HACK and INTERACT with the UK SOUND TV website! Do you want to break into interactive web design and technology? Are you also interested in urban street culture — music, fashion, film and more?

UK Sound TV is looking for trainees for their HACK AND INTERACT: UK SOUND TV programme. 4 highly motivated trainees will be chosen to work at Space Media Arts in Hackney to learn about and create interactive, cutting-edge web 2.0 broadcast sites like MySpace, YouTube and Blogger and integrating these platforms with mobile phone and ‘bluetooth’ broadcasting technologies. Trainees will gain hands-on technical skills and industry insight, working towards an Arts Awards accreditation to add to your CV, big up your university application, or give you a first glimpse into your future career. Continue reading

Hello Hackability: Creative Coding, Hard- & Software Workshops at Piksel 07 :: Teknikerkroen, Bergen, Norway :: November 15 - 18, 2007; 11:00 am -3:00 pm. All workshops are free to attend, but with a limited number of seats. To participate, please send a mail to: piksel07 [at] bek.no

November 15 - CATkit :: build your own 1-bit synth from scratch (day1) by Tom Schouten, Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux - This is the latest evolution of what was drafted a year ago and shown at piksel06. We have designed a PCB, selected some components, and designed a complete standalone 1-bit synth that can be programmed interactively via a computer running GNU/Linux, connected to the kit using a TTL-232R cable. Continue reading

Tha Click :: E:vent Gallery presents a group exhibition of work by Jessica Cicconi, Jacob Cicconi, Ben Jones [Paper Rad] and Paul B. Davis, Cory Arcangel, Joe Beuckman [Beige Programming Ensemble] :: October 6 - November 11, 2007 :: Curated by Heather Corcoran :: 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU.

Seizing upon the technological detritus spawned by advancements in computing over the last three decades, Beige’s inclination is to tinker with the inner workings of ubiquitous platforms past and present. Paper Rad are similarly drawn to the gaudiest fixtures of pop culture, transmogrifying and amplifying them into a kaleidoscopic parallel universe all their own. Continue reading

BronxMAP - Media Arts and Performance :: July 8 @ 8PM :: BronxMAP is a regular event held in the event space at the rear of the Bruckner Bar & Grill (1 Bruckner Blvd, 718.665.2001) near the first subway stop into the Bronx from Manhattan on the 4/5/6 train.

A night of performances featuring the expressive abstraction of the Bronx’s own Adriaan Doering, the audiovisual hacking and sculpting of Providence’s Blair Ciemiecki and Matthew Underwood, and the audience driven ambient soundscapes of Jasper Streit from Sydney, Australia. Continue reading

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Experimental Music Instruments is a group of engineers, composers and sound artists who promote the design of non-traditional instruments in order to provide the amateur player with a meaningful and pleasant performance experience. EMI Project offers non-professional musicians the possibility of experimenting with the musical activity, where pleasure is achieved by playing around with reliable music artifacts, exploring unusual sound structures.

With the use of open design tools like Arduino and Pure Data we are able to hack almost everything and turn it into a musical instrument. The open source environments that are used in EMI project give us an opportunity to develop instruments that map physical interaction to sound within a digital environment.

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“DIY music can be as much about attitude as specific gear. We had performances Friday and Saturday night during the Maker Faire, and while the performances covered quite a gamut, a common theme was finding new ways of playing old instruments, or to make new instruments out of existing stuff. That’s something not unique to anyone genre — electronic music included — so perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising at all…” Continue reading Peter Kirn’s review of Maker Faire on Create Digital Music.

Also see: Maker Faire: Giant Bicycle-Part DJ Looping Reel-to-Reel Tape Deck; Maker Faire 2007 in Photos; and Hello, Maker Faire Attendees.

workshop_12_13 Berlin :: A (more-or-less) weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising making and connection within the field of the existent :: Upcoming: 12th May: Free projects. Discussion and construction of projects using workshop resources :: 19th May: DIY simple-sample-and-hold noise modules with superfactory [part two].

[please also see other Berlin workshops as part of Globale 07] June projected: GNU Emacs, television transmission, the C programming language, spectral RF reception and white noise, rapid-prototyping-realtime-3D, ATmega8 microcontrollers a la Arduino. Continue reading

The term circuit bending refers to the inspired short-circuiting of battery-powered children’s toys to create new musical instruments, and over the last few decades a worldwide subculture has sprung up around this amazing art form. We are very excited that for the first time the Bent Festival will be crossing America in April, making stops in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York.

We will bring together performers, educators, and visual artists from around the world who not only push the circuit bending genre forward but also are on the cutting edge of the contemporary music and art scenes. In addition to interactive art installations and nightly concerts, adults and children alike can participate in workshops led by some of the world’s greatest circuit benders. Continue reading