“Schmiede welcomes Music & Bits” will happen on the weekend of 16th and 17th of September. Schmiede is an annual festival and community for producers since 2003 where three things happen:network, create & present. Once a year, Schmiede happens gather in Hallein, Austria. Schmiede is an open platform and we’re proud to join forces during this year’s ‘Chaos creates structure’ theme this year.

If you want to join, please RSVP here: http://schmiede.ca/blog/post/rutiger/schmiede11-guest-registration_/

Rutiger Wassibauer of Schmiede: “‘Schmiede welcomes Music & Bits’ will take place in the Boiler Room and Tower and will have a special setting. Schmiede is very excited as Music and Bits will bring an entire new wave of speakers and perspectives to Schmiede. People interested will have the possibility to watch the developers from the Bridge and interact with them during the project presentations in the Tower. We are in talks about our guest speakers and participating companies and will inform you as soon as we can.”

“Schmiede empowers the process of social networking by bringing together the essentials: space, infrastructure, food, people, and freedom to explore. Here you’ll find like-minded friends and associates to push your work to another level. There are no teachers at Schmiede, just around 140 people like you, both experts and students in their professions and spheres of interest. The Schmiede network revolves around digital media but is comprised of much more. Schmiede is a collective process: it doesn’t matter who we are, what matters is what we want.

“‘Schmiede welcomes …’ is a new SchmiedeFormat that provides an interface for other festivals and projects to interact with Schmiede on a cooperative level. The exact and most beneficiary structure is task focused and decided on an individual level.”

We were there at the last Schmiede and we had an amazing time. We’d love to see you in Austria to enjoy the amazing ambience, hack on stuff together and have fun. If you have any questions, please contact Rutiger from Schmiede.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 Whitman from The Echo Nest from Your Neighbours on Vimeo.

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

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