STEIM Events

March 27, 2010 | Workshop: The Benjolin - Build your own electronic fun-box (FULL) by: Rob Hordijk & Joker Nies

2010-03-01T20:52:01Z

The Benjolin - Build your own electronic fun-box (FULL)
(Start) date: March 27, 2010
Lecturer(s): Rob Hordijk & Joker Nies

In a one-day workshop conducted by legendary synth builder Rob Hordijk and circuit bender Joker Nies, participants will build the Benjolin, an analog sound-device that is very different from what you usually will find with other DIY-kits. This kit will ONLY be available through the workshop, it is not for sale separately. The class cost is just €70, plus a materials fee of €80. You will bring home an analog synth, and you can tell everyone that you`ve build it yourself!

The Benjolin is a ‘noise box’ that is ‘bent by design’, meaning that it always has a definite amount of unpredictability while it is still intuitive to play. The Benjolin features two eighteen-octave range voltage controlled oscillators that drive a ‘rungler’ circuit, circuitry that in essence uses a special interference technique feeding back into the oscillators to force them into wild chaotic behaviour. A special slightly chaotic filter is both excited and modulated by the signals from the rungler circuitry processes, producing sounds between fat drones to grungy noise havoc. The kit is somewhat challenging to build, but with a little patience and accuracy a beginner in DIY can definitely do it successfully.

The workshop will take place at STEIM, Achtergracht 19, from 12:00 - 18:00h.

Sound examples: http://web.me.com/klangbureau/DIY/Demos.html
Making of: http://web.me.com/klangbureau/DIY/making_of.html

Teacher BIOs

Rob Hordijk (The Hague, The Netherlands). Originally a sculptor and jewelry designer, Rob has established himself over the years as an expert in sound synthesis techniques. In the last couple of years he specializes in hand-build analog electronic instruments that have distinct sonic signatures, instruments that are somewhere between musical instruments and objets d’art. His instruments are used in live performances by a number of established improvisors all over the planet. An example of an instrument designed by Rob is the Blippoo Box, featured in the upcoming 19th issue of Leonardo Music Journal. Rob has been teaching, lecturing and conducting workshops since 1983 at a number of institutes in The Netherlands, and occasionally in other places on this planet.

Joker Nies (Cologne, Germany) is a musician, sound-designer, sound-engineer, photographer and technical editor for the German Sound&Recording and Keyboards magazines. Recent activities include software synth-design in MAX/MSP for the german Keyboards magazine, and production and sound design for radio-plays for the German WDR radio-broadcast. Joker Nies is known for his energetic improvisations on unusual electronic instruments and re-built electronic toys all over Europe and the US. He has played with many established improvisors and is a.o. part of the trio Die Schrauber. Joker is a leading expert in circuit bending and has conducted many inspiring circuit-bending and DIY workshops in the whole of Europe and the USA.

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March 30, 2010 | Workshop: Orientation (by invitation only) (FULL) by: Daniel Schorno Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé

2010-02-15T21:25:06Z

Orientation (by invitation only) (FULL)
(Start) date: March 30, 2010
Lecturer(s): Daniel Schorno Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé

Orientations are held roughly once every 2 months, and last one week (Tuesday through Tuesday - not on Fri/Sat/Sun). 3 Or 4 persons 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 educational department of STEIM, partly through cooperation 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.
Lodging will be provided in our simple self-catered guesthouse. Both workspace and lodging are offered free of charge. STEIM does not cover travel and food.

This workshop will be from 30 March - 6 April 2010.

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April 8, 2010 | The Sense of Contact 12

2010-03-03T15:26:41Z

The Sense of Contact 12

Date: April 8, 2010

Frank Baldé and Dick Rijken will give a lecture/demonstration at the Sensor of Contact conference/workshop.

Date: April 8, 2010

Time STEIM presentation: 15:30 - 16:30

Location: Woudschoten Conferentiecentrum Zeist

More info: http://www2.fhi.nl/senseofcontact/

The possibilities of sensors and their applications are enormous. Nowadays sensors are used in many applications in our daily lives. The Sense of Contact 12 shows several possibilities of sensor applications in our society. And the potential of sensors to solve social issues and challenges.

Dutch universities, institutes and industry will present their recent sensor research and development according to challenges in Art, Safety and Autonomous sensors. During the day a broad scope of challenges will be shown, by speakers and students with their latest work. It is also possible to participate in the challenges at the afternoon workshops.

