Music Hack Day is coming up!:: Microsoft NERD, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA. :: November 5th and 6th, 2011 :: Attendance is free but you need to register to guarantee a spot :: The site: http://boston.musichackday.org/2011/

The goal of Music Hack Day is to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It’s a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it’s music related.

What happens at a Music Hack Day? Lots of hacking, lots of pizza, very little sleep. Send your questions to boston.musichackday@gmail.com Or, Sponsor the event :: We are looking for sponsors to help with the event. Interested? :: Contact us at boston.musichackday@gmail.com

Taming Technology – Addomesticare la Tecnologia :: April 22-23, 2011 — Associazione Culturale Nub in Montale (PT) + April 29-30, 2011 — Le Murate, via delle carceri, Italy (at the historical prison complex of Le Murate and at the club Cargo).

Switch – Creative Social Network in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Nub and Tempo Reale present Taming Technology, a two day program including performances, DJ sets, installations, lectures and workshops exploring the territory between music, art and new media. The focus will be on practices such as physical computing, interface and interaction design, hardware hacking and biological computation, framed as fields of research capable of providing new connections between the virtual domain and the physical world. Continue reading

The First Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon:: a global 24-hour event :: April 8, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. (NL time) to April 9, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. (NL time):: MADlab,Vestdijk 280, 5611CZ Eindhoven ::

Calling all developers, designers, makers, mixers, mashers, tinkerers, philosopher-mechanics and sales engineers! Join us in helping to define and build the Internet of Things on Global Internet of Things Day! Use Pachube if you want, or build on other APIs – make something physical, or virtual; hardware or software; conceptual or practical – the point is for us to spend 24 hours connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to US! Continue reading

A full weekend of music hacking :: Software + hardware + art + the web. Build the future of music :: October 16, 17, 2010 at the Microsoft NERD, One memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA :: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. (ET) Registration for Music Hack Day Boston is now open ::

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Music Hack Day Boston is back! :: Saturday, October 16 to Sunday, October 17, 2010 :: Microsoft NERD, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 ::

The main goal of Music Hack Day is to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It’s a full weekend of hacking in which participants conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it’s music related.

** Note for those who attended last year’s: this year’s will be more focused on hacking — we won’t have any panels.

The Music Hack Day Boston Organizers are Paul and Elissa from Echo Nest, and Jon Pierce from Betahouse.
jon@jonpierce.com | 617.501.2001 http://blog.jonpierce.com | http://betahouse.org | http://awesomefoundation.org

SoundHack PD/Max externals workshop :: with Tom Erbe :: September 20, 2010; 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. :: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Suite 602, New York, NY.

Erbe will be presenting a collection of free Max and PD externals that he’s developed over the past year. These externals explore many diverse audio processes, including: spectral filtering, spectral dynamics processing, binaural spatialization, granular synthesis, multi-head modulated delay, pitch shifting, bit crushing, and distortion. In his talk he will be demonstrating many tricks and techniques for using these externals, such… as: noise reduction, barber pole pitch shifting, resonance removal, and shimmer reverb. Continue reading

Wearable sound experiment or Why does my knee bark and my armpit squeak?
@ Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway :: March 15 to 18, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. :: at: Atelier Nords project room,
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvn. 17, 0167 OSLO :: Registration for the workshop at http://www.ateliernord.no Maximum number of participants: 10 :: Application deadline: March 5, 2010 :: Participation fee: NOK 500.

This four day workshop introduces basic soft electronics techniques for constructing fabric sensors and wearable circuits. Instead of using soldering irons and wire, we will use sewing needles and conductive thread. The theme of the workshop is hacking sound toys into wearables. Continue reading

Bent Festival :: at The Tank, 45th Street Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, 354 W. 45th Street between 8th and 9th., New York, NY :: April 22-24, 2010 ::

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year they invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture. Continue reading

Analogous Interactions @ International Computer Music Conference :: June 1-5, 2010 :: New York City :: Call for Works — Deadline: December 31, 2009.

Analogous invites proposals for presentation at Analogous Interactions events for the International Computer Music Conference, taking place at Stony Brook University, in association with New York University, and the Electronic Music Foundation of New York City. Works should explore the intersection of computer music and emergent phenomena — including, but not limited to, generative sound- and video-works, performative ecologies and installations, live-coding and musical improvisation, reality-based games and social experiments, biomedical hacking and new technology, artificial intelligence and chaordic systems. Continue reading

Music Hack Day :: November 21, 2009, 9:00 a.m. — November 22, 2009, 6:00 p.m. :: a full weekend of music hacking. Software + hardware + art + the web :: @ Microsoft NERD, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA :: Registration required: http://musichackdayboston.eventbrite.com/

The main goal of Music Hack Day is to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It’s a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it’s music related. Continue reading