How Music Hack Day Evolved – And Why the Music Industry Must Embrace the Chaos [INTERVIEW] - hypebot

How Music Hack Day Evolved – And Why the Music Industry Must Embrace the Chaos [INTERVIEW] - hypebot: "Fueled by caffeine and pizza, developers, designers, hackers and music geeks gathered together this past weekend at Manhattan's General Assembly for New York City's first Music Hack Day. Designed to bring New York's tech cognoscenti together to build the next generation of music applications, by the end of the weekend, 175 hackers built 72 hacks in just 24 hours. The rules were pretty simple: 'Web apps, mobile, software, hardware, art… anything goes as long as its music related.' NYC 2011 hacks included iPhone, Kinect and Midi instruments, a personalized music mashup generator, crowdsourced party playlists, and SMS song"