Music Hackspace

The relationship between music and technology with Tim Exile
2017-12-11 18:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Tim Exile will be reflecting on the intersections between music and technology, and how they’ve shaped his own work both as a musician and within his current software projects. Tim Exile has released music on Warp, Planet Mu and others, and has released plugins and standalone software with Native Instruments and through his independent shop.

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

Hardware workshop - Wormed Voice with Martin Howse
2017-12-16 11:00 - 2017-12-17 17:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
This workshop will run 11:00 till 17:00 on December 16th & 17th.

Build your own unique touch-based speech synthesizer and explore the theory and technique of animal and human voice synthesis.
Wormed Voice is a two day practical workshop exploring the physical, electronic and software simulated creation of non-human voices and vocalisations. The history of speech synthesis stresses the mundane, the military and the spectacular, commencing with Van Kempelen’s 18th century rubber squeaking or speaking machine. The basic principle of simulating the vocal tract through electronic and physical means was submitted to the military demands of compression and encryption, segmenting out parts of the speech process and reducing redundancy.
In the process communication becomes the business of circuit-bent human-worms, opening human and animal speech to the cut-up, to stammerings, stutterings and tics; to an extra-human, outer-word terrain of numbers burrowed and nibbled by the earthworms.
The workshop will feast on this electronic legacy. Participants will learn the basic principles of voice synthesis and produce a custom-designed touch-speech synthesizer which they can expand at will.
This workshop is led by Martin Howse. Martin Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and texts. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination noise module, The Dark Interpreter, and the ERD modular synthesizer series.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.
Image by Ioana Vreme Moser

Artist talk - Martin Howse
2017-12-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Martin Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and texts. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination noise module, The Dark Interpreter, and the ERD modular synthesizer series.

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

January TidalCycles Meetup
2018-01-23 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex Mclean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They are loosely structured around talks and performance, with various livecoding celebrities in attendance.
No programming experience is necessary for these meetups. They are open to all abilities and are an excellent opportunity to learn how to start making music with code. We encourage you to bring a laptop and headphones to make the most of the meetup. There’s no need to have come to the previous meetups to come to this one.

TidalCycles (or Tidal for short) is a programming language for live coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
Tidal is open source and can be downloaded for free here. If you have any problems with installation we’d be happy to help out in the meetup. If you’re keen to develop your Tidal knowledge beforehand, there are plenty of great resources available. See our document of resources for independent learning here.
The meetup is organised by Music Hackspace.
Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
Photo by Antonio Roberts (http://www.hellocatfood.com/)

February TidalCycles Meetup
2018-02-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (Lancaster Rooms), New Wing, Lancaster Rooms, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA

Ewa Justka presents a six week synth DIY and PCB etching course
2018-03-16 18:00 - 21:30 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
During this 6 week long course, you will learn about the whole process of electronic circuit production: from prototyping circuits on breadboards to etching your own PCBs and learning KiCad! This course is part of Ewa Justka’s residency with Music Hackspace from March to May 2018.
The course is for beginners as well as for people interested in learning how to become more creative in CMOS circuit design as well as in basics of sound synthesis. It will provide participants with the knowledge and experience to start designing, building and manufacturing their own circuits from the ground up.
Depending on what you design, the course may require participants to do additional work at home, since we will only have around 3h per week. Reading material will also be provided by Ewa for participants who’d like to further develop their knowledge and understanding of synthesis and electronics.

The course will take place over 6 Friday evenings, weekly from March 16th, in our vault at Somerset House Studios. The £100 fee covers all material costs. All tools will be provided.

Week 1:
→ Introduction to electronic circuits (reading schematics, components’ symbols, understanding basic mechanisms of digital circuits)
→ Prototyping your first circuit – square wave oscillators and fm synthesis
→ Prototyping simple diode based VCA

Week 2:
→ Introduction to more CMOS ICs: VCOS, filters and drums (from notch filters to resonant filters; phased lock loops) – more breadboarding

Week 3:
→ CMOS sequencers: counters, dividers, random sequencers, bidirectional – more breadboarding!

Week 4:
→ Putting it all together – soldering your final circuit on vero board (you need to decide what are you gonna design!!! – this is the creative bit )

Week 5:
→ What is PCB and how does it work?
→ Intro to KiCad – translating your circuit board onto the Echeema, creating your first PCB!
→ Creating your own footprints if needed, adding libraries, adding images
→ How to be creative in PCB design without using crazy complicated tools?

