The British Innovation Gateway (BIG) is a Cisco lead programme designed to help support tech startups and drive innovation in the UK. Cisco supported the Music Tech Fest in 2013 with the Grand Cisco Prize.

BIG is supported by the UK Government and was launched by David Cameron and John Chambers, Cisco’s Global CEO, in January 2011 as a UK-wide initiative. The launch coincided with the formation of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO), a government led initiative to support and develop 'Tech City' in East London.

BIG is Cisco’s contribution to both Tech City and the wider growth and innovation agenda.

In 2012, a competition to discover and recognize Britain’s tech talent, Cisco launched The BIG Awards. Running until 2016, the award’s first prize includes a $200,000 injection, including 12 months of mentoring and training from Cisco and its partners. The inaugural BIG Awards 2012 saw over 300 entries – from which emerged the first ever BIG Awards winner, Snap Fashion – the visual search engine for fashion.

So here’s to you: The innovators. The entrepreneurs. The boundary pushers. Show us your big technology-based business idea and get the support you deserve. Entry closes June 21, 2013 so don’t delay and enter the BIG Awards at www.ciscobig.co.uk

Watch the winner of the Grand Cisco Prize, Adam John Williams, at Music Tech Fest 2013.

SoundCamp organizes an annual listening event linked to International Dawn Chorus Day, and the 24 hour broadcast: REVEIL - which follows sunrise around the globe, relaying live sounds from a network of open microphones. The first soundCamp took place over the weekend of 3-4 May at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe. Next year there will be parallel events in Aix en Provence, Upstate New York, Dartmoor, Crete and other locations. REVEIL 2014 was hosted by Wave Farm and supported by Resonance Radio, and aired on many internet and local FM stations. It assembled permanent streams on the Locus Sonus open microphone network, newly commissioned streams from sound artists around the world, and a variety of live audio from webcams, VLF stations, and independent broadcasters, to provide the first 24 hour 'Live Archive' of the unique wave of sound that circles the earth with sunrise each day. SoundCamp is working with partners to develop a network of permanently open microphones as a resource for artists and researchers. Toward REVEIL 2015, we are supporting installation of Raspberry Pi based streamboxes especially in ocean and island locations and in the global South, to provide live audio streams from remote soundscapes, many of which are under threat. https://soundtent.org

SoundCloud is the leading audio platform that enables anyone to upload, record, promote and share their originally-created sounds across the internet, in a simple, accessible and feature-rich way. From sample to symphony and soundbite to soliloquy, SoundCloud allows sound creators anywhere to instantly record or upload audio and share across the web.

Soundwave is a mobile music-discovery startup based out of Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2012, Soundwave tracks what songs people are listening to on their smartphones and where in real time. With the app, users can plug into different groups of people and locations in real time to see what songs are trending. In May 2012, Soundwave graduated in 1st place out of Ireland's top accelerator programme, the NDRC Launchpad. For more information go to www.getsoundwave.com.

Watch the Soundwave presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

The SMC Group is a research group of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit at INESC Porto and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, specializing in Sound and Music Computing.

We combine basic research in signal processing, pattern recognition, music and human-computer interaction, and aim at contributing to make computers better understand, model and generate sounds and music. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Porto in October at the Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2012

Michela Magas is founder and CEO of Stromatolite, a design and technology innovation lab which launched the Music Tech Fest in 2012, and is co-author of Sonaris - an innovative technology for matching songs in real time and discovering music. She directed seven of the top EU music tech research centres to create the roadmap for the future of music tech in Europe. The Stromatolite team built Peter Gabriel's Cue Songs platform - a new way to discover and licence music.

Stromatolite has been awarded the UK Technology Strategy Board: Collaboration in Digital Industries, the EU FP7 award for MIReS: the future of music tech, the UK Technology Strategy Board award for Open Product Licenses and the NEMart award for art meets science.

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The Echo Nest is a music intelligence platform company that provides music services to developers and media companies. Headquartered in Somerville, MA, USA, the Echo Nest was created as a spin-off of research work at the MIT Media Lab that automatically understands the audio and textual content of music and currently powers music data solutions such as recommendation, playlisting, fingerprinting and audio analysis for consumers and developers.

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Matan is a multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur and developer of award winning music technology. Co-founder of innovation agency Shift, inventor of GlassBeats for the Google Glass and audio architect for a Movement, Cognitive & Mobility research lab in Tel Aviv, he will be presenting a new prototype for an EEG brainwave to music interface and talking about the future of musical brain hacking. Good vibes. Matan on LinkedIn

The Music Technology Group (MTG) is a research group in Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), specialized in sound and music computing. With more than 40 researchers coming from different and complementary disciplines, the MTG aims at finding a balance between basic and applied research and, at the same time, promotes interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate knowledge from both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines. The group carries out research on topics such as sound processing and synthesis; music content description; interactive music systems; computational models of perceptual and music cognition; and the technologies related with music social networks.

MTG’s mission is to contribute to the improvement of the technologies related to sound and music communication, carrying out competitive research at the international level and at the same time transferring its results to society. To that goal, the MTG usually organizes dissemination events involving academic, artistic and industrial audiences at international level and other outreach activities (open door days, summer schools, Music Hack Days, etc.). In terms of technology transfer, the MTG has carried out R&D projects in collaboration with private entities for more than 10 years, some of them international companies such as Yamaha Corp. in Japan, and at the moment has created 3 spin-off companies devoted to the exploitation of mature technologies developed by the research group: Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies (BMAT), Reactable Systems and Voctro Labs.

The London Music Hackspace is an open community lab for sharing thoughts, knowledge, and technologies on music and audio. Our community is composed of artists, engineers, programmers, and lawyers too! Members are involved in the use and development of both free and proprietary software and hardware for music composition, production, and performance.

We hold meetups where we collaborate on projects involving music technology and related electronic arts. Our meetups are opportunities to review trends in music technology, collaborate on a high-end audio hardware engineering project, make experimental music, and have pizza, not necessarily in that order.

We're proud members of the London Hackspace.

Aaron Einbond’s work explores the intersection of composition, computer music, music perception, field recording, and sound installation. Projects include a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Musical Research Residency at IRCAM, and a Giga-Hertz Prize from ZKM to produce a new work at the SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg.
He was born in New York in 1978 and has studied at Harvard, the University of Cambridge, the University of California Berkeley, and IRCAM in Paris with teachers including Mario Davidovsky, Julian Anderson, Edmund Campion, and Philippe Leroux. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Huddersfield, and he is currently Visiting Lecturer on Music at Harvard University.

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During his concerts the musician uses his body as a medium and sculpts it like a material. Namosh transforms sounds into movements or, visa versa, forms sounds based on movements. The rhythm is funk-esque, his music mainly electronicly self-produced. Occasionally his songs sound smooth.Since 2003 Namosh is performing mainly solo.In his concerts he hits the hotspots between ice and fire – between coolness and heat.

BioBeats started by producing sonifications of EEG using consumer brainwave headsets, and moved on to cardiovascular data because that’s where the funding was at. In the process, they’ve written algorithms and apps that sonify Heart Rate Variability and help people cope with stress, move about more, and understand their bodies better, working with people like Samsung and BUPA. In the process, they’ve had to create some interesting audio engines, some of which live in mobile phones, and more recently, in physical objects that bridge music, the Internet of Things, and what Linda Stone calls ‘Essential Self Technologies’.

OSCILLA is an interactive installation that explores harmonic structures and their visualization by enabling ‘musical’ interplay within a responsive audio-visual environment. A projected scalable interface allows for context-specific adaptability and for a variety of intuitive physical interaction paradigms whereby the positions and movements of people or objects, optically tracked within a given area, determine the volume and pitch of a set of sine-wave oscillators. Each position and frequency value is projected on the main surface, along with music notation, while a visual representation of the resulting combination of sounds (Lissajous curves) is plotted in real-time on a second screen. The oscillators' outputs, when discretely amplified by multiple loudspeakers, also provide different auditory spatial perspectives into each harmonic structure, while enhancing natural acoustics and resonances of the installation space. Participants can thus create morphing chords and harmonies, explore unusual microtonal intervals and beat frequencies while discovering the fascinating relationships between harmonic structures and their visual counterparts. Inspired by the ‘Oscilla’, votive objects of the Latin tradition, the installation is also conceived a sort of ‘modern ritual’, (hence the candles used in some of the documented versions) a ‘window’ from which to peek into the powerful underlying ‘harmonic’ laws that seem to govern our world and allow ourselves to wonder.

Soniqplay is an audio technology company which helps brands and media owners engage their audience through interactive music and audio apps. We’re based in London and San Francisco.

Our unique platform enables interactive audio apps to be easily built to empower consumers to become content creators in a simple accessible way.

Our Fireplayer remix platform has been licensed by a number of major brands and radio partners in the UK and internationally (including Bauer Media, Absolute Radio and DMG Australia), where we create and operate white label remixers as turnkey solutions which are integrated into on-air radio programming, providing new ways to engage consumers and drive revenues.

We’ve got a range of other apps in the labs built on our platform that enable content owners to create new and complimentary digital revenue streams through providing new ways monetizing existing assets, primarily multi-track recordings (stems).

www.soniqplay.com

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Born in 1956 in Sheffield. Formed the Human League in 1978. Formed multimillion selling act Heaven 17 in 1980, and is still touring aroound the world. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totalling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 35 year career to date.

Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2000 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique 3DAudioScape immersive sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world. He is also an expert in the ‘convergent’ multimedia art world, and has founded sound branding company SonicID, and lectures extensively internationally.

Martyn is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, a member of BAFTA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
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Gaynor is a cross-disciplinary artist, described who as "that Conscious, Cathartic Voice" by the BBC.

Passionate about music, art & technology, Gaynor will talk about her recent work and Fair Trade For Artists In The Digital.

In the last year Gaynor O'Flynn has worked with Turner Prize Winner Richard Long, David Nash OBE, The British Council & Karl Hyde during her curation of the Kathmandu International Art Festival – working in art for social change. Of her work, "Kora" on a UNESCO world heritage site, where she turned Tibetan Nuns voices into circles of light, Frieze said, "Gaynor O’Flynn transmuted the sound into an exhilarating show – a memory that will stay with us for a long time."

This month she is hosting an event at Google Campus with Tom Harrison from The Serpentine Gallery, Turner Prize winner & singer Martin Creed & Michael Salu, Granta Books.

Gaynor's last exhibition was ‘The Artist Naked & Blurred’, at Hanmi Gallery, Fitzrovia, London, combining music video art, limited edition prints & an art book.

She is currently working on her next project 108 with 108 inspirational human beings including Wayne Mc Gregor OBE, John Parrish & Faithless.

Gaynor directs TBC - The Beinghuman Collective & runs cross discipline workshops in the Beinghuman Warehouse, Somerset

gaynoroflynn.com beinghuman.com

Integra Live is an application for interactive audio processing focused on ease-of-use, with a unique musician-centred workflow. It was originally supported through the EU funded Integra Project, and is now developed by Integra Lab at Birmingham Conservatoire. The software has been successfully adopted in education as well as professional arts practice and opens up new possibilities for those seeking an entry point into creative live audio processing.

Watch the Integra Live presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

Kritzkom is the solo music project of Marine Drouan. Kritzkom plays with machines samplers and synthesizers interacting together. She likes to explore dark atmospheres, floaty melodies with strong beats. The live act is then never the same depending of the mood of the machines and I. She starts to experiment early, but really dive in the sound production at art school, in France, almost 10 years ago, creating some soundtracks for her small videos. After years of experimentation, the sound of Kritzkom became more structured and clean, although the grain and the unconventional contractions are still here. She also works on different music projects (Miko, Anna Otto) where explores with other musicians the interaction with machines and traditional music instruments. But this solo project is based on technology and purely electronic. Her first album "North In Progress" contains also a lot a field recordings from her nordics travels.

SupaPass is a “business model in a box” solution for Music Artists to monetise their creative content, nurture their super-fans and grow their loyal fan-base. SupaPass is a powerful set of marketing tools for Music Artists and Consumer Brands to increase their reach and engage deeply with their super-fans. SupaPass gives music super-fans the opportunity to become a “Patron of the Arts” for the music they love, in return for VIP access to their favourite Artists. https://www.SupaPass.com

Adam John Williams is a musician and award-winning hacker. At previous Music Tech Fest events he won the grand hacker prize two years in a row: the EMI prize in 2012 for Bukako, an electronically augmented bass guitar adapted to be played by people with physical disabilities; and the Cisco prize in 2013 for the Quirkuitar, an iPad-equipped wireless guitar synthesiser. His work with music created from brainwaves was profiled by the BBC, and he performs live as a DJ and multi-instrumentalist. He works part time as an Apple Genius, and is now a permanent member of the Music Tech Fest team.

LSO Discovery is the London Symphony Orchestra's community and music education programme. The LSO is set apart from other international orchestras by the depth of its commitment to music education, reaching over 60,000 people each year. The award-winning programme, now in its 24th year, enables the LSO to offer people of all ages, from babies through music students to adults, an opportunity to get involved in music-making and to enter the extraordinary soundworld of the Orchestra.

Marty Quinn is a computer scientist, artist, composer and master drummer who has played drums and percussion for Broadway shows and the Doah World Music Ensemble. He is also a prominent sonification researcher specializing in transforming scientific data into music, and founder of the Design Rhythmics Sonification Research Lab. He has won 3 NASA grants related to improving accessibility of data and imagery for the visually impaired and is the creator of “Walk on the Sun” interactive image sonification exhibit and “MoveMusic” technology.

He currently works on the IBEX and CRaTER instrument space science teams at the University of New Hampshire in addition to performing original works with his wife Wendy Quinn. He is known for The Climate Symphony and Water Ice on Mars sonifications, and the CRaTER Live internet radio station. His unique PolyVisual artwork movies premiered at the Digital Is show at the Selby Gallery Sarasota in 2008 and in 2009 collaborated with his wife, Wendy Quinn, on the creation of a series of PolyVisuals for “Light Runner: Inner Space, Outer Space”.

Design Rhythmics Sonification Research Lab

Charlie Inskip worked in artist management and music PR for twenty years. His recent AHRC-funded PhD, ‘Upbeat and Quirky, with a bit of a Build’ investigates the search behaviour of creatives in the music, film and advertising industries who are combining music and moving images. He is developing a cataloguing scheme to facilitate this process, using criteria such as mood, tempo and other musical content features.

His work focuses on the participants in the process, the way they talk about music, and the outcomes they plan to achieve. He aims to inform the development of systems that may be used to effectively search through large music collections in a meaningful way for the purpose of music synchronisation. Charlie believes that successful systems stand or fall on the involvement of the user and that inter-disciplinary co-operation is a wonderful thing.

