Group:Music Hack Space

Music Hack Space
When	Every Thursday, from 19:00
Members

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.

To make sure you stay on top of what is going on please follow us on our new website http://www.musichackspace.org/

Mailing List

There is a dedicated mailing list to discuss our activities.

Follow us on Twitter @MusicHackSpace

Meetings and workshops

Meetings take place every Thursday from 7pm onwards. Locations vary, but we are often at Troyganic or above the old (Hoxton) LHS venue, in unit 30.

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.

For the latest events visit musichackspace.org

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

• Sheet Music Extension for Collectionista

• Assistive Music Technology

People

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• Ariel
• Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
• Philip Clevberger
• Zed
• Guy J
• Billy Smith
• Richard Atkinson
• pjv

• You!

Resources

Creative Commons Licensed Samples

A bank of samples recorded and created by us. All to be licensed under the Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, Attribution License.

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.

• Overtone

An open source audio environment being created to explore musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. Uses the SuperCollider synth server as the audio engine, with Clojure being used to develop the APIs and the application. Synthesizers, effects, analyzers and musical generators can be programmed in Clojure.

• Musescore API A Java API for Musescore.com.

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.

• (Encyclopedia of) Digital Music Instruments

A comprehensive overview of new digital music instrument and 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.

• SDIY wiki

A wiki about making, modifying, or repairing electronic musical instruments and related equipment.