Week 6:
Michael Page will join us this week to show some of his PCBs and share techniques.
→ Etching your first every PCB! Introduction to different techniques
→ Hand drawn PCBs – experiments, examples
→ Printing garbers made in KiCad; etching it onto the copper board
→ Soldering and troubleshooting

Please note that the etching process in week 6 uses corrosive chemicals. We will provide suitable goggles and gloves for this, but participants are ultimately responsible for their own safety using these chemicals. If you have any questions about this, please email info@stagingmhs.local.
We can offer a 10% concession for students or people who are unemployed or benefit recipients. If eligible, please email info@stagingmhs.local and we can send you a code.

March TidalCycles Meetup
2018-03-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex Mclean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They’re very loosely structured, with occasional short talks and performances.
No programming experience is necessary for these meetups. They are open to all abilities and are an excellent opportunity to learn how to start making music with code. We encourage you to bring a laptop and headphones to make the most of the meetup. There’s no need to have come to the previous meetups to come to this one.

TidalCycles is a programming language for live coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
Tidal is open source and can be downloaded for free here. If you have any problems with installation we’d be happy to help out in the meetup. If you’re keen to develop your Tidal knowledge beforehand, there are plenty of great resources available. See our document of resources for independent learning here.
The meetup is organised by Music Hackspace.
Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
Photo by Antonio Roberts (http://www.hellocatfood.com/)

April TidalCycles Meetup
2018-04-24 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom

Artist Talk: Folds and Folding with Roc Jimenez de Cisneros
2018-04-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Folds and Folding: a lecture exploring the grey area between art and symmetry, intuitive topology and metaphorical origami. A collection of very different examples, from science fiction to music, art, video games, philosophy, cinema and biology, of the very notion of fold and the act of folding as an analogy for the deformation of everyday reality (and our perception of it).

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is a member of EVOL with Stephen Sharp. They make mentasmic computer music and deformed techno objects.
Keywords: chronodyslexia, rave, synthesis, elasticity, time dilation, chronesthesia, goo, hoover-stretching, hyperobject, slime, psychedelia, fractal, upward spiral, downward spiral, warping, hooliganism, horns, horny, tetrafluoroethane, acid, freeze-frame, climax, recursive, poing, non-anthem, strobe, party boobytrap, fold-in, continuum, squashed, monolith, asymmetry, homeomorphic, recurrence, fluorescence, psy-donk, superflatness, superdeformation.
Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The talk will begin at 19:00 with time for Q&A afterwards. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

Ewa Justka Presents Acid Studies with EVOL
2018-04-27 18:30 - 2018-04-29 18:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Acid studies workshop is a 3 day mini course where you will build Oi Kant, a strange sounding drum-ish machine from Ewa Justka, as well as learn how to make weird acid lines using SuperCollider with Roc Jimenez de Cisneros//EVOL. This workshop is part of Ewa Justka’s residency with Music Hackspace from March to May 2018.
Price:
Day 1 (SuperCollider with EVOL): £30

Days 2 & 3 (Oi, Kant!): £200

All three days: £220

The price includes materials and tools.

Day 1 (with Roc Jimenez de Cisneros//EVOL) – 27th April, 18:30 – 21:30
→ Introduction to SuperCollider and sound synthesis (especially 303 sound synthesis)
→ building your own sequences, as well as Control Voltage generators (in order to sequence “Oi, Kant!” hardware synthesiser, which will be built during the next two days
→ synthesising acid lines – building LFOs, resonance filters, envelope generators
→ ?

Day 2 (with Ewa Justka) – 28th April, 11:00 – 18:00
→ introduction to history of drum machines
→ introduction to analog sound synthesis
→ soldering “Oi, Kant!”

Day 3 (with Ewa Justka) – 29th April, 11:00 – 18:00
→ finishing the synthesiser and triggering it with SuperCollider (synth also works standalone)