Watch his presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

Since its birth as a shop and record label in Sheffield in 1989, Warp has become one of the World’s most respected creative organisations. Quickly developing into a platform for innovative and boundary-breaking music talent, Warp became synonymous with such artists as LFO, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and most recently Grizzly Bear, Battles and Maximo Park.

@warpbot www.warp.net

OSCILLA is an interactive installation that explores harmonic structures and their visualization by enabling ‘musical’ interplay within a responsive audio-visual environment. A projected scalable interface allows for context-specific adaptability and for a variety of intuitive physical interaction paradigms whereby the positions and movements of people or objects, optically tracked within a given area, determine the volume and pitch of a set of sine-wave oscillators. Each position and frequency value is projected on the main surface, along with music notation, while a visual representation of the resulting combination of sounds (Lissajous curves) is plotted in real-time on a second screen. The oscillators' outputs, when discretely amplified by multiple loudspeakers, also provide different auditory spatial perspectives into each harmonic structure, while enhancing natural acoustics and resonances of the installation space. Participants can thus create morphing chords and harmonies, explore unusual microtonal intervals and beat frequencies while discovering the fascinating relationships between harmonic structures and their visual counterparts. Inspired by the ‘Oscilla’, votive objects of the Latin tradition, the installation is also conceived a sort of ‘modern ritual’, (hence the candles used in some of the documented versions) a ‘window’ from which to peek into the powerful underlying ‘harmonic’ laws that seem to govern our world and allow ourselves to wonder.

ROLI is a design-led technology startup founded by Harvard graduate Roland Lamb. ROLI’s first product, the Seaboard GRAND, is a radically new musical instrument that reimagines the piano keyboard as a soft, continuous surface. The Seaboard’s polyphonic pitch bend, vibrato and per-note dynamic changes are all available at the user’s fingertips, marrying the intuitiveness of a traditional instrument with the versatility of digital technology. ROLI has brought together years of innovation in several disciplines to realise this powerful concept as an award-winning product. The Seaboard GRAND has also won multiple awards, including the SXSW Music Accelerator in 2013, and more recently the product category of the Design Museum’s 2014 Design of the Year Award, beating leading international hardware companies such as Nest and GoPro. With orders from 34 countries, the Seaboard GRAND is now shipping and available for sale at www.roli.com/seaboard.

MaxD is a supermedia audio/visual artist. His creations emerge from re-purposed materials and often take a visceral form. In 2008 he co-founded Foulab and is now hacking away at a BFA in Intermedia/Cyberarts at Concordia University.

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This Is My Jam enriches existing (but fragmented) song-sharing behavior on the web and connects people to more music they'll love by asking music fans: “What’s your favorite song right now?" Because every song is carefully hand-picked by fans, Jam’s crowdsourced editorial cuts through the overwhelming choice online. The simplicity of Top 40 radio, but personalized and reimagined for today.

Founded in 2010 by Rahul Powar, an early member of the Shazam team and creator of their iPhone application, Apsmart are a mobile innovation company.

Whilst continuing to collaborate with Shazam as well as working on a bunch of other music-related projects, they most recently launched MPme, a curated-radio application that was the winner of the Music Discovery, Recommendation & Creation category at MIDEM 2012. Listening to thousands and thousands of radio stations in real-time, it uses that data plus your music library, listening habits and those of your friends to recommend stations that will be great for you - then you can listen to them. And it's all packed into a unique and lovely user interface.

In addition to developing their own products, Apsmart also work with early-stage startups and well-established brands to design and build their mobile strategy.

www.apsmart.mobi
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Aitokaiku Instant Live is a new concept that functions as a music generator machine. Working with various natural sources from cooking sounds, the northern lights and the midnight sun or even a Finnish sauna, Aitokaiku Instant Live produces in real-time continuous and interactive music. This experimental project has already used human bacteria as the composer of the song and video of that made together with Pablo Rojas, was selected to Sarajevo Winter 2014 festival official program. Aitokaiku Instant Live has also been used for movies and commercial ads providing new and innovative sounds to the market.Jarno has also released music as Aitokaiku with one album (Music For Space Travelers), which represents natural experimental and ambient sounds.

OpenStage is the missing link between performers and their fans. We give control of when and where an event happens, to the people that matter – The Audience. Through OpenStage fans can connect with all types of artists and performers; fans may find profiles and events for their favourite artists already set-up, or they can add them themselves. Artists and their agents join OpenStage because it allows them to see real demand for their live performances, and propose new live events without risk, which remain provisional until a demand tipping point is reached. OpenStage is rapidly becoming a “hub” or marketplace for the performing arts industry, and with the involvement of fans, together we are creating a global, open, stage. Artists can create proposed or provisional events at any given location, and time. When fans find them and pledge their support, the event can become a reality. Fans pledge their support by making a Ticket Pledge, with a value underpinned by a registered Debit or Credit card, although no money is taken unless the artist confirms the event. OpenStage has developed unique, secure technology and partnerships that allow it to take Ticket Pledges without banking fees, allowing a fully scalable platform of pledges to be realized.

Norbert Schnell is a researcher and developer focussing on real-time interactive digital audio processing and interaction design. Together with his colleagues of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at IRCAM – Centre Pompidou in Paris he develops technologies and interaction scenarios on the frontiers between music listening and music performance. He was involved in numerous international research and development projects as well as artistic works in the field of music, interactive audiovisual installations, music pedagogy, and industrial design.

In 2006 he chaired the 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). In 2007 he held the DAAD Edgard Varèse Guest Professorship for Electronic Music at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2013 he published his PhD dissertation (Playing [with] Sound) on designing interactions with recorded sounds. Having created musical interactions that – apart from digital technologies – involve traditional musical instruments, chessboards, gambling machines, balls, and kitchen utilities he currently explores collective interaction scenarios based on web-based mobile technologies that essentially involve people … many people engaging in making music together.

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Aram Sinnreich is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, and the author of two books: Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture (2010) and The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (2013). He is also a bassist and composer, who has played with bands and artists including NYC soul collective Brave New Girl, LA dub-and-bass band Dubistry, and Ari-Up, lead singer of the Slits.

Aram Sinnreich

Ross Flight is a sound and interactive system designer, working with camera and sensor technology to create ever closer relationships between sound and image in performance. By tracking the movement of a person in space, a performer is able to generate and control sound directly through gesture, shape and speed, inverting the relationship between themselves and their soundtrack. Working in theatre sound for 5 years, Ross has often looked to achieve a cinematic quality to live performance blurring the lines between expectations of stage and screen.

Saari Ltd. founder Nikke Osterback has worked with some of the brightest stars in the UK music throughout his long career at Atlantic and Island Records. A few noteworthy examples include the Google Creative Sandbox featured Plan B - iLL Manors campaign or the BT Digital Music Awards Best Digital Campaign for The Streets - Computers and Blues. Other noteworthy artists who have benefitted from Nikke's ideas & work include the likes of Lykke Li, Ed Sheeran, Rudimental, Marina and the Diamonds, Paolo Nutini, Frightened Rabbit and many more.

Currently Saari Ltd. works with Stromatolite to bridge the gap between technologists and the music industry but also helping out the band The Boxer Rebellion on their DIY efforts. Saari is also on the look out for creative technology companies to partner with artists.

https://saarimusic.com/

Cliff joined Lewis Silkin LLP as a Partner in April 2006 after over a decade as in-house counsel in the music and broadcast industry. Heading the Media & Entertainment group within the firm’s Media, Brands & Technology team, he now acts for some of the world’s largest names in mobile, brands, recorded music, mobile, live music, radio, audio-visual production and online.

He also specialises in working with clients whom are embracing content-based entertainment for the first time such as FMCG and lifestyle brand owners, advertising agencies, digital agencies, investment funds and financial institutions. He has a passion for working on innovative new business models, advertiser-funded programming and in the monetisation of format rights.

The Media & Entertainment Group is ranked in the “Legal 500” and “Chambers” and Cliff is ranked as a ‘leading individual’ in both directories.
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The Centre for Digital Music (c4dm) at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the Music and Audio Technology. With its broad range of skills and strong focus on making innovation usable, the Centre for Digital Music works with industry leaders to forge new business models for the music industry.

We have recently expanded to strengthen our expertise in music perception & cognition, music & language, and performance, to complement our existing strengths in signal processing, audio engineering, music informatics, and interaction. The group now has more than 50 fulltime members including academic staff, research staff, research students and visitors.

Facilities include the Media and Arts Technology Studios, with an acoustically isolated Listening Room and a Performance Lab for performance research and recordings. For more information, see: www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic Watch presentation

IC tomorrow, a Technology Strategy Board programme, stimulates innovation and economic growth across the UK's digital sector, by breaking down barriers and opening doors for Britain's brightest entrepreneurs.

The programme serves as a hub for digital innovation, connecting start-ups and SMEs with leading commercial partners and investors across the UK, through funded contests, events, and strategic matchmaking opportunities.

The IC tomorrow supports innovation across a variety of industry sectors including music, publishing, games, film, TV, culture, advertising, fashion, education, sport, healthcare, finance and accessibility.

For more information please visit ictomorrow.co.uk

Continuum for my improvised sets. I own lots of pedals that are used as modular building blocks for different sounds. Sound sources differ from samplers, synths, drum machines, guitar, turntables to human voice. I always use what I'm feeling at the moment, but keep the selected set always minimal. Reason to do this is the pure enjoyment of being flexible on stage and explore sound. The total freedom of improvisation have had a huge appeal to me lately. One doesn't get bored playing already recorded and arranged tracks night after night, but has a momentum to create something tickling on the go. It's a surprise to the listener, but also to the creator. As ideal my goal is to build a setup, which sound source is easy to control, but the possibility of created sounds are open. To achieve this I'm feedbacking the signal through the pedals and controlling the outcome with a mixer.

Oisin Lunny has been working in the creative and technology industries for over 20 years. First as part of the radical Marxist Hip-Hop collective "Marxman" who had a a UK top 30 hit, support sport with Depeche Mode & U2, and collaborations with Gangstarr & Sinead O'Connor before disbanding. Since then Oisin has released music as "Firstborn", including the club hit "The Mood Club", and also composed music for films such as Men Of Arlington, The Mean Machine and Human Traffic as well as various TV and advert commissions. Oisin’s background in technology includes roles as UK Managing Director for the worlds largest social space for teens, Habbo Hotel, and Global CDN Product Manager for Media Services at Interoute Communications, Europe’s largest network operator. Today Oisin is part of the Market Development team at mobile company OpenMarket, looking at new verticals and strategic business and technology opportunities.

Riff Raff was started by Matthew Fone 2 years ago with an intention to produce continually some of the best music videos and commercials out there, as well as diversifying into other areas that stimulate and expand us all.

His background as a producer of award winning work on commercials such as Cadburys 'Gorilla", John Lewis "Always a Woman" and videos for the likes of Coldplay, Madonna, LCD SoundSystem, Kings of Leon, The Streets (blah blah blah etc etc) has always driven him to do work for the quality rather than the financial quantity (stupid ?). "Hey i'd rather look after the kids" he said writing this.

The desire is not to grow too fast but keep a focus, coupled with a desire to promote up and coming talent through "the Nursery of Evil".

The reason we are stimulated to work with Music Tech Fest is like all people interested and in love with music it’s interesting to be part of finding out the boundaries and pushing things forward. Like the question everyone asks “how do you become a director/producer?” You actually go out and do it / make something and see what happens.

Enjoy.

Watch Riff Raff Film's documentation of Jamie Cullum on The Seaboard

Peter explores the nexus of theater, music, image, and storytelling to develop new modes of representing expression and presence in performance. He creates systems for interactive media and live productions that address both the technological infrastructure needs of complex works as well as the design of visual and experiential languages.

Peter Torpey

Unrepeatable) is a musical instrument, which consists of recorded musical sequences performed by different musicians developing their individual musical language. It is a derivative of a music group which appeared for the first time under the name of “Privid, prisluh” (Audiovisual illusion) and is now continuously multiplying. The musician can make music by selecting the source, defining volume and randomness, which generates a continuous and unrepeatable composition. “Privid, prisluh” is a continuously evolving creation, combining original and live music. It is taking place at the intersection of technologically processed contemporary sonority and the elementarity of digitized clean sounds. It is a meeting place of the absent technologically reproduced performers and the immediate presence of the live musician in a concert context. It is a confrontation space of spontaneous solo performance and the subsequent structuring of individual musical presences, joined by a musician as a real presence in live performance.

What do you do when you can’t stand paying a fortune for another horrible, warm, weak, insipid lager at a gig? Well, David Riley and I (Sam), working as music marketeers wanted to bring about a change, and our solution was teaming up with an experienced brewer, Tom Bott, to create Signature Brew. We quit our day jobs, and now our young company makes amazing craft beers in collaboration with bands and musicians, giving them the opportunity to brew a beer that they and the fans would love to drink.

signaturebrew.co.uk

We are in the translation business. We take the complex world of music talent and the unharnessed power of creative technologists and translate this into effective and compelling campaigns on behalf of brands.

[PIAS] Media is the independent agency division of [PIAS] Entertainment Group with offices in 6 European territories and the understanding and reach to deliver localised, global campaigns.

We are a passionate team made up of music experts, technologists, creative marketers and communications specialists and we love what we do. Working out of the agency offices in London and the innovations studio in Bristol, we take bands, brands and creative technology and produce something special.

Novalia combine conductive print and capacitive touch to create smart surfaces that act as sensors and speakers. We wirelessly connect the digital world to the physical through the touch of your fingertips. Working across the music, advertising, media and healthcare sectors, we find innovative and exciting ways to connect brands to their target audience. We also love to collaborate with individual people, musicians and artists with a great idea. For more information, please visit www.novalia.co.uk or call us on 01223 234420

Andrew Dubber is the director of Music Tech Fest, as well as being an advisor to Bandcamp, Stromatolite and Sonaris and is the founder of New Music Strategies, a pan-European digital music strategy think tank and consultancy group. He is Professor of Music Industry Innovation at Birmingham City University, and is the author of Music In The Digital Age (2012), Radio in the Digital Age (2013), Understanding the Music Industries (2012), The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online (2007), and is the editor of The 360 Deal (2013), which features the advice of 360 top music business professionals for young people just starting out in the music industries.

