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STEIM Events tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1 2010-09-01T15:10:38Z September 2, 2010 | STEIM Hotpot Lab #9 Intersections and Just Noticeable Difference tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c371 2010-08-31T11:14:57Z 2010-08-31T11:14:57Z

September 2, 2010 | STEIM Hotpot Lab #9 Intersections and Just Noticeable Difference

STEIM September 2, 2010 | STEIM Hotpot Lab #9 Intersections and Just Noticeable Difference
Featuring:
Multi-channel concert "Intersections" by Robert Henke (aka Monolake)
Presentation of "Just Noticeable Difference" by Marije Baalman

SORRY, THIS EVENT IS FULL!

Thursday, Sep 2, 2010
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs. (Door open 20.00 hrs.)
Charge: Free
Reservation only, limited 70 seats!
For reservations email: knock@steim.nl

Although he may be single-handedly responsible for defining both a style of music and paradigm of how to make music, Robert Henke (aka Monolake) isn't content being within the defined. Henke has been extremely successful as a musician/producer coming from Berlin's dub-influenced dance music scene and as the co-founder of Ableton Live, but it seems that he is in a transition period. In recent years he has become more active in teaching and showing his work outside of the club environment. We felt a natural connection with him after being on a panel together early this year, which has lead to his workshop and presentation at STEIM. For this edition of HPL, he will perform a multichannel concert based on transformations of field recordings he made in 2009 in the city of Hanoi / Vietnam, called Intersections.
Also joining the program is artist / technician Marije Baalman who will talk about her new installation with Chris Salter and Harry Smoak. Just Noticeable Difference is a sensory environment that explores the fluctuation between noise and order, sensation and sense making directly at the level of bodily perception.
As usual HPL is free, but since we expect a large number of attendance please make a reservation, we will close it after 70 seats are filled.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES ---------------------

Robert Henke (aka Monolake)
Robert Henke, born 1969, is a composer, sound designer, software developer, installation artist and performer. His music has roots in academic sound research as well as in club culture, and the result is a body of work that is sophisticated yet accessible. Henke's musical and performative work is about space and its exploration in different time scales, it is about the impact of massive gestures and precisely shaped details in the background. Many of his works can be perceived as potentially endless sonic states inviting the audience to immerse themselves completely for a freely defined amount of time.

Robert Henke releases music under his own name and as Monolake; his performances and interactive installations have been shown at places like the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, MUDAM in Luxembourg, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2007 his work Layering Buddha received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. Robert Henke is one of the authors of the Ableton Live music software, and teaches as professor for sound design at the University of Arts in Berlin.

Marije Baalman
Marije Baalman studied Applied Physics at the Technical University in Delft and graduated in February 2002 on the topic of Perceptual Acoustics. In 2001/2002 she followed the Sonology Course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She completed her Ph.D. on Wave Field Synthesis and electro-acoustic music in 2007 at the Electronic Studio of the Technical University of Berlin. Between 2007 and 2010 she was a post-doctoral researcher in Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research goes into the use of wireless networks for live performance (such as dance and music), and installations. She has performed and exhibited work across Europe (STEIM, WORM (NL), EXIT festival (F), Club Transmediale (D)) and beyond (Electrofringe (AU)). She is a contributor to “The SuperCollider Book” (MIT Press, coming up in 2011).

In her artistic work she is interested in the realtime components of the work, in that nothing is precomposed as such, but rather the (mostly, but not exclusively) sonic output depends on realtime interactions, be it of the performer, or of the audience. Thus composition becomes more the composing of behaviours and interaction modalities, creating processes, rather than fixed sound tracks. This is expressed with tools such as physical computing (performance interfaces and/or installations), livecoding (both as a skill, as well as a performance interface), digital and analog sound processing, and improvisation.
She has collaborated with various people, amongst which Alberto de Campo, Hannes Holzl, Chris Salter, Michael Schumacher, Attakkalari Dance Company and Workspace Unlimited.
> More info > ]]> September 3, 2010 | Max for Live Masterclass by Robert Henke tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c359 2010-08-31T11:02:26Z 2010-08-31T11:02:26Z

September 3, 2010 | Max for Live Masterclass by Robert Henke

STEIM September 3, 2010 | Max for Live Masterclass by Robert Henke
Still a few places left!

Date: Friday September 3
Cost: € 75
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam

Robert Henke is a Max user since 1992, and one of the authors of the Ableton Live software. In his workshop at STEIM he'll discuss the usage of MAX / MAX4Live in his own projects and will provide insights into the concept of MAX4Live and strategies for building own devices with it. He will question if and when it can make sense to spend time writing own patches in Max, and when it will be better to simply use what is already there. The workshop will also contain a critical review of own projects in the light of these questions. Since Robert Henke is an enthousiastic live performer, he'll also will discuss questions of control and interaction using Live and Max in conjunction with hardware controllers, and concepts of how to manage and create complexity in a performance situation, and how and why this can also be useful in a more general music creation process.

This workshop will be from 10-15h with a break at 13h.