“Oi, Kant!”
Have you ever wanted to become gabber producer but couldn’t be bothered with all that dutch darkness round it? Well then this machine is for you. “Oi, kant!” isn’t a usual drum machine, in fact, it isn’t a drum machine at all! What is it then? Well it’s a strange patchable synthesiser, which consists of:
– drum voice (high and low pass filter, decay)
– weird (really weird ) bassline with CV control
– resonance filter
– cowbell with simple VCA and decay mode
-4 separate sequencers (8 step sequencer, bidirectional sequencer, 2x looping sequencers)
– each voice can be triggered with all of the above sequencers, separately. You can also use external sequencers.
– it has separate outputs for each voice
– clock in
-you can use resonance filter separately and filter any external input through it
– with extra 10 pounds you can obtain 4 mono mini jack cables that are required for patching the machine, otherwise you should bring your own cables
You can read the immanual here.
The synth is quite advanced, so it would be good if you have some experience in soldering since we will be using SMD technology. This is a newly developed synth from Ewa and this will be your first chance to get your hands on one.
We can offer a 10% concession for students or people who are unemployed or benefit recipients. If eligible, please email info@stagingmhs.local and we can send you a code.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

DIY Hardware Meetup with Tom Richards
2018-05-16 18:30 - 21:00, 2018-06-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
These meetups focus on hardware and DIY electronics for musical applications. They are informal and loosely structured, and we encourage those with ongoing projects or a backlog of devices to build to come down and work on them, as well as those with little to no experience to come down to learn and get involved. This is a space to meet like minded people working on diverse electronics projects. We’ve invited Tom Richards to host these meetups and provide technical support and advice.

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.
The meetup is organised by Music Hackspace.
Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
Image by Mind The Film.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.

DIY Modular Synth Workshop with Befaco
2018-05-19 11:00 - 2018-05-20 19:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Barcelona based synthesiser designers Befaco to lead two days of workshops where you can build their DIY modular synth kits. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. 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. All modules are Eurorack format.
The workshop takes place 11:00-19:00 on May 19th and 20th.
Required skills: Interest and patience. No previous experience in electronics is necessary.
Full cost: See price list.

When you book your place you will be charged a £20 booking fee. With this item you will be booking a spot in our workshop.
Please note there will be no refunds of the booking fee in case of cancelling / not showing.
This £20 booking fee will be deducted during the workshop from the price of the kit(s) of your choice. On the workshop day please bring cash to pay for your kit(s).
We’ll email you to find out which module(s) you’d like to build.

Befaco modules available:
Spring reverb …………………..150 GBP
Even VCO ………………………130 GBP
BF22 VCF……………………….140 GBP
VC ADSR……………………….125 GBP
Rampage……………………………. 170 GBP
Instrument Interface………………125 GBP
Output module………………….. 70 GBP
Mixer……………………………..55 GBP
Crush Delay…………………….. 130 GBP
Power bus…………………………60 GBP
Switching power supply………… 30 GBP
Dual Atenuverter…………………55 GBP
Joysitck controller……………….120 GBP
Slew Limiter ………………………….60 GBP
Sampling modulator…………….130 GBP
Chopping Kinky……………………130 GBP
A*B+C………………………………….95GBP
MIDI Thing…………………………..125GBP
Jumpskiff……………………………. 195 GBP
Hexa VCA……………………….180 GBP
Hexmix……………………………. 300 GBP
Hexpander……………………….260 GBP

Other Kits:
Patching Panda:
Grabal8……………………………140 GBP
Petit Mix……………………………60 GBP
Transient:
2M…………………………………86GBP
8S………………………………….100GBP
1F…………………………………..70GBP
GinkoSynthese
Grains…………………….55 GBP

If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.
We can offer a student discount of 10% off this workshop. Please email us for a discount code.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

May TidalCycles Meetup with Blue Maignien & Hazel Ryan (women & nonbinary only)
2018-05-22 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex Mclean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They’re very loosely structured, with occasional short talks and performances.
This meetup is for any self identifying women and nonbinary people, and will be hosted by Blue Maignien and Hazel Ryan. Blue makes music with Tidal under the name Hortense and Hazel under the name Deep Vain. They learned tidal without any electronic music or computing background and encourage all abilities to join in.

No programming experience is necessary for these meetups. They are open to all abilities and are an excellent opportunity to learn how to start making music with code. We encourage you to bring a laptop and headphones to make the most of the meetup. There’s no need to have come to previous meetups to come to this one.
TidalCycles is a programming language for live coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
Tidal is open source and can be downloaded for free here. If you have any problems with installation we’d be happy to help out in the meetup. If you’re keen to develop your Tidal knowledge beforehand, there are plenty of great resources available. See our document of resources for independent learning here.
The meetup is organised by Music Hackspace.
Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
Image by Sixtyseven collective.

