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Fundraising album for Iklectik

Iklectik has been our spiritual home and where we have hosted every one of our Presents night. It’s a special place and unique in London for its warm inviting atmosphere and an instant feeling of community. With the current pandemic putting a halt to events, iklectik will have zero funds coming in. They are a…

Tate Late: 29th November 2019

We’re very excited to have been asked back to curate another Hackoustic area for this month’s Tate Lates. We’ll be bringing a menagierie of interactive installations, sonic experiments and performances inspired by the work of Nam Jun Paik.

Abbey Road Hackathon: December 2018

We helped to organise the first ever Hackathon at the legendary Abbey Road studios: an truly amazing night.

Hackoustic Village at We Are Robots

We had an incredible time bringing the Hackoustic Village to We Are Robots, a four day festival at Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, dedicated to those that are propelling the future and innovation of music.

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

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.

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.

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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 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!

Hackoustic 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.

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!

12th June: Hacking Session

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.

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.”

10th April: Hacking Session

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.

The Optomodule: February 2016

Epsilonograph

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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