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the regression of Midi

2012-01-28T18:39:00.000-08:00

a weird way to fix the dreaded midi jitter under Windows 7, it sends the midisignal as audio to the DAW where a VST plugin decodes it back to midi data.
How about just fixing the drivers? Midi was so stable long time ago...:
http://www.advancedprogear.com/products.html

Battery exchange

2012-01-12T13:16:00.001-08:00

started a new section on Block 4 about exchanging memory batteries in studio equipment, first is the Yamaha FS1r:
http://www.block4.com/index.php?id=148
read also the disclaimer here:
http://www.block4.com/index.php?id=147

concert 11.11.11 Dienstbar Berlin

2011-11-11T05:19:00.000-08:00

Elektronengehirn performs live at Dienstbar in Berlin, the 11. November the current set Geburt Der Kunst (Satz I - IV). Other performance on that night will be from Luca Forcucci. Address and more see link.

videomapping with Pure Data

2011-07-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

my pd abstraction and examples to download and explore videomapping in Pure Data and Gem, created during my artist-in-residency in Open City, Chile.
http://block4.com/index.php?id=142

podcast radiointerview Radio Valentin Letelier, Valpariso

2011-07-10T15:06:00.000-07:00

the podcast of my radio interview I gave to the station Radio Valentin Letelier in Valpariso during my artist-in-residency in Chile in june, translated to Spanish:
http://media.radiovalentinletelier.cl/02-caja%20de%20pandora%20jueves%2001.mp3

lot of tracks from Elektronengehirn, Das Kombinat, Akustikkoppler and Notstandskomitee.

Impossible City, Chile 2011

2011-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:00

when you missed that video with my latest interactive videomapping installation from my Chile Blog at block4.com, here its on vimeo now:

Impossible City from Malte Steiner on Vimeo.

new Notstandskomitee releases

2011-07-03T12:30:00.000-07:00

a lot of new releases today:

first Notstandskomitee has an exclusive track on the new Side Line compilation FACE THE BEAT VOL.1 which is available for free at their Facebook site:

https://www.facebook.com/Side.Line.Magazine

And, timely for Notstandskomitees 20. year anniversary the 5. album (when you leave out the tape cassette releases) is released as digital download:
http://notstandskomitee.bandcamp.com/
It contains 17 new tracks from 2001 till 2010. Bizarre electronic sounds, metallic beats, analog evolving and digital morphing. Post Industrial, IDM perhaps, strange certainly.

Notstandskomitee in May 2011

2011-05-05T17:18:00.000-07:00

This year its the 20 year anniversary of Notstandskomitee and on 6.May the Linux Audio Conference 2011 starts in Maynooth, Ireland, Notstandskomitee going to perform there at the Soundnight.

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/

Also released a new exclusive track for the Katabatik compilation:

http://www.katabatik.org/kollektion/

On 14.May there will be a concert at Linux Wochen Linz, Austria

http://liwoli.at/programm/2011

new Akustikkoppler vinyl 7inch released

2011-02-26T10:40:00.000-08:00

The Fernmündlich vinyl 7inch is released, showing our synthpop side, we waiting for it since 2008, here the text from the NLW label:

NLW – Musik für gute Leute

Wir haben es selber kaum gemerkt, aber heute ist aktuell unsere 25. NLW-Veröffentlichung erschienen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch an uns!!!

Es handelt sich natürlich um eine ganz besondere Veröffentlichung, die wohl jeden Minimal-Electro-Freak glücklich machen wird, denn natürlich handelt es sich um kleines schwarzes Vinyl:

AKUSTIKKOPPLER – Fernmündlich

Die Fakten:
Format: 7“EP (schwarzes Vinyl)
Tracks: Fernmündlich, CTK Typ 2000, Nichtraucher, Kabelsalat
Die Macher:
Matthias Schuster (Im Namen Des Volkes, Bal Paré, Geisterfahrer, Das Institut)
Malte Steiner (Notstandskomitee, Konform, Elektronengehirn, Das Kombinat)

Musikalisch gibt es eine perfekte Kombination aus den den Musikstilen der beiden Musiker zu hören (Im Namen Des Volkes + Bal Paré + Notstandskomitee), verbunden mit einem gewissen Kraftwerk-Einfluss.
Die Single kommt in einem unglaublich schicken, edlen Cover und wird von uns hiermit sofort zum absoluten Hit erklärt.
Hörproben gibt es auf http://www.myspace.com/akustikkoppler und demnächst auch auf der NLW Website http://www.nlw.backagain.de .

