Hackoustic

We are of course VERY EXCITED that our good friend @lookmumnocomputer has been selected for @eurovision this year. Here are some of our other favourite UK Instrument makers you should all be aware of! @theoverloadproject @lomond_campbell @soundarthannah @shortwavecollective @vulpestruments @gawainhewitt @frazermerrick @craig_scotts_lobotomy @jennkirbym @lia_mice

Our Creative director @vulpestruments is launching a kickstarter soon for his @spokeboard project. It is a 27 pin capacitive touch board that has neopixel leds, i2c connectors and can control MIDI, keyboard or mouse emulation or send serial data. Connect to conductive objects to build your own interfaces and find new, fun ways to control your computer!

From your last music adventure with @hackoustic Orchestra: @anaberkenhoff @gawainhewitt @frazermerrick @vulpestruments and @timyatessounds , composing music using data gathered from the audience, using interactive technology to create immersive soundscapes, improvising over audience generated scores and more. Thanks @downatthefront for the video. Music, tea and cake.

Your favourite community of makers and instrument hackers from @Hackoustic and us invite you on an extraordinary adventure in London @stjohnsleytonstone tomorrow at 12pm. You will connect, share new sound and ideas within the space and make instruments with the Hackoustic team which you can then play as part of the Orchestra in a Hackoustic Cacophony. You’ll meet @anaberkenhoff @gawainhewitt @frazermerrick @vulpestruments and @timyatessounds who will be composing music using data gathered from the audience, using interactive technology to create immersive soundscapes, improvising over audience generated scores plus more! Tom Fox, also known as Vulpestruments, is an inventor, workshop organiser, Design Technology teacher, composer and a creative director at Hackoustic collective. Fox was our guest artist on previous events, showing his impressive skills in assembling instruments from recycled and everyday objects. Among his creations you can find a tennis racket with banjo strings, Kora (a traditional West African instrument combining the elements of lute and harp), musical pendulums and countless others. Tim Yates @timyatessounds , a founder of @Hackoustic , sound artist, inventor and educator who’s involved in promoting instrument making on an international scale. He says: “My aim is to open up perceptions about the ways we interact with and experience sound beyond conventional music and musical instrument paradigms.” Yates has co-run many Hackoustic events around the UK that proved popular among both the creators and the general public. Having also been involved in research and development for @drakemusicorg - a national arts charity working in music, disability and technology, Yates helped reimagine what accessible instruments are. This will be an afternoon of hands-on wonder. Photos from @unionchapeluk experience by @blueblueneonglow . Reserve the tickets via link in bio and come over early to secure a good spot. Doors open just before 12pm.

@koggmusic spoke to @littoralpenguin on their London concert programme on Saturday. Exciting!

Join us for an afternoon of weird, unusual and unexpected noises and notes in @stjohnsleytonstone , bamboozling and beautiful music from new sources and objects, as we check in again with our favourite community of makers and instrument hackers. Extra info: You will have the opportunity to make instruments with the Hackoustic team which you can then play as part of the Orchestra in a Hackoustic Cacophony, the likes of which Leytonstone has never seen or heard! @Hackoustic invite us this October on another extraordinary adventure - an afternoon of play, performance and the connecting and sharing of new sound and ideas within the space. Composer, sound designer and all-round noise maker @frazermerrick uses field recording, circuit-bending and instrument-building to create carnivalesque experiences which explore the act of play. He’ll be helping us to discover a hidden world of sound with the Photon Smasher, the handmade microphone that turns light into sound. Frazer will turn flashing bicycle lights in glitchy rhythms and colourful LEDs into sweeping melodies. Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg have collaborated as an experimental electronic duo for over five years, collectively performing as KOGG @koggmusic . They will perform music from their forthcoming debut album Mechanista. With roots in classical contemporary composition, jazz improvisation and visual art, the pair create music with off-centre melodies and elastic rhythms using instruments both ‘real’ (MIDI sampling, trombone, drums) and homemade, as well as field recordings and live video. This features everything from manipulated recorder, sampled vocals and workshop tools to miniature mechanical piano, homemade instruments and excerpts of Béla Bartók’s century-old wax cylinder recordings of folk singers - accompanied by live and sampled video projections. Reserve your seat via a link in bio.

For our @daylight_music concert this month (26th), we are assembling some of our favourite people to form the Hackoustic Orchestra. With @anaberkenhoff @gawainhewitt @frazermerrick @vulpestruments and @timyatessounds We will be composing music using data gathered from the audience, using interactive technology to create immersive soundscapes, improvise over audience generated scores plus more! Head to @daylight_music for more info and tickets.

A clip of Spanners from our Nonclassical gig at Two Palms Hackney. We are playing next with our friends from Hackoustic on Saturday 26th at Daylight Music, Leytonstone 12pm-2pm. Inc immersive technicolour video projection! Come down! Details in bio. #newmusic #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #ableton #abletonpush #rolandspdsx #videosync #leytonstone #spanners #diy #womeninmusic #womenelectronicmusic #womenmakemusic

SPOKE (@spokeboard ) is an exciting new project by our creative director @vulpestruments . It is a simplified way to include up to 26 true capacitive touch sensors to projects for computer interaction. Go follow @spokeboard for updates :)

We are very very excited to announce our next event with @daylight_music . We have @koggmusic , @frazermerrick plus the Hackoustic Orchestra. We will be exploring audience interaction and composition using audience generated data sets. It's going to be wild.

We will be in attendance at this years IKLECTIKA event this Sunday at the Colour Factory, London run by the wonderful @iklectikartlab . We will have @craig_scotts_lobotomy @vulpestruments @spokeboard and @thebeatingbirch with us. . . Head to @iklectikartlab for more info and tickets.