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MICHEL WAISWISZ 1949 - 2008

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 20, 2008 at 11:30pm
Michel was gentle and always curious about my work when I was an artist in residence at STEIM. He was an inspiration and always willing to have a good conversation. In my last visit to STEIM in March, he was to kind to concede an interview that I have not finished because sound problems. This is the great material that he gave me and I placed it here from Live Electronic Music Festival (LEF) Paying with "The Hands" 11/22/2006 From STEIM message: Michel Waisvisz died peacefully in his home on Wednesday June 18 after fighting the mean cells in his body for the last eight months. He was born on the 8th of July 1949 and lead STEIM as Director for 27 years. He left us on a day when artists and friends from around the world gathered downstairs to perform for a full-house season-closing concert. Michel was a musician, visionary and occasional gardener - touched by sound and forever happy to be surprised. He was the source of an enormous surge of energy that continues to flow through STEIM into the world. We will miss his touch, crackle, inspiration and constant improvisation of the now. You can leave condolences at http://www.steim.org/michel/. MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO MICHEL'S FAMILY AND TO STEIM TEAM
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STEIM Funding in DANGER! Call for Support!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on May 23, 2008 at 2:30pm

STEIM is a very important and influential organization with a huge positive impact on the electronic performance field, helping many performing artists to develop alternative ways interface movement and gesture with media outputs. It has developed software, hardware and educational platforms that have allowed hundred of artists from all over the world to experiment with technology with DIY and sustainable approached. I was able to create my very first wireless sensor system at STEIM during an artistic residency in 2003 using hacked game controllers. That support has continued during the past 4 years and have always been open and generous with my new projects and their evolution. They were one of the first dance-tech.net "institutional friends" and I know that they have supported many of the members of this network!! I got the bad news that they might be loosing their funding from the government. This is the content of the announcement, please read and take action to help STEIM continue supporting our experimentation! STEIM needs your support! Things are not well at STEIM. We are in the danger of losing our structural funding from the government, based on a review from the advisor board which called us 'closed and only appealing to a niche audience'. The outlook isn't exactly bleak, but at the moment our future is unclear. As we see you as an important friend and colleague of STEIM, we would like to ask you to help us present our case that we are connected to a diverse network of professionals and that our work has significant influence on both a Dutch and an international community. What you can do is to send a letter of support, and make sure we receive it by May 26. We hope that these letters will show the variety and depth of the effect STEIM has in the real world. The contents are up to you, a few good lines will suffice. You could tell how you or someone you know benefited from their contact with STEIM: making or refining an instrument or an idea for a performance or meeting fellow artists, or what you feel would be lost if STEIM ceased to exist, or waxing aphoristic, just 12 words about STEIM. Also include some specific details of your context: as an artist or educator or musician or code hacker - so your place in the world will be visible for the committee. A letterhead with your organization or institution and your position or title above your signature are small things that can leave an impression. As for how to reply, time is of the essence so email is the preferred option. If you have time to scan a printed letter that's great but we can print emails or faxes as well. Unfortunately we have only a short period for our response, so we would like to receive your letter by May 26. You can address the letter to the Council for Culture. Please send your letter to: Email: knock@steim.nl Fax: + 31 (0)20 6264262 Address: Achtergracht 19, 1017WL Amsterdam, The Netherlands > > > Sending a personal letter is the best, but for a quick message use the online support letter. See the petition in their site here
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STEIM gives discount in JunXion Software for dance-tech.net members

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 6, 2008 at 8:00pm

STEIM has created junXion, a software application for music performers, art installation makers, theater makers, choreographers. STEIM has become institutional friend of dance-tech.net and offers a special version of the junXion software: a version that works for half a year for 30 Euros. This software is normally 75 Euros. After the 6 month you, if you wish can buy the software only paying the remaining balance. junXion v3 is a Mac OSX data routing application that can process any Human Interface Device (joysticks, mice, touchscreens) and MIDI device data using conditional processing and remapping, with MIDI events as its output. This resulting MIDI data is then available to any audio or music software that runs on that Mac or can be send to external MIDI devices. junXion v3 is redesigned completely from the ground up (as compared to v1.4), resulting in a system whereby the user creates so-called 'Patches'. Each Patch is a connection between a sensor input (for example: 'joystick X-axis') and an Action (for example: 'convert the sensor data into midi controller 3, but only under certain conditions'). The Action is a user selectable set of conditions and actions that determine what should happen with the input-sensor's data and what kind of MIDI data should be send out. All the members of the network can enjoy this discount! Interested members should email me (marlon@dance-tech.net) and add a link to your profile page in the network! You can also use the network to communicate with me. CONDITIONS: -The member needs to be an "individual" and needs to have a completed profile in dance-tech.net with his or her real and complete name. This is the only way of confirming your identity and membership to dance-tech.net. -The members favored with this deal must blog at least once a week about their learning and creative process, use of the software during 6 months in their blog at dance-tech.net.
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Breaking Down Structures: Interview with Joel Ryan

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 27, 2008 at 4:30am

I interviewed the digital musician and performer Joel Ryan at STEIM in Amsterdam. 3/8/08. This is his bio: (he has been around!)

Spawned in the first generation of computer music hackers in San Francisco’s silicon valley, Joel Ryan is a composer who has long championed the idea of performance-based electronic music. Drawing on his scientific background, he pioneered the application of digital signal processing to acoustic instruments. At STEIM in Amsterdam since 1984, he has collaborated extensively with artists and musicians including Evan Parker, William Forsyth, George Lewis, Steina Vasulka and Jerry Hunt. Formerly a Research Associate in physics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories of the University of California, he has taught philosophy, physics, and mathematics. He is a researcher at STEIM in Amsterdam, tours with the Frankfurt Ballet and is Docent in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has performed at the Theater Chatelet in Paris, the Concertgebau Amsterdam, the Pit Inn in Tokyo, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Kitchen in New York. Recent work includes a series of duets with Evan Parker,Frances Marie Uitti and Joelle Leandre, EIDOS/TELOS, with William Forsyth and Roberto Zucco with the Royal Shakespear Company. Other works include Or Air, The Number Readers, Hat Moon Joy, and The Effect of Noise on the Sleep of Children. MMVI http://www.xs4all.nl/~jr/
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