Music Hack Day
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Music Hack Day is a Hack Day
specifically for the music industry. The first ever Music Hack Day was organised by Dave Haynes and James Darling and held at the London offices of The Guardian
over the weekend of the 11/12 July 2009.
The event was attended by around 200 developers who had 24 hours to build new hacks or web applications using the API's or tools of 10 participating companies. These companies were 7digital
, BBC Music, The Echo Nest
, Gigulate, Last.fm
, PeoplesMusicStore, Songkick
, SoundCloud
. The weekend also included workshops from companies like RjDj and Tinker.it and anyone else who wished to arrange one. Many developers stayed overnight at the venue and over 35 hacks were built, submitted and demo'ed by the end of the weekend. Future Music Hack Day's are currently being planned in the US, UK and Germany.
Hack Day
A hack day is an event where developers, designers and people with ideas gather to build 'cool stuff' - the events now run all over the world and are organised by a wide variety of people, companies, and even government departments....
specifically for the music industry. The first ever Music Hack Day was organised by Dave Haynes and James Darling and held at the London offices of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
over the weekend of the 11/12 July 2009.
The event was attended by around 200 developers who had 24 hours to build new hacks or web applications using the API's or tools of 10 participating companies. These companies were 7digital
7digital
7digital is a privately held digital media delivery company based in the United Kingdom, offering downloadable music, video and movies to customers primarily within major European markets...
, BBC Music, The Echo Nest
The Echo Nest
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence platform company that provides music services to developers and media companies. Headquartered in Somerville, MA USA, the Echo Nest was created as a spin-off of research work at the MIT Media Lab that automatically understands the audio and textual content of...
, Gigulate, Last.fm
Last.fm
Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....
, PeoplesMusicStore, Songkick
Songkick
Songkick is a website and service that provides personalized news about live music events. It allows users to track their favorite bands and receive email alerts when a tracked band plays a gig nearby. Songkick is one of the original high tech startups in London's Silicon Roundabout area.- Service...
, SoundCloud
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss...
. The weekend also included workshops from companies like RjDj and Tinker.it and anyone else who wished to arrange one. Many developers stayed overnight at the venue and over 35 hacks were built, submitted and demo'ed by the end of the weekend. Future Music Hack Day's are currently being planned in the US, UK and Germany.