Help us research Android phone sensors

STEIM is doing some research into the sensitivity and range of sensor components in Android-based phones and we need your help. If you’d like to be part of the research,…

Fundraiser for MARIE, open music robots for touring musicians

Future STEIM residents the EAR Duo and EMMI (Expressive Machines Musical Instruments) are currently running a grassroots fundraising campaign to construct the next generation of music robots, nicknamed MARIE.

MARIE are a set of virtuosic and expressive music robots that are portable, reliable, user-friendly, and fit within the dimension/weight limits for international checked baggage. In other words, these are music robots for touring musicians.

Documenting STEIM

STEIM has had an on-going problem that it has always neglected. DOCUMENTATION. For at least the last 25 years, every year STEIM has supported more than 100 projects, organized events…

Alex Nowitz has won the 1st prize of the ECPNM competition at ISCM in Gothenburg

Alex Nowitz, a frequent STEIM residency guest, won the 1st prize of the European Competition for Live-Electronics Music Projects at ISCM in Gothenburg with his new piece MINOTAURUS, For Amplified…

Announcement: STEIM Party! Thursday, June 18 2009

Come join us celebrate the first half of our 40th anniversary with performances, installations and presentations in all of our studios. One year ago, on the same day, we hosted…

Research in position tracking 2: Recent projects

While video tracking is the most common method in detecting people in a given space, especially with new tools like openFrameworks, a non-camera / sensor hardware solution would be interesting…

Research in position tracking: STEIM projects in the past

Local composer Yannis Kyriakides came to us with a project that required detecting position of multiple people in a room. Position tracking is a common problem often solved with video these days. Since we just released the new version of junXion with video tracking, we wanted to experiment with this along with other combination of sensors.

While I asked our hardware staff Byungjun to research about recent projects, I started talking to Nico Bes, STEIM’s current Studio Manager who was also the STEIM’s engineer in the 70′s, about some projects in the past.

Philippa Cullen: pressure sensitive dance floor (1972)