Make music with code with Joanne Armitage, part 1: Synthesis Techniques
2018-05-30 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Throughout May, June and July we have Joanne Armitage leading a series of three SuperCollider workshops. These workshops can loosely be thought of as beginner, intermediate and advanced workshops, and can be attended individually or as a complete series.
Workshop 1: Synthesis Techniques (May 30th)
Workshop 2: Time, structures and pattern (June 19th)
Workshop 3: Interaction and Data (July 11th)
Individual workshops cost £30. You can also book a place on all three workshops at a discounted rate of £75 here.
This first workshop will cover synthesis techniques in Supercollider. No previous experience with SuperCollider, coding or music making is required for this workshop.
Full workshop details coming soon.
SuperCollider is a powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine learning, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
Requirements: You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
Joanne is a creative technologist and artist working with sound, physical computing, digital media and interaction design. Her current practice-based research explores how digital sound can connect with the body through haptic feedback. She is part of livecoding duo Algobabez with Shelly Knotts.
We can offer a student discount of 10% off this workshop. Please email us for a discount code.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.

Scramble Everything workshop with Ewa Justka & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
2018-06-09 11:00 - 17:00 | Music Hackspace, Somerset House, West Service Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Scramble Everything is a synthesizer designed by Ewa Justka, which uses random sequences to trigger and modulate a small voice synthesis engine. The result is completely scrambled speech – hence the name. Weird stretched out phonemes, morphing vowels and a cacophony of extremely disfigured human speech, right at the intersection where imitation, emulation and simulation point towards otherness and hybridism. Scramble Everything can also be used as an effects unit, to scramble external signals.
The workshop includes both a practical part, where users assemble and build the instrument, as well as a theoretical part (featuring Roc Jiménez de Cisneros/EVOL), aimed to shed some light on some of the topics that Scramble Everything touches upon, mostly the notion of imitation in the context of electronic music.
All materials are covered in the cost and all necessary tools will be supplied.
Alongside the workshop is a party of the same name, co-curated by Music Hackspace and Ewa Justka, featuring a live show from herself and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Dale Cornish and Shelley Parker, as well as a DJ set from Roc Jiménez de Cisneros with lasers from Jason Haebich. Purchasing a place in the workshop includes guestlist for the party that evening. Tickets can also be purchased separately here.
We can offer a 10% concession for students or people who are unemployed or benefit recipients. If eligible, please email info@stagingmhs.local and we can send you a code.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
http://scrambleverything.org/

Music Hackspace Presents Scramble Everything with Ewa Justka & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Shelley Parker, Dale Cornish
2018-06-09 19:30 - 23:59 | Somerset House Studios (Lancaster Rooms), New Wing, Lancaster Rooms, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA
Tickets for this event are available through Somerset House Studios here.

Ewa Justka & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Dale Cornish
Shelley Parker
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (DJ Set) + lasers from Jayson Haebich

We’re pleased to be bringing Ewa Justka, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Dale Cornish and Shelley Parker to Somerset House’s Lancaster rooms for a night of abstract electronics and club music. Scramble Everything is co-curated by Music Hackspace and Ewa Justka.

Ewa Justka & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Ewa Justka is a polish electronic acid-technoise artist, self taught instruments builder and electronics teacher based in London. Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is one half of EVOL, who make mentasmic computer music and deformed techno objects. The two will perform a collaborative live set. This set will contain strobe lighting.

Dale Cornish
Born, raised and current of London (south), Dale Cornish has released a series of acclaimed albums for Entr’acte, including Ulex (2015 and Aqal (2017) along with releases for labels including Where To Now?, The Tapeworm. In addition to this he has done remix work for artists as diverse as Merzbow, Perc and Billie Ray Martin and collaborations with Powell, Adam Asnan and Andie Brown in addition to a regular duo with Phil Julian, memorably/horribly described as “Coil for the Trump age”. Dale will be performing a selection of new material for this show.

Shelley Parker
Shelley Parker has performed live and played DJ sets in the UK and internationally at venues spanning the Whitechapel Gallery, Turner Contemporary and Tate Britain. Her music productions have been released on various labels including: Houndstooth, Opal Tapes and her own label Structure. In addition she has created several sound installations including commissions for the V & A and De la Warr Pavilion.

