Karl Salzmann – TT8
From Dec. 11th to 21st, I had my first residency at STEIM. I arrived with a number of turntables and hardware equipment to go further with my idea of building…
Hardware Research and Development
Tijs Ham – Chaos
Day 1 Arrived at STEIM with two bags of gear and a laptop. Felt great to be back there again although I have visited them quite regularly since I finished…
jamie griffiths – Instrument Lab #1 – Instrument Building Residency Aug-Sep 2011
I work with imagery, sound and light, as well as live cameras, video tracking & 3D live drawing in fields of Visual Music, Abstract Cinema and New Media; collaborative &…
Peter Edwards > Experimental performance sequencer Arduino shield
The Experimental Performance Sequencer Arduino Shield is a looping event sequencer. It gives the user extensive control over several parameters of multi-channel, synced and looped sequences but obscures those controls…
Alex Nowitz > The Strophonion – Instrument Development (2010-2011)
The Strophonion is an electronic instrument which was developed and built by STEIM from 2010 until 2011 for Alex Nowitz. It belongs to the instrument group, that is usually subsumed under the term live-electronics using gestural controllers. The blog deals with the whole process of how the Strophonion was developed and built from the beginning.
LoVid > Circuit Taco Fiesta!
We arrived at STEIM just in time for the Circuit Taco Fiesta – an all day workshop, where 12 participants built skin-voltage sensing instruments. Some hadn’t built much hardware before,…
Jessica Aslan > Volt @STEIM
I took part in an orientation workshop followed by a residency at STEIM. This was funded by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. As a workshop musician and digital composer I’m…
Moldover > Open sourcing The Mojo, Patterns + Pleasure Festival
I was introduced to STEIM a year ago when I brought an installation to a festival in Amsterdam. I am honored to have been invited back for a two-week artist…
Yaniv Schonfeld > Development residency – Cadavre 2.0
Cadavre 2.0 is the continuation of the original cadavre that was performed in israel in 2009 – where a harp of a piano was found thrown away in the street…
EAR Duo + EMMI > Residency with Robotic Instruments
Last winter my duo (the EAR Duo) commissioned a set of robotic musical instruments from EMMI (Expressive Machines Musical Instruments) that we could perform with and take on tour.…