Mit versenden dieses Newsletters kann die Single erworben werden, entweder bei uns im Shop http://www.shop.backagain.de oder in Kürze sicher in den einschlägigen Mailorder-Shops.

new Notstandskomitee track

2011-01-30T14:43:00.000-08:00

New Notstandskomitee track 'Kolben' released on this nice netlabel compilation:
http://katabatik.org/kollektion/

PD lecture at HfbK Hamburg 17. Jan. 2010

2011-01-03T11:21:00.000-08:00

2011 is shaping up, first thing going to be a PureData lecture I am going to give at HfbK Hamburg at the sound design class of Asmus Tietchens 17.1. 15:00 at the socalled Mediencampus.

Akustikkoppler first full length album 'Im Glanz Der Nacht'

2010-12-28T08:05:00.001-08:00

Akustikkopplers first full length album 'Im Glanz Der Nacht' is available as CDr on Hamburg label Wachsender Prozess and for sale at the Ausklangfestival tonight and tomorrow.

Hörbar Jahresausklangfestival 2010

2010-12-27T07:21:00.000-08:00

Jahresausklangfestival 2010

Am 28. und 29. Dezember veranstaltet die Hörbar in Hamburg zum 16. Mal ihr Jahresausklangfestival. Im Kinosaal finden Konzerte statt, im Keller bieten im Bereich der Experimentalmusik tätige Label Tonträger feil. Für die Beschallung sorgen die DJs Jetzmann, Evapori, St. Martin, Drop out, Gisli.

Die Konzerte:

Dienstag , 28.12.2010,
- Institut für Feinmotorik
- Augsburger Tafelconfect
- TeraZza

Mittwoch , 29.12.2010,
- Roel Meelkop
- Herr Penschuck
- ?Alos

Kombinat tape B.S.E. from 1991 available

2010-12-27T06:32:00.000-08:00

The second official Kombinat tape B.S.E. from 1991 available as download at

http://kombinat.bandcamp.com/

again you decide the price.

Das Kombinat tape Existenz from 1990 available

2010-12-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

The first official tape by Das Kombinat, Existenz from 1990, is available as digital download from http://kombinat.bandcamp.com

You choose what you pay for it or if you fetch it for free.The tracks are not remasterd or edited, they reflect the exact same experience of the original tape.

Jeremy Bamber tapes

2010-12-14T16:02:00.000-08:00

A listener in the chat brought my attention to that old tape, asking what tracks are onto it. I found it quickly in the archive (a sudden and unexpected experience of order) and popped into a tapedeck, it actually contains recordings from probably the first Notstandskomitee concert,with Kazim from Serpents on electronic drums.

I guess its due for a rerelease...

http://www.discogs.com/Notstandskomitee--PP-Contacts-7/release/1084110

Forbidding the internet

2010-12-12T07:13:00.000-08:00

Our governments had problems with the internet since the 90s I remember. Latest campaign in Germany is the possible upcoming rule that you have to declare the suitable age of your intended audience and block out younger ones. Nobody knows how to do it precisly (especially judging the content), rendering all German websites potentially illegal. Particular blogs are worried about it: http://www.vzlog.de/2010/11/in-eigener-sache-wir-schliesen-am-31-dezember-2010/
The green party and the Linkspartei failed both to vote off that new rule.

But how about Canada forbidding hyperlinking:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/hyperlink-supreme-court-defamation-libel.html

Even if its not a real crack down, someone wrote at Slashdot:
"You simple make something very common illegal and then you don't enforce the law.
This way you make a lot of people criminals and you can cherry pick whoever you want to go after.
It is a very common way to get rid of the whole inconvient equal to the law thingy.."

