List of hackathons organized by music community lab in 2018

Music Community Lab presents an event exploring the intersection of music, education and technology. Featuring talks and workshops from innovative practitioners, as well as open time for discussion, hacking, collaboration, and serendipity. This event aims to offer a diverse range of perspectives on music education and cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines and institutions. We'll hear from special guests from all types of institutions and disciplines. Participants will likely include educators of all types, as well as students and self-guided learners with an interest in music and/or education. Music Community Lab participants typically include musicians, programmers, artists, educators, scientists, composers, hardware tinkerers, designers, musicologists, students, entrepreneurs and many more. Free with RSVP! Propose a talk here, or propose a workshop here [Deadline: Sept 15th]. Reach out if you'd like to get involved. We can't wait to hear from you!

Join us for a evening of co-working! We want to create a space where creators can get together and create, with as little distraction as possible. Use this time to work on your own project, or find others in the community to collaborate with -- the rest is up to you.Bring laptops, headphones, instruments, mics -- just be mindful of those also working around you. We'll be in a co-working space, and there will be limited conference rooms available for use.All are welcome! #MCLStudioSession #MCL

Come make original compositions with strangers. Bring anything you can make sound with, especially found objects, something you made, something you “borrowed” from work, non-traditional instruments, or just your voice! The more the merrier! Bring friends. Schedule 6:00 Doors Open 6:30Event Starts 8:30Event Ends Share your Music with the Community We'd love to play your music at our events. Send us a link to your music! We'll check it out, and potentially play it at an upcoming event.  #CompositionLab #MusicCommunityLab -- A Music Community Lab production

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 Open12:00 PM - Opening Talks by Special Guests1:00 PM - Hacking, Brainstorming session2:00 PM - Workshops4:00 PM - Film Screenings presented by ReelAbilities Film Festival8:00 PM - Concert / Demos Speakers Rebecca Alexander, psychotherapist & authorNot Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found Patrick Anderson, paralympic basketball star & musicianThe Adapted Piano Pedal Adam Patrick Bell, Assistant Professor of Music Education, UCalgaryResearching (dis)ability in music: how hacking could help music-making contexts be more accessible and inclusive Richard Einhorn, composer & producerPractical Hearing Hacks Using Smartphones and Audio Processing Stanley Sakai, Realtime Captioner, Linguist, DeveloperHacking Stenography for Music Events Workshops Xian Horn, teacher, speaker, blogger & founder of Give Beauty WingsMusic, Disability, Identity and Self-Esteem (Workshop)Thomas Logan & Sam Berman, Equal Entry & A11YNYCDesign 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 MatterA 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. Free with RSVP. All are welcome! Please note that RSVPs are required by building security. ID required day of 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@musichackathonfacebook.com/musichackathon Art by Kira Prentice 

Musicians and techies in the New York Area! Monthly Music Hackathon NYC invites you to participate in the Science of Music Hackathon. Come and collaborate in a day-long creative event exploring music across the fields of biology, physics, psychology, and neuroscience.