Instruments & Interfaces, STEIM masters study @ Sonology
Over the last forty years STEIM has been an international destination for performing artists to explore new electronic instruments. Now we’re opening up our doors to share our body of…
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Lukatoyboy > Children’s Workshop Residency // Part Two
I left my a-bit-more-than-a-week residency at Steim and it felt so hard in the beginning. The feeling has reminded me of the Terre Thaemlitz talk at the Elevate festival, regarding…
Erik Spangler > Orientation #106 // The path that leads me to STEIM
The last time I was in Amsterdam I was 15 years old, traveling to the premiere of an opera by my first composition teacher, Param Vir. That was in 1992,…
Ricky Graham and John King > signalsundertests
The premise of this project was to build a hardware unit which provides polyphonic audio (separate audio signal for each string) as well as MIDI data (pitch and velocity) for each note executed which could be utilised for mapping purposes. Such a hardware unit would allow the user to maximize CPU power for signal processing. Following on from a previous “break-out box” project, I purchased the Axon AX-50 board from Terratec (Germany) to allow for MIDI data for each note. The tracking is excellent on this board in combination with Graphtech’s “Hexpander” MIDI interface.
First pictures of a wonderful concert night…
These pictures were shot last tuesday the 22nd, a concert night with the human voice as the main instrument, treated and untreated. It was an amazing evening!