Watch Andrew Dubber's presentation at Music Tech Fest 2013

Labs is BBH’s global innovation unit. We’re tasked with pioneering new outputs and approaches: exploring emerging platforms and behaviours on behalf of brands, and developing new agency models along the way. Our overall ambition is to save the world find ways in which marketing innovation can be a powerful force for good (more effective, more engaging, more sustainable, more exciting). We’re particularly interested in:
- Innovative new forms of creativity
- Novel approaches that are rapid, iterative & curatorial
- The mashup of thinking from radically different sources & industries
- Sustainable marketing at scale
- Co-creation and mass collaboration
- Social ideas and how they propagate
- Marketing as product or service
- AI

The Chrysalis guitar radically re-defines the guitar as a modular, open-source, super-portable instrument with remarkable new properties. All of the guitar's eight basic components are instantly interchangeable, and can be custom-designed, 3D-printed or fabricated from a variety of materials to instantly create new kinds of instruments,creating a perfect platform for future innovation.

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bitbin (AKA Matt Hodson), well known for his down-tempo, erratic, and often nostalgic musical output has been commissioned by some of the most prestigious film, television, and gaming studios around and has created a reputation for his controlled fusion of both ambient and aggressive electronica. His attention to sonic detail characterises his output of impressive beat crunching and synthesiser drenched aesthetic. bitbin will be demonstrating how he his now incorporating a live electronic drummer into his live set providing a new wave of creativity and technical methodology.

BMAT is an audio technology company that analyses all the music worldwide to provide search, interaction and monitoring. BMAT counts on a young, dynamic and multicultural team with music and technology as common passions. Its music monitoring service positions this globally operating company as the one who serves the largest number of Performing Rights Organisations in the world, consolidating its leadership position in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Since 2005 I’ve pursued careers concerning customer interaction - marketing, content, social media and copywriting - initially climbing editorial ladders in b2c and b2b publishing before moving to online content strategy, then marketing & EDM. My career to date has seen me act as ambassador for traditional print houses and much-lauded tech startups alike, creating a broad spectrum of content across diverse subject matter - anything from live events and the entertainment sec- tor to consumer goods and cloud computing. Dedicated to content and marketing creation that champions accuracy, context and targeted, results driven strat- egy, I have significant experience in the management of freelance and in-house staff, within larger businesses and a previously-owned magazine publishing company. Driven and determined, always willing to work smart and hard. I believe in the companies I work for and strive to do them better justice in the public eye. Outside of my working week I have recently co-written and produced an album featuring million-selling recording artists, and scripted graphic novels set for production this summer. That said, I can and will always do more.

Andrew Shoben, founder of greyworld will talk about the potential of small sonic interventions, embedded into the urban fabric of a public space, to allow some form of self-expression in areas of the city that people see everyday but normally exclude and ignore. He will show a series of examples of work, both physical and aural, that attempt to establish special intimate zones, to ‘short circuit’ both the environmental and social expectations supplied by the surrounding urban realm. And to have fun with the city!

He will focus on the importance of creating physica and sonic spaces that offer people passing by an opportunity to join an unexpected ‘community of presence’ that initiates an intimate communication, which can often lead to a personalisation of the urban environment. Above all he will share his passion for a new public art that responds to and reflects the diversity of life, lived in and around a public space. Art that places the viewer at the centre of the creative experience, encouraging them to play with their environment, offering them a glimpse into another magical layer of reality. Recent projects include Trafalgar Sun, unveiled in Trafalgar Square, London - Clockwork Forest, in Grizedale, Cumbria and a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about the state of the UK's public art.

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A unique and revolutionary instrument, the dualo du-touch is at the same time a controller, a synthesizer and a looper/sequencer.Although the dualo du-touch may look like a kind of futuristic accordion, it is a real new instrument, based upon a new layout of notes around the keyboard in an intuitive, logical and playful manner. Scales and chords are represented by geometrical patterns, therefore easy to play and learn. In other words, on a dualo keyboard, notes that sound good together from the harmonic theory point of view are arranged next to each other! This layout of keys - called “ the dualo principle” is now internationally recognized as one of the most intelligent layouts of keys.A connected and collaborative instrument, the du-touch is linked to an exchange-platform that allows the user to share one’s compositions through interactive scores with other dualists on the Internet. The du-touch is also a wonderful instrument in order to learn how to play music, thanks to its integrated system, which reads the interactive scores. Each loop’s notes are then directly displayed on the keyboard thanks to the lights under the keys. Dualo's goal is to rethink the practice and learn of music.

Video Game composer MIRAI, with Opera vocalist BRONWEN STEPHENS combine a soaring vocal range with custom-built cutting edge music tech, splicing Futurism with Electro-Opera. Intelligentsia's prime directive is to bring together artists on the vanguard of innovative philosophy and positive future. In London & Tokyo, they have written soundtracks for Japanese video games, national TV and radio with music pressed to 250,000 + units. Intelligentsia's first gig was in Camden Palace (Koko), London, in 1991, and they have performed at over 60 live events worldwide, including the Interactive Live Show with electro pioneer Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model, Paprika), The Future of Music (Denmark), Forever Sun Festival (UK), the Alfa Centauri festival (Netherlands), LPM (Italy), and at the Tocho Skyscraper in Japan. Their portfolio features the global artist project WORLD WIDE KIND, their Sci-Fi progressive artist label EARTH ACADEMY, new music devices such as the Body-Drum, the Gypsy-Midi Exo-Skeleton, and digital content & music collaboration with celebrities Christopher Currell (ex-Michael Jackson Band), Uri Geller, Morley Robertson (J-Wave Radio / Harvard electronic music pundit), and Kenso Kato (Japanese TV Multimedia personality). https://intelligentsia-music.com

"Remixing the Planets" breathes new life into Gustav Holst's timeless classic "The Planets Suite". Taking from Holst's rich melodies and colorful harmonies, each movement is then sampled and arranged into various electronic musical styles like Hip-Hop, House, Drum and Bass, and Dub Step. The completed work is put into a continuous live electronic performance set that mixes live instrumentation and and various Dj Controllers into a unique performance. The program for "Remixing the Planets" are as follows:

One of the themes of the 150th Anniversary of Jean Sibelius in 2015 is continuous creativity. Therefore one of the projects of the anniversary is to take Sibelius as a person, creator, legend, and source of inspiration to the digital age. At Music Tech Fest Berlin we are representing the digital strategy of the anniversary and will introduce SibHack, an event for code, music and digital creativity, inspired by Sibelius. SibHack looks for creative and open-minded ways to combine the iconic composer with modern technology. The winners of SibHack Helsinki will introduce their winning demo at the Music Tech Fest Berlin.

85% of children drop music before the age of 15 all over the world. Why? Because music learning is too rarely based on music pleasure. Meludia is a fun tool, which places pleasure at the core of the music learning process. It is an online ear training game. It develops music thoughts and imagination, whatever age, style or level. It aims at stimulating musicians’ will to practice, progress and create music. Try for free on www.meludia.com

Kiran Gandhi and Nick Krasney are founding members of The Music Minds Gatherings at Harvard Business School. Meeting once every 10 days, the group consists of students in the Boston area who problem-solve around issues facing the music industry today.

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Fiona Soe Paing is a producer and vocalist based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, collaborating with New Zealand animation artist Zennor Alexander to create mesmerising multi-media shows combining surreal 3D animation, off-world electronica soundtrack and live vocals. The current show "Alien Lullabies" was performed in the Aberdeen International Film Festival and recent work was awarded an "Outstanding" rating in the Noise Festival Showcase 2014, curated by Brian Eno. The latest audio release is the 2012 EP "Tower of Babel" which was produced with support from Creative Scotland. Fiona has performed in cinema, theatre, club and gallery spaces in Scotland and New Zealand, and events have included Sound Festival Aberdeen, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Soundlab at Glasgow City Halls, and Auckland Art Gallery.

Patrick Bergel is CEO and Founder of Animal Systems, a creative technology company with an interest in playful, mobile and ubiquitous computing, recently spun out from UCL. Patrick now leads a team working on a brand new ubicomp platform inspired by biological phenomena, due for release shortly. At Music Tech Fest he will describe and demonstrate elements of the system.

Previously, Patrick has worked as a creative director for clients including Microsoft, Ray-ban and Nike, as an entrepreneur in mobile search, and as an academic designer of novel audio control surfaces. He is currently also an Honorary Research Associate at UCL. He lives in London and has no hobbies.

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The 405 is Music & Culture website based in the UK. Since forming in the spring of 2008, The 405 has gone on to become one of the UK's most read independent sites, winning numerous awards along the way. The site is also responsible for a series of shows that have taken place all over London, The 405's DJs have performed at events around the UK, they've promoted two regular club nights, and hosted a stage at Iceland Airwaves. The team from The 405 regularly appears on of BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and Amazing Radio.

The 405.

Native Instruments is a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based audio production and DJing. The company's mission is to develop innovative, fully-integrated solutions for all musical styles and professions. The resulting products regularly push technological boundaries and open up new creative horizons for professionals and amateurs alike.

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Laura-Jane ‘LJ’ Rich is a pianist and classical composer who also works for the BBC as a TV presenter and 'technology cool hunter'. She’s BBC Click's resident social trends and music technology expert, and was largely responsible for the growth of the @BBCClick twitter account to over 2 million followers. She loves science fiction and Japanese food and even fixed her own iPad! See the amazing video here

@LJRich

BBC Click is the BBC's flagship technology programme. As well as covering the latest gadgets and launches, Click looks at human interest stories behind the technology. The show is translated into over 30 languages and is shown in over 200 countries worldwide. @BBCClick

FXpansion has been one of the industry's foremost independent music software developers since 1999. Headquartered in London, with a worldwide team of creative engineers and passionate musicians, the company has established a growing range of plug-ins and applications which consistently win press awards and inspire a large and devoted userbase.

FXpansion's mission is to push the boundaries of audio software. Its products introduce fresh ideas and new musical possibilities while providing intuitive, usable interfaces for creative people to harness technology for artistic expression.

Brief history:

Founded in 1999, FXpansion's first products included plugin format conversion utilities and DR-008, a powerful drum synthesis/sampling instrument years ahead of its 2001 release date. In 2003 it released BFD, a revolutionary acoustic drum sample instrument which brought studio-grade multi-channel drum mixing within the reach of everyday musicians & composers. GURU was the company's next major release in 2005, a sampling drum machine and loop slicer with a fast and creative work-flow that spawned a slew of imitators.

BFD2, released in 2007, and its ever-increasing library of compatible expansion packs built on an already wildly successful platform, making it the most flexible and feature-packed software drum solution on the market. 2009 saw the release of FXpansion's first full-scale synthesis product, DCAM: Synth Squad. In development for 6 years, its included instruments typify the ethos of the company: forward-thinking technology, cutting-edge sound quality and new sonic possibilities, alongside innovative user interface ideas to make sound design easier and more intuitive.

Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University.  He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003); and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture.  He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012).  His new projects consider instruments and instrumentalities; histories of signal processing; and the intersections of disability, technology and perception.

Visit his website at sterneworks.org .

Leafcutter John is an internationally renowned electronic musician, songwriter, and artist. He has released 5 critically acclaimed albums has performed his award winning work worldwide. John’s Current work is ‘Light Controlled Music’. It is a music performance system comprising a light sensitive controller and specialised software developed by Leafcutter John over the last two years. It is played gesturally using handheld lights and other light sources. The sounds produced are strongly related to the performers actions and are all produced in real-time. It is a stunningly immersive audiovisual experience. John also develops music software and hardware interfaces and has worked in Dance, Theatre, and teaches at Brunel University. He has worked with Talvin Singh, Wayne Mcgregor's Random Dance, BBC Symphony and Concert orchestras. And has played concerts worldwide with Beck, Jarvis Cocker, Imogen Heap, Matmos, Grace Jones, Nick Cave, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Yo La Tengo, Beth Orton, Otomo Yoshihide, Aki Onda, Phillip Jeck, Tujiko Noriko Sebastian Rochford, Janek Schaefer and Tomoko Takahashi. https://leafcutterjohn.com/

Dizzyjam is the world's leading independent print-on-demand merch system for the music industry. We make it free and very easy for anyone who makes or plays music to create and sell merch to their fans. Neil Cocker is the co-founder of Dizzyjam. As a music-industry survivor he performed in 30 different countries, and steered his label to a UK Top Ten hit. He is also the co-founder of Cardiff Start, an industry body representing the interests of the tech startup scene of Europe's fastest growing capital city.

Mixlr is a live audio broadcasting platform built around sociability.

Mixlr makes live audio broadcasting easy for anyone. Take any audio source, and using a laptop or iPhone start broadcasting instantly to your friends and fans online.

Today Mixlr is helping build thriving communities based around live audio, enabling artists to engage with their fans, fans to engage directly with artists, and fans to engage with each other too.

Mixlr has over 1M users ranging from community radio stations in remote parts of Rwanda, to well known musicians who broadcast their tours and host album previews.

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Leaf.fm is a mobile-first marketplace that marries free music streaming with concert tickets and merchandise directly from the artists. Leaf.fm gives fans a one-stop shop for all things music, while it provides musicians a self service platform from where they can engage, grow and sell directly to their fans. Leaf.fm

goPlay uses pitch detection and phrase recognition to allow instrumentalists and singers to control the software without the need for any external hardware.The idea behind the project is that, while MIDI controllers come in all shapes and sizes, they are not inherently intuitive to a musician in the same way that an instrument is. If you’re an instrumentalist or a singer who likes to perform with backing track elements and effects, constantly having to think about the technical aspect of controlling your computer via MIDI can be a distraction from performing well. Every time you want to interact with your technology, you have to leave the musical mind-set, briefly enter the technical one, and then switch back to the musical one.With this system, you are completely free to concentrate solely on your performance, while still being able to use extra musical elements and effects in realtime

A site-specific artwork that combines sound and vision in perfect synthesis. Using the newly developed diasynchronic technique which lifts animation off the screen and brings it into the same space as the audience, Stylus is a meditation on simple looped patterns of visual music building to a complex and melodic kinetic sculpture.