And in Germany we have the instrument of 'Abmahnung'

Wall of Korg

2010-11-15T11:17:00.000-08:00

Yesterday at Institut Für Elektronische Klangerzeugung, the studio by Matthias Schuster (Geisterfahrer, Das Institut, Bal Pare) with whom I run the music project Akustikkoppler.

Von Akustikkoppler

for music tracks visit http://soundcloud.com/akustikkoppler

Things That Happened limited vinyl

2010-11-12T06:18:00.000-08:00

Yesterday at my gig at Rote Flora I was given my copies of the compilation Things That Happened by Reduktive Musiken. Its a limited vinyl LP with live tracks by Wäldchengarten, Government Alpha, Praying For Oblivion, Audible Pain and Notstandskomitee VS TBC with me performing Pure Data patches and TBC Thomas processing them with FX and feedbacked mixer. He was objected to my suggestion of the vs in the name but I found it quite funny, more in the sense of Ultraman VS Kamen Rider, not really versus but collaberating.

Heilpflanzen sollen verboten werden

2010-11-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

Zitierter Text:
Jede(r) von uns benutzt im täglichen Leben Heilpflanzen in Form von Tees,chinesische, ayurvedische Mittel, Kräutermischungen etc. Dies soll alles verboten werden! Lest selbst:

Ab April 2011 soll das Gesetz für Nahrungsergänzungsmittelund Heilkräuter (THMPD - Traditional Herbal Medical Product Directive)EU-weit durchgesetzt werden. Das bedeutet: Die auf Teemischungen basierende Kräuterheilkunde wäre dannwahrscheinlich um die Hälfte der dort eingesetzten Kräuter beraubt, da es wenig"wissenschaftliche Forschung" über gebräuchliche, einheimische Kräuter gibt und diese dann ohne aufwändige Forschung keine Zulassung als Arzneimittel bekämen. Fast alle chinesischen und ayurvedischen Heilpflanzen und ein guter Teil dereuropäischen Heilpflanzen sollen mit dieser EU-Novelle verboten und aus dem Handelgenommen werden.

Die Gründe liegen auf der Hand: Die Pharmaindustrie hätte die Naturheilkunde"Schachmatt" gesetzt und könnte diesen wachsenden Markt für sich übernehmen. Jetzt sind wir alle gefragt und können noch Einfluss nehmen. In Deinem, Ihrem, Eurem und unserem Interesse BITTE diese Petition unterzeichnen,um dies vielleicht doch noch abzuwehren . . . *Bitte an alle Freunde und Bekannte weiterleiten, damit die Liste möglichst lang wird. Stichtag ist der 11.11.10. also es bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit.
* * Man muß sich auf der Seite vom deutschen Bundestag registrieren* *

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/index.php?action=petition;sa=details;petition=14032

und die Petition dann unterzeichnen - es dauert nicht lange !Hier noch ein Link mit sehr guten Infos bitte durchlesen !!!

http://www.gesundheitlicheaufklaerung.de/eu-richtlinie-thmpd-das-aus-fur-heilpflanzen-und-naturheilmittel

concert 11.11. Rote Flora Hamburg

2010-11-09T11:36:00.000-08:00

November events

2010-11-02T11:18:00.000-07:00

After the adventures in Canada a packed November lies ahead. Starting on the 4. the exhibition hybrid by Das Kombinat will be shown at Einstellungsraum Hamburg. On the 11. a Notstandskomitee concert at Rote Flora, Hamburg. Exhibition @ Piksel Festival in Bergen, Norway from 18. till 21., in between there will be a Placard style concert in Bergen with another live performance by Notstandskomitee.

Wonderland Wednesday

2010-09-08T11:37:00.000-07:00

the desktop sharing feature of wonderland

just attendend the Wonderland Wednesday meeting, first time for me in 3D chat for years. In the 90s we created a lot of artistic multiuser VRML worlds and had meetings via Blaxxun servers. After they went down there was silence but I kept looking for open alternatives, to create surreal multiuser experiences. Finally the open source Open Cobalt and Open Wonderland are good enough so I guess I will start to use Wonderland, also because I program Java but have a vague idea about Smalltalk, on which Cobalt is based.

