Performance by Institut fuer Feinmotorik
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Wednesday, Dec 10
Micro Jamboree Concert 1: Turntable Music Night 5
Dieb13 (AT) - Turntable improvisations with custom software and self-pressed vinyl
Institut fuer Feinmotorik (DE) - Turntable soundscape with 3 performers 8 turntables
eRikm (FR) and dj sniff (JP/NL) - Turntable Duo
Stigingeoy and PussyKrew (IE) - Turntables, feedback and visuals
Turntable Music Night is an evening that explores new directions and expressions with the turntable. This 5th edition will be the largest installment, featuring 4 experimental turntablist sets with all distinct approaches to the instrument.
Thursday, Dec 11
Micro Jamboree Concert 2: The Body, The Circuit, The Computer and The Voice
Heidi Mortenson (DK) - Voice and Real-Time Sampling
robotcowboy - Dan Wilcox (US/AT) - robotcowboy suit, MIDI guitar, controllers
Jamie Allen (CA/UK) - circuitMusic
Alex Nowitz (DE) - Voice, Wiimote, junXion, LiSa
The second evening of the Jamboree Concerts will feature 4 solo musicians each using custom built instrument setups to create extremely physical and exciting electronic music.
DJ Timsky with his Wii guitar
(All videos by Vivian Wenli Lin)
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STEIM Micro Jamboree 2008
Monday Dec 8 - Thursday Dec 11
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Main Entry: jam·bo·ree
Pronunciation: \ˌjam-bə-ˈrē\
Function: verb
Etymology: origin unknown
1: a noisy or unrestrained carouse 2 a: a large festive gathering b: a national or international camping assembly of Boy & Girl Scouts 3: a long mixed program of entertainment
STEIM is hosting its 2nd Micro Jamboree this December 8-11, 2008. Featuring 4 days of creativity and excellence in today’s electronic music through a wealth of presentations, discussions, and performances. An intense 7 sessions of lectures, demos, and discussions held by the most innovative artists, musicians, and instrument designers in the field will be hosted in STEIM’s studios. An intellectual jam on creative musical software, modern sensor interfaces, alternative energy sources for electronic music, rhythm and sequencing for live performances, and more!
At night STEIM moves to the Smart Project Space on December 10th and 11th for the Jamboree concerts for 2 large and festive gatherings of noisy and unrestrained carouse. The 5th edition of Turntable Music Night will feature 4 acts of adventurous turntablism. The 2nd concert night will be a plethora of circuits, voice, samplers, a cowboy suit, and even a Wii controller for individual performances. Concurrently, experience the STEIM Mobile Touch exhibition in the concert venue where you can make your own electronic music with the Finger Web or make some noise with the Crackle Box.
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Special celebration concert for Luc Houtkamp`s 55th birthday with POW Ensemble
Han Buhrs - vocals, live electronics
Guy Harries - vocals, computer
Luc Houtkamp - saxophones, computer, live electronics
Jacqueline Hamelink - cello
Wolter Wierbos - trombone, live electronics
POW Ensemble plays Homage to Hazard - music that might create unease
The POW Ensemble, led by Dutch composer/ saxophonist Luc Houtkamp, is a specialised ensemble, using live electronics and computers as musical instruments. The ensemble has a unique powerful sound and an uncompromising approach.
Computer music is often thought of as consisting of sounds that nobody can understand, except for some isolated nerds. A POW Ensemble show is something completely different. Here, real music is made!
Homage to Hazard is a jazzy programme with bizarre texts and disordering songs, sparkling improvisations and solid compositions played by virtuoso musicians.
In Western society it seems that security is God Almighty. Any hazard, coincidence, instability or even doubt is banned from our horizon. There is a strong collective urge to believe that modern technology will free us from peril - our prehistorical aspect of life.
This is, of course, profoundly questionable. Not only because in the process we are confronted with the limits of this technology (it crashes all over the place!) but because we also realise that technical security cuts us off from our ability to deal with reality as it arises. We lose our talent to improvise, to deal with insecurity, to make decisions based on instinct. We will never again take a train without knowing where it`s going.
At the same time, we also know that it is often fun to deal with the unexpected, to sharpen our brains and our senses by dealing with situations that occur accidentally, to improvise our way out of an uncontrolled momentum. Why? Because it appeals to our basic instinct.