Jayson Haebich
Jayson Haebich is a London based artist who creates diverse and innovative works using light. His work encompasses the use of lasers, projections and other light based mediums to create mesmerising and immersive works that evoke feelings of other worlds and places. Heavily inspired by his time working in club and festival environments he uses much of the same lighting technology and takes it out of the club and into other locations such as galleries, cathedrals and outdoor environments.

http://scrambleverything.org/ [CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS]

June TidalCycles Meetup
2018-06-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom

Make music with code with Joanne Armitage, part 2: Time, structures and pattern
2018-06-19 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Throughout May, June and July we have Joanne Armitage leading a series of three SuperCollider workshops. These workshops can loosely be thought of as beginner, intermediate and advanced workshops, and can be attended individually or as a complete series.
Workshop 1: Synthesis Techniques (May 30th)
Workshop 2: Time, structures and pattern (June 19th)
Workshop 3: Interaction and Data (July 11th)
Individual workshops cost £30. You can also book a place on all three workshops at a discounted rate of £75 here.
This second workshop will focus on time, structures and pattern in Supercollider. It’s recommended that you have a basic familiarity with with SuperCollider for this workshop. Attending the first workshop in the series would be adequate for this.
Full workshop details coming soon.
SuperCollider is a powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine learning, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
Requirements: You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
Joanne is a creative technologist and artist working with sound, physical computing, digital media and interaction design. Her current practice-based research explores how digital sound can connect with the body through haptic feedback. She is part of livecoding duo Algobabez with Shelly Knotts.
We can offer a student discount of 10% off this workshop. Please email us for a discount code.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.

Harvester - Build your own DIY sampler with Johann Diedrick
2018-06-23 11:00 - 2018-06-24 18:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Harvester is a hand-held, portable live sampler that lets you make music with everyday sounds. With the instrument, you are able to capture sounds around you (your voice, another musical instrument, environmental noises etc.). The instrument provides an interface that lets you play back the sampled sound based around a musical, pentatonic scale. This allows for a wildly expressive sonic palette that can be used for musical performance and sound art installations.
Over the course of this two-day workshop, we will build the hardware and software for this instrument. This workshop is designed for beginners in both, allowing you to leave with your own hand-built instrument.
On the the first day we will assemble the hardware, including some soldering. We will use the Raspberry Pi hardware to create our own hardware interface for our instrument.
On the second day, we will look at the software and program our own modifications. We will take a look at the software that runs the Raspberry Pi, including the Linux operating system. We will look at the Python programming language for OSC communication, and Pure Data for sound synthesis. We will then look at using Pure Data for sound sampling and musical playback. At the end of the day we will take our instruments outside into the city and play music with the sounds in the environment.
The workshop costs £110 and includes all the parts that you will need to assemble the instrument. All tools will be supplied. Participants will need to bring their own laptops for the second day. It should have Wifi or an Ethernet card with your own Ethernet cable.
Following the workshop, Johann will present a free Artist Talk on June 25th.
Johann Diedrick makes installations, performances, and objects that let people play with sound. He shares his work through workshops, listening tours, and open-source software and hardware. He received the Asian Cultural Council 2016 Fellows grant and has been featured in Wire Magazine and Musicworks Magazine. He has exhibited internationally in numerous group exhibitions, conferences and festivals, including the Soundscapes symposium at Yale University, the NIME conference in Daejeon and Seoul, Korea, and the Invisible Places conference in Viseu, Portugal. He studied at the ITP program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU focusing on sound art. He was a researcher at the InterLab at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Yamaguchi, Japan and worked as an interactive software developer at Qosmo in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a senior developer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.
We can offer a student discount of 10% off this workshop. Please email us for a discount code.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
Illustration by Seo Hye Lee

Artist Talk: Johann Diedrick
2018-06-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Somerset House Studios (River Rooms), New Wing, River Rooms, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA
Following his Harvester workshop over the weekend, Johann Diedrick present his work and perform with the Harvester instrument.

Johann Diedrick makes installations, performances, and objects that let people play with sound. He shares his work through workshops, listening tours, and open-source software and hardware. He received the Asian Cultural Council 2016 Fellows grant and has been featured in Wire Magazine and Musicworks Magazine. He has exhibited internationally in numerous group exhibitions, conferences and festivals, including the Soundscapes symposium at Yale University, the NIME conference in Daejeon and Seoul, Korea, and the Invisible Places conference in Viseu, Portugal. He studied at the ITP program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU focusing on sound art. He was a researcher at the InterLab at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Yamaguchi, Japan and worked as an interactive software developer at Qosmo in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a senior developer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The talk will begin at 19:00 with time for Q&A afterwards. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