On Thursday Sept 2 Robert Henke will perform a multichannel concert based on transformations of field recordings he made in 2009 in the city of Hanoi / Vietnam, called 'Intersections'.

http://www.monolake.de/technology/m4l.html

Robert Henke, born 1969, is a composer, sound designer, software developer, installation artist and performer. His music has roots in academic sound research as well as in club culture, and the result is a body of work that is sophisticated yet accessible. Henke's musical and performative work is about space and its exploration in different time scales, it is about the impact of massive gestures and precisely shaped details in the background. Many of his works can be perceived as potentially endless sonic states inviting the audience to immerse themselves completely for a freely defined amount of time.

Robert Henke releases music under his own name and as Monolake; his performances and interactive installations have been shown at places like the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, MUDAM in Luxembourg, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2007 his work Layering Buddha received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. Robert Henke is one of the authors of the Ableton Live music software, and teaches as professor for sound design at the University of Arts in Berlin.

http://www.monolake.de/

> More info > ]]> September 7, 2010 | Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus: Kickoff concert and presentation tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c355 2010-07-05T11:19:18Z 2010-07-05T11:19:18Z

September 7, 2010 | Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus: Kickoff concert and presentation

STEIM September 7, 2010 | Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus: Kickoff concert and presentation
The Conlon Foundation is announcing the first Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus for a new work for Yamaha Disklavier. The prize of the competition will consist of a performance in the prestigious 2011 Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands.

The kickoff of the Competition will take place at STEIM as a part part of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2010. During this event a new work by Hugo Morales Murguía for Disklavier, pianist and electronics will be performed by Sarah Nicolls and the composer. There will be presentations by Christina Oorebeek on the history of the player piano and her own work for the Disklavier, by Frank Baldé (software programmer STEIM) on using alternative controllers with STEIM's junXion software in combination with the Disklavier, and by Luc Houtkamp on pitch recognition and its use with the Disklavier. Afterwards there will be drinks and opportunities to talk about the competition in an informal fashion.

Date: September 7, 2010
Time: 14:30 – 16:30
Entrance: free
Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam

Conlon competition

The Conlon Foundation was conceived to further the development and use of new and existing midified acoustic musical instruments. These instruments are electronically controlled and have replaced the electrically and/or mechanically driven instruments made for centuries; for example, wind-up music boxes, clocks, dance organs, and, of course, pianola's or player piano's, so fabulously successful in the 20th century. The inspiration for our name, "Conlon" refers, of course, to the father of 'new music' for pianola's/player piano's, composer and innovator Conlon Nancarrow.

More information:
http://conlon.nl
http://www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl/hedendaags/projecten/gaudeamus-muziekweek/gaudeamus-muziekweek-2010/programma-2010/

Submission guidelines can be found here: http://conlon.nl/prize/.

Artist Bios

Hugo Morales Murguía (Mexico City, 1979)
Morales' current work focuses in the development of alternative instruments for sound generation, whether extensions of traditional instruments or instrumental implementations of rudimentary objects; technique, notation, physical modification and various uses of technology are usually elements defining his music composition and performance. His works encompass a variety of musical media such as virtuosic solo instrumental pieces, ensemble pieces, live electronics and fixed media music. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree at Brunel University, London, with the support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds from The Netherlands and The Mexican Council for the Culture and Arts (FONCA), and living as an active composer / performer in The Netherlands and the UK , promoted as a shortlisted composer by the Sound and Music organization, UK’s landmark agency for the promotion of new music.

Sarah Nicolls is a pianist specialising in contemporary music. She has performed concerti with the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, appeared in solo recital over a dozen times on Radio 3, winner of the British Contemporary Piano Competition 2000, shortlisted twice for the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award and received consistent critical acclaim since her South Bank debut in 2001. Sarah also plays with Mira Calix [Warp Records] and David Sheppard [Sound Intermedia] in Alexander's Annexe - a trio exploring the expansion of the grand piano with electronics and pre-recorded sound. Their album Push Door To Exit is available on Warp Records. Sarah is a Lecturer in Music at Brunel University.

Frank Baldé is the software designer/developer at STEIM, Amsterdam. A big influence on his work has been the close collaboration with former STEIM director Michel Waisvisz, which resulted in a number of music applications for live performance: the Lick Machine, LiSa and junXion. The last couple of years he has done major development work on junXion. The software combo junXion/LiSa is also used in most of STEIM`s MobileTouch exhibition instruments. Together with Michel he has created a number of interactive music installations that can be played by anybody from 7 to 77 years of age. This exhibition has traveled to a various places around the world and always been very succesful.

Christina Oorbeek

Christina Viola Oorebeek is an American-Dutch citizen. She immersed herself in music as a profession at 21, teaching herself as much as possible about jazz and blues music. In this period, she went on to study classical Indian music at the school of Ravi Shankar in Los Angeles, and sang in an semi-acoustic rock band from 1967-1969 in San Francisco. She worked for a long period as a teacher and improvising pianist at the Department for Dance at the Arts College in Amsterdam. During these years, in which she earned a degree at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with pianist Willem Brons. She decided that ‘making’ autonomous music was the most important thread which she wanted to follow. At age 50 she commenced officially on her career as a composer studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Klaas de Vries. She was granted the Composition Prize upon graduation in 1999. At the Conservatory of Amsterdam, she studied instrumentation with Theo Verbey. She participated in master classes with Magnus Lindberg in Amsterdam and Toshio Hosokawa at the Akiyoshidai Music Festival in Japan. These experiences have formed a pluriform pool of musical influences and experiences for her composing work. Her ideal is to exist in a continual state of (re)discovery and invention.