This is precisely the thought that unites the POW-musicians: they pursue hazard, uncertainty and instability as a given fact. They regard doubt and instinct as useful colours to paint with. They never take anything for granted, and create a song out of any question mark.
In this Homage to Hazard, The POW Ensemble plays songs of insecurity - songs that might create unease, but don`t deny reality!
Master minds behind DNK-Amsterdam Seamus Cater and Koen Nutters
Simon Laroche with Robot Drummer
All photos take by Vivian Wenli Lin
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Mark Bain (NL)
Sebastien Roux (FR) & Kim Myhr (NO)
Manuel Chantre (CA) & Simon Laroche (CA)
Lukas Simonis (NL) & Goh Lee Kwang (MY)
DNK DJ Unit
STEIM and DNK-Amsterdam will showcase an exciting evening on the legendary party boat MS Stubnitz. This will feature 3 adventurous duos crossing boarders between electro-acoustic, improv, noise, dubstep and robotics. Mark Bain will present a special version of his Archisonic which will transform the whole ship into a resonating chamber. And the DNK DJ Unit will party on with their eclectic DJ set. Don’t miss this special collaboration on the Amsterdam harbor!
Korean Experimental Music at STEIM
Curated by Byungjun Kwon
Choi Joonyong
Ryu Hankil
Sato Yukie
STEIM is presenting an exclusive concert dedicated to Korean experimental music. Not only are they the pioneers of Korean electronic music, but also have been taking the role of introducing it abroad by means of their passionate performances. This concert is a part of their european tour in Belgium and The Netherlands.
Choi Joonyong (Kr)
Choi Joonyong started making noise with Hong Chulki as Astronoise from 1996. He plays electronic instruments such as opened cdplayers, reel tape player and speakers. He is participating in harsh noise band called Master Musik as well as playing solo, and made 3 solo albums with error sounds from cdplayers, He is running a record label called Balloon & Needle introducing experimental music from Korea.
http://www.balloonnneedle.com/
Ryu Hankil (Kr)
Born in 1975 in Seoul, South Korea. He was a keyboard player in two famous Korean indie pop groups, but eventually left the groups because he was tired of typical music making and sounds. At that time, he saw a concert by Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Axel Dörner, and Taku Unami in Seoul. He changed his musical instrument and concentrated more and more on improvised music and sound related works. Hankil has organised a monthly concert series called RELAY since 2005. He established his own publishing office called Manual, and releases improvised music and magazines.
http://www.themanual.co.kr/
Sato Yukie (Jp/Kr)
Sato Yukie is one of the main men behind a new group of experimenting artists in Seoul. A couple of years ago he started organizing some concerts with artists from abroad. Although his main musical activity is the psychedelic band KopChangJeonGol, he also plays an important role in the local improv scene, in which he mainly focusses on guitar-based experiment.
http://www.yogiga.com/yukie/
Jeremy Keenan - solo electronics
Robert van Heumen - Stranger (stereo electronic composition, WP)
Tina Blaine (BEAN) - Earth Tones
Mem1 (Laura + Mark Cetilia) - electronics & cello
Jeremy Keenan, Tina Blaine, Robert van Heumen, Laura Cetilia
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Grundik Kasyansky (RU) - feedback synthesizer, objects,
Guillaume Viltard (FR) - double bass
Jack Wright (US) - saxophones
KaiBorg: Jeff Kaiser (US) - quartertone trumpet, laptop and David Borgo (US) - saxes, EWI, laptop
Audile: Yutaka Makino (US/JP) - laptop and dj sniff (NL/JP) - turntable, laptop
Date: Thursday, Sep 18
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690
After a very successful <3 STEIM series and a very difficult loss during last June, we are back with our regular concert series in the alley ways of Amsterdam. We are happy to return with three groups that explore the edges of improvisational electro-acoustic music.
Please check out the audio samples and hope to see you all there!
(both videos shot and editing by MS Stubnitz crew)
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STEIM at Uitmarkt - Mobile Touch Exhibition, concert by One Man Nation and Tarek Atoui in MS Stubnitz
STEIM and NIMK celebrates the opening of the fall cultural season in legendary party boat MS Stubnitz. A selection of our Mobile Touch Exhibition will be displayed in the cabins of the boat and a STEIM showcase performance by One Man Nation and Tarek Atoui will take place at the open reception on Saturday.
Date: Friday, August 29 - Sunday August 31
Venue: MS Stubnitz
Mobile Touch Exhibition
Friday 20.00 - 24.00 h.