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May 3, 2010 | Workshop: The Benjolin - Build your own electronic fun-box - second edition by: Rob Hordijk & Joker Nies

2010-03-01T20:53:56Z

The Benjolin - Build your own electronic fun-box - second edition
(Start) date: May 3, 2010
Lecturer(s): Rob Hordijk & Joker Nies

Back by popular demand! The first workshop on building the Benjolin sold out in 2 days, so we decided to host another one. People who were placed on the waitinglist for the first one will have precedence over new registrations.

In a one-day workshop conducted by legendary synth builder Rob Hordijk and circuit bender Joker Nies, participants will build the Benjolin, an analog sound-device that is very different from what you usually will find with other DIY-kits. This kit will ONLY be available through the workshop, it is not for sale separately. The class cost is just €70, plus a materials fee of €80. You will bring home an analog synth, and you can tell everyone that you`ve build it yourself!

The Benjolin is a ‘noise box’ that is ‘bent by design’, meaning that it always has a definite amount of unpredictability while it is still intuitive to play. The Benjolin features two eighteen-octave range voltage controlled oscillators that drive a ‘rungler’ circuit, circuitry that in essence uses a special interference technique feeding back into the oscillators to force them into wild chaotic behaviour. A special slightly chaotic filter is both excited and modulated by the signals from the rungler circuitry processes, producing sounds between fat drones to grungy noise havoc. The kit is somewhat challenging to build, but with a little patience and accuracy a beginner in DIY can definitely do it successfully.

The workshop will take place at STEIM, Achtergracht 19, from 12:00 - 18:00h.

Sound examples: http://web.me.com/klangbureau/DIY/Demos.html
Making of: http://web.me.com/klangbureau/DIY/making_of.html

Teacher BIOs

Rob Hordijk (The Hague, The Netherlands). Originally a sculptor and jewelry designer, Rob has established himself over the years as an expert in sound synthesis techniques. In the last couple of years he specializes in hand-build analog electronic instruments that have distinct sonic signatures, instruments that are somewhere between musical instruments and objets d’art. His instruments are used in live performances by a number of established improvisors all over the planet. An example of an instrument designed by Rob is the Blippoo Box, featured in the upcoming 19th issue of Leonardo Music Journal. Rob has been teaching, lecturing and conducting workshops since 1983 at a number of institutes in The Netherlands, and occasionally in other places on this planet.

Joker Nies (Cologne, Germany) is a musician, sound-designer, sound-engineer, photographer and technical editor for the German Sound&Recording and Keyboards magazines. Recent activities include software synth-design in MAX/MSP for the german Keyboards magazine, and production and sound design for radio-plays for the German WDR radio-broadcast. Joker Nies is known for his energetic improvisations on unusual electronic instruments and re-built electronic toys all over Europe and the US. He has played with many established improvisors and is a.o. part of the trio Die Schrauber. Joker is a leading expert in circuit bending and has conducted many inspiring circuit-bending and DIY workshops in the whole of Europe and the USA.

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May 10, 2010 | Workshop: Advanced real-time sound and data processing with FTM&Co by: Diemo Schwarz

2010-03-10T17:09:21Z

Advanced real-time sound and data processing with FTM&Co
(Start) date: May 10, 2010
Lecturer(s): Diemo Schwarz

Dates: May 10 - 13 from 10:00 - 16:00
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam

This workshop is a collaboration with the Music Technology departement from the Utrecht school of music (HKU). If you`re a student or alumni from MT/HKU please indicate this in the registration form. Students can participate for free, alumni will receive a 50% discount. Students are required to pay €50 at the time of registration, which they will be refunded on the first day of the workshop.

Advanced real-time sound and data processing with FTM&Co is a 4-day advanced Max/MSP workshop by Ircam researcher-developer Diemo Schwarz that will provide an introduction to the FTM&Co extensions for Max/MSP, looking into the basics and the advanced use of the Ircam libraries FTM, MnM, Gabor and CataRT for interactive real-time musical and artistic applications.

The basic idea of FTM is to extend the data types exchanged between the objects in a Max/MSP patch by complex data structures such as matrices, sequences, dictionaries, break point functions, tuples and whatever might seem helpful for the processing of music, sound and motion capture data. It also comprises visualization and editor components, and operators (expressions and externals) on these data structures, together with file import/export (SDIF, audio, MIDI, text, ...) operators.

As examples of applications in the areas of sound analysis, transformation and synthesis, gesture following, and manipulation of musical scores, we will look at the parts and packages of FTM that allow arbitrary-rate signal processing (Gabor), matrix operations, statistics, machine learning (MnM), corpus-based concatenative synthesis (CataRT), sound description data exchange (SDIF), and Jitter support. The presented concepts will be tried and confirmed by applying them to programming exercises of real-time musical applications, and free experimentation.

