William Kiendl

Events

Hack Blockchain @ The New England Conservatory
Sep
30
5:00 PM17:00

Hack Blockchain @ The New England Conservatory

Join artists, engineers, designers, librarians, and entrepreneurs to reimagine the role of New England Conservatory's library archives in the 21st century.

The Archives & Special Collections are the official repository for information and records generated by the oldest continually operating independent music school in the United States. These rare materials cover all areas of the Conservatory including internal records, music manuscripts, MP3/MP4 files, bibliographic access, and first editions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Blockchain is the emerging technology spearheading the decentralized web infrastructure. This event is an opportunity to learn and explore the disruptive, enabling potential of this technology for historical music records. Participants will join small interdisciplinary teams focused on a specific challenge to build blockchain applications around.

Areas of interest include transparency, digital rights management, piracy protection, fair exchange of value, and new creative business models. Repository information will be made available by NEC and OS Protocol & API resources provided during the event.

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Mar
17
5:15 PM17:15

DIY Electronic Music Instruments @ MIT Media lab

Description:

The modern era of live electronic music is dominated by controllers and computers. This workshop intends to showcase a different approach to making electronic music instruments. It’s an older approach adopted by the engineers that pioneered the field of modular synthesizers like Bob Moog, Don Buchla and others. The main objective of this workshop is to kickstart you into the ancient realm of audio electronics. The kits that we’re providing will enable you to build a simple step sequencer, a fuzzy guitar pedal or a light Theremin! We’re going to also talk about the following topics:

Please RSVP - https://goo.gl/forms/bN2SHZtODqLomF6Q2

Oscillators - with 74HC14, 4093, 4046, 555-timer.

Pre-amps, Mixers

Distortion, Fuzz, Ring Modulation

Time:

8:00pm ++

Location:

Media Lab E15-341

Food will be served, please send us an email if you have any dietary restrictions.

Bio:

DDH is an experimental electronic musician based in Cambridge who’s currently interested in destructive sonic arts. He’s also finishing his masters at the Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab, where he’s exploring the role of sensor networks in synthesizing elements of reality.

https://donaldderek.com/

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Instrument Design Workshop @ IDEO Cambridge
Feb
3
1:30 PM13:30
Art, Technology, Design

Instrument Design Workshop @ IDEO Cambridge

Join students from MIT and Berklee College of Music as we 

explore the frontiers of musical instrument design and fabrication. This 

hands-on event will feature guest lectures in the state of the art 

instrument design. Students will: construct interfaces for musical 

expression using sensors and sound design software; work in 

interdisciplinary teams and use rapid prototyping skills; explore the 

possibilities of network enabled musical performance; investigate how 

embedded technologies or biometric sensors can turn household objects or 

humans into sound outputs, and design new ways to sync music with one’s 

everyday life. Topics will also include entrepreneurship and new product 

launch strategies. This is session is a pre-semester sneak preview of a 

full-term new subject, 2.S972, described here: 

http://web.mit.edu/founders/www/2.S972.html 

Students can enroll in 2.S972 without attending the IAP workshop on Feb 

3, or can attend the IAP workshop on Feb 3 without enrolling in 2.S972. 

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