Music Hack Day is an international 24-hour event where programmers, designers and artists come together to conceptualize, build and demo the future of music. Off-dware, hardware, mobile, web, instruments, art, anything goes as long as its music related. This June, in the context of the 2014 Sonor Plus D Festival, the Barcelona Music Hack Day celebrated its fifth anniversary with some special features, such as a 3D printing facility to enhance the dual-chall-self production. Music Technology Group The Music Technology Group, a renowned techno-center supported by a CEO, organized an informal meet-up at the Universitat Pompeo-Fabra, the day before the hackathon. In this informal event, hackers and companies evangelists had the chance to know each other, and enjoy some technologies demos by the Music Technology Group and music performances with patchblocks and XN's technology. The XN's is our first product, and it was originally born as a musical instrument. Four years ago, and then together with IDI we developed a further to become the first multimedia device that uses bodily signals, namely sounds from the body, including blood flow, muscle sound and heartbeat. At Sonor by Day, the challenge was launched, creating something completely new in 24 hours. Besides patchblock and XN's, many other software and hardware tools were available in the Music Hack Day. FreeSound.org, the Anobio Brain Computer Interface, BBC API, Reactable, Mojis and more. During this time, the participants had to organize themselves into groups, conceptualize, develop and present their projects to a jury. So we approached the main BCN folks and said, hey, where the product can you guys help us? They made us these small sea brackets that we could clamp into the ceiling, and from there we can attach to beer cans. Without that, there's no way for us to put the beer cans up there, so that was perfect. We wanted to recreate a festival, and we wanted to make you feel that you are in the festival, even if you're at home. So we have been using Oculus Rift and Unity to recreate the scene, and so let's take it with Life First Dreaming and Life Audio. So you can feel that you are in the festival, but you don't need to feel that you're at home, you're at home, you're at home and you are having fun. It's an isolated microphone which allows you to listen to the signals which your muscles send. And we just try to make it visual. We put some LEDs around it so you can see what's happening. I think it's super funny to be able to listen to your body. It's kind of an infra-soundish. You would normally not be able to listen to such things. After the presentations, several prizes were handed out, rewarding the originality and quality of hacks, as well as the best use of certain technologies. For five years, Music Hack Day has been bringing together the music scene with the buzz, surrounding creative coding, hardware prototyping, the DIY movement and the maker community. As a tribute to the anniversary, Sonoplasti visitors could have a hands-on experience with a selection of winning hacks of previous editions at the MTG and Fran Stand within the SonomarketLab space. Music Hack Day is responsible for hosting this growing community of compromised companies and talented developers worldwide. We bet it will be that way for a long time to come. Music Hack Day is a great opportunity to be able to meet the new world of science and technology. Music Hack Day is a great opportunity to meet the new world of science and technology. Music Hack Day is a great opportunity to meet the new world of science and technology. Music Hack Day is a great opportunity to meet the new world of science and technology.