Make music with code with Joanne Armitage, part 3: Interaction and data
2018-07-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Throughout May, June and July we have Joanne Armitage leading a series of three SuperCollider workshops. These workshops can loosely be thought of as beginner, intermediate and advanced workshops, and can be attended individually or as a complete series.
Workshop 1: Synthesis Techniques (May 30th)
Workshop 2: Time, structures and pattern (June 19th)
Workshop 3: Interaction and Data (July 11th)
Individual workshops cost £30. You can also book a place on all three workshops at a discounted rate of £75 here.
This third workshop will focus on interaction and data (into other software/using controllers). It’s recommended that you’re quite familiar with SuperCollider for this workshop. Attending the first or second workshops in the series would be adequate for this.
Full workshop details coming soon.
SuperCollider is a powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine learning, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more.
Requirements: You will need your own computer (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones.
Joanne is a creative technologist and artist working with sound, physical computing, digital media and interaction design. Her current practice-based research explores how digital sound can connect with the body through haptic feedback. She is part of livecoding duo Algobabez with Shelly Knotts.
We can offer a student discount of 10% off this workshop. Please email us for a discount code.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.

Creative electronics: building experimental sound circuits from scratch with Casper Electronics
2018-07-14 11:00 - 2018-07-15 18:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Over the course of 2 days participants will learn about the curious and inspiring behaviour of electricity while building a variety of interactive sound circuits. Prior experience with electronics is very helpful but is not necessary. This workshop will utilise a circuit building tool designed by Edwards called the OMSynth which allows users to start tweaking and hacking functional circuits in minutes. The OMSynth is included in the cost of the workshop. If you already have an OMSynth and would like to attend, please get in touch.
All tools and components will be provided.
Peter Edwards is an american artist and inventor and founder of casperelectronics, a DIY electronics resource and icon of the early 2000s circuit bending movement. Edwards currently lives in the Czech Republic where he collaborates with experimental synth design company Bast Instruments. His practice was founded in a formal study of visual and performative arts and was later enriched by a study of electrical engineering and electro acoustics. His focus is primarily on bringing the playful and creatively inspiring behaviour of electricity to the public through performance, education and instrument design.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event or any of our workshops please contact workshops@stagingmhs.local.

Artist Talk: Casper Electronics
2018-07-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Following his workshop over the weekend on creative electronics and synth design, we’re hosting a discussion with Casper Electronics (Peter Edwards), founder and synth engineer at Bastl Instruments. Edwards will talk about the hows and whys of synth design, with a focus on the personal and emotional aspects of a traditionally technical medium.

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

Internal Motivations workshop with Sheryl Cheung
2018-07-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (G20), New Wing, Room G20, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Internal motivations is a workshop for new imaginations of internal martial arts through the perspective of sound. In this exercise we will explore different Taoist concepts in relation to sound and energy. Internal martial arts is a seemingly passive but internally vigorous form of martial arts that stresses on breathing, energy circulation, external and internal movements, and expanded consciousness. How may the soundscape of this mind and body tradition be re-interpreted in today’s context?

Activities:
1 Listening session of film soundtracks
2 Study of ancient martial art scores
3 Recording your own body movements & simple collective folly techniques
4 Creating soundscapes (can be finished later and submitted by the end of July)
Provided materials:
1 Excerpts of film soundtracks and martial arts documentaries
2 Ancient scriptures that illustrate internal body movement
3 Recordings of internal body sounds and natural forces
4 Examples of new martial arts exercises and sounds
It’s recommended that participants bring a laptop. Prior experience working with music is not required.
With the participant’s consent, completed soundtracks will be compiled into a collective album and published on lololol.net, an online platform for mind and body exercises, which will presented in this year’s Bangkok Biennial in August.
Sheryl Cheung works with sound, installation and performance to explore a material concept of life. Perceiving life as a force, a mobility that drives our innate persistence to live, Sheryl is especially interested in the potential of vulnerable, ambiguous, and internal efforts that lead us to deeper awareness of the nature of being.
Through ongoing explorations of soundscape, energy fields, and research into ancient and contemporary discourses on natural life, Sheryl pursues projects that explore the space of sound as cosmological readings of today’s increasingly post-wilderness world.
Sheryl Cheung was raised in Taipei, New York, and Beijing. Her work has been shown at the Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Lacking Sound Festival; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; JOLT Arts Festival, and Jeju Art Museum, Korea.
This workshop is curated by Lucia H Chung (Happened) as part of her residency with Music Hackspace, which aims to promote and give visibility to artists from Taiwan working with sound. Throughout July, August and September, four Taiwanese artists chosen by Lucia will be taking up short term residencies at Music Hackspace and delivering workshops, artist talks and performances. Lucia’s residency will culminate with a final night of performances in late September.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

