Final month we attended Music Hack Day London 2011. A particular one, Music Hack Day was born in London 3 years in the past and we have been comfortable to attend a hack day once more in it’s homeland.
For individuals who have no idea of Music Hack Day, it’s an important weekend-long occasion geared toward music and sound hackers. Anybody can attend the occasion free of charge, and their aim is to conceptualize and develop modern hacks of both software program or {hardware}.
Dave Haynes and Martyn Davies raised the bar once more, by organizing a hack day proper within the heart of east London, the Barbican.
Having gained a lot expertise in organizing hack days, it was clear from the beginning that this was going to be good. The Barbican had made three rooms and a cinema corridor out there to us, plus a central space to serve espresso, drinks and naturally pizza.
It was nice seeing all these excited faces coming in, on the point of hack on their concepts. There have been numerous totally different hackers attending, from {hardware} to clothes, to musical devices, from internet to purposes, some forming cross groups to mix their expertise.
Though Spotify had lots of curiosity of their newly launch Apps API,
it appeared that this hack day was dominated by interactive hacks, the place the viewers may take part or wanted to contribute. In the course of the displays there have been fairly some hacks the place individuals may ‘tune in’ their telephones or laptops.
Whereas the general stage of the offered hacks was wonderful, I can solely spotlight a number of right here:
Take a look on the images made by Thomas Bonte: