Music AccessAbility Hackathon

Music AccessAbility Hackathon is a day-long, non-competitive event celebrating and exploring new ways to increase access to music for people of all abilities.

This event is part of the Monthly Music Hackathon series, where people with an interest in music and/or technology create new projects from scratch, develop them throughout ~6 hours, then perform or present them in a concert in the evening.

We’re happy to collaborate with ReelAbilities Film Festival and NYU Ability Project (our generous hosts in Brooklyn) on this free event! Read on for our incredible lineup of special guests, films and music!

Schedule

Saturday, March 10th, 2018

11:30 AM - Doors Open
12:00 PM - Opening Talks by Special Guests
1:00 PM - Hacking, Brainstorming session
2:00 PM - Workshops
4:00 PM - Film Screenings presented by ReelAbilities Film Festival
8:00 PM - Concert / Demos

Speakers

Rebecca Alexander, psychotherapist & author
Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

Patrick Anderson, paralympic basketball star & musician
The Adapted Piano Pedal

Adam Patrick Bell, Assistant Professor of Music Education, UCalgary
Researching (dis)ability in music: how hacking could help music-making contexts be more accessible and inclusive

Richard Einhorn, composer & producer
Practical Hearing Hacks Using Smartphones and Audio Processing

Stanley Sakai, Realtime Captioner, Linguist, Developer
Hacking Stenography for Music Events

Workshops

Xian Horn, teacher, speaker, blogger & founder of Give Beauty Wings
Music, Disability, Identity and Self-Esteem (Workshop)

Thomas Logan & Sam Berman, Equal Entry & A11YNYC
Design for Accessibility (Workshop): To prepare, download aXe Developer Tools here and Colour Contrast Analyser here

Films

Presented by 10th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York, March 8 - 14th

Mind over Matter
A young man with Cerebral Palsy battles through a paralyzed left hand, bullies, and stereotypes to defy the odds and make it as a rock guitarist. [NY Premiere]

Q&A with Sébastien Paquet and Brandon Mendenhall to follow

Location & Details

NYU MAGNET (8th floor)
2 MetroTech Center (Lawrence St entrance)
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Transportation Options

The building has wheelchair accessible entrances on the 1st and 8th floor and accessible bathrooms. We will provide CART services and ASL interpreters upon request. There is a quiet space available. Reach out to us at musichackathon@gmail.com with requests or questions at least 72 hours before the event.

Preparation

This event is for everyone, no matter your previous experience with music or hacking. We welcome all forms of creative thinking and innovative tinkering.

Bring your ideas, friends, musical instruments, noise makers, computers, hardware; anything you might want to use in your hack projects or to create new music!

We've compiled some Music AccessAbility Resources and we welcome your contributions!

Join the announcements mailing list

monthlymusichackathon.org
@musichackathon
facebook.com/musichackathon

Art by Kira Prentice