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

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

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

Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The talk will begin at 19:00 with time for Q&A afterwards. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.

Meetup - TidalCycles with Calum Gunn
2017-06-19 18:30 - 21:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Following our first TidalCycles meetup in April, we’re pleased to be bringing this back for round 2 on June 19th.
This one will be more hands on than last time so we encourage you to bring a laptop if you’d like to make some noise. Headphones might be a good idea too. This meetup should be suitable for anyone whether you’re an experienced Tidal user or have never programmed before.
TidalCycles (or Tidal for short) is a programming language for live coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
Tidal is open source and can be downloaded for free here. If you have any problems with installation we’d be happy to help out in the meetup. If you’re keen to develop your Tidal knowledge beforehand, there are plenty of great resources available. In particular, the official website, the Github and previous Meetup performer PixelPusher’s Github.
The meetup is organised by Calum Gunn and Music Hackspace. Calum makes computer music and runs Conditional, a label, radio show and night based in London. Further celebrity Tidal users to be announced soon.

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

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

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

Workshop – Build a Synthesizer (16 - 19 years old), with V&A's Samsung Digital Classroom and Tara Pattenden
2017-05-20 - 2017-05-21 | Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London , SW7 2R, United Kingdom
Learn how to build your own electronic synthesizer with London’s Music Hackspace and Tara Pattenden and visit The Pink Floyd exhibition: Their Mortal Remains show to see how the synth changed music. The workshop will get you hands on with electronics, teaching you the basics of building a music machine and also experiment to create a sound your unique sound.
Over two days you will learn about electronics while building your very own Lerango Drone machine. This workshop is suitable for beginners and anyone interested in electronics.
The Lerango Drone is an electronic instrument that produces drones and atonal rhythms. It features three oscillators each with their own pitch and volume control.
• 3 Oscillators.
• Pitch control for each oscillator.
• Volume control for each oscillator.
• 6.5″ jack output.
Building it yourself will give you the opportunity to tune and experiment with the sound making your own unique instrument. You will learn to solder, read schematics and gain an understanding of basic electronics.
The V&A Samsung Digital Classroom is a series of workshops for 16 – 19 year olds which give practical skills and career insight in emerging areas of digital art and design. All workshops are led by expert artists and designers and give you a unique opportunity to find out more about working in the creative sectors.

When: Saturday, 20 – Sunday, 21 May 2017 @ 10.30 – 17.00
Where: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL, Seminar Room 4
TARA PATTENDEN is an artist, instrument maker and educator who has been working in sound and electronic media for the past 20 years. She performs with Goodiepal and Pals, the fckn bstrds and solo as Phantom Chips.
With her Phantom Chips project she makes her own wearable synthesizers that can be stretched and squeezed to create sound, and in this workshop she will be presenting her lerando drone machine.
www.phantomchips.com

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

Artist talks at Music Hackspace are very open in format, often incorporating demos and short performances. Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The talk will begin at 19:00 with time for Q&A afterwards. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our talks please contact info@stagingmhs.local.

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

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

Software Workshop – Making Music with Code, with Shelly Knotts
2017-05-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Learn the basics of setting up a live coding session and making soundscapes and beats with sound synthesis and patterns in SuperCollider.
SuperCollider is an incredibly powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine listening, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
Requirements: You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape music to live-coded dance music. She performs internationally, collaborating with computers and other humans.
She is studying for a PhD in Live Computer Music at Durham University. Past affiliations include BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and SOUNDkitchen. Her work is published on Chordpunch record label, Absence of Wax netlabel and in Leonardo Music Journal. She has received commissions and residencies from PRSF and Sound and Music.
Current projects include network laptop bands BiLE and OFFAL (Orchestra For Females And Laptops) and live coding performance [Sisesta Pealkiri] with Alo Allik.

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

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

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

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

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

Over two days Tom will guide participants through the following:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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
In partnership with:

With special thanks to:

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Buy SuperCollider with Les Hutchins – Sound Unfolded Workshops 2016
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.

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.

'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 – 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.

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.
