Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a synth jam by reader Rene Splinter that features the relatively rare STEIM Kraakdoos (or Cracklebox) with more traditional synthesizers. The video begins with a demo of the Kraakdoos by Splinter. His track, Modern Ruins, starts at about 3:34.
Pete Edwards and Phillip Stearns are developing a new breadboard-based modular synthesizer. The new system is designed for maximal scalability of size, quality and hardware format. This will allow experimenters to quickly and cheaply connect circuit boards with simple jumper wires, but also allow for adapting the circuits to be housed in rugged systems for… Read More Breadboard Based Modular Synthesizer System
Dutch music center STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) has released a series of video tuturials for junXion junXion is a Mac OSX application that can translate signals from joysticks, mice, touchscreens, MIDI, OSC, Audio, Arduino and Video devices – using conditional processing and remapping – into MIDI or OSC events. The resulting MIDI or OSC data is then available… Read More STEIM’s junXion Lets Mac Users Turn Anything Into A Musical Instrument
Acoustic Synth Screen Recording was uploaded by: taskent99
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Jon Rose with K-Bow – RingMod @ STEIM 2009 was uploaded by: bthrew
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Jon Rose with K-Bow – Feedback @ STEIM 2009 was uploaded by: bthrew
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Image: Paul Lindeboom Saturday Synth Porn: This is a great shot of the Kraakdoos, or Crackle Box, designed by Michel Waisvisz of STEIM in the seventies. The main concept of the Crackle Box is that the human body becomes a vital part of the electronics (or the other way around) while playing it. It is… Read More The Steim Cracklebox
For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul (USA) to showcase their work to the public. February 17 – 22, 2009 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN. If you’re a Twitter user,… Read More Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2009
STEIM has released junXion v4 – a Mac OSX data routing application that can process ‘sensors’ from any human interface device (joysticks, mice, touchscreens) using conditional processing and remapping, with MIDI or OSC events as its output. The resulting MIDI or OSC data is then available to any audio or music software that runs on… Read More junXion v4 Makes Anything You Hook To Your Mac A Music Interface
Michel Waisvisz, leader of the STEIM foundation in Amsterdam since the early eighties, has died. From the STEIM obituary: Michel Waisvisz died peacefully in his home last night 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… Read More STEIM’s Michel Waisvisz Has Died