Luc Houtkamp (1953) is a composer/saxophonist who bridges the gap between the worlds of jazz- derived free improvisation and computer-based composition and performance. He has been working equally in electronics and on the saxophone for decades, and his development as a player has been accompanied by an interest in electronic textures. As a virtuoso saxophonist he has worked extensively in improvised music since 1972, collaborating with numerous musicians and groups all over the world. Since the mid-eighties he has also been designing his own interactive music software, resulting in pieces performed by himself and in collaborations with such musicians and ensembles as George Lewis, Wiek Hijmans, Le Quan Ninh, Peter van Bergen, the X-OR duo, LOOS Ensemble and recently his own POW Ensemble. Houtkamp has given masterclasses, lectures and was composer in residence at several universities.By establishing his own computer group POW Ensemble in 2001, Houtkamp has created a new platform for exploring and expanding the musical potentials of the computer. POW Ensemble is the ensemble for chamber music of the 21st century, using computers as musical instruments. The musicians make use of improvisation, live processing, electronics as well as acoustic instruments such as oud and saxophones. This way, POW Ensemble represents a new, unique force in electronic music.
> More info > ]]> September 10, 2010 | The Night of the Unexpected tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c357 2010-07-12T10:30:09Z 2010-07-12T10:30:09Z

September 10, 2010 | The Night of the Unexpected

STEIM September 10, 2010 | The Night of the Unexpected
In The Night of the Unexpected, as the title suggests, the element of surprise plays a central role. The evening consists of performances crossing musical styles and genres, from sedate chamber music to deafening noise. To keep the unexpected nature of the night true to its name, the programme will be kept under wraps for as long as possible. But here’s a sneak preview…

Spring Relapse by Sergey Khismatov (nominated for the Gaudeamus Prize 2010) performed by Alex Nowitz who also presents his own composition Minotaurus, using his electronic instrument that's being developed in collaboration with STEIM. Ensemble Klang perform work from Cows, Chords & Combinations by Tom Johnson.

The Night of the Unexpected is part of the Gaudeamus Music Week in co-operation with Paradiso, Tropentheater, MCN and STEIM.
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> More info > ]]> September 19, 2010 | STEIM Concert Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida & Utah Kawasaki), Gail Priest, dj sniff tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c372 2010-09-01T09:40:22Z 2010-09-01T09:40:22Z

September 19, 2010 | STEIM Concert Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida & Utah Kawasaki), Gail Priest, dj sniff

STEIM September 19, 2010 | STEIM Concert Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida & Utah Kawasaki), Gail Priest, dj sniff
Featuring:
Ars Electronica Golden Nica winner ('03) Astro Twin with dj sniff
Australian sound artist Gail Priest

Sunday, Sep 19 2010
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs. (door open 20.00 hrs.)
Charge: 5 euros

Ami Yoshida and Utah Kawasaki are the tail end of a generation of experimental musicians that defined the minimalistic "onkyo" movement out of Tokyo since the mid 90's. Through numerous collaborations they both established an unique instrumentalism early on in their careers; Yoshida's faint but electric "howling" voice and Kawasaki's ever-evolving analog synth structures. Today they continue to be influential in Tokyo's subculture scene not only through their musical activities but also through writings and installation based work. This will be a rare European appearance of the duo in their third collaboration with dj sniff. Also performing on the bill is Sydney based sound artist and writer Gail Priest. Her sound work delicately weaves together processed voices with electronic textures creating sometimes eerie sometimes soothing soundscapes.

Artist Biographies-----------

Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida & Utah Kawasaki)
Ami Yoshida, born in 1976. Originator of the "howling voice," Ami Yoshida strives for a barely audible sound that is perceived as sound itself rather than as vocalization. In May 1997 she released the solo CD Spiritual Voice, and since then has been active in wideranging projects including albums by Yoshihide Otomo. In addition to her solo work, current projects include the duos Astro Twin, with patching synthesizer player Utah Kawasaki, and Cosmos, with sine wave performer Sachiko M; and the "strange gal band" California Dolls, with Chihiro Wada.

Utah Kawasaki, born in Tokyo in 1976. Inspired by his visits to the Paris Peking record shop, Utah Kawasaki began producing music in 1994, and between '94 and '95 released so many titles on tape that he himself lost count. In '96 he released a solo CD on Zero Gravity, a sub-label of Transonic Records. Since then he has contributed to a number of compilation CDs. Astro Twin, a duo with voice performer Ami Yoshida, is one of his main projects. The duo's first album Astro Twin / Cosmos (a 2-CD set shared with Cosmos, the duo of Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida), was released on F.M.N. Sound Factory in 2002. Kawasaki toured Europe in October 2000 with the group Mongoose, which he formed wtih Taku Sugimoto and Tetuzi Akiyama. He also put out a solo CD utah.mod.radi. in 2002 on Radio, a sub-label of 360°.

Astro Twin is the duo of Ami Yoshida and Utah Kawasaki. It was started in around 1996. Yoshida gave the duo its name, taken from the manga of the same name by Keiko Takemiya. It comes from the astrological term for beings born on the same day--although these two have different birthdays. Their sign, however, is the same--Taurus.

