Group:Music Hack Space

The London Music Hack Space is a place to share thoughts, knowledge, technologies, processes and aesthetics on music and audio. We welcome artists, engineers, students, and lawyers too! We meet every Thursday. Someone presents an on going project. It starts off discussions, and after that we have pizzas, split in groups and get hands on with our projects or sometime with the technology we just learned.

Mailing List

There is a dedicated mailing list to discuss our activities.

Follow us on Twitter @MusicHackSpace

Presentations

We start the meet ups with a short presentation (5/10 min). Talks can be a starting point for collaborations. Speakers are invited to come forward with work in progress, ongoing ideas, prototypes, technological issues, whatever they may find useful to share and get feedback on.

• Thursday 03/11/2011, 7pm: Sam Duffy on her Augmented Saxophone
• Thursday 10/11/2011, 7pm: Tim Murray-Browne, IMPOSSIBLE ALONE, sound installation
• Thursday 17/11/2011, 7pm: Martin (mars), Taquito, electronic wind instrument
• Thursday 24/11/2011, 7pm: Mick Grierson, C++ Maximilian library (github)

Past

• Thursday 27/10/2011, 7pm: Filip (Zambari) on Arduino based Harmonic Clock project
• Thursday 20/10/2011, 7pm: Chris Jack on Hydrophone microphone recordings and brainwave music control (EEGs + PureData)

Projects

• Embedded Audio

• Sound installations

• Field recordings

• An algorithm to make a hit

• Hack traditional instruments

• The Augmented Bass

• Hack acoustic spaces

• Augmented instruments

• Contribute to Music Hack Day

• Solenoid Drumkit

• Visits to Interesting Audible Spaces

• Cartesian Sequencer

• Radio Console Shruthi

People

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• Ariel
• Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
• Zed
• Guy J

• You!

Resources

Open-source Libraries

• The Synthesis ToolKit in C++

A set of open source audio signal processing and algorithmic synthesis classes written in C++, designed to facilitate rapid development of music synthesis and audio processing software, with an emphasis on cross-platform functionality, realtime control, ease of use, and educational example code.

• Freeverb

A powerful sound processing library, supporting zero-latency realtime sound effect processing.

• libpd

A port of Pure Data for iOS and Android.

• urMus

A meta-environment for live and interactive application design and programming on and for iOS and Android.

Sensors

• PodBreakout

Makes it easy to connect an iPhone, iPad or iPod to your computer or arduino project. PodBreakout brings all 30 pins from the dock connector and makes it easy to solder wires to. Apple Developer reference here.

• Xth Sense

Mechanical muscle-activity pickup for instrument control.

• Contact microphones

A type of microphone designed to sense vibrations through solid objects. Used in the Augmented Bass project. Buy five of them for £1.65 here.

Theory & Tutorials

• Sensor Wiki

This wiki provides thorough reviews of the main types of sensing technologies used in musical applications, as well as tutorials on building sensor interfaces.

• Basics of Music Acoustics

The art and science of music acoustics are presented here, in musician-friendly format.

• Interactive Frequency Chart

A graphical explanation of the frequencies produced by traditional instruments.

• Pure Data Synths, Toys and Gizmos

Cool and easy Pure Data projects with detailed instructions and explanations.

• The Patch-a-day Month Pure Data Projects

A set of witty and useful Pure Data patches, complete with walkthroughs.