Music Technology Hackathon: Build a Creative App in 2 Days

Get ready for an epic 2 day challenge at our music technology hackathon!

Open to anyone: coders, product managers, musicians, designers, sound engineers, musicologists, and more. Join the Discord channel to speak with us and find a team.

Join us at the Centre for Digital Music and collaborate with fellow attendees in groups of 3-4 to build a creative hack from scratch. You can select a challenge from one of our sponsors or build a hack of your own. Each team gets to decide what they want to build.

You will get access to cutting edge technologies allowing you to build tools faster. Experts will be on hand to help you with the technical parts.

Challenges

MuseHub Challenge

Build an app or plug-in for music creators: from utilities to sound effects or libraries. The app can build on the company's open source products MuseScore or Audacity, or be dedicated to guitar players (Ultimate Guitar) or piano players (musescore.com).

Audiotool Challenge

Expand the capabilities of Audiotool's new free online DAW by building on top of it.

Develop apps to create audio or MIDI, automate workflows, or connect third‑party services. Use the Nexus API to read and write Audiotool project data. You can use any framework or third‑party service for your app.

Join the Audiotool Beta to gain access to our new online DAW, along with proto files and documentation to get up to speed before the Hackathon.

Prizes

MuseHub Prize

The best app or plug-in will be featured on musehub.com as the indie app of the month, guaranteeing traffic of 10k+ to your product page.

Audiotool Prize

The winning app will be featured in Audiotool's Newsletter (1M subscribers), on Audiotool's Homepage, and will be a showcase project in our launch campaign. The winning app will also receive up to $5,000 in Google Cloud credits.

Selection Process

Register to the event, answer the few questions, and we'll be in touch to assign you with a team. IMPORTANT: registering doesn't guarantee that we'll offer you a spot, we will prioritise participants working on one of our official challenges.

A jury will evaluate the best hacks at the end of the hackathon.

Each team will have 3 minutes to present their hack to an international jury at the end of the event. Winners will be announced right away. This is the ideal launchpad for new ideas and future startups.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to showcase your skills and passion for music and technology!