Gail Priest
Gail Priest is a Sydney-based sound artist. Her practice involves sound design/composition for performance, installation and live laptop-based exploratory music. She is also a curator, writer and commentator on sound and new media arts.

I seek to have a multi-faceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. The outcomes of this may take the form of solo laptop improvisation, live audiovisual collaborations, soundscores for performance and dance, gallery installations, curation of exhibitions and concert events, and critical writing on sound and related media arts.

Threading through my practice is an active engagement with the audience/listener to bring about an immersive experience. I have explored this through multispeaker saturated soundscapes for large audiences as well as intimate exchanges for the solo viewer—despite the scale there is always a performative essence.

The voice also forms a lynchpin of my works. While it is sometimes unrecognisable, subjected to multiple manipulations, more frequently the extended voice, derived from improvisation, is arriving in the foreground of works exploring the raw and mediated, the visceral and the mechanistic.
http://www.snagglepussy.net/
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dj sniff
dj sniff is listening to oOoOO and Evisbeats
> More info > ]]> September 20, 2010 | Musiclab #3 tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c363 2010-09-01T15:10:38Z 2010-09-01T15:10:38Z

September 20, 2010 | Musiclab #3

STEIM September 20, 2010 | Musiclab #3
Venue: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
Time: 20:00-22:00 hrs
Entrance: free
Register at http://www.dezwijger.nl/musiclab

Pakhuis De Zwijger organizes Musiclab: a bi-monthly talkshow about music and technology, in collaboration with STEIM, MCN, HKU and Interface Magazine. The events are meant for musicians, producers and music lovers.

For this edition STEIM will be presenting "godfather of Controllerism" Moldover.
More information: http://www.dezwijger.nl/page/16425/nl
> More info > ]]> September 21, 2010 | Orientation workshop #105 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen, Jonathan Reus, Wouter Jaspers, Laura Carmichel tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c268 2010-09-01T11:59:26Z 2010-09-01T11:59:26Z

September 21, 2010 | Orientation workshop #105 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen, Jonathan Reus, Wouter Jaspers, Laura Carmichel

STEIM September 21, 2010 | Orientation workshop #105 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen, Jonathan Reus, Wouter Jaspers, Laura Carmichel
The workshop is full for resident artists, but there are still 4 places available for local artists to sit in on the sessions.
Register by sending an email to workshops[at]steim.nl with a short bio and a link to online materials. You will be notified whether you are accepted. Registration is on first come first serve basis.

STEIM Orientation workshops are held roughly once every two months. These workshops are ment as an introduction into the STEIM way of working, and form an ideal first contact between artists and STEIM. Participants are selected to study and explore the possible technical and artistic means available at STEIM for a potential future project (f.e. a compositional work or a personal electronic instrument). This will be achieved partly through lectures by the STEIM staff, partly through collaboration between the participants, and partly through (informal) contact with the STEIM staff regarding specific requirements and wishes of each participant. The orientation will take place in a classroom setting, in STEIM`s studio 3.

There are 4 places available that include a room in our guesthouse and a workstation setup with the STEIM software and some additonal controllers, ment for participants from abroad. 4 additional places are available to local artists or people that arrange their own lodging, for those who wish to attend the lectures held that week. To apply for participation in an Orientation workshop you can send an email to knock@steim.nl with your motivation accompanied by your resumé, bio and links to audio/visual materials online.

This workshop will be from 21 - 28 September 2010.

A typical Orientation workshop schedule:

Monday:
   Arrival and check in.
Tuesday:
   11-13h: STEIM tour and general introduction (Robert van Heumen)
   13h: STEIM Lunch
   14-16h: LiSa introduction and demo (Robert van Heumen)
   16h: short participants introduction for STEIM staff
Wednesday:
   11-13h: junXion introduction (Frank Baldé)
   14-16h: Applied LiSa & JunXion with eponymous instruments (Daniel Schorno)
Thursday:
   11-13h: Interaction Design (Kristina Andersen)
         14-16h: Thinking about new instruments (Taku Mizuta Lippit)
Friday/Saturday/Sunday:
   Digesting the information from the first 3 days. No STEIM staff is present.
Monday:
   11-13h: Artist talk
   14-16h: Artist talk
Tuesday Apr 6:
   11-13h: Artist talk
   13h: STEIM Lunch
          14-16h: Individual talks to look for future possibilities
Wednesday:
   Check out and departure.

> More info > ]]> October 10, 2010 | CALARTS at STEIM 4th edition of CalArts exchange program at STEIM tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c365 2010-08-26T13:03:06Z 2010-08-26T13:03:06Z

October 10, 2010 | CALARTS at STEIM 4th edition of CalArts exchange program at STEIM

STEIM October 10, 2010 | CALARTS at STEIM 4th edition of CalArts exchange program at STEIM
Featuring:
Stephanie Smith, Carmina Escobar, Stina Haraldsdottir, Dan Eaton and Clay Chaplin

Located in Valencia California, CalArts has been one of the traditional hubs for music and art experimentation on West Coast. Since 2007, STEIM and their Experimental Sound Practices program have established an exchange program where they send a group of promising students to work intensively on projects in our studios. For each edition we have experimented with Professor Clay Chaplin in different methods of working with the students, and have seen fruitful results ranging from interactive circuit sculptures to a multi-media ensemble performance. They return this year again with a new group of students with a variety of backgrounds and interests. Come check out what they come up with this time!
2009 edition: http://vimeo.com/7435812

Sunday, Oct 10, 2010
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs. (Door open 20.00 hrs.)

