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This is the place where the STEIM staff communicates with the network. Regular news items, research topics, concert reviews and reports from STEIM visits abroad.
Monday, March 8th, 2010 by sniff
Volume 3 of our monthly event Hotpot lab will feature Jeff Snyder talking about his work in electro-acoustic music and instrument design as well as introducing his unique product, the Manta. Alan Macy will talk about general and cutting edge techniques in bioinformatic sensing through his work as director of R&D at BIOPAC. Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein will talk about about some of his recent work including Gliss, a performance oriented music sequencer for the iPhone, and will perform his piece Hexagon for Manta and SuperCollider. Additionally participants of the super popular Benjolin workshop will perform with their freshly made instruments under the guidance of Joker Nies. We plan to host another Benjolin workshop in May, so this will be a great opportunity to check out the actual kit. Hope to see you there!
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010 by sniff
Sonic Acts XIII: Poetics of Space will take place February 25-28 in Paradiso, STEIM, Melkweg, De Balie, NIMk and the Planetarium. For this edition of Sonic Acts, STEIM has collaborated on several programs that tackle the festival theme of “space.”
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by sniff
Hotpot Lab #2 will host Handmade Music Amsterdam with Peter Kirn from createdigitalmusic.com and an array of local instrument builders / hackers / designers and tinkerers. Handmade Music is an event that takes place in multiple cities around the world for DIY music makers. We all know that some of the most exciting inventions come out of home garages, so come check out unique and outrageous hand-made instruments!
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Robert
In a one-day workshop conducted by legendary synth builder Rob Hordijk and circuit bender Joker Nies, participants will build the Benjolin, an analog sound-device that is very different from what you usually will find with other DIY-kits. This kit will ONLY be available through the workshop, it is not for sale separately. The class cost is just €70, plus a materials fee of €80. You will bring home an analog synth, and you can tell everyone that you`ve build it yourself!
The Benjolin is a ‘noise box’ that is ‘bent by design’, meaning that it always has a definite amount of unpredictability while it is still intuitive to play. The Benjolin features two eighteen-octave range voltage controlled oscillators that drive a ‘rungler’ circuit, circuitry that in essence uses a special interference technique feeding back into the oscillators to force them into wild chaotic behaviour. A special slightly chaotic filter is both excited and modulated by the signals from the rungler circuitry processes, producing sounds between fat drones to grungy noise havoc. The kit is somewhat challenging to build, but with a little patience and accuracy a beginner in DIY can definitely do it successfully.
Registration is required for this workshop and can only be done through this registration form.. Please register early to ensure a place. Places are limited to 12.
Note: after registration you will be informed by email through our office whether you can go ahead and make the payment. You can only be sure of a place in the workshop after the payment is received. Payment can be done by creditcard or Paypal through our online store or by bank transfer.
Sound examples / Making of
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Posted in Local, Workshops
Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by sniff
STEIM is being featured at this year’s Club Transmediale Festival in Berlin!
Together with the festival we have co-produced the following programs:
Sunday, Jan 30 : Magic Machine Workshop by Kristina Andersen
Wednesday, Feb 3 : Defining your own instrument, lecture by Takuro Mizuta Lippit
Wednesday, Feb 3 : Interface and Instrument-Design – How Technology Affects Music, discussion with Takuro Mizuta Lippit / Robert Henke / Yutaka Makino / Christopher Salter / Moderation: Tony Herrington
Thursday, Feb 4 : EXTENDED ECLECTICS, concert by Alex Nowitz / dj sniff / Justin Bennett / TokTek
Friday, Feb 5 : Connect – Map – Music, expert workshop by Frank Baldé & Takuro Mizuta Lippit
for full program and venues go to the festival website
Posted in Events abroad, News
Monday, January 25th, 2010 by sniff
Posted in General, Local, STEIM concerts
Friday, January 1st, 2010 by sniff
2009 was another great year for STEIM and we want to look back at some notable things that happened.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 by Stan Wijnans
Report by Stan Wijnans. Photos by Theo Howard.
The first edition ‘Rooms’ of the concert platform ‘Dissolve’ explored how to re-conceptualize the performers’ presentation and audience experience of musical space. MAE researches the possibilities to create new sound environments using a combination of live electronics and acoustic instruments exploring the creation of innovative listening experiences. In an unconventional approach to space in musical composition, including how technology can be used to break open the conventions of space, the ‘physical’ as well as the ‘musical’ space are re-conceptualized (http://ensemble-mae.com/site/). The ‘Dissolve: Rooms’ premiered compositions by Hugo Morales: ‘Cavities’ and Ezequiel Menalled: ‘NN’. The pieces were rehearsed and partly technically researched at STEIM in advance to the concerts. Additional compositions such as ‘(Amsterdam) Memory Space’ by Alvin Lucier, ‘Nocturne for BJM’ by Matt Wright, ‘Pea Soup II’ by Nicolas Collins and ‘Big Blue Blazer’ by Teodora Stepancic, that highlight the earlier mentioned conceptual elements, were also rehearsed and presented (fig. 1.).
Figure 1. Ensemble MAE.
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Monday, December 14th, 2009 by sniff
STEIM@40! Last event: Patterns & Pleasure
Martin Brandlmayr / Percussion and computer
Pierre Bastien / Self-made mechanical instruments
Franck Smith / Handsonic and effects
dj sniff / Turntable and computer
flyer by Theo Howard
The STEIM@40! was a celebration of STEIM’s 40 year history through a diverse program of events. We would like to conclude this series by looking into new themes.
From once being an act of banging on things, rhythm has evolved into something that you carefully program through sequencer based instruments. Groove becomes an interesting space where complexity and intuition intersect. So how can we imagine new tools and ways to perform this new groove? How can we bang, sculpt and structure in real-time?
Come join us to see 4 solo musicians – all virtuosic and unique in their ways to generate rhythm.
Thursday, Dec 17 2009
Doors open: 20:00
Concert starts at 20:30
Charge: 5 Euros
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by Frank
From Monday December 7 to Thursday December 10 STEIM is exhibiting its Mobile Touch exhibition in the Jan van Egmond school in Purmerend. Every morning Frank Baldé will give a workshop to invited classes. On Tuesday the 8th and Thursday the 10th the school hosts an evening program with a concert by Alex Nowitz, a performance by Peter Zegveld and the possibility to visit the Mobile Touch exhibition. These two evenings are open to the general public, entrance is free but you are required to make a reservation. More info here.
wednesday December 16:
The week was very succesful. Eleven classes were presented with a one hour workshop about the creation of new electronic musical instruments as demonstrated in the Mobile Touch exhibition. The two concert evenings were very well attended. A lot of children brought their parents, and after the concerts they could show their parents at the Mobile Touch exhibition what they had learned. Here are some pictures of the event.
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