Event
DADAMachines: Hackoustic Showcase April 2017
We had a fantastic evening at Machines Room with Johannes Lohbihler, founder of dadamachines, a Berlin-based studio making music machines accessible to everyone. They are ran a Kickstarter campaign for their first product automat toolkit which was 600% funded by the time of the showcase. Amazing work!
Read MoreHackoustic Presents: 27th May 2017
An evening of performances, talks, demonstrations, installations and mingling with some of London’s top sound artists, builders, hackers and educators.This time we’ve got acoustic circuit bending, Memory Boxes to help people with dementia, levitation and manipulation of objects with sound, didgeridoos made out of toilet rolls and a completely new experimental system for mixing audio. You’ll also have the chance to make your very own instrument for yourself! This is the third in the series, and the last two have been absolutely fantastic. Don’t miss this one – you won’t be disappointed!
Read MoreHackoustic Presents: 24th March 2017
The second installment of our new night featuring performances, talks, demonstrations, installations and mingling with some of London’s top sound artists, builders, hackers and educators. The last one sold out so make sure you get your tickets early!
Featuring Stephen Shiell, Tim Yates, Nick Murray, Robert Blaauboer with #barryslounge.
Uniqlo Tate Late: October 2016
We were invited to appear at the first ever Uniqlo Tate Late event at the Tate Modern . We took over the entire Switch House with 13 different installations … quite a night.
Read MoreHackoustic Festival 2016
The Hackoustic Festival 2016 was our first ever festival, and gave us chance to showcase some of the exciting musicians and artists associated with Hackoustic.
Read MoreLaser Synthesis: July 2016
We had another fantastic session this month with Stan Lewry from the Optosynth team fresh from their appearances at the opening of the new wing of Tate Modern and Music Tech Fest, Berlin. We had demonstrations of their new laser keyboard and laser mixing desk along with a lot of other new toys!
Read More12th June: Hacking Session
This is our regular monthly hacking session on the second Sunday of every month.
These sessions are an opportunity for you guys to bring your own projects along to the Hackspace and get some work done on them. There’ll be other hackers working on their own projects and everyone’s always keen to help each other out, trouble-shoot problems and give a bit of feedback.
Read MoreJack Jelfs: April 2016
We had a great workshop session this month with Jack Jelfs demonstrating and talking about his sound-art installation Stop / Start which was recently shown at The Conservatoire in Blackheath. The installation is “an ensemble of sculptural units which generate sound […] to collectively perform a musical composition on an endless, never exactly repeating, loop.”
Read More10th April: Hacking Session
This is our regular monthly hacking session on the second Sunday of every month.
These sessions are an opportunity for you guys to bring your own projects along to the Hackspace and get some work done on them. There’ll be other hackers working on their own projects and everyone’s always keen to help each other out, trouble-shoot problems and give a bit of feedback.
Read MoreThe Optomodule: February 2016
This month’s meetup promises to be an exciting one with long-standing members Optonoise demonstrating the latest iteration of their Epsilonograph, the Optomodule. This is an amazing experimental instrument that uses laser beams to generate sound. Come along and have a go making some laser music and visuals! You can also check out some tracks made with the instrument here.
The event is free and open to non-Hackspace members to come along and join in!
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