Local Stop concert with Sabine Vogel & Kathy Hinde and Anne LaBerge / Sam Pluta / Yedo Gibson / Daniel Schorno / Oscar Jan Hoogland

"… and the walls threw back echoes..." This performance and installation by ORNIS  is concerned with memory, resonance, and the changing states of matter.  Barely audible sounds become audible, and fragments of small objects from barely visible environments are projected at a large scale.   Images influence sound and sounds influence image within a constantly changing installation. A live performance leaves traces that become part of the evolving installation.  Project is supported by STEIM, Amsterdam.

STEIM Residency Concert:
The Desert Fathers, PIRX, Lesley Flanigan

We return from our summer break with concerts by two residency projects and one touring artist. Electro acoustic trumpeter Jeff Kaiser returns for a 2 week residency with Max/MSP guru Gregory Taylor. Also returning is our favorite group and organizers from Cologne; PIRX locking themselves up in our studios to work on new album material like last time. We are also very happy to have New York based artist Lesley Flanigan who is currently a resident artist at Worm Rotterdam and will show her work Amplifications for voice and handmade instrument.  Hope to see you there!

OpenStudio: BOTCH STUDIES - a project presentation of a new sound-theatre work for two performers and electronics

A work in progress by Joe Diebes & Christina Campanella

Over the course of two weeks Joe Diebes & Christina Campanella will be developing material and technologies for a new sound-theatre work called BOTCH. The work explores the behavioral difference between people and machines by asking: what’s in a mistake? A performer interacts with audio and video recordings according to the rules of a composed score.  She engages in vocal, movement, and drawing tasks that demand more speed than they can handle, inevitably leading to information loss, flubs, and missed notes.  The relation between machine exactitude and human error evolves (or devolves) over the course of the piece.  BOTCH will be presented at HERE Arts Center in New York City in 2012.

Noisefold: David Stout and Cory Metcalf

OT 301 and STEIM present Noisefold (David Stout and Cory Metcalf); a live cinema and electronic music ensemble from New Mexico, USA.

Noisefold is a live cinema and electronic music ensemble founded by artist-performers, David Stout and Cory Metcalf. The group utilizes sensor activated computer systems and complex audio-visual feedback circuitry to synthesize a mesmerizing array of bio-mimetic visual forms that generate sound.
http://www.noisefold.com

OpenStudio:
Orpheus2010 - Live Cinema by Sean Winters

Sean Winters and his crew will be ending their 5 day residency with a presentation / performance of their on-going project Orpheus2010.

 
Orpheus2010 is a 'happening' that includes Trumpet, Nord, Saxophones, Synthophone, Drum Set, Ableton, MaxMSP, Flowmotion, DVD players, Projector(s), 5.1 Surround Sound, Micro-Narrative Visual Poems, Audience Participation, Costumes, Props and Lights.

STEIM Summer Party 2010

Since last year, June 18th is the official STEIM summer party day. It's a day to celebrate the (hopefully near) summer days with concerts by some of the most innovative and creative musicians in live music making. This year we will have the wonderfully playful and danceable turntablist - DJ Elephant Power, one of the music hacking originators Mark Trayle, the amazing "tuba traveller" Daysuke Takaoka and the next generation crackle performer Ben Terwel.
Expect beat scratching, credit card music making, circular breathing, circuit touching music!

Dj Elephant Power

Daysuke Takaoka

Retina by Kasia Glowicka & Emmanuel Flores +

Jos Zwaanenburg's English Program

Retina is a performance that includes piano in a setting that immerse it with live video and electronics and putting the classical idiom into modern context. It is an artistic study in the kinetic relationships between sound, image, motion and space. It takes its inspiration from the early cinematic practices of Étienne-Jules Marey, whose work in studying and photographing movement revolutionized the way we visualize time and motion, and puts them in the contemporary perspective.

Flautist Jos Zwaanenburg presents pieces for flutes and live electronics by composers of The Sonic Arts Research Unit of Oxford Brookes University UK. As an International Visiting Research Fellow at that institution, he invited the composers to write pieces, taking his ideas about a standardised application of contact mics for traditional instruments. Next to the three pieces of the "Research Unit", Zwaanenburg will perform a piece by Dutch composer Jorrit Tamminga who dug into the same subject.

Retina by Kasia Glowicka and Emmanuel Flores

Jos Zwaanenburg

Local Stop concert with:

Kenneth Atchley & John Bischoff,

Shackle (Anne LaBerge & Robert van Heumen),

Bill Hsu,

Aki Onda & Gareth Davis

Bischoff will perform two recent pieces that project sound into a framed space where details are highlighted and recycled as a context for further contemplation. K. Atchley presents laptop interpretations of digitally generated sound waves and legacy field recordings that reflect and maintain the current of absorbed thought and empirical romanticist leanings. Hsu's Flay/Flock is an audio-reactive audiovisual improvisation for 1-3 musicians, who interact with a particle system that evolves amongst a variety of structures, including point clouds and linear forms. Shackle's aim is to explicity and subtly exploit shackling in both concept and material.