Charge: Free

CALARTS Experimental Sound Practices

"The Experimental Sound Practices program was established for musicians, composers, and sound artists with a strong musical background who want to explore the more radical branches of contemporary sound. While coursework provides a strong foundation in the theory and application of digital media as well as the critical issues surrounding it, making work and presenting it in concert or installation is the key. Opportunities to hear your work include the school-sponsored ESP Nights and the student-run Sounding Out series, as well as self-produced events in our concert halls or other spaces around CalArts.

Looking back over the last few years of ESP Night concert programs, I see circuit-bending, instrumental modifications and deconstructions, random sound-effects database surfing, field recordings paired with ionic filters, an amplified rake, terrain-to-sound mappings, typewriter plus string quartet, video game hacking, cracking and downsmacking, live cooking (and eating), all mixed in with a healthy portion of electro acoustic improvisation and other digital musics. Our creative impulses and critical discourses take us in many directions, but we work together to produce a rich environment for sonic experimentation. Welcome to our site."

http://music.calarts.edu/~esp/
> More info > ]]> October 11, 2010 | Workshop Oscillator Machine by Tom Bugs (#1) tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c274 2010-09-01T10:23:52Z 2010-09-01T10:23:52Z

October 11, 2010 | Workshop Oscillator Machine by Tom Bugs (#1)

STEIM October 11, 2010 | Workshop Oscillator Machine by Tom Bugs (#1)
Come and build the Workshop Oscillator Machine with Tom Bugs of BugBrand. The W.O.M. is a simple electronic noise synth kit that has been designed both to be a fun experimental instrument and to provide an interesting introduction to lofi audio electronics. The workshops are open to all, even people with no prior electronic experience - we'll look at components and schematics, learn how to solder and put together a circuit. Once everyone has built their own WOM kit (yours to keep at the end) we'll have a play and then investigate how the different parts of the circuit behave and how ideas can be re-used in your own projects. A quick but comprehensive event that will give you the confidence to begin building your own electronic devices.
All materials and tools are provided. http://www.bugbrand.co.uk

This is a 1-day workshop that will happen twice. Please make sure you indicate on the registration form which day you'd like to attend.

Date: October 11 or October 12
Time: 10:00h - 16:00h
Cost: € 85 (including all parts)
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam
Note: this workshop takes place twice: on Monday Oct 11 and Tuesday Oct 12

Registration is required for this event and can only be done through this form for October 11 and this form for October 12.

Info from BugBrand's website on the WOM workshop:

We're going to put together a little circuit board noise machine and, along the way, get an introduction to some electronics and soldering techniques.
Don't worry if you've never done any electronics before – many people with zero prior knowledge have successfully built this machine in only a few hours. Also, while this handout contains quite a lot of information, much of it may go over your head for now – electronics can be seriously confusing to begin with (I certainly found this!), but hopefully you can come back to this information at a later date and gradually the pieces should begin to make sense. It is also fine, of course, just to build the machine and enjoy it!

All the parts are included in the kit – all you need is a soldering iron, some solder and a pair of wire cutters.
The machine we'll make contains:

Three oscillators – the sound sources
A mixer – to blend the oscillators together
Simple tone control – to shape the sound
Jack output and mini-amp
Circuit bends – 11 body contacts + power starvation

The documents (in colour) can be downloaded from here:
http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/docs/bugbrand_WOM_main.pdf
http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/docs/bugbrand_WOM_schem_bom.pdf

> More info > ]]> October 12, 2010 | Workshop Oscillator Machine by Tom Bugs (#2) tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c353 2010-09-01T10:21:31Z 2010-09-01T10:21:31Z

October 12, 2010 | Workshop Oscillator Machine by Tom Bugs (#2)

STEIM October 12, 2010 | Workshop Oscillator Machine by Tom Bugs (#2)
Come and build the Workshop Oscillator Machine with Tom Bugs of BugBrand. The W.O.M. is a simple electronic noise synth kit that has been designed both to be a fun experimental instrument and to provide an interesting introduction to lofi audio electronics. The workshops are open to all, even people with no prior electronic experience - we'll look at components and schematics, learn how to solder and put together a circuit. Once everyone has built their own WOM kit (yours to keep at the end) we'll have a play and then investigate how the different parts of the circuit behave and how ideas can be re-used in your own projects. A quick but comprehensive event that will give you the confidence to begin building your own electronic devices.
All materials and tools are provided. http://www.bugbrand.co.uk

This is a 1-day workshop that will happen twice. Please make sure you indicate on the registration form which day you'd like to attend.

Date: October 11 or October 12

Time: 10:00h - 16:00h
Cost: € 85 (including all parts)
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam
Note: this workshop takes place twice: on Monday Oct 11 and Tuesday Oct 12

Registration is required for this event and can only be done through this form for October 11 and this form for October 12.

