Hip-Hop Hacks: Young Hackers x Mixtape Museum x Monthly Music Hackathon to Host Tech/Music Hackathon Event

Teen programmer incubator Young Hackers and hip-hop archival initiative The Mixtape Museum in partnership with Monthly Music Hackathon have joined forces to host a free, hip-hop themed hackathon titled Hip-Hop Hacks. [source: The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy]

This two-day event aimed at high-school students will take place at the Spotify NYC offices and will feature guest speakers and workshops that merge hip-hop music and culture with technology in interesting and creative ways.

Workshops will include topics like music production, lyricism/songwriting, online journalism (presented by Birthplace Magazine founding editor, Manny Faces), website building, hacking in Arduino, coding in Javascript and more.

“We want to encourage youth to create technological innovations that will impact the future of music,” says Sommer Regan McCoy, founder, The Mixtape Museum. “For many students, Hip-Hop Hacks will be an entry point to a career path in tech that they never imagined was possible.”

Guest speakers will include Martha Diaz, founder of the Hip-Hop Education Center, Rolando Brown, HHEC artist/engineer/advisor, Tony Prendatt Carter, producer and engineer, Matt Daniels, creator of Polygraph and The Largest Vocabulary in Hip-Hop, and Michael Wiggins, the director of the Urban Arts Partnership.

Companies supporting Hip-Hop Hacks on April 2nd and April 3rd include The Hip-Hop Education Center, The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy, Minds Behind the Music, Born in the Bronx,Rhymes Over Beats, Today’s Future Sound, Genius, Playster, Beat Making Lab, Karmaloop,SESAC, Loop Labs, All Star Code, Maple Syrup & Co., SittinOnMusic, and Wix Music.

There will also be a special performance by alternative hip-hop group Oxymorrons.

Registration for the #HipHopHacks hackathon event is open at www.hiphophacks.org.

More on #HipHopHacks at The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2
11:30 am – Doors/Registration Open
11:45 am – Lunch
12:00 pm – Introductions and Talks
01:30 pm – Tech and Music Workshops
06:30 pm – Dinner
07:00 pm – Live Entertainment
08:00 pm – Goodbye. See you tomorrow.

SUNDAY, APRIL 3
10:30 am – Doors/Registration Open
12:00 pm – Lunch
03:00 pm – Demos. Be sure to invite your friends!
05:00 pm – Live Entertainment

For schedule updates, check www.hiphophacks.org.