What I like on Cobalt is that its based on P2P technique so they dont need a server. And its easier to jump from world to another.

trippy desktop sharing feedback

The Java based Wonderland has better looking graphics but uses much more ressources. But its has more optional modules to plugin and add features and development seems to happen faster. The default avatars and the worlds, as you can see on the pictures, are boring but everything can be customized easily. Both programs are mainly for business and education but I dont intend to simulate the real world.
New experience for me was the usage of voice chat, back in the 90s we had not the bandwidth for that fancy stuff, just text chat to communicate.

Friday 10. September exhibition and radio concert

2010-09-07T08:43:00.000-07:00

Another gallery closes in Hamburg, Germany. More than 70 artists exhibit on the last three days of Galerie Linda,10. - 12. September. I am going to show an interactive installation made with Pure Data. I setup everything during the day but be there later because I have an Elektronengehirn radiospecial with concert on Radio Gagarin @ FSK in the evening, 20:00. Stream is available.

http://www.chezlinda.de/

26.August Elektronengehirn and much more live on Stubnitz in Hamburg

2010-08-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

Do, 26.08.2010, 20:00 Uhr

STUBNoIse

Konzertabend mit

Ramunas Jaras (ENDICHE VIS.SAT)
Elektronengehirn
Jetzmann
Y4HK Soundsystem

TBC
RENOISED
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ENDICHE VIS.SAT

ramunas jaras is a lithuanian artist known for his inventive musical ventures and multi-stylistic stage productions. jaras is a performance artist, musician, and author. he has organized countless actions, both orchestrated and spontaneous. he is also known for his solo theatrical work as ENDICHE VIS.SAT.

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Elektronengehirn: Geburt Der Kunst, erster bis dritter Satz

Der Französische Künstler Robert Filliou erklärte 1963 den 17. Januar als Geburtstag der Kunst. Dieses Ereignis wird international mit verschiedenen Ausstellungen, Performances und Konzerten gefeiert, so auch 2010 im Grazer Medienkunstlabor ESC. Als Mitglied der PD-Graz Gruppe komponierte Malte Steiner aka Elektronengehirn das Stück 'Geburt Der Kunst' in mehreren Sätzen mit der Open Source Software Pure Data und führte das Stück von Hamburg aus via Internet in Graz auf.
Am 26. August ist 'Geburt Der Kunst' zum ersten mal in Hamburg vor Ort zu hören.
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Y4HK Soundsystem
Die stubnitz-sealectors präsentieren ihren soundtrack vom schiff.
JETZMANN
Musiker (Bass, Elektronik), Texter, Moderator bei Radio Gagarin (FSK Hamburg), dem Fachmagazin für musikalisch Randständiges, komponiert für Choreographien live:noise mit bass/gitarre,looper,feedbacks mal mit text,mal mit film
TBC (harshnoise hamburg)
sagt eigentlich schon genug.tbc wird euch was zu hören geben,verlasst euch drauf.
RENOISED
spielt e-gitarre ohne computer oder andere playbacks diesesmal erzählt er mit seinem instrument "a sailors tale" und träumt sich damit auf und in die weltmeere

Linux video editing workshop 22. August Hamburg

2010-08-15T06:12:00.000-07:00

From 14:00 till open end Malte Steiner lecture about video formats, gives an overview of the free open source applications available for Linux and gives a practical demonstration from capturing via editing till finishing a DVD and online video.

Software includes Cinelerra, Kino, OpenMovieEditor and more. The workshop is free and no registration necessary but would be great if you drop an email to steiner AT block4 DOT com stating your particular interests in this workshop.Bring your laptop with an installed version of Cinelerra, internet wont be available on location.It happens to be at

Unlimited Liability art store

Norderstr. 71 ug
20097 Hamburg, Germany
targetautonopop.org

Unlimited Liability reopens tonight

2010-08-15T05:47:00.000-07:00

Tonight, 15. August, at 19:00, opens Unlimited Liability, Michel Chevaliers temp art store. On the 22. August I give a workshop on Linux videoediting there, starting at 14:00.

