Workshop | Hackoustic

V&A Digital Design Drop-in: Sat 24th June 2017

Come along on Saturday afternoon and meet Tom Fox (aka Vulpestruments) and Nick Murray showing some of their projects as well as a demo of the wonderful DADAMachines Automat in the sculpture hall at the V&A. Free Entry

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!

Hackoustic 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.

Laser 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!

Jack 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.”

The 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!

Material Studies: January 2016

We had an a fantastic and chaotic session this month with the amazing Blanca Regina and Matthias Kispert who ran one of their Material Studies workshops for us. They describe it as “the spontaneous explorations of the sound within matter” and that’s exactly what it turned out to be!

Gamelan, Pringles and Toys: November 2015

We had a fantastic session this month, with Charles Matthews, Tom Fox and Tasos Stamou showing their work or running workshops. There was our best crowd so far and it was great to see everyone joining in, having a great time and make plenty of racket on all the noise makers that were there. If you missed this one, you’ll definitely want to catch the next in January which will be just as much fun!