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MTF_BERLIN

MTF Berlin

Factory, Mitte, 24-26 October 2014

#MTFBerlin 2014 was the birthplace of telehacking with Boston and telejamming with Barcelona. We hacked with Stephen Fry, teamed up with Rethink Music by Berklee and Midem, and invented using RS components. First time hackers Piotr Paduch and Sara Morris impressed both the jury and audiences by creating engaging performances using electronic interfaces they had invented and created from scratch overnight, and both won top hack camp awards while taking on the ‘YourFry’ challenge using the voice of Stephen Fry, courtesy of Penguin Books. The festival included remote participation from Berklee College of Music graduates in Boston in our first ‘telehackathon’.

 

FRIDAY 24TH OCTOBER: TECH IS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
6:00pm DJ BARB NERDY
7:00pm OCCUPY MUSIC: EXCLUSIVE TRAILER PREVIEW OF BRAZILIAN MUSIC COLLECTIVES MOVIE + PORTRAIT WITH ADAM JOHN WILLIAMS
7:30pm TWITTER AND SOUNDCLOUD AUDIO CARDS
8:00pm THE BODY PAD AND LUMINARY MIDI CTRL BRING LIFE TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC
8:30pm OPENSTAGE + ROSS FLIGHT
9:00pm SIDESTAGE + BLEEPSTREET RECORDS + TRIPPY H

SATURDAY 25TH OCTOBER: HMI (HUMAN MUSIC INTERACTION)
1:00pm DJ + SPECIFI WITH STEVE LAWSON
2:00pm LIVING INDIE + NAMOSH
3:00pm WHEN ROBOTS WRITE SONGS + GOPLAY + ICKSTREAM
4:00pm DUALO DU-TOUCH
5:00pm FEEL THE BEAT + ULTRASONIC + MIHA CIGLAR
6:00pm RESONATE: YULI LEVTOV, CORNÉ DRIESPRONG, CARSTEN LOTHAR, PAUL SCHUMACHER
7:00pm IRONFIST REMIXING THE PLANETS + 2V-P BY ALI M DEMIREL
8:00pm OBI BLANCHE
8:30pm KRITZKOM
9:00pm LUCIA LIP
9:30pm AITOKAIKU

SUNDAY 26TH OCTOBER: GET YOUR EARS DIRTY
1:00pm DJ BARB NERDY
2:00pm SIBHACK HELSINKI + NAGUAL SOUNDS + HARDWARE.CO
3:00pm RANI DAR + MELUDIA
4:00pm THICKEAR + BERKLEE MUSIC TECH INNOVATION
5:00pm OSCILLA + KAKITA + AXOLOTI
6:00pm MTF LONDON GRAND HACK PRIZE: ‘WATERDOG’ + MTF LONDON BEGGARS GROUP HACK WINNER: ‘LIVEDRIVE”
6:30pm HACK CAMP AND TELEHACKATHON PRESENTATIONS, PERFORMANCES AND AWARDS
8:00pm TOMAZ GROM + RAHRA AVIS
9:00pm MTF JAM

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Here are some of the heroes who have helped us build this ecosystem over the past 4 years:

Jason Singh, Adam John Williams, Matt Black-Coldcut, Graham Massey, Nitin Sawhney, Reeps One, Martyn Ware, Ezra, Shlomo, Crewdson, LJ Rich, Jamie Cullum, Scanner, Tim Exile, Mørk, Ross Flight, Leafcutter John

Ninja Tune, Warp, Soundcloud, RJDJ, The Echo Nest, Spotify, Last.fm, Shazam, Mixcloud, MusicBrainz, Musimap, B3 Media, Drake Music

Reactable, Alphasphere, Ableton, Native, ROLI, Izotope, FXpansion, Teenage Engineering, Toontrack, Serato, Soundation, Bare Conductive, Jays, Dizzy Jam, Grain Audio, Ultrasonic

element14, RS Components, Makey Makey, London Music Hackspace, Music Tech Meetup, Monthly Music Hackathon, Innovation Warehouse

The BBC, Abbey Road, Warner Music, EMI, RCA Records, London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, WIRED, MTV, Stephen Fry/Penguin, Realta Films, Rebel Uncut , Riff Raff Films

Sonos, Volvo, Philips, Microsoft Research, Cisco, Swedbank, Red Bull

EU Commission, DMIC, British Council, Slovenian Ministry of Culture, Cankarjev Dom, MSUM, Umeå Kommun, Region Västerbotten, Uminova, Ume.net, Guitars Museum, NZ Music Commission, Sounds Aotearoa, Sound and Music, Redstar Union, Factory Berlin

MTG, IRCAM, C4DM, Fraunhofer, BCU, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Music Minds, Berklee College of Music, McGill, Goldsmiths, Umeå University, Royal College of Art

…and an ever growing list of music tech startups with great ideas on how to reinvent this space.

The Music Tech Fest evolved from the ROADMAP FOR THE FUTURE OF MUSIC TECH.

The Music Tech Fest soundtrack is growing courtesy of those great guys at Soundcloud.

Every network should have a soundtrack.

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