Calling all musicians! Dezeen Music Project is looking for original tracks to play at new design show INTRO NY in New York next week, where we're providing the sounds. If you’re a musician, composer, DJ or producer, we want to hear your best party music.

INTRO NY runs from 18-20 May during ICFF and NYCxDesign and we'll be playing a selection of our favourite Dezeen Music Project tracks from 5-8pm every evening.

If you would like us to include your music in our set, all you have to do is upload your tracks to our Soundcloud account and we'll pick out our favourites. Make sure you change the sharing settings for uploaded tracks from private to public and make them available to download.

If you don't have a Soundcloud account you can email tracks to musicproject@dezeen.com instead.

We're happy to feature music of all different genres, but for this event we're looking for upbeat tracks to get people in the party spirit.

As always, we'll publish selected tracks on our Dezeen Music Project blog and feature them in the audio player in the right-hand column of the Dezeen home page.

The copyright of any tracks submitted will remain with the artist, who will always be fully credited. See the full copyright notice here.

Dezeen Music Project is a Dezeen initiative to promote new, original music by young and upcoming musicians. Listen to all the tracks here.

INTRO NY is new furniture show organised by design agent smallpond and supported by exhibition organiser designjunction. You can find out more information here.

Dezeen Music Project at INTRO NY
379 Broome Street
New York
NY 10013

18-20 May 2013
5-8pm

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News: next month's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York will be the first major design fair to place 3D printing and digital fabrication at the core of its programme, with a four-day series of workshops introducing the hardware and software that could change the face of design, manufacturing and distribution (+ interview).

DesignX, which takes place from 18 to 21 May alongside ICFF, will comprise 15 one and two-hour workshops on topics including 3D printing, online product customisation, parametric design and even 4D printing – the nascent technology of programming materials capable of self-assembly.

"At [...] these trade shows, you typically have a very large audience who attend over multiple days," explains Ronnie Parsons, a 3D printing expert from New York studio Mode Collective, who will lead the event's 3D printing workshops with design partner Gil Akos. "There are talks that address design and technology, but there really isn't anything that allows people to have direct access to industry leaders through an educational programming model.

"So we thought, why don’t we have a specially built classroom, a lounge space with a little gallery, and put that in the middle of the showroom floor and do educational programming throughout the course of the entire trade show? So that people who attend ICFF could take classes in the very tools and technology that are used to make the things that are surrounding them at the event."

Partnering with The Architect's Newspaper, Parsons and Akos have put together a programme of workshops led by experts from across the digital design and manufacturing industry, including MIT architecture and programming lecturer Skylar Tibbits, Duann Scott of 3D printing marketplace Shapeways, programmers Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg from Massachusetts design studio Nervous System, and Francis Bitonti, whose 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese we previously featured on Dezeen.

Other DesignX workshops will include programmer Andy Payne's introduction to using Arduino microcontrollers to control design environments, a look at the networked future of computer-aided design, and a session about online marketplaces for distributed manufacturing.

"3D printing is the thing that is most visible right now, that's the thing that is most at the surface," says Parsons. "But I think that the skill that is really important for designers in the future is not really 3D printing, but actually the processes of thinking through the design to production phase – beginning to think about how things are made and how the new tools and technology out there will change the way you think about design."

Attendees can sign up for any number of workshops individually, but must already be registered to attend ICFF.

This month Dezeen launched Print Shift, a one-off print-on-demand magazine dedicated exploring the fast-changing world of 3D printing and the way the new technology is changing the worlds of architecture and design – see all our coverage of 3D printing.

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Designer Sam Baron of Fabrica will present a modular collection of furniture full of holes at ICFF in New York later this month.

Called Down Side Up, the series consists of four wooden boxes that can be transformed into various furniture forms by attaching legs and handles to holes in their surfaces.

More about Sam Baron on Dezeen:

This&That by Fabrica
Royal Actual by Sam Baron
Fabrica Decorative System by Sam Baron
Sam Baron for Bosa

Here's some text from Fabrica:

An encounter between experimentation and consumption, where design challenges shapes, volume perception and directions to create objects with constantly varying functions and interpretations.

The Down Side up collection is fundamentally four wooden volumes, considerately dimensioned to offer many meanings and possibilities.

In this way a work desk can also be a shelf, a stool can also be a bedside table, a bench can also be a granfather clock.

It's all in the way you interpret four legs and a wooden box covered with holes.

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