Organizers have posted information on 62 new hacks coming out of Music Hack Day London 2011, held this weekend at Barbican Center, London.
For a taste of the sort of things coming out of the event – check out the Helimin – a radio-controlled helicopter theremin:
See a complete list of the music hacks below.
62 Hacks from Music Hack Day London 2011:
- Chordomaton Interactive cellular automaton on the Novation Launchpad
- Kinect Virtual Disco Deathmatch – Kinect + Processing + Websockets + Canvas = AwEsOMe (maybe)
- The Inhuman Microphone Experiment inspired by Occupy Wallstreet’s Human Microphone
- Notorious Siri teaching Siri how to rap and sing
- EM-IQ Using the Echonest and MusixMatch APIs to generate on-the-fly quizzes (that can be pointed at different OpenEMI/Echonest sandboxes)
- GRAGGGGGGG GRAGGGGGGG – Generative Remix App Generator Generals (ggggg!) putting to good use the music of EMI with the analysis of EchoNest.
- Every year I ask for a Nintendo, and every year they give me socks and another bloody step sequencer Collaborative Facebook tool for making naff Christmas songs.
- Techno Is The Word! Online generative techno beat sequencer.
- CTRL Interactive music installation usable with any music on Spotify
- The Matrix Modular effects routing matrix for the Novation Launchpad
- Mood Knobs Tweak your Spotify playlists with the twist of a knob.
- Spotifilesystem Spotify mounted as a FUSE filesystem
- PolyFailic TransCraption is a yet another nonfunctional attempt at creating the ultimate dream: music transcription from wave file to score.
- Songs to Tweet to Create track playlists from Twitter timelines
- Bring on the Wall A game to test your knowledge of your friends’ music tastes
- Drivetime Broadcast what you’re listening to in Spotify, and let others listen along in real-time.
- Beat Flail I flail, the kinect sees, then there are beats.
- Helimin A Radio-controlled helicopter turned into a theremin, to offer this years most irritating Christmas gift.
- MusicHackTee My Musichackday t-shirt re-imagined as a musical instrument using embroidered conductive textiles circuitry & dreamy coding skillz.
- Jukit Finding places that play the music you like with Shoudio, Echonest and Foursquare
- Gorillaz webdoc app
- SoundEngine Basic web based Sequencer
- Waveformer High precision waveforms as data API
- SCOTD Showcase All the SoundClouders of the Day, now on one page!
- Songkick webdoc app
- Best Album of the year webdoc app
- Music Monster Shape MashUp Create your own musical monster and make it FIGHT!
- Soundcloud Mixer A web based DJ application for mixing soundcloud tracks together live.
- Hipstify Aggregate reviews from music blogs with spotify app as front-end
- Virtual album store Yet another way to find music
- The Pitchfork Effect – is Pitchfork as influential as everyone thinks?
- MuseScore / Open EMI iPad App Read the sheet music and listen to the track, on your iPad
- Setlist Scrobbler Scrobble your Last.fm events. (I’m not there to demo. Sorry! Please move along.)
- Tastebuds.fm Spotify App Meet people who share your taste in music, using your Spotify library
- Spotify Guess the Intro Guess the Intro game inside Spotify
- Spotify Audio Visualisation Audio visualisation API inside the Spotify Application Platform.
- Echonest Last.mood Plays song from your last.fm library according to defined mood. (happy, sad, relaxing, angry, excited)
- Owl Octave Owl synthesizer for iPad.
- Spotify Jukebox A spotify app providing a jukebox style web interface where anyone can queue tracks.
- GigOut iPhone app that shows gigs around you and lets you arrange hangouts based on those gigs.
- Chordify Spotify app that shows guitar chords for the song you’re currently listening to
- Pretentiometer Cheeky webapp which rates your last.fm listening habits against hipster music websites
- musiXmatch Lyrics on Spotify The best experience on matching, searching, discovery lyrics on Spotify based on world’s largest official DB powered by musiXmatch
- This Was My Jam Relive the hottest jams from your past.
- Musicmetric artist LED Tickerboard LED ticker board displaying vital stats for your artists including torrent downloads, play counts, fan activity, top countries, top tracks, overall rank and sentiment of reviews
- 7digital Office Beerdio
- BandJamz iPad app for bands to track songs and gig lists / uses echonest and musixmatch api – got plans for soudncloud and last.fm integration for bands.
- MuseScoreFollower App to match MIDI performance to score and rate your style
- InstantMash Mashes together a track which matches your lyrics.
- Photosynth Point your camera at something to see how the look sounds!
- Liri Talk to Liri and find your favorite songs
- Spartify Comeback from the Boston MHD, Spartify now runs within Spotify. Spartify starts a dynamic playlist where people can add songs from their mobile phones and vote up existing songs. Perfect for parties to avoid play queue tampering!
- ShufflerfmSpotify Shuffler.fm spotify app
- Sinewav.es Distributed synthesizer using Firefox audio, Node, Faye and Redis
- Driver’s seat Steer your way through the parameter space of audio features (Spotify app)
- Kinect Killed the Video Star Kinect hack that turns any location into a green screen that let you star in your favourite music video or album cover art.
- SoundCloud Alarm Clock Wake up to fresh music from SoundCloud every day.
- Beat-Synchronous Step Sequencer A step-sequencer that uses beat tracking to synchronise its tempo to any (well, most) music or live accompaniment
- CloudChamber Hear your SoundCloud tracks played fo’ real in a reverb chamber
- Velodrone Crowd-to-stage audio/visual collaboration.
- Amen Break Shuffler You will be massaged with endless permutations of the Amen Break.
- Spotify Picture Show See a slideshow of pics of your music while listening to spotify ( a remote hack)