Stylus is the latest artwork made for the Diasynchronoscope project developed at Goldsmiths, University of London with Frederic Fol Leymarie.

https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/diasynchronoscope

Robert Thomas is an adaptive music composer and sound designer with a technical focus. His work explores ways music can react and adapt itself in realtime to the listeners behaviour, mood or situation, often for functional purposes. He writes musical systems to achieve this generally in the open source programming environment Pure data. Robert is currently working on a range of projects including music for exercise which changes with your heart rate / movement and adaptive music for meditation using brainwave sensors. Robert also recently created a 3d ambisonic soundscape for Arboreal Lightning, a huge interactive light installation at the heart of Imogen Heaps Reverb 2014 festival at the Roundhouse London. From 2009 to April 2014 Robert was Chief Creative Officer and Interactive Music Composer at RjDj. He was a part of the team that created the iOS applications Inception the App, The Dark Knight Rises Z+, Dimensions, RjDj and Rj Voyager. Previously Robert has created multiplayer music video games using voice control, virtual tourism soundtracks for Mexico and Costa Rica and the soundtrack to the first holographic portrait of the Queen. Robert has worked in collaboration with many artists including Imogen Heap, Hans Zimmer, Air, Carl Craig, Jimmy Edgar, Bookashade, Console, Little Boots, Chiddy Bang, Kirsty Hawkshaw and Sophie Barker.

Activating Memory is an innovative experimental composition for 8 performers: a string quartet and BCMI quartet. BCMI stands for Brain Computer Music Interface. The BCMI quartet involves four persons wearing a brain cap furnished with electrodes to read information from the brain of 4 persons. I teamed up with g.tec, manufacturer of biomedical technology, and Joel Eaton at ICCMR, to design an extraordinary machine that converts brain information into musical scores. During the performance, the BCMI quartet generates musical scores to be performed by the string quartet in real-time. Each member of the BCMI quartet generates a part for a musician of the string quartet.

Kim is an award-winning digital music and mobile marketer with a wealth of experience gained at both EMI and Universal Music. She was shortlisted in the top 50 leading women in the mobile industry by MEM, and was nominated as Woman of the Year by Nordoff Robbins. Kim specializes in the creation, management and promotion of digital music services, and in the strategy and management of new branded partnerships and opportunities for labels and recording artists.

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Sidestage - is a new startup based in Berlin. It's designed to directly connect those who'd like to hire musicians for events with the musicians.

Developed by Interval Studios, Thicket is an audiovisual playground for iPad and iPhone that allows anyone to create beautiful sounds and pictures from simple finger touches. For users of all ages, this generative art and sound app immerses you in song-like audiovisual pieces called modes. When “playing” a mode, you both react to and create the music and graphics that you experience. Each mode is its own art generator, interactive toy, instrument, even performance tool depending on how you use it. And with new modes to be developed and released every few months, Thicket functions an expandable platform in the exciting new genre of handheld interactive art.

The Thicket app.

Do you like to be on the edge of your seat in fearful anticipation of surprise, restlessly satisfying your adrenaline addiction? If you do, then this installation is not for you. If you don’t, then be welcome to sit in a comfortable recliner and enjoy the vast range of relaxing auditory stimuli. Intuitive interface willallow you to select and tune the sounds to find a blend that suits you personally. Physiological measurement of the level of relaxation will be continuously monitored. The music that you produce will be made available online along with your relaxation graph and scores that will allow us to announce the champions of relaxation. Explore your mind and nerves, try to stop thinking, find your personal auditory cocoon and see if you can hibernate in five minutes. The 'Waves to Soothe your Brains' installation is conceived and built by Zlatko Baracskai with assistance from Saoirse Finn and Peter Marton.

Watch Dr Zlatko Baracskai's presentation at Music Tech Fest 2013

iFOLK - an acoustic laptop by Tore Honoré Bøe

You are invited to play an "acoustic laptops" made by transmedia artist Boe. It is one of many wood boxes with various tiny objects attached inside; springs, stones, metal, rubber, string, needles, memorabilia - amplified by a contact mike (piezo).

The acoustic laptops are musical instruments with which you can explore a soundworld that usually pass unnoticed and thus connect with unfiltered reality in a pleasurable way. Whereas Boe uses them to produce the microsounds he desires in his electro-acoustic music, a growing number of other musicians have started using them as additional effect gizmos. Boe has performed lots of concerts with them, mostly on his own, but due to their versatility also in free improv collaborations with colleagues.

Boe also gives workshops where people are invited to create their own "personal pc's". These events are always entertaining, for young or old, for the previously informed or the absolute amateur. Thus the acoustic laptops as functional flux-boxes have starred in both informal social settings and the established world of art.

In these times of digital options and general gadget worship, the acoustic laptops demonstrate the complexity of simplicity, the reframing and recycling of objects, the contemporary urge to reconnect to hands-on creation and the ethos of the do-it-yourself culture.

The acoustic laptops are not an anti-digital statement, they are a neutral addition that form a great platform for altering the perception of possibilities. Best of all: No password is needed.

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At Monthly Music Hackathon NYC, musicians, programmers, artists, scientists, composers, hardware tinkerers, and others spend the last Saturday of each month hacking together projects exploring music.It is a monthly all-day event for musicians and engineers to create new music-related projects from scratch, develop them throughout ~10 hours, then perform or present them in a concert in the evening along with presentations of the art, technology, and research developed that day , which is open to everyone.

Watch Jonathon Marmor introduce Music Hackathon NYC at Music Tech Fest 2013

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer around 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping more than 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include semiconductors, interconnect, passives and electromechanical, automation and control, electrical, test and measurement, tools and consumables. RS is sponsoring Music Tech Fest London event from 5th-7th September and will be challenging hackers, researchers, students of music and musicians to create a music technology innovation using, amongst other components, Arduino development boards and Raspberry Pi computer modules. RS sponsorship is part of a collaboration to unite academia and industry to drive music technology innovation. Visit our InfoZone to find out more.

Bundio started in the music industry in 2012 as a tool for artists to build their career in the digital streaming era, and that's where it remains today: empowering artists to release any sort of content whenever they want, while giving fans the ability to directly connect and support the artists they love.

Bundio does this by allowing artists to set up direct to fan subscriptions. Bundio creators receive monthly recurring payments from their fans in exchange for exclusive access to their Bundio page, content and community.

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"Temple Bright is a different law firm.” That’s the firm’s strapline, and if you stop by the free legal advice surgery to meet the partners, they’ll prove it to you. Based in Shoreditch and Bristol, Temple Bright offers a low cost business model, top notch commercial expertise and an informal culture, making it a favourite for creative entrepreneurs across the UK.

For further information visit www.templebright.com.

To meet some of the lawyers and learn more about what makes Temple Bright different, check out its films page.

Redstar Union is a cutting-edge performance space where video content is captured and delivered to the web & devices in real-time and with unrivaled quality. As a for-hire studio and content producer (Redstar Media), we are exploring a new generation of live content tools, platforms & formats with integrated interactivity for online audiences. We exist for music, presentations/demonstrations, education and more.

Redstar Media

The RCA Label Group UK is a flagship recording label of Sony Music Entertainment encompassing RCA Records, RCA Victor, Space & Time Records and Chess Club Records. The label has rich history and extensive interests in many musical genres, boasting a current artist roster that includes David Bowie, Bring Me The Horizon, K Koke, Paloma Faith, Laura Mvula, MS MR, MO, Lulu James Swim Deep and Union J amongst others. RCA is one of the global leaders at signing, developing and promoting musical talent covering all tastes and genres

RCA's digital marketing team are committed to embracing new technology and innovation at the heart of every campaign. The team is headed up by Justin Cross and at Music Tech Fest 2013 there will be a specific challenge to generate ideas in tandem with the label’s core objectives.

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Feral Five are a tech-obsessed post punk electronica duo who write songs about science. They have included their own 3D printer beats in their most recent single 3D and are self avowed 3D print junkies. This lead 3DPrint.com to interview the band; they said of the single: "it may just become the song of our times, as 3D printing continues to make a major mark on society". US-based '3D Printing Industry Limited' has also taken an interest in the band’s work saying, "3D printing may have its anthem". They have been championed by ‘Louder Than War’, who gave their first single ‘Skin’, “9 out of 10” saying it was “possibly the best single of 2013” and calling it "a modern day alternative classic". The ‘Skin’ EP includes remixes by The Woodentops front man Rolo McGinty, whose band Feral Five have supported live. They went on to release the electro-sass cyber-stress single ‘Strung Out’ with an accompanying video described as “David Lynch meets Shinya Tsukamoto”. Talking of their obsession with the darker side of human tech, BBC Radio’s Steve Lamacq, who played their single 3D on BBC 6Recommends, has cheekily said, “Feral Five could be Enid Blyton’s worst nightmare”. https://www.feralfive.com

Spectralmind offers innovative media discovery solutions that stand out by the unique combination of intuitive visual user interfaces and advanced content discovery technologies. Sonarflow, the company's flagship product, reduces complexity and helps people to find relevant media content in a playful and easy way. The company's proprietary audio matching engine is capable of suggesting similar music titles based on a song’s acoustic content and a user's preferences. The company's USP is a hierarchical approach to media discovery which makes navigating through large amounts of media content both quick and intuitive.
Spectralmind's solution is applicable to a wide range of media domains, such as music and video portals, smartphones, tablets, TV, VOD and consumer electronics.
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Andrew Mager is Chief Listening Officer and Hacker Advocate at Spotify.
Spotify is more than a music player; it's a full music platform. You can use our APIs to let your users listen to music, build playlists, and discover new tunes.
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I want to present an Idea for a video app, that allows multi participants, easy operation and sound design for the square video format. I have demo screenshots and an initial Idea of how it is suppose to operate, it's very much repackaging technology that already exists out there, so I'm positive that it is technically possible. my main wish is to be able to gather a team that can join me in working on this app. (it is very simple and I think I can wrap it up even in 10 min if that changes anything...)

Musical Instruments, guitars, pianos, sound equipment and more. Music Tech Fest's Korg suppliers in New Zealand.

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MTV is a 24-hour general entertainment channel operated by Viacom International Media Networks Europe, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The channel was launched as part of MTV Networks Europe localization strategy in 1997.

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with ickStream, we provide a framework that allows other companies/projects to easily create streaming solutions for music, it’s an API to access a range of music streaming services or local sources. In my talk I would show what such a system could also contribute for end users, not just vendors using our technology because it allows you to mix and match between different music sources (e.g. SoundCloud, Spotify, etc) and also local music. And to use this across various, even different devices.

WhoSampled is the world’s largest and most detailed database of Sampled Music, Remixes and Cover Songs. Launched in 2009 with a clear goal to document every reference of music made over the past 1000 years, WhoSampled provides it’s global community of users the opportunity to explore the DNA of music and discover, share and discuss the musical connections of their favorite tracks and artists.

Watch the WhoSampled presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

With its software solutions, Fraunhofer IDMT is a major partner for the creative industry in Germany and the world. Tools for intelligent signal analysis and the development of new methods for interaction make media consumption and information retrieval easier for users. In the field of 3D audio and image processing, Fraunhofer IDMT develops new immersive and interactive media formats. With special media offers for children and technologies for hearing rehabilitation, speech communication and audio technology for the Aging Society, Fraunhofer IDMT responds to current social trends and offers innovative solutions.

Watch Estefania Cano's presentation at Music Tech Fest 2013

Panos is the Founding Managing Director of Berklee ICE (Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship) as well as a passionate entrepreneur and active startup mentor in the creative media space. As the founder of Sonicbids, he created the leading platform for bands to book gigs and market themselves online, building a subscriber network of 550,000 bands and 35,000 promoters from over 100 countries. He led the company as CEO for 13 years, from its inception until after its successful acquisition by Backstage LLC, in a deal backed by Guggenheim Partners.
Panos is widely credited for spotting and capitalizing early on three distinct emerging trends in the music business over the last decade: the shift to a primarily online means of marketing; the emergence of an “artistic middle class”; and the shift from a record-label funded industry to a consumer brand-funded music business.

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Ableton makes Live - a unique music creation and performance software and Push, a hardware instrument for playing and composing with Live. Ableton was founded in 1999 and released the first version of Live in 2001. Since then, the company has received outstanding press, numerous awards and attracted a worldwide community of passionate musicians who have made Live their instrument and share their knowledge, ideas and inspiration with others. At Musictechfest 2013 we’d like to introduce you to Push. Push provides direct, hands on control of melody and harmony, beats, sounds and structure, powered by Ableton Live 9. Its innovative workflow allows you to play and compose musical ideas without the need to look at or touch your computer.

Watch Mark Towers demo the Ableton Push at Music Tech Fest 2013

Ken Zolot leads The Founder's Journey (6.933), for aspiring entrepreneurs in MIT’s School of Engineering. Ken's teaching and mentoring have guided many MIT-spawned companies, and Ken had full-time founding roles in several prominent companies. Ken holds a Master of Science degree from MIT in Management of Technology

Ken Zolot

Avi Ashkenazi is an experienced designer that has the unique ability to juggle between the realms of sound, visual and code – combining them into a one cohesive experience. In his projects he explores the relationship between human body, music, and the multiple ways that they interact with each other, both in the physical world and the virtual one. His latest project, “Beatple”, involved creating a space in which an individual can influence the visual atmosphere in the room depending on the sound that the person produces. Thus, a musical artist can change the visual atmosphere in his shows depending on the crowd engagement (e.g. applause) or on the musical tempo. “Beatple” was implemented in 51% shows – an Hip Hop group that Avi was a part of.

Nowadays Avi is an MA student at Goldsmiths University of London. Prior his relocation to London from Israel, Avi was a researcher at The Interaction Lab, Holon Institute of Technology (H.I.T.) and worked alongside some of the top notch designers and studios, including the renowned “Talents Design” studio.

@Superavi1
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We believe that everyone is creative, inventive, and imaginative. We believe that everyone can create the future and change the world. So we have dedicated our lives to making easy-to-use invention kits.

Watch Makey Makey's presentation at Music Tech Fest 2013

rightclearing simplifies and democratizes music licensing. The entire process has been automated so searching for songs, paying and receiving a binding contract takes mere minutes. Independent artists and labels can now earn money with their usage rights. Individuals, advertisers or filmmakers can easily license songs for their projects. 


rightclearing was developed by the artist-based music platform restorm.com and launched in February 2012 at the Digital Music Forum East in New York. rightclearing bridges the gap between traditional Copyright (©), Creative Commons (CC) and Public Domain (PD), by allowing the monetization of all usage rights.

rightclearing is supported by prominent entrepreneurs, advertisers and industry representatives. Joi Ito (LastFM/Flickr/Twitter investor, director of MIT Media Lab) is but one member of our advisory board. (https://rightclearing.com/about).

CEO Philippe Perreaux, an open-source enthusiast, also repesents Creative Commons in Switzerland.

Watch how rightclearing works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r3KUgLbPMe8

Find out more: rightclearing.com

iZotope makes innovative products that inspire and enable people to be creative. Used by millions of people in over 50 countries, iZotope products are a core component of GRAMMY-winning music studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning film and TV post production studios, and prominent radio studios, as well as basement and bedroom studios across the globe. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iZotope has spent over a decade developing award-winning products and audio technologies for professionals and hobbyists alike. Through a robust licensing program, iZotope also powers products made by industry partners such as Adobe, Avid, Microsoft, and Sony. iZotope was recently honored with an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for its flagship audio repair suite, RX®.