Three oscillators – the sound sources
A mixer – to blend the oscillators together
Simple tone control – to shape the sound
Jack output and mini-amp
Circuit bends – 11 body contacts + power starvation

The documents (in colour) can be downloaded from here:
http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/docs/bugbrand_WOM_main.pdf
http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/docs/bugbrand_WOM_schem_bom.pdf

> More info > ]]> October 12, 2010 | STEIM Hotpot Lab #10 Oscillator Machine workshop & Tom Bugs tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c366 2010-08-11T11:44:07Z 2010-08-11T11:44:07Z

October 12, 2010 | STEIM Hotpot Lab #10 Oscillator Machine workshop & Tom Bugs

STEIM October 12, 2010 | STEIM Hotpot Lab #10 Oscillator Machine workshop & Tom Bugs
More info TBA
> More info > ]]> October 20, 2010 | Colliding Realities - Performance, Controllers, Code tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c349 2010-09-01T10:06:26Z 2010-09-01T10:06:26Z

October 20, 2010 | Colliding Realities - Performance, Controllers, Code

STEIM October 20, 2010 | Colliding Realities - Performance, Controllers, Code
A SuperCollider workshop by Alberto de Campo and Hannez Hoelzl

Dates: October 20 - 23
Cost: € 150
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam

This workshop explores the possibility space of Just In Time programming with SuperCollider and its manifold uses for performance-oriented approaches to computer sound/music. We will study flexible, extensible and reliable integration of JITLib-based instruments with a wide variety of controllers. Each coding session is complemented by a practice session to evaluate the performance of our programs under live conditions in solo or ensemble constellations.

SuperCollider experts welcome!
SuperCollider beginners welcome!

Schedule

Day 1: Continuous sounds with JITLib - NodeProxy, ProxySpace, Ndef

quasi analog synthesis
exploring UGens and combinations
using effects chains
storing results as code and sound
Play !

Day 2: Tasks and patterns with JITLib - Tdef, Pdef, SynthDefs

writing event based sounds (SynthDefs)
playing structures in time with controllable parameters
using patterns as sound sources that can be processed
storing results as code and sound
Play !

Day 3: Performances interfaces with JITLib in hard- and software - GUIs, MIDI, HID devices, GamePads, Manta etc.

attaching controllers to sound processes, tasks, and patterns
Extension Libraries (Quarks): JITLibExtensions, MIDIKtl, GamePad, Manta,
BRING YOUR OWN FAVORITE CONTROLLERS!
- or anything that sends OSC, HID, or MIDI -
Play !

Day 4: Performance setups - Putting it all together:

finetune sounds/instruments;
adapt scalings, ranges, fixed params for playing with controllers;
ways to switch between different uses of the same controller;
integrating instruments and controllers into one easy to use and extend setup.
Play !

Alberto de Campo studied classical composition, jazz guitar and electronic/computer music in Austria and the U.S. He has worked as Research Director at CREATE, UC Santa Barbara, and taught computer music and sound art at Music Univ. Graz and KHM Cologne. After being Edgard Varese guest professor for Electronic Music at TU Berlin, he led the SonEnvir project, an interdisciplinary research venture on sonifying scientific data from different domains.

In 2007, he became Professor for Music Informatics at RSH Duesseldorf, and since 2009, he is Professor for Generative Art/Computational Art at UdK Berlin. Here, he explores a wide range of topics with students: Network music performance in the style of powerbooks_unplugged, biologically informed/inspired art such as Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum (a project on communication between deep sea creatures), hybrid audiovisual performance systems, improvisation strategies in different contexts, and whatever students choose to explore as their individual projects.

He plays internationally with powerbooks_unplugged, Quiet Noise Quartet, Elisabeth Harnik, Mario de Vega, and in varying ensembles playing improvised network music and analog electronics.

Hannes Hoelzl works in various disciplines and constellations, always orbiting around the central focus of sound; with digital sound treatment and particulary the Open Source environment SuperCollider being his fundamental working tools.
His developments in music aim at improvisation interfaces that enable the computer to keep up with the directness of the instrumentalists; at sound spatialisation with a similar improvisational approach, and at pseudo-intelligent sound objects that might be able to surprise the performer with unforeseen turns.

Beyond acting as a performing musician, he works as a sound artist, designer, composer, software developer and instructor.
He has played internationally in Europe, China and the US, and his installative works have been exhibited, amonst others, in the Venice Biennale (2001, 2006), in ZKM Karlsruhe (D, 2006), and in Manifesta 2008.
He has held lecures and workshops at Universities and Conservatories in Wesleyan/Connecticut, Prague, Oslo and Beijing and lectures at Duesseldorf Music Academy.

> More info > ]]> October 26, 2010 | Orientation workshop #106 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen and invited artists tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c269 2010-06-05T11:34:26Z 2010-06-05T11:34:26Z

October 26, 2010 | Orientation workshop #106 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen and invited artists

STEIM October 26, 2010 | Orientation workshop #106 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen and invited artists
The workshop is full for resident artists, but there are still 4 places available for local artists to sit in on the sessions.
Register by sending an email to workshops[at]steim.nl with a short bio and a link to online materials. You will be notified whether you are accepted. Registration is on first come first serve basis.

