Music & Bits is an exploration of Music & Technology.
It started in April this year, as Music & Bits was the pre-conference of The Next Web event. To complement the event, Music & Bits was part of pre-conference sessions held a day before the main event.
Sparked by the first Music & Bits in April, a second Music & Bits will be held on October the 21st. Now being the pre-conference of Amsterdam Dance Event, we hope to continue the dialog about music and technology. The growing movement in favor of making databases generated by online music services more open, are the ingredients for new track to Music & Bits: an official Music Hack Day.
At the Music Hack Day track the main goal is for participants to rapidly prototype and build new projects, working through the night to complete and present them in the late afternoon. They have only this day to conceptualize, build, & present their projects. Hardware meets Software meets Online, all connected via music. Some music services (with an API) we would like to see in use are: Songkick, Beatport, Echonest, Soundcloud, Last.fm & Playdar.
