Sonic Hackers

Sonic Hackers

A semi-organised, semi-regular group of London Hackspace members who enjoy, dabble or are intrigued in doing interesting things with sound.

Events

Next meeting: Sunday March 6.

Approximately monthly on weekends.

Last gathering was on Sunday 30th Jan and involved some PureData discussion & demonstration, a bit of analogue noodling, controlling a Doepfer Dark Energy from Pd which was modulated by OSC messages sent over wi-fi from Junxion interpreting WiiMote motions (Rube Goldberg eat your ears out), and misc chat.

The Hackers & Their Proclivities

• Anthony - analogue & digital hardware, (semi-)modular madness, software implementations of DSP algorithms, ChucK hacks, music tech industry jadeness, cable wrangling, occasional DJ & techno/ambient/experimental producer, ranting about digital aliasing and zipper noise, music technology & techno musicology - http://lowbroweye.com
• PhilJones - unusual software instruments / music toys / http://www.gbloink.com

Possible Projects

• Building a Leslie cabinet
• Circuit bending something
• Collaborating on some cool musical software
• Constructing something monstrous from miscellaneous bits of small equipment
• Sonification: making music from doorbot's logs, webcam output or similar?
• Repairing/renovating/revamping broken music tech

General Topics of Interest

• Sound art
• Knowledge sharing (synthesis, composition, production, experimentation, etc)
• Innovative control systems
• Making the sonic sum of gear more than the parts

Resources

• London Hackspace Soundcloud group
• London Hackspace Soundcloud dropbox for those who don't have/want a Soundcloud account
• STEIM (studio for electro instrumental music)
• ChucK - strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly audio programming language