Music Hackday SF and SF Music Tech
I had a great time in San Francisco at the Music Hackday and SF Music Tech events. I worked on a new version of SongVoodoo (http://new.songvoodoo.com) and a mothers day version of Songsicle (sign up at Songsicle.com and I’ll hook you up soon). The reactions I got for both were very positive and helps to encourage me to push forward on these ideas.
SongVoodoo ended up winning the MusixMatch prize at Music Hackday so I will be going to Italy at some point to hang/work with the crazy italians that run the company. Much thanks to Franz and Max for their support!
I sent my mother a Songsicle message, as I was in San Francisco while she was in New Jersey. The message said “Happy Mothers Day mom! Wish I could be there” with the Stevie Wonder song “I Just Called To Say I Love You” playing after. I called my dad back and recorded the full conversation to get her reaction to it. Here it is:
Songsicle Testimonial by frankdenbow
Product validated.
There were also lots of other amazing applications built over the weekend:
JSONLoops By Marak of Nodejitsu
This is an awesome Open-Source real-time multi-user audio sequencer in the browser ( built on Node.js ). Really impressed by the progress on this. It will be pretty fun for people to use once it is packaged up for normal people to use.
Sing songs from a web interface using a speech synthesizer. Pretty ill when you see it performed. Best demo of MHD.
Soundcloud + Songkick == Sex . Yup.
HeartBeatMatch By Arshad Tayyeb Daniel DeCovnick Edward Aten Scott San Filippo
Mobile dating app that sets up people in the same location who have similar taste in music. Brilliant.
Browse music by picking colors and seeing matching cover art with those colors
SF Music Tech was also an amazing experience, meeting many cool people in the music industry. Much is in the works from that, so stay tuned. There was also free ice cream courtesy of Ice Cream Man . Songsicle + Ice Cream Man in the future? Definitely!
