Music Tech Fest is a 'festival of ideas' bringing together the entire music technology ecosystem, from influential musicians, music tech start-ups and app creators, performers, creators and hackers. From musical performances to presentations, demos and installations, this festival is sure to be a noisy one!
When is it?
Music Tech Fest’s London event will be held at the London Symphony Orchestra’s own venue, the LSO St Lukes between 5th–7th September. Other Music Tech Fest events include Berlin October 24-26, Paris November 21-23, and New York December 12-14, with the addition of São Paulo, Auckland, Umeå, Los Angeles and Amsterdam in 2015.
Why is RS there?
RS Components will be sponsoring Music Tech Fest as it is a great place to showcase the support for technological innovation that RS has. This event will bring together and unite both academia and industry in music technology innovation.
As part of the sponsorship RS Components have donated, along with other components, Raspberry Pi Model B+ boards and Arduino boards to ensure the hackers have everything they need to create the most innovative projects they can think of!
The previous event in Boston was held at Microsoft Research NERD Labs and saw a live linkup to the British Library Sound Archive’s ‘Keeping Tracks’ to performances from Adam John Williams, an award-winning multi-disciplinary digital artist working with electronics, sound, video and projection mapping who works with Music Tech Fest.
Who else will be there?
Adam John Williams and solo artist Jason Singh, from http://thesinghthing.com/ who recently added his musical expertise to slots on the BBC’s Springwatch programme, will come together and do an exclusive performance. Using both Jason’s unique talents and components supplied from RS this performance will hopefully inspire others to engage with both music and technology throughout the weekend.
Where can I find out more?
If you want to watch the highlights from the previous Music Tech Fest event in Boston watch this video
Visit the Music Tech Fest website
Get your tickets to the London event
Follow @MusicTechFest on Twitter