15. August–17. Oktober
Do-Fr: 15-20h
Sa-So: 12-20h
Norderstr. 71 ug
20097 Hamburg
http://targetautonopop.org/

Saturday, 14. August schedule

2010-08-10T08:42:00.000-07:00

Finally! Saturday concert schedule confirmed, Notstandskomitee play 21:00. The exact schedule is:
16:00-18:00 Steffi
18:00-20:00 Evapori & Jetzmann
20:00-21:00 Ditterich v. Euler-Donnersperg
21:00-22:00 Notstandskomitee
22:00-24:00 Max
24:00-X DJs Evapori/Jetzmann & Steffi & Max

I created a webpage with some infos: http://block4.com/index.php?id=122

Pakistan flood

2010-08-09T14:28:00.000-07:00

Pakistan flood victim count is higher than Haiti, so where are the 'donate', 'lets make music for', 'lets put banner on our websites' thingis and stuff like that?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100809/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_floods

6 new screencasts on QuteCsound

2010-08-09T10:34:00.000-07:00

6 new screencasts on Csound frontend QuteCsound available:

Presets tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c

Live Events tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw

New editing features in 0.6.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88

Notstandskomitee concert 14. August Hamburg

2010-08-06T04:45:00.000-07:00

I perform another Notstandskomitee outdoor gig on 14. August in Hamburg. Its a small art and music festival at Bullerdeich, Hammerbrook. More details soon...

exhibition and radio performance 10. September

2010-08-05T09:53:00.000-07:00

My next exhibition is in the Galerie Linda Hamburg on 10. September. Its sad because this nice gallery where I exhibited 2006 and 2009 has to close, they got thrown out by their landlord for no appearant reason. So its the last day exhibition with 70 artist, each one get 1m x 1m, I am going to have a small interactive installation there, certainly made with Pure Data.

At that evening I am at Radio FSK and do a radioconcert as Elektronengehirn. I am now thinking about combining that...

Bourbonese Qualk

2010-08-03T08:34:00.000-07:00

Anyone remembering Bourbonese Qualk? The whole backcatalogue can be downloaded for free at

http://www.bourbonesequalk.net

lecture 2.August Linux Audio

2010-07-31T06:29:00.000-07:00

I am going to lecture about Linux Audio and production with open source tools at Linux Stammtisch Centro Sociale Hamburg on Monday, the 2. August, 20:00. I will show Ardour, Pure Data, Csound, Qtractor, Alsa Modular Synthesizer, Minicomputer and more.

Alan W. Moore in Hamburg

2010-07-28T05:39:00.000-07:00

Alan W. Moore is in town and going to have 2 lectures. Tonight (28.7.) he speaks about the “House Magic” project at Frise Hamburg, 20:00.

Alan W. Moore, art historian and retired artist, speaks about the “House Magic” project. This “bureau of foreign correspondence” (himself) is a years-long project dedicated to explaining the movement of occupied social centers – besetzten Häusern mit politischen Richtung aka “Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestione” (CSOA) – to a U.S. audience. The first show was produced by the visual arts collective at ABC No Rio in NYC last year, and included “wallpaper,” stencils, banners, videos, books and dossiers from the internet. Later shows of this mobile archive were in Chicago and Philadelphia. Moore's research trip this summer has taken him to London, Madrid and now Hamburg. Auf Englisch mit some Deutschliches interpolation. With pictures.

