SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Evolver.fm (well, one of us anyway) will cover Music Hack Day Sydney this weekend, where hackers from down-under will gather at Red Bull headquarters to build functional music apps — officially considered “hacks” due to the speed with which they are constructed — and hardware gizmos during a single weekend. Although these hacks…
After my panel at SXSW today, several people asked for copies of my presentation about the wildest, wackiest music apps we’ve seen over the past year. The presentation went well, and I even got some laughs and applause, which is always sort of the ultimate goal. I figure if that many people who were there…
As you’ve probably noticed, there have been a few changes around here. Evolver.fm relaunched with a new look designed to make finding the best music apps easier than ever, which also means hosting the first curated database of handpicked music apps, in addition to our usual coverage. One offshoot of this: The apps in our This…
Music composition students and songwriters, rejoice. Noteflight‘s Autocomplete feature, developed at this weekend’s Music Hack Day, will practically do your homework for you. This Autocomplete lets frustrated composers write half a melody, press a button, and have it finished automatically. It grabs data from Peachnote and the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) to pull…
Music Hack Day represents the opposite of the Infinite Monkey Theory, which states that a group of monkeys typing randomly would eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare given an infinite span of time. The time span at Boston Music Hack Day at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Boston was constrained to a mere 24 hours,…