Kenneth Atchley: 233.08

John Bischoff: Audio Combine

Aki Onda / Gareth Davis

Shackle (La Berge and Van Heumen): LIMIT / EYE

Bill Hsu: Flay Flock

Turntable Music Night 7

It's great that DJing is recognized as something more than talking on the radio and introducing songs, but it still comes with a strong stereotype; that it's an act that is essentially different from playing an instrument or composing music. But what if the DJ composed or recorded all the music and sounds that are being played, or if sounds are manipulated and layered to a degree that the original source is unrecognizable, or simply if it's just not music to dance to? The tools, the gesture and the medium are still the same but the music is drastically different from what people would associate with a DJ. So are these people musicians or DJs? The blurring of this notion is exactly what's at stake at the Turntable Music Night series. For the 7th edition, we are proud to have modern composer / dub producer Raz Mesinai and the versatile JD Zazie, as well as a new duo with Tokyo's busiest drummer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto and dj sniff.

Yamamoto Tatsuhisa / dj sniff

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Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

STEIM's very own Joel Ryan is part of this great group, and many members of Evan Parker's Electro-acoustic ensemble were once STEIM residents themselves. Especially for our dedicated audience we can offer a discount to be part of one of these what promises to be very energetic nights. Bring a printout of the flyer to be eligible for a discount.

Monday May 17 Location Bimhuis (20:30h): Breakups
Tuesday May 18 Location Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (20:15h): The moment's energy

STEIM CONCERT in New York City

In collaboration with Japan Society New York, STEIM will be showcasing some of the best projects that have passed through in recent years. We have chosen 4 acts that represent STEIM's on going support for collaboration and innovation in live electronic music. Through our residency program, these artists have examined and explored the ideas of improvisation, composition and the "instrument" in contemporary electronic music.  Additionally we will be exhibiting our Mobile Touch Exhibition and hosting a number of workshops and lectures. We hope this will be a chance to connect with our US community, hope to see you there!

Collaborative live streaming concert between Conservatory of Amsterdam and Kingston University with Walter Fabeck and Nina Silvert

STEIM is collaborating with Kingston University, Conservatory of Amsterdam and composer/musician Walter Fabeck on a live streamed concert. Composer Walter Fabeck and performance artist Nina Silvert perform recently devised collaborative work at The Amsterdam Conservatorium’s Blue Room.  The event, connected via live internet link-up with Kingston University in London, will provide interpolated episodes within Kingston’s multi-media opera A Hero’s Journey.

This concert can be viewed online: http://staffnet.kingston.ac.uk/multimedia/twin-cities/

Date: Friday May 7 at 20:30h

Location: Conservatory of Amsterdam, Blue Note Hall

Entrance: free

STEIM concert curated by John Dikeman: MISSING DOG HEAD & KRK

MISSING DOG HEAD: Their music is made out of noisy bitcrushed skylines, subversive feedbacks, distorted sax tornados and indefinable metallic sounds. The general chaos and disorder resulting from the collapsing above-mentioned languages creates the aesthetics of the music itself...
::: Could be punctuated by moments of peace ::: music is non-contractual ::: improvisations may vary in length and style :::

KRK: Drawing on their more than 40 years of combined experience working in a variety of genres with such artists as Evan Parker, John Zorn, and Nicolas Collins, KRK is a collaborative project which aims to synthesize and interpret the neo-postmodern musical landscape. Ghosts of reductionism, noise music, free jazz, and the classical tradition all may or may not appear in any given performance. To date, KRK has performed in Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal and the US.

Missing Dog Head

KRK

ABATTOIR, Büyükberber/Klein, Davis/VanHeumen: STEIM residents performing at OT301

Three studio projects supported by STEIM will be performing at OT301. DJ Phey will spin some music around the performances.

ABATTOIR is Audrey Chen (cello & voice) and Robert van Heumen (laptop & controllers), Büyükberber/Klein is Oguz Büyükberber on clarinet / bass clarinet / live electronics and Tobias Klein on bass clarinet / contrabass clarinet / live electronics and Davis/VanHeumen is Gareth Davis (clarinet and bass clarinet) and Robert van Heumen (laptop & controllers).

ABATTOIR (Audrey Chen / Robert van Heumen)

Gareth Davis / Robert van Heumen

Oguz Büyükberber / Tobias Klein

Ensemble MAE - Dissolve

With new works by Jasna Velickovic, Teodora Stepancic, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Hugo Morales, Ezequiel Menalled and Matt Wright.

STEIM has been collaborating with Ensemble MAE on this program, especially in the development of Jasna Velickovic's composition. For this composition STEIM has built a custom interface that interactively triggers various objects throughout the performance space.

Music for Angels and Djin: Joel Ryan & Peter Evans