Saturday 12.00 - 24.00 h.
Sunday 13.00 - 23.00 h.
Performance by One Man Nation and Tarek Atoui
Saturday 20.00 h.
Entrance: Free
More information: http://www.nimk.nl
One Man Nation (SG/NL)
From ambient to folk to electronica to glitch, One Man Nation has meandered seamlessly through all pigeon-holed genres and trends creating eclectic sounds that stretches boundaries unsurpassed. A renegade producer of electronic music originally from the city-state of Singapore, he has 3 studio releases to date filled with tunes described as “tantalizes one’s ears with a patchwork of everyday samples, delicately drizzled over droning sounds”. On stage, One Man Nation brings forth his own brand of music, visuals and performance art as the various disciplines amalgamate smoothly into the musical flow of improvises beats and samples to create his desolate soundtrack. Controlling his computer via various hardware controllers, you are promised a very physical and present performance.
http://onemannation.com/content/performance/omn
arek Atoui (LB)
Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980. He moved to France in 1998 and studied contemporary and electronic music at the French National Conservatoire of Reims. He is an electro-acoustic musician although he works primarily digitally, creating a uniquely abstract sound world with his experimental approach. Using his own programs done through MAX/MSP, he makes sound scapes, often with beats, subject to breaks and asymmetries where he builds dedicated applications for each musical composition and gives a great attention to having an expressive, dynamic and intense performativity when it comes to playing in live. In Paris he co-founded the Asa Djinnia Collective in 2004 with Uriel Barthelemi involved in organizing and presenting creative and artistic events, and began working with the Puce Muse studios and IRCAM, along with several theatrical and dance companies… He since started to return to Lebanon and to the Middle East where he has initiated and curated several types of multidisciplinary interventions and events such as concerts, workshops destined to artists, university students and teenagers over music, performative arts and technology. He is currently the co-artistic director of the Steim studios in Amsterdam where he develops several projects and plays with Michel Waisvisz, Dj Sniff, Raed Yassin and others on improvised electronic music duos. He will soon release his first solo album on the Staalplaat esteemed Mort Aux Vaches series and has played and performed at the Today’s Art Festival (the Hague), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arborescence (Aix-en-Provence/ Marseille), Scopitone (Nantes), DEAF (Rotterdam)… The artistic work of Tarek Atoui also has social and political forms of engagement as he works with displaced communities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and does several forms of workshops and activities that consider electronic music and new technologies powerful tools of self expression and identity. His main project in this domain was the Empty Cans workshop that took place in summer 2007 in France, Holland, Lebanon and Egypt in partnership with the Today’s Art Festival, STEIM, the European Cultural Foundation and the Scopitone festival among others.
http://www.myspace.com/tarekatoui
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Vol.5 All Doors Open - Season Ending Party in Every Studio!
We would like to invite you to the 5th edition of events presenting the now of STEIM. Now as a continuum in a rich history of technological innovation, now as a studio for emerging artists to explore and develop new ideas, and now as a research center and venue for today’s adventurous live electronic arts. Why now? Because it’s a moment of time that our primary funding is in danger. We were criticized for being niche and closed. However our “niche audience” - performers, researcher, hackers, thinkers and tinkerers - from around the world sent us over 1000 letters of support in 2 weeks time. Now its our turn to show our gratitude with what we do; artists at their best in the here and now.
<3 = heart: We <3 STEIM, STEIM <3s you.