Artist Talk & Performance: Sheryl Cheung
2018-07-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (G20), New Wing, Room G20, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Sheryl Cheung works with sound, installation and performance to explore a material concept of life. Perceiving life as a force, a mobility that drives our innate persistence to live, Sheryl is especially interested in the potential of vulnerable, ambiguous, and internal efforts that lead us to deeper awareness of the nature of being.

Through ongoing explorations of soundscape, energy fields, and research into ancient and contemporary discourses on natural life, Sheryl pursues projects that explore the space of sound as cosmological readings of today’s increasingly post-wilderness world.
Sheryl Cheung was raised in Taipei, New York, and Beijing. Her work has been shown at the Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Lacking Sound Festival; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; JOLT Arts Festival, and Jeju Art Museum, Korea.
This event is curated by Lucia H Chung (Happened) as part of her residency with Music Hackspace, which aims to promote and give visibility to artists from Taiwan working with sound. Throughout July, August and September, four Taiwanese artists chosen by Lucia will be taking up short term residencies at Music Hackspace and delivering workshops, artist talks and performances. Lucia’s residency will culminate with a final night of performances in late September.
Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The performance will begin at 19:00, followed by a talk and Q&A. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

July TidalCycles Meetup with Lucy Cheesman (women & nonbinary only)
2018-07-19 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios (G31), Room G31, Somerset House, West Service Yard, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex McLean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They’re very loosely structured, with occasional short talks and performances.
This meetup is for any self identifying women and nonbinary people, and will be hosted by Lucy Cheesman. Lucy Cheesman makes music under the name Heavy Lifting in Tidal and Foxdot, and co-runs Tidal Club Sheffield with Alex McLean. She is also a member of TYPE (The Yorkshire Programming Ensemble).

No programming experience is necessary for these meetups. They are open to all abilities and are an excellent opportunity to learn how to start making music with code. We encourage you to bring a laptop and headphones to make the most of the meetup. There’s no need to have come to the previous meetups to come to this one.
TidalCycles is a programming language for live coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
Tidal is open source and can be downloaded for free here. If you have any problems with installation we’d be happy to help out in the meetup. If you’re keen to develop your Tidal knowledge beforehand, there are plenty of great resources available. See our document of resources for independent learning here.
The meetup is organised by Music Hackspace.
Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
If you have any questions about this event please contact info@stagingmhs.local.
Image by MindAperture.

Inferno workshop with Yen Tzu Chang
2018-08-04 11:00 - 17:30 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
In this workshop, the artist will share brief research on the formation of the inferno and its connection to society and sound/music culture. Following this, participants will attempt to produce the sound of the inferno, building a sculpture with a glass jar and several layers of copper speakers, designed with different patterns to represent the inferno in our life. A song can be heard when a magnet is passed through the middle. This workshop is suitable for a beginner who does not have a relevant background.
Participants should bring a laptop and headphones. It is recommended that they install Audacity and the Arduino IDE software first. These are both free and open source. It will be useful (though not essential) to have some sort of software to edit geometry, such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape (an open source equivalent to Illustrator).
Yen Tzu Chang (b. 1991, TW) is a Taiwanese media artist who lives and studies in Linz, Austria. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the new media art department of the Taipei National University of Art. Since 2014, she has been studying for her master’s degree at the Interface Culture department of the Kunstuniversität Linz. Until now, she has given performances and exhibited her works in many international conferences and festivals, such as Ars Electronica Festival, roBOt 08 Festival, Linux Audio Conference, ISEA, Digital Design Weekend in London and etc. She had a touring performance with Renick Bell and Calum Gunn in Japan in 2016. Recently, she is participating an interdisciplinary project organized by Ars Electronica and Fraunhofer MEVIS, which including an art residency program and cooperating with the scientist – Sabrina Haase to bring the STEAM workshops for German and Austrian pupils. The residency artistic outcome has been presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2017.
This workshop is curated by Lucia H Chung (Happened) as part of her residency with Music Hackspace, which aims to promote and give visibility to artists from Taiwan working with sound. Throughout July, August and September, four Taiwanese artists chosen by Lucia will be taking up short term residencies at Music Hackspace and delivering workshops, artist talks and performances. Lucia’s residency will culminate with a final night of performances in late September.

