Music Hackday

CloudPost is a new App for Mac OS X that’s designed to make it easier to upload a set of tracks to SoundCloud.

CloudPost was built in close collaboration with the wonderful SoundCloud team and is maintained by Christian Stropp.

The uploader grew out of Music Hackday Berlin.

This is a short demo of the Xylobot, a robotic xylophone created for Berlin Music Hackday, held on September 18-20 at Radialsystem V.

A custom Java app receives MIDI data from the step sequencer and controls the Arduino over a serial connection. The board then triggers the servos to hit on the xylophone.

The whole construction was built in under 24 hours and is mostly made of hot glue and wood.

Xylobot was created by Ramsey Arnaoot & Robert Böhnke.

The 2nd Music Hackday is scheduled for this weekend, September 18-20th in Berlin:

The main goal of the event is for participants to rapidly prototype and build new projects, working through the night to complete and present them the following day. They have only this weekend to conceptualize, build, & present their projects. Hardware meets Software meets Online, all connected via music.

This event is about doing & not about just talking. Sessions will be very limited and after that its all about building and realizing real products.

Details below.

If you make it to Music Hackday Berlin, leave a comment with a link to any photos, videos or blogging that you do! Read more…

Music Hackday, being held July 11-12 at the Guardian Offices in London, is a hack day focusing on European music site.

According to organizers:

European music sites are revolutionising the music industry, not least with their eagerness to open up their data with APIs.

We will be running a Hack Day independent from, but working with the companies at the forefront of this movement. We hope you’ll be able to join us.

We will be sorting tickets out soon, to be on the list of people who would like to attend then drop your details into the register page.

Participating organizations include SoundCloud, Last.fm and Songkick.