A special edition of Making Apps that Make Music, hosted with CDM in conjunction with MIDI Hack

Mobile software is great, but what if it could be more than a solo act? New tools suggest new possibilities for collaboration, playing together and syncing up, connecting with others, and allowing more artists and coders to invent new ideas quickly.

Matt Black, co-founder of the label NinjaTune and music duo Coldcut, has throughout his career pushed the envelope of how software can be an expressive live instrument, in visuals and sound. That included audiovisual tracks and ground-breaking work in VJing and some of the first VJ and A/V software.

Now, we get a chance to sit down with Matt informally to look together at what's next.

In the spirit of MIDI Hack, Matt's in town with in-development tools for coders - SyncJams and PureDataOpenFrameworks. SyncJams lets musicians groove together: you can connect over a network with zero configuration, then play together to a shared metronome, collaborate, and jam. PureDataOpenFrameworks lets software makers groove together: creative coders and patchers can work together to rapidly realize their designs for iOS and Android.

Matt will show us these new tools, and we'll talk to him about how they can be used - plus the big picture for how mobile software could be made better for labels, artists, and developers.

Join us for a presentation, Q&A, and informal networking and chatter over drinks. Coders and newcomers welcome alike - there's plenty here for everyone.

19:00 Doors
19:30 Start
20:30 Look at code, network, and chat

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