Maelstrom 2600 –
Maelstrom 2600 is a a wearable instrument that is played simultaneously by multiple people. Maelstrom 2600 uses soft circuit technologies to translate a modular synthesizer into multiple costumes which can…
Artistic Residency
Icarus (with Daniel Jones) – navigable 2D musical surfaces
During Icarus’ last residency, in February 2011, we created the underlying software for our parametric album Fake Fish Distribution (FFD). Using the FFD software we were able to create alternative…
Andi Otto: “Fello” Development: Augmented Bow Revision 3
Fello needed to become more sturdy and reliable. So I came back to STEIM in March 2012 in order to rework the hardware together with STEIM engineer Marije Baalman. She…
Great week here at STEIM topped off with a wonderful crowd for our concert last night. The whole week felt energizing, and the support from everybody here and the audience…
Concert Day
Putting all the pieces together today. All the speakers are in place for the surround sound, so now we just get to run it a few times. The arc of…
MICA Residency at STEIM: Day 6
Jason Sloan and I arrived at STEIM six days ago with five students from Maryland Institute College of Art, where we both teach sound art and electronic music. This is…
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 &…
TuvaTronic day 2
It’s day 2, and Ken Ueno is calculating proportions for the pacing of the one-hour structured improv that is TuvaTronic. Today we rehearse the opening section and plan choreography. Dialing…
play Peter Ablinger
“play Peter Ablinger” is a project involving clarinetist Gareth Davis, the Julie Mittens and Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. A quasi music theatre piece exploring the aesthetics of noise/rauschen.
Ground
Our latest installment of the Graphite instrument ore now called ‘ground’. Developed on and of in 2011 at steim. Ground…