Music Hackathon

October 6-7, 2012

About

To celebrate the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Austin Startup Week, we're hosting a Music Hackathon October 6th & 7th. Whether you're a developer, musician, hardware hacker, performance hacker, or just want to create something, come join us. We're working to gather some of the best and brightest among the local community, players in the space, and sponsors with cool tools to help you along the way.

Organizer


  Keith Casey of Twilio Inc.

Schedule

On Saturday the 6th, we kick off at 9am and hack until 9pm. On Sunday, we begin at 9am and start the final demos at 6pm.

Saturday

  • 9:00am Light breakfast served
  • 9:30am Demos from sponsors, partners, etc
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  • 12:00pm Lunch served
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  • 6:00pm Dinner served
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  • 9:00pm Go outside and enjoy the city!

Sunday

  • 9:00am Light breakfast served + strong coffee
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  • 12:00pm Lunch mmmm
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  • 6:00pm Light dinner and demos, yay!
  • 7:30pm Judging & Winners announced
  • 8:00pm Sleep or party: your choice, you've earned it :)

Location


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thirteen23, your humble host for the weekend

We love music + tech + design at thirteen23 and are excited to host a group of like-minded folks that want to exercise their creativity. Here's a few things that will help you during this event:

  • Thing 1: WIFI: thirteen23-guest, password: happymeal
  • Thing 2: Hashtag: #atxmusichacks
  • Thing 3: We encourage you to stretch out a bit and make use of our space including conference rooms for some quiet reflection or group brainstorming. All we ask is that you steer clear of the employee desks
  • Thing 4: The restrooms are in the main break-area; there are 5 of them, use any you'd like

Resources & Inspiration

  • Cinder is a library for professional-quality creative coding in C++
  • Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions
  • Open Frameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding
  • C4 is a new creative coding platform we just ran across for iOS.
  • WPF Sound Visualization Library is an open source Windows/C# toolkit for sound processing and display
  • AeroTwist has a number of visualization experiments using Three.js, WebGL, and Flash.
  • Little Boxes for iPad by joelle aeschlimann
  • Motion Project is a collaboration between a lot of clever creative people working together to create a machine that turns motion into music.
  • Interactive music videos for Pajama Club, Neil Finn's (of Crowded House fame) latest band.
  • Bricolo mechanical music system allows digital music makers to incorporate robotics into their performance and recording setups.
  • Song Cabinet is an interactive music piece that users activate by exploring the contents of a set of drawers.

Sponsors

From movies, to news, to music, if you need data they probably have it. Explore Mashery's large API network to see how they can help you with your next big idea.

Rovi has one of the world's largest collections of entertainment metadata available and provides great services for searching and recommendations. Create a developer account and get started enriching your apps.

SendGrid's cloud-based email services relieve organizations of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Get Started

These guys love developers and have built a service that developers love to use. They basically allow you to call or txt the internet. Check out the full list of features

Using the SoundCloud API, you can build applications that take sound on the web to the next level. Stream tracks, discover new artists, unleash your inner diva. It all starts here

Community Partners