Joseph Bowie, Paul Hubweber and Hilary Jeffery, all trombone players had been working in the STEIM studio for the entire day, experimenting with sensors and sound processing. Basically each was given a Nintendo WiiRemote controller (as used for the gameconsole) with prepared functionality (set up by some of the programmers of Steim) to record their own trombone sound, to play it back and to process it. This meant they had to master new playing techniques in just one day!

This concert showed me that brilliant musicians indeed are able to master their ‘new’ enhanced instrument in just one day. It was amazing how they played with it, sometimes just two of them, sometimes in combo with Luc Houtkamp, the initiator of this evening. This was indeed live electronics in optima forma, a formula that I would definitely like to see and hear again!

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