And more topics…

October 14th, 2010

Dave Haynes(Soundcloud, MusicHackDay)
The developer ecosystem around music
Dave will discuss issues like:
- How developers are using their spare time to create brand new music apps at Music Hack Day
- How companies are making their data and assets etc available via open APIs
- How there is a new, thriving developer ecosystem being built around music
- How this is being done in a co-operative spirit
- Why the music industry should be looking to embrace this

Mini Vegas (Luc Schurgers & Daniel Lewis)
They will give a demo of their latest project. A realtime audio-responsive and partly crowd-controlled visuals engine.

More topics…

October 13th, 2010

Shamal Ranasinghe (Co-Founder of TopSpin)
The future of direct to fan marketing.
Shamal is co-founder of Topspin Media, a technology focused direct-to-fan marketing, fan base management, and distribution platform. Topspin helps artists manage their products, connect with fans, and generate demand. Shamal will share with us the developments in the field of direct-to-fan marketing as more artists are starting to use Topspin. Hopefully he will show us a glimpse of where this trend is going in the near future!

Filip Visnjic (www.creativeapplications.net)
Music creation, production and performance on new platforms.
Topic of talk: Filip will discuss digital ecosystems, designing for immersive experiences and what role both physical and digital play in our daily life. The talk will focus on iPhone and iPad platforms covering topics such as tools and frameworks, design, production, curation and distribution of digital content relating in particular to music and sound. If you always wanted to venture into iPad/iPhone development or simply wondered about the role these devices play in the future of music creation, production or performance, this is a talk you wouldn’t want want to miss.

First Topics announced!

October 8th, 2010

Next week we will reveal the rest of the topics.
Here are the first two: Brian Whitman, Tim Heineke and Erwin Blom.

Brian Whitman
The future music platform
Brian will talk about “the music platform” — the soon-to-be world of music providers all competing to serve you streams & downloads and how more than ever good experiences, UIs, apps and intelligence are going to be more important than the company selling you your subscription. And that it won’t take huge companies to make those experiences but rather small startups that have quick access to new technology.

Tim Heineke and Erwin Blom
A conversation between Tim Heineke and Erwin Blom
Erwin Blom (the Crowds) and Tim Heineke (Shuffler) are old friends and during this talk they will discuss past experiences. Both of them are skilled in setting up new online music solutions over the years. For instance Erwin stood at the cradle of VPRO’s 3voor12, one of the first music-streaming sites to exist in the Netherlands. And Tim has run multiple startups of which Shuffler is the youngest and it’s hot! This talk will give various insights into innovative entrepreneurship in
the online world of music.

Music and Bits @ Amsterdam Dance Event 20/10/2010

June 23rd, 2010

After a successful team-up between Amsterdam Dance Event & Music and Bits in 2009, we’re teaming up again for this year. On the 20th of October Music and Bits will be the first official conference day of Amsterdam Dance Event.

More info on the program will follow shortly, hope to see you all there!

Music hack Day Amsterdam

April 4th, 2010

Music Hack Day Amsterdam

24th – 25th April, 2010
Mediamatic Amsterdam

At Music Hack Day Amsterdam developers, designers, hackers and invited journalists will explore and create the next generation music applications and hacks. Music Hack Day Amsterdam brings together at least 150 eager participants and 15 companies.

Companies such as 7digital, Echonest, Twones, RjDj, Last.fm, 3voor12, Songkick, SoundCloud will all be opening up their full API’s to the developers. Several of these companies will in fact be launching new API’s or extending their existing offerings especially for the event. Meanwhile workshops will be held by Steim, who will explore the physical realm of music.

The goal of the event is to rapidly prototype and build new projects, working through the night to complete them in time and present them on Sunday afternoon. A selection of prizes are then awarded by the companies to the teams who produce the best ideas using their API’s.

And to make Music Hack Day Amsterdam even better, we need you! Signups are going fast nd there are only a limited amount of places available, so sign up fast.

Anthony from Hypem and Hannahfrom Last.fm

February 23rd, 2010

Anthony Volodkin from Hypem and Hannah Donovan from Last.fm talk about different website aesthetics.

Brian Whitman from The Echo Nest

January 12th, 2010

Brian’s talk about data and music.

Brian Whitman from The Echo Nest from Your Neighbours on Vimeo.

Andie Nordgren and Martin Roth from RjDj

December 22nd, 2009

The reactive music artists and entrepreneurs from RjDj will talked about reactive music and what it means for music production, distribution and consumption.

Andie Nordgren and Martin Roth from RjDj from Your Neighbours on Vimeo.

Matthew Ogle from Last.fm about Last.fm

December 12th, 2009

Matthew Oggle from Last.fm talks about how they started and reveals so some interesting statistics…

Matthew Ogle from Last.fm from Your Neighbours on Vimeo.