Greetings, hackers & hackerspaces from around the world.
My name is Adam, I am an electronic musician and hardware hacker, and I’m also
the director of Music Tech Fest’s 24 hour Hack Camp. Music Tech Fest is the
free festival of music ideas, which travels around the world hosting three-day
events combining musical performances, talks & presentations, installations and
a music technology hackathon. I like to think of it as being somewhere
in-between TED Talks and a music festival.
The hack camp is a fundamental part of what we do, and in preparation for our
next event in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 18th-20th September, I’m seeking
hackers, makers, designers, programmers, artists & musicians to take part. We
have received European Commission funding for our events thanks to our
MusicBricks project, which for one thing means that attendance is completely
free, but also means we have scored exclusive access to some amazing new tools
including hardware and APIs from some of Europe’s leading research
institutions, such as IRCAM, Fraunhofer, Technische Universität Wien, and Music
Technology Group at UPF.
In standard hackathon style, there are prizes for hacks in various categories,
but in addition to this the best projects presented at the end of the Hack Camp
can even receive funding so that their development can be continued. At our
recent event in Sweden, four teams each received 3000€ and ongoing assistance
and mentorship from our advisors, so that their amazing projects could have a
life longer than just the 24 hours of the event, and everyone’s been so pleased
with the results that we are going to do it again in Ljubljana. If you’ve got a
crazy or ambitious project you’d like to fund, this could be your opportunity.
Some of you will know all of this already, as I’ve been hopping around IRC
channels spreading the word, but whether we’ve spoken already or not, please
consider this an official invitation to join us. If you, or any of the members
of your hackerspace/collective, or anyone else you know would like to come
along I would love to have you there. At our last event in Sweden, we had Hack
Camp participants from 14 different countries and the collaborations that came
from such an incredible international selection blew everyone away.
Registration is now open at http://musictechfest.org/hackmtfcentral/ and due to
the popularity of our events and the fact that they are free, the available
places can sometimes fill up quickly so if you’re interested, please go ahead
and sign up! If you could circulate this message on the mailing list of your
hackerspace or share it with anyone else you think would be interested, I’d
really appreciate it, and if you have any questions about the Hack Camp, or
about Music Tech Fest in general, please send me an email and I’ll get right
back to you.
Thanks very much, and hopefully I’ll see you in Ljubljana!
Adam John Williams
Hack Camp Director
www.musictechfest.org
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