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Kendra Initiative is creating a performance and composition centric rights technology to protect content owners and their media assets – an open architecture, analogous to MIDI, for music industry business logic and processes: production, collaboration, rights, events, sales and reporting. Like MIDI, the aim is to enable various components (read 'media service providers') in the media content value chain to work together in harmony. The aim is to make services 'hot swappable'. Plug and play! The architecture will track media assets to stem and sample levels, enabling far more fine-grained rights and credits. Rights and credits will follow samples when used in another song, so creating a 'rights tree'. This will also enable new rights and payment models to be developed based on a system that has access to all the 'split' information. Kendra Hub is a dashboard for musicians and managers enabling them to manage and track their digital media assets, collaborations and associated rights, funded by the TSB and by industry. The open source application will integrate with social networks, rights collection organisations and online distribution points. Kendra Hub will also enable users to analyse sales reports. You will be in control of where your metadata is stored. https://www.kendra.org

The work of artist collective thickear explores and critiques contemporary processes of data collection and exchange. In a climate of frequent media revelations concerning alleged breaches of supposedly secure and private personal information, and the increasing commodification of our data and behavioural patterns as currency to be exchanged for online services, thickear examine how we attempt to evaluate and negotiate these interactions with works such as “Ministry of Measurement”, “MoM Data Exchange” and “Pink Sheet Method”.

The first of these, performance/installation “Ministry of Measurement”, was the inaugural project to be supported by the EU FP7 FET funded initiative ICT and Art Connect and a major feature of the Barbican Centre’s “Hack the Barbican” season in 2013. The work re-purposed the Barbican’s large cloakroom area to present a dystopian data collection centre as both performance and interactive installation.

The second piece, “MoM Data Exchange”, invited delegates at the ICT2013 conference in Vilnius to exchange personal information in return for data originally provided by participants at the Barbican event. Whilst the third work, “Pink Sheet Method”, taking place in 2014 across venues in Manchester, London and Brighton, encourages the public to judge the value of their own data against the value of the art work itself.

Formed in London at the beginning of 2012, thickear (Geoff Howse, Jack James, Kevin Logan, Tadeo Sendon) have presented exhibitions and performances at a host of venues and events including Arbeit Gallery, Music Hackspace, Music Tech Fest, the Barbican, ICT 2013, Lighthouse and the Royal College of Art.

Watch the Thickear performances at Music Tech Fest 2013

Internationally acclaimed beatboxer and World Loopstation Champion SHLOMO creates an incredibly energetic live show like nothing you have seen before: jaw dropping, inspirational and totally absorbing. A Guinness World Record holder, Shlomo gave up astrophysics to perform his amazing vocal pyrotechnics. It was a good move. Since then he has won global acclaim and worked with some of the biggest names in music including Bjork, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker, Martha Wainwright, Imogen Heap, The Specials, DJ Yoda and even comedians the Mighty Boosh. In the process he has consistently pushed the boundaries of beatboxing, bringing the art form to new and unexpected audiences through such diverse collaborations. Shlomo is a firm favourite on the UK Festival scene, having introduced Pulp, Chase and Status and Cee Lo Green at Glastonbury, collaborated with pop wonders Ed Sheeran, James Morrison and Jason Mraz and performing his sell out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Raised on a strict childhood diet of orchestral percussion and jazz drums, Shlomo instinctively began making vocal music as a small child. He first found critical acclaim as a beatboxer aged 18 when he began touring with the award winning multinational hip hop group Foreign Beggars, and was named the “Harry Potter of beatboxing” by BBC Radio 1’s Tim Westwood. This was designed as a compliment, we think – either way it wasn’t long until Shlomo was collaborating with Icelandic pop queen Bjork on her all vocal album Medulla in 2004. Shlomo’s performance on BBC2’s Later with Jools Holland was seen by Emily Eavis who invited him to host a 2-hour collaborative extravaganza at Glastonbury Festival. Shlomo was joined by a host of star names, including Martha Wainwright, Ed Harcourt, Portico Quartet, Reverend and the Makers, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly in a memorable and moving performance. As both a solo artist and a bandleader, Shlomo’s live performances never cease to amaze and are not to be missed.

Eric Rosenbaum is a graduate student at MIT Media Lab, where he is part of the Lifelong Kindergarten group, developing new tools that help people learn through creative play and making. His current projects include the MaKey MaKey physical-digital invention kit, and MelodyMorph, an iPad app for making interactive musical instruments and compositions.

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In Your Own Time is a piece of music written for smartphone which uses the phones sensors and microphone to adapt the music to the listener. The app records sounds from around the listener and uses them to create rhythms, as well as detecting the listener’s walking speed and using it to effect the music. The app is an experiment in creating a new musical experience, the idea being to create an experience that is somewhere between recorded and live music.

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The development of sensor technologies, the adaptation for practical applications and the fast computing power of today's devices offer fascinating new possibilities for the creation and consumption of digital music. Complex calculations can be done in milliseconds and so directly influence the music which is being played. In real time. But how much more exciting is it to put the tremendous computing power in the service of composition and interpretation itself. Composition, takes place apart from reception, at least so far. Interpretation provides an interface. And just like a jazz pianist uses scales and chords for the interpretation of an existing song, a computer can do the same using the appropriate software. Through the software engine of Nagual Sounds, any kind of input data can be used as a tool to personalize pieces of music, in order to create individual interpretations of a source file in real time. Through this, music is vividly and intuitively controllable. Nagual Sounds used the data of a 3D camera (Kinect) for their first product Nagual Dance – an interactive musical instrument, played with the body. A smartphone app which uses the Gyro- and accelerator sensor for music creation is in development.

BandWagon is a live music platform that connects bands, solo artists and DJs with music promoters and festival organisers. BandWagon is challenging the traditional model for booking gigs; it is making access and the process of booking gigs simpler. It is improving transparency between the promoter and artists and improving professionalism amongst both parties particularly through improved communication and outcomes.

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The British Council is the UK's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. British Council New Zealand connects aspirational young New Zealanders with contemporary UK, across the spheres of arts, creative industries, science and education. We work with local and international partners to showcase excellence, innovation and creativity.

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Christian Blom (1974) is a composer living and working in Norway. Approaching music as not neccesarily exclusive to sound, rather as something organized in time, Bloms brand of musical composition is enriched to also involve light, shadowplay and movement. As a consequence he works with musical composition, kinetic sculpture and performance art, an expansion of musical composition to include compositional strategies for transmedial structures. His broad scope stems from collaborative work with such names as dancer and coreographer Alan Lucien Øyen, videoartist Ellen Røed and as a member of the artistcollective Verdensteatret. In these constellations as well as in his own projects a goal has always been to allow for the media and techniques to blend, to affect each others expressive and structural qualities to a point where they seem inseparable.

Bloms work can be seen and heards internationally on a regular basis. For more information on Blom, the works and where you might hear and see them please visit www.christainblom.com
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The Wekinator is an open-source software toolkit that allows anyone to use machine learning to build new digital musical instruments and gestural controllers. Without programming, users can instantly create new systems where USB controllers, cameras, DIY sensing systems, or commercial hardware like Kinect and Leap Motion control any music software using Open Sound Control. Machine learning enables people to build complex and musically expressive instruments, as well as gesture or audio recognition systems for use in gaming, interactive art, or other uses. The Wekinator has been used in dozens of new musical performances, in teaching children and university students about computer music and machine learning, and in creating new musical interfaces for people with disabilities. The Wekinator is an active project at Goldsmiths, and the team is always seeking new collaborators for research (including new PhD students), creating new music and art, and open-source hacking. https://wekinator.cs.princeton.edu/

Daniel Jones is a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, exploring the relationships between complexity, creativity and social dynamics. This manifests itself in both scientific and artistic output: he has published work on music theory, creativity, systems biology and artificial life, and exhibits his digital work internationally, harnessing algorithmic processes to create self-generating artworks.

Recent works include The Listening Machine (with Peter Gregson, 2012), a 6-month-long sound work which translates social network dynamics into a piece of orchestral music, recorded with Britten Sinfonia and commissioned by the BBC/Arts Council's The Space; Variable 4 (with James Bulley, 2011), an outdoor sound installation which transforms live weather conditions into musical patterns; Maelstrom (with James Bulley, 2012), which uses audio material from media-publishing websites as a distributed, virtual orchestra; Horizontal Transmission (2011), a digital simulation of bacterial communication mechanisms; and AtomSwarm (2006—2009), a musical performance system based upon swarm dynamics.

Daniel co-ordinated the technical infrastructure for The Fragmented Orchestra, winner of the prestigious PRSF New Music Award 2008. His audio development work for Papa Sangre and The Nightjar was nominated for two BAFTAS, including “Audio Achievement”.
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Soundslice makes interactive sheet music and guitar tablature technology. Our "living sheet music" lets musicians hear the music, slow it down, loop it and annotate it while they see which notes to play. We license this tech to companies and sell interactive transcriptions directly to musicians.

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Robert Kaye is founder and lead developer of MusicBrainz, and President and Executive Director of the MetaBrainz Foundation. MusicBrainz is the leading open source project for music metadata on the internet. It utilizes an approach similar to Wikipedia to curate high quality metadata and to assign unique identifiers for metadata entities. These identifiers allow for unambiguous communication about music through its global metadata delivery network that includes customers like Google, BBC, Last.fm, Grooveshark, Amazon and AOL.

https://musicbrainz.org/
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ABRSM is the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music, delivering over 650,000 exams and assessments every year in 93 countries. ABRSM is committed to supporting high-quality music-making, learning and development throughout the world, and to producing the best possible resources for music teachers and students. As part of their commitment to excellence in music education, ABRSM provides a rich resource of materials, from albums of repertoire for the earliest stages of learning to scholarly editions of the great composers. ABRSM’s portfolio of digital and online resources includes Melody Writer, an online tool for writing and improving melodies using standard music notation. Anyone can use it, but it is specifically designed to help prepare for the melody- writing question in an ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory exam. This question requires candidates to demonstrate a wide range of skills gained through their study of theory. ABRSM has developed Melody Writer to provide practical support to help develop melody writing and music theory skills. It allows personal practice between lessons, gives feedback, and makes it easy to share progress with teachers and friends. https://www.abrsm.org

Berklee College of Music’s new space-age campus in Valencia Spain launched the Music Technology Innovation master’s degree program last year, combining programming, production, and performing in a single program. From wearable technology to musical robots, from virtual conducting systems to immersive multi-channel video and audio installations, the students are challenging themselves and the status quo. Program director Stephen Webber will share some projects from the first year, and engage in exploring the question: can innovation be taught?

'Musical typewriter' - Its sense of fun is quite delightful, that is fresh and witty. Usually you would use a typewriter knowing the outcome, however this typewriter whose mechanism is attached to a series of fishing lines, allowing an unknown outcome unique to each key. These wires are all linked to little hammers, and when their key is pressed, the hammers strike all a variety of things to produce different sounds: empty jars of pasta sauce, cans, bottles, foil. There aren’t any patterns or arpeggios, the excitement is in the inherent unpredictability of the contraption. It is difficult to guess which key is linked to which hammer, so something as mundane and everyday as a qwerty keyboard becomes incredibly unpredictable as to its output.

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David Chatting a designer who uses improvisational techniques to explore the impact of emerging technologies in everyday lives. He is a recent graduate of Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art and previously worked for ten years in corporate research and development. David works through a process of making and speculation. His work frequently consider notions of freewill in a networked world.

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Alex Allmont is a British artist focusing on emergent effects and slowing of attention as part of an interdisciplinary practice. His MA at Oxford Brookes University culminated in a series kinetic of LEGO sculptures that playfully engage with complex generative systems. His research continues at Oxford Brookes exploring tipping points in perception, with a focus on ideas of consonance and dissonance in rhythm. His most recent work questions the role of the performer in sound art and music through explicit systems with a flawed character. Alex’s work has been exhibited at Kinetica, BEAM, AudioGraft, the Mechanical Art and Design Museum, Festival of the Spoken Nerd and Raven Row.

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Michael is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Last.fm Ltd. and managed the company as ceo from 2002 until 2005. His approach in combining music discovery, online radio and social software was awarded in Europe and the USA and brought the company to the attention of millions of consumers, global media and global players. Michael's latest venture is Reality Jockey Ltd. which is the publisher of the RjDj mobile music applications and the online music portal www.rjdj.me. The company is producing some of the most innovative iPhone applications such as "Dimensions, adventures in the multiverse" and “Inception The App”.

Michael is regularly booked as speaker in international events and you will find interviews in magazines from Wired to Business Week. He is enjoying life with his family in a little village, in the Austrian Alps where you can also find him skiing and snowboarding on the local mountains.

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Imagine gathering up the thoughts of Stephen Fry, giving them a good shake, and rebuilding the resulting disorder in a totally original fashion. Sacrilege, you might think. What good could possibly come from this? That’s what YourFry is all about. We want you, the planet of creative and tech minds, to deconstruct and repurpose the words and themes from Stephen’s last two books. Just think of all the new and vibrant media that you could create for a fresh audience to read, view and enjoy. But what to create? Perhaps an infographic which celebrates literature and language, or an audio piece which contends with mental health. Text, data visualization, interactive web format, app, film, photographic, animation, 3D-models or live and experiential creations… the canvas, as they say, really is blank. The culmination of this project will see our elite panel of Stephen Fry and friends critique and award notable creations to be broadcasted on the screens of 10s of millions around the globe via our partner, WeTransfer. These entries will also receive a Penguin Fry Innovation stamp of recognition for their portfolios and networks.

Nick Rothwell [cassiel] has recently worked on choreographic visualisation tools for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance at Sadler's Wells, interactive sound and sensing systems for Eddie Ladd's Ras goffa Bobby Sands (The Bobby Sands Memorial Race), and music composition for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company. He is currently working with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman on large-scale projection works in Europe (Poland, Estonia, Durham) and at the Wellcome Trust.

cassiel: monometamicromatic

A live, barely-controlled ongoing collision between algorithmic step sequencers, sliced percussion, misapplied programming languages, cascaded effects processing and monome control surfaces. The musical material constantly shifts between tribal beats, pulse-based ambient layers and crafted designer noise as performance passes between LED matrices, Python and Clojure code blocks, delay lines, beat fragments and - somewhere in the middle - a human performer.

www.cassiel.com @cassieldotcom
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WaxLimited is a vinyl production and pre-sale platform for artists and labels built to lower the cost, demand, and logistical barriers of manufacturing vinyl records. Founded by two musicians-turned-hackers, WaxLimited is designed to strengthen existing artist–fan communities and give great music the chance to be enjoyed on wax.