Tomorrow 20:00 he speaks at Unlimited Liability (Norderstr. 71 ug) about "New York Art Gangs, post-'68"
--"Artists' groups do not make objects so much as they make changes"--

Beginning with the Arts Workers Coalition in 1969, NYC artists formed groups to advance their agendas and ideas. The arising of the Soho district, Gordon Matta-Clark, P.S. 1, Artists Meeting and Art & Language New York, Colab and punk art, Political Art Documentation group, and Group Material comprise a trajectory or lineage of politicized artistic practice. Today sees a resurgence of collective formations in the USA, and also a consideration of collective practice in itself. Alan Moore was a critic, video artist, and member of Colab, ABC No Rio, MWF Video Club, and hangs out with 16 Beaver Group. He is doctor (without medicine), and teaches when he can afford to. He is in Hamburg researching for "House Magic," an information project on European occupied social centers.

http://collaborativeprojectsarchive.wikispaces.com/
http://collectiva.wikispaces.com/House+Magic

go west

2010-07-27T14:20:00.000-07:00

The last couble of weeks a friend of mine from Toronto is riding from Ontario to B.C., on horseback. Although he has no direct wireless connection, on some stops he can update the blog and gallery. Pretty amazing journey through Canada:

http://gowestyoungmen.com

Notstandskomitee Automatenmusik on iTunes available

2010-07-22T06:37:00.000-07:00

The 4. CD album of Notstandskomitee from 2001 is now available on iTunes

Like the previous release, the split album Y2K with Cyberthreat, all electronic tracks are instrumental, bordering on the IDM area.

The main synthesizer was the Nord Modular 1, all sequencing is done internally with its step sequencers. Additionally Csound, some other hardware synths and effects where used.

Physical release was in 2001 on Block 4, available on vinyl LP and CD with bonustracks, which are all included in this digital release.

E.P.084 - Xyramat - Podcast .: Electronique.it - electronic music magazine :.

2010-07-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

Free Podcast by Xyramat available:

E.P.084 - Xyramat - Podcast .: Electronique.it - electronic music magazine :.

Meanwhile her album Electronically is available again in the Block 4 shop.

video workshop

2010-07-19T13:17:00.000-07:00

This year I am going to give a workshop / lab again at Unlimited Liability art store in Hamburg, but not about Pure Data again, this time about video editing with open source tools, mainly Cinelerra. Exakt date will be given soon.

Notstandskomitee 20. anniversary 2011

2010-07-18T15:29:00.000-07:00

Next year is 20. anniversary of Notstandskomitee and I hope I can release the backcatalog way back to the cassettes at least on the ITunes of this world. Right now I am listening through all the material, nice memories but some stuff I have to leave out because of the liberal use of samples from movies in that time which I can't release in these days.

Homeopathy

2010-07-15T09:50:00.000-07:00

whats about this bashing of Homeopathy, why noone question the practices and prices of the pharma industry?
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/0,1518,706257,00.html

my studio is a tardis

2010-07-13T08:02:00.000-07:00

Now I am certain, my studio is sort of disfunct Tardis. Its bigger from the inside when it comes to misplacing things and times shifts, usually forward, when I start to program sounds for new tracks.

Notstandskomitee live video Münzviertel Strassenfest

2010-06-20T15:15:00.000-07:00

Notstandskomitee live at Münzviertel Strassenfest, 19.6.2010, Hamburg. It was windy,cold and wet, few people, monitors kept collapsing, in short: a typical Hamburg streetfest. I expected the worst, a new low in my career, but it was fun and good test of equipment.
Please note the small black netbook which ran the whole show, together with Archlinux and a realtime kernel. Csound replayed the loops from the studio, process them and provided synthesis for my solos.

Notstandskomitee Münzviertel Strassenfest 2010 from Malte Steiner on Vimeo.

doubles instead of floats

2010-06-19T17:08:00.000-07:00

Münzviertel Strassenfest concert was great. I expected it to rain the whole time and junkies explaining me on stage how stupid electronic music is, but actually everybody enjoyed it. The schedule was tight but it was even room for one encore (which I prepared just last night). I will post a video soon. Csound, except some minour glitches nobody noticed, ran fine on my Atom single core netbook. And the bass was allright, lot of compliments about the sound quality. I think its because its Csound compiled with doubles instead of float precision but what do I know.

