BeatBlocks in Berlin!

We will be showcasing the app and our upcoming release BeatBlocks Studio+ at New Visions for music and sound in Berlin on Friday the 6th of September. We will also have a LIVE setup to play with as part of the installations area on both Thursday 5th and Firday the 6th. Tickets still available: https://newvisions.berlin  Building music with Lego!

LEGO music at SONAR  - 2024

Playable Technology was selected to participate in the activities organized by BMTH during Sónar+D. One of 10 music tech projects from across Europe invited to pitch at the BMTH showcase (Barcelona music tech hub) https://barcelonamusictech.com


Playable Technology UKRI Creative Catalyst 

Delighted to announce that we have been awarded a UKRI creative catalyst award. More on this soon!

BeatBlocks - STV

STV coverage of BeatBlocks the National Museum of Scotland for the Edinburgh Science Festival with some old bloke waffling on about AI for good etc.... 

BeatBlocks LIVE - EdSciFest 2024

With support from Creative Informatics BeatBlocks featured at a number of events at this year's International Science Festival. We hope you got a chance to check out our new Lego music play station at the National museum as part of the 'Power of Data' exhibition or at one of the museum lates or Science festival parties.  We've even invested in cupholders for the play station, so bring on the next party! Glasgow, for the Scottish AI alliance I think. See you there. 

Support -Skoog users

Following the sad announcement that after more than 14 years Skoog is officially closing its doors, we want to keep all of the Skoog players out there playing, so in the short term at least, the team at Playable will do our best to help where we can. SUPPORT

SILVER - BEST AI!

Delighted that BeatBlocks won a Silver for Best use of AI at the hashtag#BIMA awards last night. Congratulations to all our team Playable Technology hashtag#musictechnology hashtag#creativity hashtag#machinelearning building music with hashtag#lego and thanks to all the team at Creative Informatics UK for their support to achieve this.

BEYOND conference 2023

Excited for Playable Technology to be contributing to the BEYOND conference in a couple of weeks alongside Ana Betancourt, Piotr Mirowski, Nicola Osborne and the Creative Informatics UK team. Some great sessions (check out the programme), including kicking the tyres on AI, creativity, accessibility and a whole lot more...

BeatBlocks in the top 3!

We made the top 3 Scottish Games Awards SGW2023 in the "purequality" category congrats to the team behind Blinnk, worthy winners. 

London Science Museum 

Musical Building Blocks is an installation that uses Playable’s AI based music platform to deliver a fun, engaging music making experience using Lego. The installation uses BeatBlocks computer vision to create an truly interactive and creative family experience. Part of the Turn it Up exhibition the installation will available to visit at the Science museum until the 6th of May 2024. Tickets available here: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/turn-it-up

Delighted to share that we will be Joining Creative Informatics and the Immersive Futures Lab at SXSW 2023  Texas hear we come...

BeatBlocks is now available on the App store!

At Playable Technology we focus on creating fun playful tech that is always accessible. Founded by the inventors of Skoog and Skwitch the team continues to support and develop for the Skoog group as well as generating novel IP, developing new partnersips and providing services for external clients.

Work by the team has featured in:

Watch this space for news about new projects. In the meantime here are some things from the vaults...

Skiwtchity Doo Dah

Brett Domino uses Skoog 1.0 to cover Hey Ya by OutKast

Ben's TedX about music, technology and play

Highlights from Global Accessibility Awareness day 2017

Original Skwitch video featuring "Take a left" by Joe Malik

Sharing the Story behind the original development of Skoog with the Rovio team

A new type of Mo' gin...