Lauren Hayes > Cracklebox: From STEIM to Edinburgh
After our stay at STEIM in April, Sean Williams and I brought home a Cracklebox. Here it holds its own against the big modular analogue synths at our recent performance…
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Sean Williams > Spare a thought for the hardware engineers
During recording on Saturday night my laptop hard drive failed. Totally. This meant that the rest of the weekend was spent making a hardware controller and considering the design details…
Sean Williams > Talking of legacy and archives…
Just spent a fascinating couple of hours going through 5 boxes of random bits and pieces of hardware all earmarked for being thrown away. Since I’m a bit of a…
Lauren Hayes > The Importance of Touch
STEIM’s web page claims that it promotes the idea that Touch is crucial in communicating with the new electronic performance art technologies, which is precisely what excites me most about being…
Sean Williams > Learning from the past
As an unapologetic analogue synthesis and hardware freak, I was most interested in having a look around STEIM to see what old machines might be lurking in cupboards and studios.…
Sean Williams > why am I here?
My interests have recently been resulting in the production of Euro format synth modules based on recreating some of the processing and performance tools of Stockhausen and King Tubby. I’ve…
Martin Parker > More improvisations
Here are links to improvisations from Studio 2 on 31st March 2010. Present were: Owen Green – DPA and laptop Lauren Hayes – mic and laptop Martin Parker -DPA and…
Owen Green > Arrival
The Edinburgh contingent (myself, Sean Williams, Lauren Hayes and Martin Parker) toasted the start of our week at STEIM with a session in studio 2, the fruits of which are…
Martin Parker > First day Orientation keenness in Studio 2
Discovering a VCS3 in studio 2 we couldn’t resist improvising together with first-day-of-orientation keenness in Studio 2. Those present: Owen Green Lauren Hayes Martin Parker Sean Williams Below are rough…