FTM&Co is developed by Norbert Schnell and the Real-Time Music Interaction Team (IMTR) at Ircam and is freely available at http://ftm.ircam.fr.

Bio

Diemo Schwarz is a researcher--developer in real-time applications of computers to music with the aim of improving musical interaction, notably sound analysis--synthesis, and interactive corpus-based concatenative synthesis.

Since 1997 at Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique--Musique) in Paris, France, he combined his studies of computer science and computational linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, with his interest in music, being an active performer and musician. He holds a PhD in computer science applied to music from the University of Paris, awarded in 2004 for the development of a new method of concatenative musical sound synthesis by unit selection from a large database. This work is continued in the CataRT application for real-time interactive corpus-based concatenative synthesis within Ircam`s Real-Time Music Interaction (IMTR) team.

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May 26, 2010 | Local Stop concert with: Aki Onda & Gareth Davis Kenneth Atchley & John Bischoff Bill Hsu Shackle (Anne LaBerge & Robert van Heumen)

2010-02-15T21:53:36Z

Local Stop concert with:
Aki Onda & Gareth Davis
Kenneth Atchley & John Bischoff
Bill Hsu
Shackle (Anne LaBerge & Robert van Heumen)

Date: May 26, 2010

More info TBA

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May 31, 2010 | Workshop: Dirty Electronics by: John Richards & Chris Carter

2010-02-22T14:48:03Z

Dirty Electronics
(Start) date: May 31, 2010
Lecturer(s): John Richards & Chris Carter

TBA

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June 8, 2010 | Workshop: Orientation (by invitation only) by: Frank Baldé Takuro Mizuta Lippit Daniel Schorno Robert van Heumen

2010-02-15T21:25:22Z

Orientation (by invitation only)
(Start) date: June 8, 2010
Lecturer(s): Frank Baldé Takuro Mizuta Lippit Daniel Schorno Robert van Heumen

Orientations are held roughly once every 2 months, and last one week (Tuesday through Tuesday - not on Fri/Sat/Sun). 3 Or 4 persons 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 educational department of STEIM, partly through cooperation 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.
Lodging will be provided in our simple self-catered guesthouse. Both workspace and lodging are offered free of charge. STEIM does not cover travel and food.

This workshop will be from 8 - 15 June 2010.

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August 23, 2010 | Workshop: Isadora by: Jamie Griffiths

2010-02-15T20:50:03Z

Isadora
(Start) date: August 23, 2010
Lecturer(s): Jamie Griffiths

More info TBA

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August 30, 2010 | Workshop: junXion by: Frank Baldé

2010-02-15T20:50:30Z

junXion
(Start) date: August 30, 2010
Lecturer(s): Frank Baldé

More info TBA

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September 21, 2010 | Workshop: Orientation (by invitation only) by: Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé Daniel Schorno

2010-02-15T21:24:10Z

Orientation (by invitation only)
(Start) date: September 21, 2010
Lecturer(s): Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé Daniel Schorno

Orientations are held roughly once every 2 months, and last one week (Tuesday through Tuesday - not on Fri/Sat/Sun). 4 or 5 persons 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 educational department of STEIM, 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.
Lodging will be provided in our simple self-catered guesthouse. Both workspace and lodging are offered free of charge. STEIM does not cover travel and food.

This workshop will be from 21 - 28 September 2010.

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October 26, 2010 | Workshop: Orientation (by invitation only) by: Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé Daniel Schorno

2010-02-15T21:26:13Z

Orientation (by invitation only)
(Start) date: October 26, 2010
Lecturer(s): Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé Daniel Schorno

Orientations are held roughly once every 2 months, and last one week (Tuesday through Tuesday - not on Fri/Sat/Sun). 4 or 5 persons 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 educational department of STEIM, 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.
Lodging will be provided in our simple self-catered guesthouse. Both workspace and lodging are offered free of charge. STEIM does not cover travel and food.

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

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November 30, 2010 | Workshop: Orientation (by invitation only) by: Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé Daniel Schorno

2010-02-15T21:26:47Z

Orientation (by invitation only)
(Start) date: November 30, 2010
Lecturer(s): Robert van Heumen Takuro Mizuta Lippit Frank Baldé Daniel Schorno

Orientations are held roughly once every 2 months, and last one week (Tuesday through Tuesday - not on Fri/Sat/Sun). 4 or 5 persons 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 educational department of STEIM, 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.
Lodging will be provided in our simple self-catered guesthouse. Both workspace and lodging are offered free of charge. STEIM does not cover travel and food.

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

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