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Ask HN: Music Hack Day NYC Ideas

13 pointsjohndbritton6 comments

Tomorrow is Music Hack Day NYC and I'm looking for ideas for things to build.

Any ideas for the intersection of music and technology that you'd like to see?

The following companies with APIs will be around:

Last.fm

SoundCloud

Twilio (me)

The Echo Nest

exfm

VEVO

Bandzoogle

MusiXmatch

Dubset

Rovi

Fanbridge

Indaba

Boxee

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Network data sharing and sync across arbitrary host applications would be really excellent. Here's an idea: cross-platform plugin (LADSPA + AU + VST?) that syncs to other instances of itself over a network via OSC for arbitrary data sharing (here, let me pipe the midi data from my keyboard or controller over to you) - or receiving (here, I'll take the event stream I'm getting from you and translate it as Midi Time Code input for sync) etc etc.

Really anything to bring some of the flexibility possible already with network communication over OSC w/ tools like PD and SuperCollider to the world of turnkey audio apps would probably find a welcome audience!

Not sure if it's just software; but a circuit-bending + Arduino project that gets songs and data from last.fm etc. would be pretty cool.

Other than that, maybe a song finder that finds all the popular songs with the same bpm or in the same/similar key for mixing. I know one of the mixing sites already do bpm which is pretty easy to decipher. The tech to decipher keys is also available.

Good luck.

Is there, or will there be, anything like this going on around the SF area at some point? I'd love to take part in something like this, but 3000 miles is a little steep.

Would be cool to be able to input an artist's name and see where their music was played over time period X or is currently being played, plotted on a map.

I wish I'd heard about this before making plans for tomorrow. Is there an aggregator for NYC hackathons etc.?

NYHacker.org should be this outlet if it isn't already

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