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
18:00 doors open
Foyer - bar, snacks
Middle Room - Mini Mobile Touch Exhibition
Studio 2 - OpenStudio - Mark Gergis (US) & Liz Allbee (US)
Studio 1 - quadraTv installation by Feedback Society (NL)
Studio 0 - STEIM Media Lounge
Basement - Open Analog Studio by Jorgen Brinkman (NL)
19:30 Concert 1 in Studio 3
Introduction - Takuro Mizuta Lippit
Set 1: Tarek Atoui (LB) - Computer + Controllers
Set 2: Akira Sakata (JP) - Saxophone / Robert van Heumen (NL) - Computer + Controllers
Set 3: Laetitia Sonami (US) - Lady’s Glove
20:45 - Performance in Studio 1
Live Cinema - Macular (NL)
21:30 Concert 2 in Studio 3
Set 4: Akira Sakata (JP) - Saxophone / Joel Ryan (NL) - Computer
Set 5: Tarek Atoui (LB) - Computer + Controllers / Raed Yassin (LB) - Bass + Objects / dj sniff (NL/JP) - Turntable + Computer
All together with Piet Jan’s hand-made instruments
(All Photos by Frank Balde)
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2008 Artistic Advisor Tina Blaine presents: Earth Tones – Electronic Zones
This evening will present a series of works that express acoustic and electronic sound sources and their transformations thru analog and digital signal processing. EarthTones – Electronic Zones will reveal an array of unique instruments, motion graphics and the exploration of real and imaginary potential thru cycles of audiovisual enhancements and deconstructions. - Tina Blaine
Piet Jan Blauw (NL)
Visual artist, musician, inventor of instruments and installations: the amiable artist known as Piet Jan Blauw from the North Holland town of Hoorn is impossible to pigeonhole. Piet’s vision is not just the mere manipulation of technological gadgets. Their use is meant to ultimately evoke an emotional response from the audience and spur them on to discover lost domains within themselves. His musical instruments are of sophisticated craftsmanship and produce archetypal sounds. The didgeridoo he built from aluminium also serves as a cello and a berimbau. Little details defy the ideal. Piet’s music can never be played in exactly the same way and demands improvisation. He sculpts soundscapes as he plays and manipulates radiowaves with the impedance of his body. Seemingly anonymous ultrasonic waves are invoked into being by his conjurations. This results in a pantheon of sounds that are ministered by samplers, sequencers, and processors. Piet drives his own aural sculptures to their limits in every performance. Technology enables him to push the limits, yet he always uses it as a tool of creation.
Jaap Drupsteen (NL)
Jaap Drupsteen (1942) studied graphic design at the Academy for Arts & Crafts and double bass at the Music Lyceum, Enschede. He started as a graphic designer at NOS-television and was a jazz bass player in his spare time. After a career as an art director at Tel Design, designer and tv-director at VPRO Television, and creative director at Signum (BBDO group), he started his own company Studio Drupsteen. Jaap has specialized in synchronous motion graphics to live music performances with different musicians, composers and orchestras since 1999, Jaap has been immersed in the world of computer music for more than twenty years composing for TV and for his own performing groups combining sound and vision. His awards are many, including the TV-critic’s Nipkow Award, Werkman Design Award, Sikkens Award, Prix Italia, L.J.Jordaan Award, Alblas Award, Holland Video Award and the Prix Sacem du Louvre.
Gerry Bassermann (US)
Composer Gerry Bassermann is a musician who works in many different acoustic and electronic styles, playing a wide variety of instruments and programming music computers. He holds several degrees in music composition and conducting at the Eastman School of Music, and currently owns and operates OPUS NINE, a project studio in the San Francisco Bay area (www.opusnine.com). For the past twenty five years, he’s worked as a musical consultant, writer, composer, and electronic instrument designer. Gerry is currently focused on music production and sound design, blending synthetic and acoustic sounds. He has taught electronic music at University of California at Santa Cruz since 1995, and is currently Director of North American Markets for Propellerhead Software. In 1993, he co-founded the Bay area ensemble Haunted By Waters which performed electro-acoustic compositions inspired by musical styles from many cultures. His current projects are Artifact, which explores loop-based trance music; Nye’s Reef, a free improvisation group based in Half Moon Bay, CA; and subTribe, a Middle Eastern music and dance ensemble and production company.
Tina Blaine (US)
Inspired by global traditions and spontaneous music, Bean has built custom electronic midi devices and studied acoustic percussion from Africa to Asia and beyond. She has written music for NPR, video games, TV and documentary soundtracks, and has performed/recorded with Brian Eno, Mickey Hart, Haunted by Waters, D’CüCKOO, Tracy Blackman, RhythMix, Pandemonaeon, University of Pittsburgh Gamelan, Maze Daiko and others lured by the muse. Bean currently works as a curator for the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose and is an artistic inspirator with the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam. An energetic performer/educator, Bean developed a variety of interactive media experiences while teaching at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center and working as a “musical interactivist” at Interval Research in Palo Alto. Her collaborative work with students and colleagues has resulted in several museum exhibits at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Zeum in San Francisco, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, Laboral in Gijon, Spain and Give Kids the World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Bean co-founded the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME.org) conference in 2001 and looks forward to discovering each year’s whimsical inventions.
