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!
We’ve got another event coming up:
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.
Brian’s talk about data and music.
Brian Whitman from The Echo Nest from Your Neighbours on Vimeo.
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 Oggle from Last.fm talks about how they started and reveals so some interesting statistics…
Enjoy Justin from Muxtape talking about design
Justin Ouellette from Mixtape from Your Neighbours on Vimeo.
In the upcoming weeks, we’ll upload the video’s we made of all the keynote speakers of the last Music & Bits. The first video is a conversation Eric Wahlforss (Soundcloud) and Speedy J had at Music & Bits. Enjoy!
And remember there are only some days left to submit your Music Hack to win a brand new Sonos S5 system…
It’s a wrap! Thanks for atending all, we hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did. If you want to know what you have missed, check out Twitter. Make sure you do not miss the photo’s. Also, we will be uploading podcasts of the speakers soon, so stay tuned.
One thing that could be improved next time, was the flaky WiFi. Due to this, the Music Hack Day did not work out as we had planned it. So we decided to extend the Music Hack Day for a month. This means there is still untill the 26st of November to work on protoypes, come up with amazing concepts and build the most awesome mash-ups you can imagine. At December the 1st, we will decide who has won the brand new Sonos S5 Set.
If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us. If you were there, thanks for attending. And thanks in advance to see the hacks you are building or have build- we’re looking forward to see them. And thank you Vodafone, Sonos and Amsterdam Dance event – for sponsoring the event and helping us in many ways.
This is a special notice for the developers who are participating in the Music Hack Day part of Music & Bits.
If you’ve already build something, started prototyping or have an amazing concept and you need help, we’re pretty sure this will increase your chances on all the prices that can be won. It’s worth it, because Sonos, The Echo Nest and Vodafone are all giving away some really nice prices for the best hacks built. If you want to get a head start, here is some extra information.
We expect more than 80 people attending this part of the day, most of the people who have registered are coders or designers, but we also have some hardware Arduino hackers coming to rapidly hack things together. If you want to do some serious hardware hacking or circuit bending – don’t forget to bring your own tools!
While the day is open for anyone to have a talk, we have an RjDj workshop and a STEIM workshop planned. Also, Vodafone (one of our sponsors), will give a short talk on their new ’360′ service they will launch. You’re welcome to join us here, but feel free to do whatever you want.
We have a lot of start-ups who will be able to support the hack track with API support and other help if you need anything. Check out the links below to find more information on the some of API’s you can use;
- Eric from Soundcloud will be there, more info on their API can be found here
- Brian from The Echo Nest will also attend, check out their documentation, here
- Marcel from Twones is also there to support the Twones API, check it out here
- Jonty from Last.fm can help you out with their API, more info here
- Charlie from Cloudspeakers will be their to support the Clouspeakers API, documentation here
- Andie and Martin will be there if you have any questions about RjDj, check out the developers’ wiki here
- The famous RoomWare people will also be there so you can start thinking of thing you can do with WiFi, RFID, QR codes and what not… more info here
- and some others, keep an eye open on musicandbits.com for more info
update: SellABand will also be presentig their API, check it out here
You might also want to check out this Music Feed, The Guardian’s API, Playdar, Boxee and BandsInTown – If you want your API to be in this list, drop us a line and we’ll add you to this blogpost on musicandbits.com, I’ll try to update it as much as possible.
See you on Wednesday! Doors open at 09:30 for the Music Hack Day attendees. The people who only want to attend the conference are welcome at 13:00 sharp (make sure you had lunch prior to that).
