Gent que fa coses rares amb l'electricitat

Next September 13th a new edition of Dorkbot – the community of people who do strange things with electricity in Barcelona– will be held in Hangar. This edition will be mainly focused on music and we will count on the collaboration of Brew By Code, a craft beer made especially for us. Save the date and don’t be late, the event will start at 7PM.

Bounceybox , the vintage suitcase turned into portable musical equipment.
Bounceybox was born around two years ago with the aim of joining music, design and vintage aesthetics. It is a tribute to the underground culture of the 80s, when the marvelous and enormous boomboxes were carried down the street. Besides vintage design, a differential note is wireless connectivity which helps achieve a harmonic union between past and future.
All models are unique due to their creation process and are clearly different from the bluetooth loudspeakers that are created and mass-produced by major consumer electronics brands.

Familiar is a collective that focuses on the construction of sound devices, circuit modification and retro computing for creative purposes, that encourages and promotes the use of technologies and tools for cultural development. With more than six years of experience, Familiar has already carried out a multitude of workshops throughout Spain, Lisbon, Marseille, Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Gent and several Familiar Fests, a festival that combines experimental music with various workshops and seminars.

Eloquencer is the first product of Winter Modular, the Barcelona-based brand of Eloi Flores. This Eurorack sequencer revolves around the concept of “controlled randomness”: you decide when there will be randomness, and to what extent it will affect the sequences.
Designed for both live performance and production, it offers eight tracks of CVs and gates in a 16-step layout, but patterns can be chained up to 256 steps. Although the majority of the control is performed with a wide array of touch buttons, a small OLED display gives contextual information of all parameters and access to menus.

Next Dorkbot
16-09-2017
At Hangar as always
7PM

Augmented Drum Machine – José Carlos Florez
New ways to interact with a drum set

Augmented Drum Machine is an instrument whose capacities have been expanded using sound, robotics and LED lighting.

It is composed of a drum set made out of transparent acrylic, robotic arms, LED stripes, MIDI controller and a bespoke control system using open source tools (VVVV and Arduino).
The Augmented Drum Machine “robotic arms” are made of solenoids that hit a real drum set and perform the rhythm sequences sent in real time by the control interface. LED lights provide visual feedback.

More information:

https://josecarlosflorez.com/augmented-drum-machine/

REAL VIRTUALITY (RV) – Gabriel Lecup, Xavi Vinaixa, Sergi Lario
Virtual Reality Web Application

Real Virtuality is a VR application that is experienced with closed eyes and is perceived with the subconscious. It combines two brainwave synchronization techniques –blinking lights and binaural beats– to induce altered states of perception, lucid dreams, trances and hallucinations from sensory stimulation.

Both techniques explore the FFT phenomenon (frequency following response) to force brain activity to synchronize with alpha (4-7 Hz) and theta (8-13 Hz) waves, which are associated with states of dream, relaxation or transcendental meditation.

Real Virtuality provides an open and evolutive tool to explore these techniques and their endless combinations using VR technology. The users create, experiment and share their own audio visual contents, which are generated in real time through an open source web application.

(With support of Hangar.org – Interaction Lab, Barcelona 2017)

IMVEC TECH
Techniques for environmental survival.

Survival on a hostile planet will depend on how we readapt and use our collective thinking model and our basic exploration, monitoring and environmental research tools.

They design Free Libre open source software and hardware devices to empower citizen science and investigate environmental concerns. Their technologies include using ballon and kite photography for aerial mapping of polluting areas that are affordable, easy to fly and accessible everywhere.

Some of their tools (and the how-tos to build them) are available on the website’s project. In a world contaminated by large companies we need to build affordable and accessible tools to protect ourselves.

More information: https://imvec.tech