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This Is My Jam is a new way to share your favorite song of the moment and hear great music handpicked every day by friends.

We believe sharing music should be personal, visual, and not get drowned out in real-time noise. On Jam, you can only share one song at a time. This simple constraint -- a sort of musical "current status" that interoperates with many popular streaming services -- leads to an incredibly high quality of music discovery. Every song on Jam is someone's current favorite, updated at a human pace.

https://www.thisismyjam.com
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Mixcloud is the home of on-demand radio online. The popular, easy to use service hosts content for DJs, Podcasters, and radio stations and connects them to a passionate audience around the world.

Mixcloud provides a unique, free experience to listeners and fans – one place to access tens of thousands of presenters and DJs, with great features to help discover relevant content.

In little over two years Mixcloud has built an audience of over 3,000,000 listeners per month, a catalogue of over 1,000,000 DJ mixes, Podcasts and radio shows (we call them Cloudcasts), and over 200,000 contributors, ranging from world-renown artists like Moby and Carl Cox to household names like the Guardian, Kiss FM, Penguin Books, the Independent, and XFM. Though largely focused on music, the site also offers a range of quality talk content, including sports, news, technology, politics, and comedy radio shows.

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Powster is an award winning interactive and production company providing bespoke innovative content, concepts and web applications for the entertainment industry. They idea generate and deliver groundbreaking award winning pieces of creative content, including Music Videos, Bespoke Builds, Web Apps, Movie Showtimes Platform, Marketing Campaign Concepts, Advertising Campaigns, Facebook Apps and Interactive Video. Powster is a strong small team, with a expansive knowledge within their respective specialties with every project breaking new ground and leading the way within their field.

Pitmans is a progressive, commercial, full service law firm with a leading music and digital media technology practice. The firm has key strengths in music, technology, intellectual property and information law. We act for talent, brands, rightsholders and innovative mobile and digital platforms. We handle all rights issues and advise on a strategic and operational level - from raising finance and securing intellectual property assets to agreements for the supply of technology, data protection and apps. Pitmans is a sponsor of Music/Tech Meetup and also hosts an annual Cyber Conference. This means the firm is well placed to advise clients in a fast moving environment.

HootSuite is a social media management system for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audiences, and distribute targeted messages using HootSuite’s unique social media dashboard. Streamline team workflow with scheduling and assignment tools and reach audiences with geo-targeting functionality. Invite multiple collaborators to manage social networks securely, plus provide custom reports using the comprehensive social analytics tools for measurement. Key social network integrations include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and new Google+ Pages, plus a suite of social content apps for YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr and more. For more on Hootsuite visit https://hootsuite.com/

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Sofar Sounds curates secret, intimate gigs in living rooms around the world. We spotlight emerging artists by introducing them to connectors and new fans through a unique and magical concert experience that is then shared and streamed to music-lovers around the world. Sofar produces live musical performances in dozens of cities around the world and thousands of performers have passed through our doors. We are passionate supporters of musicians and the magical nature of live performance.

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As if you were tossing and turning in bed, trying to get back to your dreams: This is what Lucia Lip’s stompy, jarring electro music is like, with its own punk attitude and catchy psychedelic poplines, it will make you stay up all night. LUCIA LIP from Berlin, well known for her intense live performances introduces herself hammering her rough, snotty sound into your ears. In a tender yet angry way she stomps her dancefloor-ready beats into the ground. And yet there’s a longing there, sweet melodies in amongst all the messiness. LUCIA LIP mixes and produces her music fully herself. The almighty wire, berlin wrote: 'LUCIA LIP performs on stage almost in a trance as her backing tracks explode behind her. Trashy and beat-heavy electro provides an echoed noise backdrop from her stomping, violent and generally unsettling performances'.

Alex Haw is an artist/architect & director of atmos. atmos is an award-winning multidisciplinary art+architecture+design practice (est. 2007) that works internationally across scales and media - from small-scale product-design to large-scale master-plans, with core expertise in public installations and bespoke residential environments. Their work centres on innovative sculptural designs that often incorporate cutting-edge digital fabrication and data mapping. They create work addressing all the senses, with projects that reward close inspection yet abide in the memory, merging meaning and sensuality. They have exhibited widely and been widely published on TV (BBC, Channel 4), in national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, etc.) and international design magazines (Icon, Dezeen, Wallpaper, WIRED, Blueprint etc.). Alex has taught Design Studios at the Architectural Association, Cambridge University, the Royal College of Art and TU Vienna. He graduated on a Fulbright from Princeton University and with a 1st from the Bartlett, UCL. He writes and lectures widely, and runs a weekly exploration of world food (Latitudinal Cuisine). He played the lead psycho in Chris Nolan's 1st feature film, Following.

Mobile Roadie is a mobile engagement platform that allows anyone to quickly and inexpensively create native iOS, Android and mobile web apps to connect with and engage their audience. Clients include the worls leading athletes, sports, teams publishes and brands. A few to note are Madonna, Adele, The Beatles, Noel Gallagher, Reading & Leeds Festivals, Liverpool Sound City, Cristiano Ronaldo, The Miami Dolphins and many more.

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We combine tech, music and social to create an entirely new viewing experience. We live stream concerts from festivals and venues in the UK and Spain, direct to mobiles, PCs and TVs via our own platform. We make it possible for people who can’t get to the gigs in person to see them in HD and outstanding sound quality on our platform, and share the experience with other fans around the world.

Mobbra specialises in connecting brands to people through mobile communications, allowing people to get close to the brands they love and brands to build a loyal fan base. Working predominantly in the music, sport and entertainment industries, Mobbra has a number of patent-pending innovations that enable mass audiences to engage with brands more effectively through mobile communications.

Nicole Yershon began her career in advertising 25 years ago at Simons Palmer and GGT, two of London’s most renowned creative agencies. In 2000, she joined Ogilvy London where she now works as the Director of Innovative Solutions. In her first four years at Ogilvy she overhauled the agency’s broadcast and video capabilities, taking them from analogue to digital, with the creation of RedWorks Broadcast.

Consolidated in 2007 into the Ogilvy Digital Innovation Lab (part of a worldwide network), the agency’s innovation activities have seen Nicole build partnerships between industries and across media channels to fuel unprecedented creative campaigns, and educate, both within the agency and beyond, speaking at global conferences and building clients Labs of their own.

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Jason’s work is rooted in inspiring people to engage in exciting creative experiences, through the voice, technology, performance and participation. Using his voice and a number of samplers and loop pedals, he can vocally recreate sound and music compositions mimicking a wide range of instruments, textures, wildlife, and abstract experimental sonic environments.

A prolific solo artist, he has also created collaborations with organisations such as the Southbank Centre, PRSF, Serious, National Portrait Gallery, BFI, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival, Contact, Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival, The Sage Gateshead and the BBC. Jason is also currently the first sound artist in residence at the Victoria and Albert museum.

Jason composes music for film, theatre, dance and facilitates sound and music workshops to young people and adults. These include Beatboxing, DJ, Sound Art and Music Production. He is an Associate Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

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We are living in the digital medieval period and hoping for a digital renaissance. So argues Jeremy Silver, in this new book, Digital Medieval, which traces the technological and economic story that leads from massive music industry losses to the global domination of Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. He tells the story of how the recorded music industry struggled with change, how entrepreneurs burst onto the scene, forced the pace and how ultimately the experiences of artists and music companies on the web set the tone for the rest of the creative industries to follow. With over twenty years experience of the music industry and the internet, Silver is a digital industry pioneer. He built the first major record company website for Virgin Records in 1994. His fascinating insider account traces the evolution of music on the web from the early days of the cyberpunk underground to today’s mass-market mainstream. Silver argues that the “walled garden” business models of the major platform operators are leading consumers to a dangerous data lock-in and dependency which is medieval in consequences. He celebrates the importance and vitality of the open web whose innovation-rich opportunities will lead to a true digital renaissance.

seevl is the best way to discover music that matters to you. Available as a chrome extension for YouTube and as a Deezer application. Find new music with your dynamic personalised dashboard, using seevl advanced search features and exploring artists connections. It's free and fully integrated. Check it out at https://seevl.net or go directly to here. video
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IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music) in Paris, France, is one of the world’s leading public research institutes within the fields of musical expression, musical research, sound, and acoustics. In the realms of music, sound, and acoustics, IRCAM is at the forefront of scientific and technological innovations and several concepts in electronic music and audio processing have emerged there. Since 2010 IRCAM has created its first plugins collection "IRCAM Tools by Flux:: " including Spatializer, acoustic simulator, and phase vocoder technologies.

Founded by Pierre Boulez, IRCAM is an institute under the aegis of the Centre Pompidou and the French Ministry of Culture.
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Rahra Avis is a strange bird born from the blending of Latin-American classic beats and alternative electronic music. It is a project created by us: Eugenia Tapia (singer & composer, Rüderdorf/Germany) and Andrés Santana (Guitar & composer,Santiago /Chile).We are two musicians, with very different trajectories, who decided to join their experiences and influences to create music by merging latin, soul, avant-garde, electronic and ethnic music. We met while studying music in Chile and we played together in small projects; but the time wasn't right at that moment. Only in 2008, 10 years after, the bird began to take form. It all started in Barcelona, I (Andrés) was chatting with a friend sitting outside a mexican restaurant, drinking a "carajillo", and by the road came Eugenia riding her bike. We saw each other and: surprise! it seemed to us as if our encounter was predestined: at the right time and each one of us with a distinct and unique experience, we created the sound system duo Rahra Avis. After a few years of work and development in Barcelona, we migrated to Berlin ( 2010 ) in order to breathe fresh air, take new influences and continue to grow, create and learn but never losing our own language. In Berlin we met Kakita, in visual arts, with incredible ideas and solutions. We asked him to help us creating a visual sound, an electronic avant-garde project, a band where musicians are not the priority but the whole musical experience is, where we can explore and improvise in every aspect, without loosing the emotional sense and musicality.

Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer is a composer and researcher whose music has been played in the US, Germany and Israel. He toured throughout the UC campuses with composers Trevor Bača and Jeffrey Treviño, presenting on Abjad, a Python package for formalized score control. In 2009, at the Visiones Sonaras festival hosted by CMMAS in Morelia, Mexico, he presented on the use of particle systems as high-dimensional parameter control in electro-acoustic music. He also works as a sound designer, helping other composers realize the electronic aspects of their compositions. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in composition at Harvard University.

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Last.fm is a global music service best-known for online radio, personalised recommendations and its comprehensive catalogue of artist and track information. At the heart of Last.fm is a music personalisation service, which uses the music our listeners play to bring them new music they’ll love. Our audioscrobbler technology effortlessly sends updates about the music our listeners play to their free Last.fm profiles. We call those little pieces of data ‘scrobbles’.

You can send scrobbles from more than 600 supported media players and devices, allowing you to unlock personalised recommendations for new artists, live events, and festivals as well as the latest releases from artists you love. You can use Last.fm across a variety of apps produced both by Last.fm and by third parties, including apps for iPhone, Android, Xbox and Spotify. Each implementation is tailored to its platform or environment, but all of them help our listeners discover new music.
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2V-P is a 2-channel live Visual Performance tool that is developed by visual architect Ali M. Demirel and programmer artist Pascal LeSport. 2V-P aims to manifest a minimalist idea of live-visual-performance through a software and embedded library of compositions.

Andy Carne is a visual creative for music and over the last 17 years has worked closely with an array of highly creative and respected musicians, including Lamb (Andy Barlow + Lou Rhodes), Un-Cut (Jenna G + Futurecut), Mike Oldfield and Imogen Heap. The changes in music consumption and his passion for art and music have driven Andy to design, develop and learn 7 coding languages to produce "Streemliner", the virtual album artwork platform, which maintains the relationship of art and music in it's digital form. Clients include Imogen Heap, Skunk Anansie, Suede and JLS. Andy is also finalising a brand new consumer orientated platform for art and music which will be available for iPhone imminently.

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An interactive sound installation exploring the power of music to bind individuals together and the visceral urge to use technology to broadcast our identity, The Cave of Sounds relates the prehistoric origins of music to the contemporary practise of music hacking where technology is subverted to create original musical sounds and instruments.

The Cave of Sounds is the outcome of a ten month residency being undertaken by Tim Murray-Browne with the Music Hackspace through Sound and Music’s Embedded Composer in Residence programme. Working closely with a group from this community, the piece is an exploration into the nature of collaboration within the music hacking scene. It will feature as a work in progress installation in the Music Tech Fest 2013.

Each month the group has met to demonstrate and explore how the different instruments work together to let them evolve organically and find their role within the ensemble, making up a set of newly conceived musical instruments.The Cave of Sounds seeks to disrupt the boundaries between performer and audience. Regardless of training, visitors are invited to actively participate and experiment with new ways of creating and connecting with each other through sound. In the hands of its audience, the work is crafted to provoke participants to connect and resonate with each other through musical expression.

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EMI Music, one of the world’s leading music companies, representing artists spanning all musical tastes and genres, supported the first Music Tech Fest in 2012 with the Grand EMI Prize. In November 2011 EMI had launched its OpenEMI initiative in partnership with The Echo Nest. OpenEMI made available thousands of tracks, videos and other digital content from EMI’s catalogue as well as dedicated developer sandboxes to a global network of 10,000 developers to create new digital concepts for EMI artists.

Watch the winner of the Grand EMI Prize, Adam John Williams, at the first Music Tech Fest London.

WIRED is the world's leading magazine for those at the cutting edge of ideas, technology, culture and business. Its mission to explain the ideas and innovations that are changing our lives.

