Musichackday Stockholm comes to the end. People start submitting their hacks to the musichackday wiki. There are some awesome projects to explore.
Simon Hohberg and Robert Böhnke build this radio that plays songs from soundcloud by city and tag.
The swedish company Winston Design build holodeckapp.com a webapp that allows bands to create their own profile with content from soundclound, songkick, tumblr and last.fm – it is like flavors.me for bands.
I would love to hear and see the results of Bertrand Gondouin’s Echonest Midi Player – I hope Betrand will upload a video demo soon!
To continue with music creation software: http://synthism.com/ is (a) a cool domain-name (b) the good idea of ‘collaborative constructed synthesizers‘ but still (c) very alpha. I’ll keep an eye on this project.
Also at an experimental stage is AMIE by Jan and Wolfgang who worked with me at Musichackday Stockholm in Hamburg. The most impressive parts are in the code. Jan created a JavaScript based Synthie which he uses for his other project as well. Even though there is still some flash involved most of the sound creation happens in JavaScript which I think has a great future. Check out their video about the hack.
My most favourite project so far is HacKey. The mashup between last.fm and Echonest answers the simple question “Are you a major or a minor person?” by analysing your most popular tracks. If I got it right, the whole project is done in JavaScript, including API calls, analysis, datavis and playback of the songs. Great hack, so far! I haven’t used last.fm in last time but in January 2006 I was 80% major!
What are your favourites? I hope to discover more via live stream when the presentations start.