STEIM Orientation workshops are held roughly once every two months. These workshops are ment as an introduction into the STEIM way of working, and form an ideal first contact between artists and STEIM. Participants are selected to study and explore the possible technical and artistic means available at STEIM for a potential future project (f.e. a compositional work or a personal electronic instrument). This will be achieved partly through lectures by the STEIM staff, partly through collaboration between the participants, and partly through (informal) contact with the STEIM staff regarding specific requirements and wishes of each participant. The orientation will take place in a classroom setting, in STEIM`s studio 3.

There are 4 places available that include a room in our guesthouse and a workstation setup with the STEIM software and some additonal controllers, ment for participants from abroad. 4 additional places are available to local artists or people that arrange their own lodging, for those who wish to attend the lectures held that week. To apply for participation in an Orientation workshop you can send an email to knock@steim.nl with your motivation accompanied by your resumé, bio and links to audio/visual materials online.

This workshop will be from Oktober 24 - November 2, 2010.

A typical Orientation workshop schedule:

Monday:
   Arrival and check in.
Tuesday:
   11-13h: STEIM tour and general introduction (Robert van Heumen)
   13h: STEIM Lunch
   14-16h: LiSa introduction and demo (Robert van Heumen)
   16h: short participants introduction for STEIM staff
Wednesday:
   11-13h: junXion introduction (Frank Baldé)
   14-16h: Applied LiSa & JunXion with eponymous instruments (Daniel Schorno)
Thursday:
   11-13h: Interaction Design (Kristina Andersen)
         14-16h: Thinking about new instruments (Taku Mizuta Lippit)
Friday/Saturday/Sunday:
   Digesting the information from the first 3 days. No STEIM staff is present.
Monday:
   11-13h: Artist talk
   14-16h: Artist talk
Tuesday Apr 6:
   11-13h: Artist talk
   13h: STEIM Lunch
          14-16h: Individual talks to look for future possibilities
Wednesday:
   Check out and departure.

> More info > ]]> November 4, 2010 | STEIM Concert Concern, Peter Edwards, Byungjun Kwon tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c373 2010-09-01T09:40:06Z 2010-09-01T09:40:06Z

November 4, 2010 | STEIM Concert Concern, Peter Edwards, Byungjun Kwon

STEIM November 4, 2010 | STEIM Concert Concern, Peter Edwards, Byungjun Kwon
Featuring:
Concern - cassette loops
Peter Edwards - circuit bent instruments
Byungjun Kwon - handmade electronic instruments

Thursday, Nov 4 2010
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs. (door open 20.00 hrs.)
Charge: 5 euros

New instruments don't necessarily make new music, and we've all seen cool instruments make bad music. So for musicians who decide to use unconventional or hand-made instruments, the real challenge is to develop an unique voice beyond the gadgetry, which usually takes longer than the time it took to make the instrument itself. Through our concert series, we hope we can get the point across that it's more about a musical practice rather than just a nerdy obsession. For this edition, we are happy to feature Gordon Ashworth's solo project Concern which builds beautiful drones based on cassette tape loop system and professional circuit bender Peter Edwards who performs, teaches and sells his circuit bent instruments through his company Casper Electronics. STEIM's Byungjun Kwon has a whole new set of handmade instruments that he showcased in Korea earlier this year which you know will be familiar object doing unfamiliar things. Hope to see you there!

Artist Biographies-----------

Concern
Established in 2004, Concern is a sound art project of Gordon Ashworth (also known for the solo project Oscillating Innards). As Concern, Gordon Ashworth strives to create beautiful, evocative music using acoustic instruments, tape manipulation, and field recordings.

The 2009 album “Truth & Distance” is entirely comprised of manipulated acoustic instruments. Strings and woodwinds are transformed into tonally rich, ethereal drones that layer and grow into organic, sublime structures and disintegrate into melancholic and nostalgic tape decay. By utilizing several means of sound capturing, Concern creates an intricately detailed palette of harmonic and spatial sound that is often inexplicably and subconsciously melodic.

“Truth & Distance” was released by the Digitalis and Iatrogenesis labels and has been described as “nothing short of immense” (Boomkat) and “essential listening for the drone inclined” (Aquarius). The 2010 album “Caesarean” delves deeper into vestigial melodies, degenerated tapes and acoustic drones, and will be released by the Arbor and Slow Flow labels on LP and CD. In 2008, Gordon collaborated with his brother Owen (aka Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) on two Bruce Springsteen covers, which was released on vinyl by People In A Position To Know.
The mediums used for Concern performances have varied from live manipulation of such objects as a lap steel guitar, an antique zither, an African thumb piano and a three-foot long, open air cassette loop. Since his first live set in 2008, Ashworth has toured rigorously as Concern, performing in over 60 cities throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and in 2010 will be performing in several cities in Japan, Europe and the United States.
Gordon Ashworth lives in Portland, Oregon USA.

http://forcedbloom.com/concern.html
http://myspace.com/nostophilia
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Peter Edwards
Peter Edwards has been exploring the field of circuit bending and creative electronics since 2000 through his business Casperelectronics. He has created custom works for collectors and musicians around the world including Mike Patton, Danny Elfman, Mark Hosler of Negativland and Rahzel.