Tom Cheshire is associate editor of WIRED (UK edition). He writes features for the magazine and edits the Play section, which covers the edges and intersections of culture - everything from music to design, architecture, film and lolcats. Tom's writing has also been published in GQ, ST Style and the Evening Standard. He has spoken at the Apple Store, BAFTA and Chatham House, and is currently working on his first book, which will be published in Spring next year.

vidibox is an application developed for iOS devices that allows audiovisual remixing and sharing of interactive video projects. The engine powering vidibox can be used in a range of interactive video applications, from consumer-facing apps to tools for installation artists. Our current app delivers real-time music and video mixing from an intuitive interface that enables users to import, record and play audio and video tracks using a transparent drum pad. The interface is extremely easy to use, with a wide range of editing options. Users simply drag and drop media to the play area to import it, and tap the drum pad to play it back. As a tool it opens endless creative possibilities for musicians, djs, vjs and installation artists and can be integrated in the creative workflow. Billaboop has been founded by Amaury Hazan, who holds a PhD in Music Technology from Pompeu Fabra University. Amaury founded Billaboop in 2009 to create new audiovisual interfaces and tools with an emphasis on mobility. The projects he has been involved in (RJDJ, chirp.io) or that he has launched (CamBox, vidibox) have earned international praise. vidibox has been featured in several international events: Sonar, Berlin Music Week, Paris Mashup Film Festival. https://vidibox.net

Born in the Caribbean vibes of Dominican Republic, Wigbert Caro has had a vibrant passion for electronic music since his first spiritual connection with its underground scene. Moving to Boston in 2007, he attends Berklee College of Music to expand his knowledge in Electronic Music Production and Professional Music to stay true to this connection. Producing under the moniker Moduloktopus, he covers a vast number of genres to brand himself as an ìElectronic Music Chameleonî. With the prime goal of combining a vibrant imagination with technology, he is always looking to perform audiences or teach his experience to others who share the passion for Electronic Music Culture.

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Bruno Zamborlin focuses on the design of new interfaces for musical expression. Researcher at the Goldsmiths College in London and the IRCAM music research centre in Paris, he applied gesture recognition technology for the creation of a system called Mogees, which transforms any surface into an expressive music instrument just by placing a contact microphone upon it (https://mogees.net). He performs using his system both in solo and in duo with Ed Handley from Plaid (https://warp.net/records/plaid)

Founded in 2007 by beatboxer EZRA, Organic Orchestra's Company has been making works that combine human beatbox and new technologies. For almost ten years, EZRA has brought together the complementary talents of artists and engineers from various European countries.

The team of Cie Organic Orchestra aims to create profoundly contemporary shows that by being based on the universality of beatboxing, become accessible to all. The stage is transformed into an open space of exploration for multiple publics, where ones senses are opened up and newcomers are initiated into an intimate poetic style of beatboxing.

The focus of the company is to create shows and offer educational workshops, but this is simply the core of a wider project, i.e. the Organic Orchestra Lab – a laboratory exploring the techniques and science of performing artst

Made up of numerous researchers in sound, light and video, the Company seeks to establish new relationships within the artist-spectator-art work triad, by producing pieces that are deeply interactive. The team thus employs and even creates new technological tools thus using machines to bring people and aesthetics together.

Besides the shows, both artists and developers share their practice and their research with the audience, through educational workshops.

https://organic-orchestra.com/

Book Of Sound is a new audio technology journal born out of the need for a new approach to the printed word in our shifting technological landscapes. Focusing on the people, ideas and stories behind the gear, Book Of Sound gets us closer to the passion driving our journeys in audio.

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Sound Artist, Director and Founder Dentaku Ltd, Disney Research Pittsburgh

Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work that explores the realms of sound through exquisitely designed pieces. Between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art unit Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. During this time he worked on some projects for Yamaha and Moritz Waldemeyer, and after his graduation in 2008 he opened his own studio in London. Suzuki’s work raises questions of the relation between sound and people and how music and sound affect people’s mind. Suzuki’s sound art pieces and installations have been shown in exhibitions all around the world. From 2011, he also became designer and visiting artist in Stockholm creative collective Teenage Engineering and Disney Research for interaction design group.

Watch Yuri Suzuki talk at Music Tech Fest 2013

Ezra is an active and acclaimed member of the international beatbox community. He has been on stage around the world and played as a solo artist in France's most mythical venues (Olympia, Cigale, Transmusicales…). He has been developing his work with great versality and an ease on stage that have led him to collaborate with internationally famous artists (Kid Koala, Bauchklang, Wax Tailor, One self, Socalled…) He has also gone on a world tour with French singer Camille.

Ezra has kick-started and taken part in numerous pieces combining music, video, dance and scenography such as Bionic Orchestra, Five Fingers projects, or collaborations with the Fabrique Immatérielle (Immaterial Factory) or Compagnie Hey!

Besides the stage, he devotes just as much energy into the development of his discipline by leading workshops in schools, prisons, hospitals and conservatoires of music, as well as by contributing to academic research. Since 2005, he has also been a major player in the setting up of the French network of beatboxers, which has organised key gatherings (e.g. French championships).

Ezra has been working for five years with Bionic Orchestra’s engineers on the concept of “augmented beatbox”, by developing tools which go beyond the voice and enable performers to control sound, light and video from the stage.

https://organic-orchestra.com/

See Ezra's performance from the Bionic Orchestra presentation at Music Tech 2013

Musikki is a living music platform that aims to bring together all the World's musical knowledge, content and services. Find everything about the artist, album or song; buy and listen; follow artists and get notified of upcoming releases and official videos. Musikki is available on the browser (beta) and iPhone (Android coming soon). Besides creating our own “toys”, we also want to empower the birth of new useful music applications. For this reason, we are soon releasing a music API, which will allow developers to tap in to our services and create new exciting applications.

Musicjelly is an interactive music video platform that enables you discover the sources of sounds and choose your own musical adventure. Musicjelly is a creative project built by musicians for musicians and music lovers. Based in London’s Hackney, we experiment with the application of video and new digital media in music production and performance. Musicjelly was founded by the members of the London band The Nyco Project back in June 2013. With the support of Lottery Funding through Arts Council, Nyco and Musicjelly released The New Machine, an music application that allows you to isolate individual sounds and discover information about each original take. This was the first interactive music video app of its kind. Musicjelly is a multi-sensorial music experience that demonstrates the power of musical collaboration and self-expression.

The Mission of the Music Commission is to support the growth of the music industry in New Zealand, both culturally and economically, at home and abroad.

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Bleepstreet Records is a small label based in Berlin with roots in the underground computer Demoscene. The label is specialized in artists who produce music with custom software all more or less made with old home computers like the Amiga or the C64. With new secret software and fresh approaches, Bleepstreet aims at showcasing what über nostalgic videogame nerds don’t. Live performances with real-time generated music, DJ-sets with the funkiest floppy music, VJs with the most untrendy pixel art, workshops for the wannabes, lectures for the academics, audiovisual chill-out sessions for the psychonauts, or even screenings of true underground data art. Bleepstreet was created in 1998 by Johan Kotlinski, most famous for making the Gameboy music program Little Sound DJ (LSDJ) that spawned a whole generation of Chiptune Gameboy musicians. With Kotlinski’s background in underground computing and alternative electronic music, Bleepstreet was from the start about unpolished and groovy 8-bit music rather than nostalgia and pixels. More info: www.bleepstreet.com

Ninja Tune is an independent record label based in London. Ninjatune have released their first music app Ninja Jamm in June 2012; Matt introduced it to the public at the Music Tech Fest 2012. Ninja Tune was created in 1990 by DJ/remix/sampling pioneers Coldcut, Matt Black & Jonathon More and pioneering beats and bass music, the label quickly achieved notoriety, due to its funky style and commitment to eclecticism. Key in the label's success was the diverse character within the growing roster.


With the mixing and multi-media innovation of Coldcut, the studio know-how, DJ and musical expertise of the artists, the strong graphics of Openmind, and a priority on business with integrity, Ninja prides itself on delivering quality music while serving its artists in a way that no major label could. Acts such as Amon Tobin, Cinematic Orchestra, Mr Scruff and Bonobo are some of the top names in todays electronic scene. In 2010 Ninja celebrated 20 years with a massive XX boxset and series of parties. In 2011 they signed the cutting edge Brainfeeder label and blew minds with the outrageous new Amon Tobin live show.
'We deliver next generation beatnological manipulation'
Ninja Jamm is on... the new audio app from Ninjatune and Seeper...

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BBC Research & Development is the core of the BBC's effort to be at the cutting edge of media technology and drives the exploration of exciting new tools for the production, distribution and consumption of media. It is a department of engineers, scientists, developers and designers with 160 staff across three labs in London and Salford.

In existence since the 1920s, BBC R&D has developed a wide range of technologies for sound, radio and music. This included inventing a noise-cancelling microphone in the 1920s, Nicam Stereo in the 1980s and helping to develop and launch the BBC's internet and digital radio services. More recently it has been researching multi-channel sound and Ambisonics, developing new services for hybrid radios and chairing the W3C Audio Working Group for audio in the browser.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd
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Mint Digital is a creative technology company based in London and New York. They mix big ideas, beautiful design and rock solid code to deliver remarkable digital projects. They are also behind London's biggest Music/Tech meetup, bringing together the great and the good in the music tech space mintdigital.com/

Loudness changes our perception of music. As a mixer or mastering engineer, you must constantly ask yourself, "Is this really better? Or just louder?" Making accurate, impartial judgements about this has always been difficult, and a key skill which can take years to learn. Until now. Ian Shepherd's "Perception" plugin allows you to hear through “loudness deception” and make truly impartial, accurate decisions about the best possible sound for your music – quickly and easily. Instantly bypass entire FX chains to make loudness-balanced A/B comparisons of EQ settings, compression and more. Perception will level-match and sync your sources so that "loudness deception" and plugin delay do not influence your decisions. https://www.meterplugs.com/perception

Carles is an extraordinarily talented musician who has performed in festivals and venues on more that twenty different countries. Some of his recent concerts were: Sonar Barcelona, New York & Washington, Electrosonic Burgos, Electrowave Firenze, Room 18 Club Taipei, Microwave Festival Hong Kong. He has composed music for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (Director of Babel, Amores Perros…) and Marcel.li Antúnez (Fura dels Baus).

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Denzyl is a 37-year music & entertainment industry entrepreneur with a proven track record of building ideas and leading companies in both traditional and digital media. In 2002, Denzyl signed on as a strategic advisor and music synergist to Apple and has been integral to the global success's of iTunes ever since its launch in early 2003. Since 2007, Denzyl has been working on the successful iTunes Festival (now in it's 6th year) and has overseen hundreds of global live events for iTunes. In 1997, Denzyl founded and launched the pioneering pure digital label - Artists Without A Label (awal.com) which was sold in 2011. With his 2 AWAL partners - Kevin Bacon and Jon Quarmby, Denzyl is also the co-founder of the fast-growing analytics company buzzdeck.com. In the 80's and 90's he built a successful artist-management, production and music-licensing company - Next Step Inc. Hailing from South Africa, Denzyl was instrumental in the worldwide success of Paul Simon's groundbreaking album "Graceland" and produced the first grand-scale multi-racial "Concert in the Park" in South Africa in 1982.

CueSongs is a one-stop music licensing hub offering pre-cleared recordings for clients wanting to find and license well-known tracks for commercial online and digital media usage.

Peter Gabriel, co-founder of CueSongs illustrates: “The old world of music licensing is still the exclusive province of the few. It is too expensive for most, rarely available online and can be painfully slow and complicated. By introducing low prices and easy online access, Cuesongs is creating a new market for music, to satisfy a huge untapped demand that can begin to provide new income streams for artists.” he continues. “Young and minority interest artists will be able to get their work in front of people all over the world looking to license something interesting and different. Successful artists will find that a lot of their catalogue that is now rarely touched can generate a lot of use, with easy access and the right price."

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Projects and events that act as platforms for networking, capacity building and promotion of Maori and Pacific music managers, artists and bands.

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Charly Massey is a creative strategist highly regarded for bringing brands together and making the seemingly impossible happen. For the last 15 years she has been working internationally with some of the world’s most famous companies to make genuinely engaging stories that connect with audiences; giving people money cannot buy opportunities and access to life changing moments.

In return, these works have offered established and emerging artists access to new, diverse fanbases, financial support and expanded industry connections.

Recent works include a global partnership between Coke Burn Energy Drink, Ritchie Hawtin, Sasha, and the launch of Burn Studios (cloud based EDM platform) at IMS Ibiza. Developing Relentless’ current Music strategy, Sony’s a-la-carte music subscription service contact strategy and helping Samsung to become more mobile savvy.

She’s won awards, broke world records, made page 3 and had work exhibited in museums, but most importantly she’s made good things happen.

Programmer, radio presenter and music tech enthusiast Andrew Faraday will be giving a fast live-coding introduction to the world of PureData, the real-time graphic music programming language. This intro will include "how to make a musical instrument in under 10 minutes" and a demo of one of my projects to show it's potential for generative music. Plus a short performance of something a little special...

Watch Andrew Faraday talk at Music Tech Fest 2013

Sonation is a music app developer based at the Harvard innovation lab. We make music practice more fun with smart accompaniment technology. With our first app, Cadenza, instrumentalists can play with full orchestra following their tempo.

We're also close to developing Cadenza for singers of all kinds - check out the latest developments on our Kickstarter.

MICROVERSE is a new collaboration between live composer Lossy and visual artist Strangers Are People Too. Originally inspired by experiments with microscopes and natural objects, this work is an exploration of the epicness within the minuscule, a journey to the extraordinary realms that can be found within the ordinary. Here you will find acid techno bass lines layered with orchestral brass, vintage synth sounds blended with overlapping saxophone, along with dystopian warped piano and noise-based sound design. The music is layered up in live loops of electronic and acoustic sounds, all based around a minimal 16 note sequence, taking us through four distinct movements while visuals of electrified organica journey through imagined inner worlds. Teaser audio

‘Music metadata done right’ is our motto. That’s because we provide a music metadata database that is deeper and richer than anything else you are likely to find. Through our semantically linked database we can provide you with not only who played what song, but where they played it, who wrote it and who played the stylophone solo on the session they did in Abbey Road three years later. Data like this gives endless possibilities for discovery, research, analysis and plain old geeky curiosity.

Our database consists of rich data like this for 12 million tracks, from 1.1 million albums by 300,000 artists. We provide this data via a cloud based API that comes in a few different flavours depending on how much data you can handle.

If you would like to find out more, come and cast an eye over our website at www.decibel.net.

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Omnifone is the leading independent provider of cloud music services for consumer electronics vendors, ISPs, consumer brands, automotive and mobile companies globally including Sony, RIM and rara.com. With services licensed in 22 markets and a global catalogue of over 15m licensed tracks, Omnifone has the widest global reach of any cloud music service provider able to develop, license and run white label cloud music services across virtually all connected device platforms including TVs, games consoles (in-home and portable), set-top boxes, home cinema systems, Blu-ray players, picture frames, cars, mobiles, PCs, tablets and web browsers.

For further information visit www.omnifone.com

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Elio Icaza is a rising senior at the Rhode Island School of Design, studying industrial design. He creates products and experiences that examine the connections between technology, sound and the body. His current work focuses on the intersections of music and medical design. He has worked with Brown University Alpert Medical School, RI Hospital, Butler Hospital and the Brown University Multimedia and Electronic Media Experiments department.

