Artists, researchers and hackers are getting together in Cambridge this weekend to promote and advance music technology.
"The Music Tech Fest is a festival of music ideas," said Michaela Maga, one of the festival's organizers. "We gather the whole music technology ecosystem under one roof."
The festival draws a wide range of participants, from small startups to academics to corporate giants.
"What was exciting about this event was the ability to bring the hacking community and the artistic community and the scholarly community together," said Nancy Baym, a researcher at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft New England's NERD Center.
That combination is the point of music tech, said Peter Torpey, who works in the MIT Media Lab, in the Opera of the Future group. Torpey is focused on developing technology for the future of performance and composition, among other things. Torpey has worked on creating a symphony composed by an entire city.
"Music technology is just part of the tool set we use to create the works, to reach out to people and to tell stories," he said.
The festival will finish with a hackathon, teaming up artists and techies.
"A beatboxer will come to a hacker and say, 'I'd love for this to be able to do this precise thing to aid my performance'," Maga said. "We are very hands on and we allow people to show off their idea, demo it, perform it, invite other people to collaborate with them."
Last year, the winning hack was a teaching guitar with an iPad modified to work as a key and motion-based synthesizer.
The Music Tech Festival will be in seven cities around the world this year, but Boston is the only stop in the United States.
Maga said many cities, including New York and Los Angeles, are clamoring for the festival to come, but they chose Boston because of the combination of research institutions, entrepreneurs and arts.
Baym said the combination of music and entrepreneurship in Boston creates a unique environment.
"You've got this incredible array of music that happens here," she said. "There's both a really healthy music community and a really healthy technology community."
Earlier this month, streaming giant Spotify bought music intelligence company the Echo Nest, based in Somerville. Spotify has said it will keep the company in Somerville, and it will operate as Spotify's research and development office.
Key investors and Boston entrepreneurs have said the move will significantly increase the number and stature of Boston's music tech engineering talent.
"I imagine The Echo Nest will be expanding over time," said Paul Lamere, director of developer platform for the Echo Nest. "Lots of people who are passionate about music and technology will have a place in or near Davis Square."
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