Sonic Hackers
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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
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.
Next gathering to be organised soon.
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
- 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?
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
