Learn to Hack Web Audio API with G.Hack at Music Tech Fest Paris 2014
Event Information
Description
After noticing the low number of women hackers at Music Hack Days, G.Hack decided to put together a series of workshops in which female participants would learn about the culture of software and hardware hacking through short demos and examples, before moving on to building some cool hacks!
For Music Tech Fest Paris 2014, G.Hack prepared a workshop in which participants will learn how to hack a Web Audio API straight through the Google Chrome web browser to make a sound map of Centre Pompidou. The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. It includes capabilities found in modern game audio engines and some mixing, processing and filtering tasks found in modern desktop audio production applications.
This is a workshop for women beginners with no previous programming experience, though all levels are welcome!
Please note, this workshop will be taught in English.
What to bring: laptop (NOT tablet!), headphones, latest version of Chrome, Komodo editor, Python (see below where to get this!)
Chrome
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?platform=linux
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?platform=mac
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?platform=win
Komodo editor
http://komodoide.com/download/
Python (only Windows users)
Organizer G.Hack, Queen Mary University of London
Organizer of Learn to Hack Web Audio API with G.Hack at Music Tech Fest Paris 2014
G.Hack (QMUL, London, UK) is an art and technology lab founded in 2011 by female researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London with the aim to provide a supportive learning environment in which skills sharing, interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on experimental production can take place. http://ghack.eecs.qmul.ac.uk
G.Hack team running the workshop:
- Nela Brown: Chair of G.Hack, doctoral student at QMUL's Cognitive Science Research group, award winning sound artist, musician, technologist and leader. http://nelabrown.blogspot.co.uk
- Magdalena Chudy: doctoral student at QMUL's Centre for Digital Music, computer scientist and professional cellist researching performer-dependent aspects of musical timbre. http://magudy.wordpress.com
- Patrizia Carlota: QMUL Drama Department alumni, performance maker, production manager, researcher and committee member of VivArtista and ISCaD.
- Katja Knecht: doctoral student in QMUL’s Media & Arts Technology programme, media engineer and designer with a background in architecture researching individual comfort in open-plan office environments. http://xoqe.net
