transmit.
2016-11-29 18:00 - 21:00 | 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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With special thanks to:

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.

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