A real-time, crowd-reactive visualization for live music performance by Yuli Levtov, Corné Driesprog, Carsten Lothar, Paul Schumacher. The goal is to involve the audience in the performance, while enhancing the experience, not distract from it. Accelerometer data is used on the phones to track individual and global motions and moods. This, along with live data of the playing track is used to generate compelling graphics to be projected during the performance. This project won the jury prize at the 2014 Berlin Music Hack Day (demo: httpss://vimeo.com/105955686 )

There is an incredible surplus of music on the internet. More than 20 Million songs on services such as Spotify, Soundcloud, Youtube, Vimeo, Bandcamp and more than 200.000 new releases coming out each year. Enter Shuffler.fm: music discovery made easy. With the help of the online tastemakers like magazine editors, bloggers, curators and DJ’s. We help you filter the music information overload and bring you the latest and greatest by the web’s leading voices in music culture. We turn any music site into a radio station with great visuals, cover art and stories. And we are now available for the web, iPhone, iPad, Deezer and Spotify

Watch the Shuffler FM presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

Songs2See: Learn to Play by Playing. Songs2See is an application for music learning, practice and gaming developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology in Ilmenau- Germany. Songs2See allows the use of real musical instruments while offering real-time performance feedback, automatic fingering animations, a learning mode for beginners and a rating system. A scrolling score with pitch and timing information guides the users through the performance. Saxophone, guitar, trumpet, bass, piano, flute and voice are supported in Songs2See. Users can create their own content for the Game using the Songs2See Editor. This application collects a number of processing and analysis tools that allow users to create content starting from MP3, WAV, MIDI or MusicXml files of their favourite tracks.

Songs2See was released to the market in March 2012.
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Steven Wiz is founding CEO of Hard Hittin Ent, a music venture out of Worcester Massachusetts. Steve focus is digital entrepreneurship in the mixed tape hustling space. Steve has a vision about how embracing a digital strategy along with data analytics will help him and the other artists on the label elevate their hustle.

Hard Hittin Ent

Sydney is a partner with Rhodes & Rhodes – Chartered Accountants - working extensively within the creative industries and with a great interest in early stage businesses. Sydney also often lectures at many universities including the RCA , the University of The Arts and Goldsmiths.
Outside of his professional life he sits on the advisory boards of the Knowmads in Amsterdam and The Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, where he holds the post of Accountant in Residence.
Sydney has also served as Chair of Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise and business incubator for Designer Makers, as well as on the Council of Management of the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
He is a self confessed analogue but totally interactive disruptive social innovator with a deep love of music. He will also play his records for you if you ask him nicely !

@BarrysLounge

Meta-eX bring a live open-sourced attitude to electronic music. For them, music is code and hacking is performance. The source code is their instrument and they play it live.

Formed by Sam Aaron and Jonathan Graham, Meta-eX apply the arts of controllerism and live coding to weave immutable data structures into ephemeral sounds.

Armed with laptops, monomes and number of MIDI controllers, they harness the full power of the SuperCollider synthesis engine through the incredible Overtone programming platform. They don't just use their laptops to tweak GUI sliders and pots, they program raw code live in their performances. They also program real-time visualisations perfectly synchronised to the sound. All their code for their sets is open source and freely available online to for anyone to download and hack on.

Live Coding allows music to be to programmed and generated on-the-fly enabling the direction of the sound to be changed at a whim in response to the environment. This results in a real raw noise rather than manufactured industry-polished pseudo-perfection.

The Meta-eX sound isn't hardcore, breakcore or speedcore - it's multi-core and fully hyper-threaded.

https://meta-ex.com

Hugh Jones is a live electronic performer, producer, teacher, instrument builder and musician. Live as in the studio, he creates sound from machinery, found items, manipulated vocals, saxophone, traditional concertina and his self designed ‘Concertronica’ which he samples and manipulates through his idiosyncratic electronic set up, controlling his sounds with digital game controllers and (another original design) midi motorcycle handlebars. As well as his solo project ‘Crewdson’, Hugh Jones plays live with Matthew Herbert and Hello Skinny and has remixed for the likes of Brownswood, Four Tet, Accidental, Sunday Best and Ninja Tune. His debut album ‘Gravity’ came out last year on underground experimental London label Slowfoot Records and he teaches live electronic music performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. https://crewdson.net

The Music Informatics Research Group (MIRG) is a specialized research team at the Department of Computer Science, City University London. We carry out research in music information retrieval, computational musicology, music signal processing, music knowledge representation, and music applications such as e-learning and games. We are also interested in wider aspects of machine learning, data analysis and audio processing, and novel cross-domain application of techniques in these areas. Website: https://mi.soi.city.ac.uk/

Watch the MIRG presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

Lizzy presents her freaky Robo-Drum-Suit and Henning Grambow controls sound via light. They bring life to electronic music. As a humanized form of a drumset, Lizzy transforms her virtuosic drumming into a magic world of innovative rhythm and sound. She has eight handmade Body Pads sticked on her body, from behind it looks like she has a jetpack on. If she wasn’t connected by wires and Midi Pads she would take off at any moment. Henning transforms beats and sounds by waving his hands in the air, above the LAN MIDI CONTROLLER. On stage with the electronic pop band LAN, he uses the LMC to destroy the seemingly perfect pop music. Both devices were manufactured by Lasse Schwanck (SugarCandyMountain).

Sound and Music is the national agency for new music. Our vision is to create a world where new music and sound prospers, transforming lives, challenging expectations and celebrating the work of its creators. Our work includes composer and artist support and development, partnerships with a range of organisations, live events and audience development, touring, information and advice, network building, and education. Programmes such as the new music Incubator and the Creative Data Club provide nurturing platforms that help new music ideas flourish building a brighter future for the new music community. We champion new music and the work of British composers and artists, and seek to ensure that they are at the heart of cultural life and enjoyed by many.

PETER KIRN is a technologist and composer/media artist. He is an advocate of open source technology for music, as co-creator of the open MeeBlip hardware synth and part of the team behind the embeddable libpd library, and an experimenter in audiovisual creation and performance. As the creator of createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com, he runs one of the most influential sites writing about the convergence of music, live and interactive visuals, and tech. His writing has also appeared in Popular Science, Make, Macworld, Keyboard, Wax Poetics, Computer Music, DE:BUG, and others.

His live perfomance work has been seen recently at Stereolux (FR), LEAP (DE), CommuniKey Festival (CO, USA), In/Out Festival (NY, USA), Saturn Never Sleeps (PA, USA), and Bootleg Theater (CA, USA), and he is founder of the now-international, community-run Handmade Music DIY performance/showcase series. He is a PhD Candidate at The City University of New York.

www.createdigitalmusic.com
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AlphaSphere is a brand new musical instrument which has been designed for electronic music. The AlphaSphere allows you to be expressive with music through a series of tactile pressure sensitive pads. Load the Sphere with your own sounds, or connect to your existing digital audio workstation (DAW) with the intuitive software. Get hands on with electronic music and create your new sound. Change the way you play.

AlphaSphere is a product by award-winning company nu desine, a team of musicians, engineers, and developers based in Bristol, UK. Founded in 2010 and committed to being at the front line of the new music revolution. Watch the performance from Music Tech Fest 2013

Jonathan Marmor composes experimental music, helps to organize a monthly music hackathon in New York City, and writes music software at The Echo Nest/Spotify. His musical training is in north Indian classical music.

Exfm is a social music discovery platform powered by thousands of music sites across the web. An endless feed of great music lives at the Exfm Website as well as on slick mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Exfm also boasts powerful browser extensions to play any website containing music and a powerful widget for publishers. Exfm was founded in March 2010 in New York City

Watch the EXFM presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

Sohālo is a Software-as-a-Service platform that enables Fortune 1000 businesses to strengthen customer loyalty and drive marketing ROI by rewarding behaviors on social media. Sohālo connects the dots between social, loyalty, and mobile, empowering businesses with new ways to build engagement and authentic relationships with their customers. Developed with an advanced pricing and ROI engine, Sohālo's patent-pending technology provides brands with modular, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions. The white-label platform is adaptable to many social behaviors, rewards, languages and social networks. The company was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Learn more at www.sohalo.com
Watch the Sohalo presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

The British Library Sound Archive holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes. Its collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history and wildlife sounds. Formats range from cylinders made in the late 19th century to the latest digital media.

The British Library Sound Archive

Anthony Paul De Ritis is jointly appointed as Professor and Chair of the Music Department, and Professor in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, at Northeastern University in Boston. His CD, Devolution (2012) was described as a “tour de force” by Gramophone, performed by the 5-time Grammy nominated Boston Modern Orchestra Project. In 1997, De Ritis earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a teaching assistant to David Wessel at Berkeley’s CNMAT. In Fall 2011 he was appointed a Master of Beijing’s DeTao Masters Academy in the fields of music and the creative industries.

Anthony will present on a variety of original works that use acoustic and electronic instruments, including a number of works written for, or in combination with, Chinese traditional instruments in multi-speaker set-ups; specially created instruments (like the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet); and his work for DJ and symphony orchestra called "Devolution" featuring DJ Spooky. Anthony will focus on the creative process with musical examples and some short video, and how he uses this creative process as the basis for teaching creativity in business (i.e., new product and service development, and arts-based learning for managers).

Anthony Paul de Ritis

Un-Convention is developing an online resource, called Off Axis, which is aimed at independent musicians wishing to play outside of their hometowns. It will provide a new model for artists to work together to produce successful and meaningful shows, with guaranteed audiences across the whole of the UK. It will enable these artists to build national fanbases, visit towns and cities that previously would not have been viable, bolster audience confidence in the grass roots sector as a whole, and ultimately develop a more vibrant and sustainable independent live industry. This new touring network takes much of its inspiration from the Brazilian 'Fora do Eixo' circuit. Off Axis is the translation of Fora do Eixo.

feelthebeat is a wearable metronome that vibrates in sync to the beat. It can be connected via Bluetooth to any smartphone or tablet. With the feelthebeat app, settings of the metronome like beats per minute and rhythm patterns can be adjusted. Several feelthebeat devices can be linked to each other so that an entire group of musicians can receive vibrations in sync. Furthermore, the app will offer additional software features such as performance feedback and rhythm learning games.

Vyclone allows anyone filming at the same time and place to make multi-angle movies. Just point your phones at something and record, Vyclone does the rest. In a few moments it synchronizes and edits everyone’s clips to create one movie with all the angles cut together. You get the raw footage too. So if you like, you can remix it to make your own director’s cut. And when you’re happy with your masterpiece, Vyclone makes it easy to share. Vyclone also allows artists to create their own events with auto-tagging based on gig location and the ability to upload an MP3 to sync with the fan captured footage.

Shazam connects more than 200 million people in over 200 countries to the music, TV shows and brands they love. Every week another 1.5 million curious people embrace Shazam. All this makes us the world’s leading media discovery company. It’s an amazing app, available now on all major app stores and platforms.

We’re the best way to discover, explore, buy, and share music – and, now, we’re also a terrific TV companion app that enhances the viewing experience on the “second screen” – the mobile device. Shazam-enabled shows and advertisements connect viewers to exclusive information and special offers on their favorite products. There’s a reason we’re one of the Top Ten most downloaded iPhone app of all time.

Shazam brings together people and entertainment with more than 6 million tags a day. Plus, through leading social network sites like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, it’s easy to share your Shazam discoveries.

https://www.shazam.com/

Wayne Marshall is a musicologist, DJ, and most recently, a data curator at The Echo Nest. Focusing on media technologies, cultural politics, and musical publics, especially vis-a-vis hip-hop and reggae, he has taught at Harvard and MIT while writing for popular and academic publications and at his acclaimed blog, wayneandwax.

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Together Boston is a week-long, city-wide convergence of music, art and technology. With daytime events celebrating emerging ideas, the latest gear and artistic innovation, the creative community then gives back at nighttime events that embrace aspects of all three fields. Featuring exhibits, Q&A with visiting artists and musicians plus a film component, Together contains a multitude of inclusive activities, putting the city and New England at the center of a new festival experience.

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The Global Music Industry is to be introduced to one of the most innovative and exciting advancements in creative connectivity. Music Gateway is a pioneering platform that offers a one-stop solution for musicians, producers and management who wish to collaborate and seek out new professional partnerships.

Music Gateway is like no other industry tool, devised to create a safe bone fide environment. An independent business hub – Music Gateway will simplify the way musicians, creative’s and their management cross paths, enabling the right individuals and companies to connect: saving time for creativity, whilst cutting out lengthy negotiations and mismatched alliances.

Music Gateway utilises cutting edge technology and custom-made tools, providing a secure home to do business. It combines every aspect a professional requires in one easy to use website and will support career development whilst breaking down industry barriers.

Says founder and CEO Jon Skinner “Music Gateway is tailor-made, offering time efficient and accurate networking opportunities - in a straight- forward way, driving projects and transactions to a positive conclusion.”

Quite simply Music Gateway is a groundbreaking service, designed to pull together the very best aspects from other sites and streamlined to create secure surroundings and empowering the individual.

www.musicgateway.net

Watch the Music Gateway presentation from Music Tech Fest 2013

Nancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in New England. She works on how technologies media relationships between musicians and fans, focusing on the inherent contradictions as those relationships become increasingly interpersonal.

Nancy Baym

Bryan Pardo (bryanpardo.com) is an associate professor of Music and Computer Science at Northwestern University. When he is not teaching or computing, he leads the band Balkano.
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Tempo Rubato is an interactive music installation. It uses the commonly used and familar iPad with a bespoke, easy to use interface. This allows the audience member to become a performer as they explore the interface. They can control many aspects of the music and with every touch comes a change to the environment. Many of the alterations you make to the music will trigger the lighting the in space to react in a different way. The hope is that you will enjoy creating and be inspired by the results to continue experimenting. The project on show at the Music Tech Fest is a work in progress to be fully assembled at The Degree Show at Ravensbourne on the 12th and 13th June 2013.

The project creators would love any feedback on this project and invite you to come see the final product at The Degree Show in June. simon@thedegreeshow.com

Simon Allinson

Final Year Music production for media student at Ravensbourne Simon writes music for a range of media including films and broadcast work. Also working at Spiked Media, he uses music and creative sound design in a number of projects with clients in videos and for live events.

Mike Harvey

Also a final year music production student runs the creative collective DOSED. The group are designers musicians and developers. With a wide range of skills and talents they intent to bring a fresh face and keen skill to any project.