MusicMakers Hacklab 2015 - Tuning Machines

In the spectrum between bio-acoustics, field recordings, ambient, flicker, brainwave entrainment, binaural beats, biofeedback, psychoacoustics, neo-psychedelia, hypnotic repetition, noise, and sub-bass vibrations, 2015's Hacklab presents works by artists who explore the affective potential of frequencies, sound, and music, such as to address and disturb the human body in troubling and emphatic ways. The affective potential of sound and music is clearly a focal point, yet it constitutes only one aspect of an investigation into the distribution, modulation, and perception of frequencies.

This Hacklab edition was co-hosted by Leslie Garcia and Peter Kirn, and housed at the Native Instruments Office in Berlin. The finale performance took place at HAU2. Five public Hacklab Input talks rounded out the lab's activities: »Molecular Music« by Rachel Armstrong, »Being Human: Making and Creating with Biotechnologies« by Marco Donnarumma, »Biohacking : Indie Biotech at your Service« by Thomas Landrain, »Electromyogram Signals (EMG) in Musical Performance« by Atau Tanaka, and »Harmonies Untuned: Exploring Kepler's Worlds« with Music Technology by Kelly Snook.

• Leslie Garcia
• Peter Kirn