Edwards received an BFA in sculpture from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Since then he has taught himself electronics and strives to find ways to help creative thinkers take control of the medium.

In 2005 he began the creative electronics department at Hampshire College where he also developed and taught courses. He currently teaches circuit bending classes at New York City’s new media arts center, Harvest Works and the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy NY.

Edwards has performed and shown his work at a number of galleries and music venues across the USA and Europe. He has also spoken and presented his work at several conventions and festivals including Piksel open source technologies convention (Bergen, Norway 07′ & 09′) Blip 8-bit music festival (New York City), PotLuckCon audio engineers convention (New Orleans, LA), Notacon hackers convention (Cleveland, OH), Electro-Music Festival DIY synth builders convention (New Jersey, NY) and he has been involved in all 6 Bent circuit bending festivals in New York City. He has also provided printed material for several publications including Icelandic art magazine Rafskinna and American DIY tech magazine Make.

Edwards currently lives in Troy, New York where he operates Casperelectronics and co curates the creative electronics performance space Casper Land with his fiance Kate Sweater.

http://www.casperelectronics.com/
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Byunjun Kwon
Byungjun Kwon(1971 South Korea) started his musical career in early 90`s as a singer/songwriter and has released 7 albums ranging from alternative rock to minimal house. He creates music for records, soundtracks, fashion collections, contemporary dance, theatre plays and interdisciplinary events developing his own musical instruments and performance tools. Now he lives and works in Amsterdam.
> More info > ]]> November 17, 2010 | Massive Light Boner at OT301 tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c368 2010-08-11T11:45:45Z 2010-08-11T11:45:45Z

November 17, 2010 | Massive Light Boner at OT301

STEIM November 17, 2010 | Massive Light Boner at OT301
More info TBA
> More info > ]]> November 27, 2010 | Turntable Music Night 8 tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c367 2010-08-11T11:44:53Z 2010-08-11T11:44:53Z

November 27, 2010 | Turntable Music Night 8

STEIM November 27, 2010 | Turntable Music Night 8
More info TBA
> More info > ]]> November 29, 2010 | Musiclab #4 tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c369 2010-08-31T16:07:26Z 2010-08-31T16:07:26Z

November 29, 2010 | Musiclab #4

STEIM November 29, 2010 | Musiclab #4
Venue: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
Time: 20:00-22:00 hrs
Entrance: free
Register at http://www.dezwijger.nl/musiclab

Pakhuis De Zwijger organizes Musiclab: a bi-monthly talkshow about music and technology, in collaboration with STEIM, MCN, HKU and Interface Magazine. The events are ment for musicians, producers and music lovers.

More info TBA
> More info > ]]> November 30, 2010 | Orientation workshop #107 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen and invited artists tag:www.steim.org,2010:/events//1.c270 2010-07-12T10:41:05Z 2010-07-12T10:41:05Z

November 30, 2010 | Orientation workshop #107 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen and invited artists

STEIM November 30, 2010 | Orientation workshop #107 by Frank Baldé, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heumen, Kristina Andersen and invited artists
The workshop is full for resident artists, but there are still 4 places available for local artists to sit in on the sessions.
Register by sending an email to workshops[at]steim.nl with a short bio and a link to online materials. You will be notified whether you are accepted. Registration is on first come first serve basis.

STEIM Orientation workshops are held roughly once every two months. These workshops are ment as an introduction into the STEIM way of working, and form an ideal first contact between artists and STEIM. Participants are selected to study and explore the possible technical and artistic means available at STEIM for a potential future project (f.e. a compositional work or a personal electronic instrument). This will be achieved partly through lectures by the STEIM staff, partly through collaboration between the participants, and partly through (informal) contact with the STEIM staff regarding specific requirements and wishes of each participant. The orientation will take place in a classroom setting, in STEIM`s studio 3.

There are 4 places available that include a room in our guesthouse and a workstation setup with the STEIM software and some additonal controllers, ment for participants from abroad. 4 additional places are available to local artists or people that arrange their own lodging, for those who wish to attend the lectures held that week. To apply for participation in an Orientation workshop you can send an email to knock@steim.nl with your motivation accompanied by your resumé, bio and links to audio/visual materials online.

This workshop will be from November 30 - December 7, 2010.

A typical Orientation workshop schedule:

Monday:
   Arrival and check in.
Tuesday:
   11-13h: STEIM tour and general introduction (Robert van Heumen)
   13h: STEIM Lunch
   14-16h: LiSa introduction and demo (Robert van Heumen)
   16h: short participants introduction for STEIM staff
Wednesday:
   11-13h: junXion introduction (Frank Baldé)
   14-16h: Applied LiSa & JunXion with eponymous instruments (Daniel Schorno)
Thursday:
   11-13h: Interaction Design (Kristina Andersen)
         14-16h: Thinking about new instruments (Taku Mizuta Lippit)
Friday/Saturday/Sunday:
   Digesting the information from the first 3 days. No STEIM staff is present.
Monday:
   11-13h: Artist talk
   14-16h: Artist talk
Tuesday Apr 6:
   11-13h: Artist talk
   13h: STEIM Lunch
          14-16h: Individual talks to look for future possibilities
Wednesday:
   Check out and departure.

> More info > ]]>