The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
This event is supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan.

Artist Talk & Performance: Yen Tzu Chang
2018-08-09 18:30 - 21:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Taiwanese artist Yen Tzu Chang presents an artist talk followed by her Whose Scalpel performance.
Whose Scalpel is a sound performance combined with visuals and a 3D printed installation, realised with a framework for medical image processing. Mixing several methods from art and science, it is an imagination of the future and presents issues of the relationship between humans and machines through simulated heart surgery. The concept is developed out the application of sound in medical science, coronary artery bypass surgery and machine learning. The background story of the performance is based on the assumption that in the near future a surgeon works with the machine which can give advice during surgery. The installation is built according to the performer’s real heart from MRI scans and is enlarged from its actual size. It is designed to interact when the performer plugs in audio cables and bridges connections, much like the method of coronary artery bypass surgery. During the performance, the storyline is lead by the sound and video of medical images and live performance from the webcam. The video and the sound also present the machine which gives instruction to the performer as a physician. The patient (the heart) who is operated on symbolises human’s conscience and faith. The performance asks a question relating to the issue of the machine and human: “If machines can reason even better than human, will we as humans lose some abilities and even not believe ourselves anymore?”

The project was developed during the residency STEAM Imaging designed by Fraunhofer MEVIS and hosted together with Ars Electronica within the European Digital Art and Science Network.
Yen Tzu Chang (b. 1991, TW) is a Taiwanese media artist who lives and studies in Linz, Austria. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the new media art department of the Taipei National University of Art. Since 2014, she has been studying for her master’s degree at the Interface Culture department of the Kunstuniversität Linz. Until now, she has given performances and exhibited her works in many international conferences and festivals, such as Ars Electronica Festival, roBOt 08 Festival, Linux Audio Conference, ISEA, Digital Design Weekend in London and etc. She had a touring performance with Renick Bell and Calum Gunn in Japan in 2016. Recently, she is participating an interdisciplinary project organized by Ars Electronica and Fraunhofer MEVIS, which including an art residency program and cooperating with the scientist – Sabrina Haase to bring the STEAM workshops for German and Austrian pupils. The residency artistic outcome has been presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2017.
This event is curated by Lucia H Chung (Happened) as part of her residency with Music Hackspace, which aims to promote and give visibility to artists from Taiwan working with sound. Throughout July, August and September, four Taiwanese artists chosen by Lucia will be taking up short term residencies at Music Hackspace and delivering workshops, artist talks and performances. Lucia’s residency will culminate with a final night of performances in late September.
Doors for this event will open at 18:30. The performance will begin at 19:00, followed by a talk and Q&A. Drinks will be available from the bar next to the entrance to the New Wing of Somerset House.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
This event is supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan.

Visual programming with Lien-Cheng Wang
2018-08-25 11:00 - 17:00 | Somerset House Studios, New Wing, Room G16, Entrance via Lancaster Place, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Lien-Cheng will teach participants how to build an audio-visual performance with Max MSP. Participants should bring a laptop, and are recommended to have a song and a video in mind that can be manipulated during the workshop. Max MSP is proprietary software but can be used for free for 30 days. It runs on Windows and macOS. The principles learnt in the workshop can be applied to other visual patching environments such as Pure Data.

Lien-Cheng Wang is a new media artist, open source education collaborator and audiovisual performer, residing in Taipei, Taiwan. His artistic and research involve with interactive devices and real-time sound performance. He uses open source to create installation art and audio-visual real-time performance. The works are committed to seamless combination of images and sounds created by computer algorithm as well as human perception with the universe and nature. He often utilizes a volume of installed approach to achieve a unique physical perception. His works have been exhibited and performed at Linz Ars Electronica (Austria), New Technological Art Award (Belgium), Les Journées GRAME (France), MADATAC (Spain), Digital Art Festival Taipei (Taiwan), etc.
This workshop is curated by Lucia H Chung (Happened) as part of her residency with Music Hackspace, which aims to promote and give visibility to artists from Taiwan working with sound. Throughout July, August and September, four Taiwanese artists chosen by Lucia will be taking up short term residencies at Music Hackspace and delivering workshops, artist talks and performances. Lucia’s residency will culminate with a final night of performances in late September.
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and is fully wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. If you have any access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.
This event is supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan.
