Hack days are events in which participants are encouraged to create web applications in 24 hours using APIs and open source libraries. The first Music Hack Day specifically organized for the digital music community took place in London, UK about a month ago. Supported by BBC Music and a few established digital music services like SoundCloud and Last.fm, Music Hack Day brought together 200 delegates and 'hackers' who explored the possibilities of using open source software for new digital music apps.Among the hacks created during the event were the SoundCloud iPhone Music Visualiser, and Citysounds.fm, which fetches musical creations from SoundCloud and organizes them by the cities they were created in. It also pulls pictures for the cities from Flickr. There are a lot of electronic music producers on SoundClound, and that can be heard on Citysounds as well, but listening to sounds created in Auckland, New Zealand and Sao Paulo, Brazil, shows how distinctive places around the Earth can sound.
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