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Events 2001

Workshops and concert

Sunday 6 May till Wednesday 9 May 2001

STEIM

Media-Art, electrical music and concert

The workshop is an introduction into gestural instruments and the live sampling software LiSa. STEIM will bring an assortment of sensors and sensor instruments, pre-programmed to control the LiSa software. An introductory lecture qualifies you to work with the LiSa software, explore it`s sound manipulation possibilities and play these electronic instruments by gesture. The concert The Electric Hands on saturday will give you an impression of live sampling and of on-stage instrumental composition. For workshop students the concert on Saturday is free.

The participation in the workshop is free of charge but own costs have to be borne for food and lodging. The staff of the Edith-Ruß-House will help to arrange accommodation.

Steim

The concert with the STEIM members Michel Waisvisz (The Hands and LiSa) and Frank Baldé (Handles, knobs and LiSa) is a live electronic performance in the realm of: Rhythm & Zoom, Animal Glitch, Modern Crackle, Ethnotronica, Electro-Acoustique, TripVox and Narrative Noise. Using his instrument The Hands, Waisvisz` gestures, finger and body movements are immediately translated into sound. The Hands consists of a construction of sensors attached to his hands that controls a music computer with live sampling software (LiSa); Michel Waisvisz becomes alive as a music machine.

STEIM (studio for electro instrumental music) foundation in Amsterdam is a Center for Research & Development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts, Laboratory, Workshop, International meeting place, Artist hotel, Production office, Live electro acoustic music, Dj`s, Vj`s, Theatre, Video-dance, Installations and Nomad studio. STEIM is the support home of the pioneers of touch and creators of personal and extremly physical musical instruments.

Michel Waisvisz is composer, performer and inventor/pioneer of live electronic music. Since the late sixties he has developed whole new ways to achieve a physical touch with electronic music instruments; sometimes literally touching the electricity inside the instruments and thereby becoming a thinking component of the machine. He was one of the first to use synthesizers on stage and the first to develop and perform with what is now called gestural MIDI controllers. Beside the solo performances he has also collaborated with a great variety of musicians/composers: Laurie Anderson, Steve Lacy, DJ Spooky, Najib Cheradi, The Nieuw Ensemble, Willem Breuker, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Maarten Altena etc. He is founder and artistic director of STEIM since 1980. Together with Frank Baldé, who joined STEIM in 1985, Michel Waisvisz has created a number of software programs that focus on live sampling (LiSa) and on on-stage instrumental composition. Frank Baldé is the research coordinator and software designer at STEIM, and he teaches at the Sonology department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

More Infos: www.steim.org