Notstandskomitee live @ Münzviertel Strassenfest 19.June 2010

2010-06-11T13:36:00.000-07:00

Notstandskomitee performs at the Münzviertel Strassenfest in Hamburg, 19.June 2010 19:00 at stage Repsoldstrasse. I just picked up poster and flyer, well, two ways of spelling Notstandskomitee and none right. But anyway, if the weather is ok its going to be a blast, with more bass as at the Le Placard Headphone festival.

cellphone robots

2010-06-04T13:37:00.000-07:00

Robots, with cellphone brains. Lets say Android androids, at least now I know what I do with my G1 Android phone which I cant update to the latest Android version 2.2.
http://www.cellbots.com/

Ardour 2.8.9 is out

2010-06-03T12:38:00.000-07:00

The latest version of Ardour, the free open source DAW for Linux and OSX, is released:

http://ardour.org/

video of Elektronengehirn LAC performance

2010-06-01T13:23:00.000-07:00

I uploaded a video of the Elektronengehirn concert at the soundnight at Linux Audio Conference 2010 in Utrecht. Its a full length video of the performance in SJU Utrecht at Linux Audio Conference 2010 on 3. May. Not much to see, more to hear. Algorhythmical composition processes been live controlled and augmented with some live playing. The piece is done in Pure Data and running on a Linux laptop (Arch Linux), all sounds are synthesized in realtime without samples or prepared tracks.

Elektronengehirn concert LAC 2010 soundnight SJU Utrecht from Malte Steiner on Vimeo.

More videos from that soundnight can be seen at Rui Nuno Capelas channel.

Processing and framerate

2010-05-22T06:37:00.000-07:00

After his lecture in Hamburg, Peter Kirn showed me some Processing sketches with nice framerate, restoring my faith into that system and Java 3D in general. I tried Processing some years ago but was not that impressed by the framerate and wondering how all the others create big scale installations with it.
Here is one of my small old examples, who needs flash anyway?
http://www.urbanunits.com/index.php?page=urbane_signale

Einstellungsraum 2009 catalog

2010-05-18T06:38:00.000-07:00

Last saturday my copys of the 2009 catalogue from Einstellungsraum Hamburg including my November exhibtion arrived but only today I had time to open it. Very nice.

news about Linn Drum 2

2010-05-18T03:25:00.000-07:00

so the new LinnDrum 2 is not abandoned, only Roger and Dave go different ways:

http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/products/linndrum2/index.shtml

Notstandskomitee live @ LePlacard, Gängeviertel Hamburg 15.5.

2010-05-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

I will test my new Csound based Notstandskomitee set at the Le Placard headphonefestival on saturday, 15 May 23:30 at the Druckerei, Gängeviertel Hamburg, but it will be streamed too:

http://leplacard.org/2010/

Xyramat live at Pudel Salon Hamburg 11.5. 2010

2010-05-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

Blurred Edges Festivals, organisiert vom VAMH,

---- Dienstag, den 11. Mai, ab 20 Uhr bei freiem Eintritt (Spende erwünscht)-----

Xyramat - Live -

"Lack klebt auf Schwarzgeld nicht" im Salon des Golden Pudel Klub.

Das Kombinat exhibtion Hamburg, 7. May

2010-04-28T14:55:00.000-07:00

After long absence Das Kombinat will do an exhibition in Hamburg in Kunstlift Hamburg with audiovisual installation inclusive unreleased and never heard before tracks.

Only 7. May, 17:00-22:00

Das Kombinat macht Fahrstuhlmusik
Muzak installation in an actual elevator.

Kunstlift Stresemannstr. 100, Hamburg, Germany

curated by
agentur-fuer-identitaet.de

Elektronengehirn live Utrecht 3.May LAC

2010-04-28T14:49:00.000-07:00

Elektronengehirn perform the piece 'Geburt Der Kunst, Satz I und II' live at the Soundnight 3. May at SJU at Linux Audio Conference 2010 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This piece is composed in Pure Data for a concert at 17. January 2010, which is declared as the birthday of art. In Utrecht it will be augmented with a new second part.

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/

29.4. catalog release by Einstellungsraum

2010-04-28T14:47:00.000-07:00

Catalogue release of Einstellungsraum, including my exhibition from November 2009:

Am 29.04.2010 ab 19h ist der EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V., www.einstellungsraum.de,  in der Jupibar des Gaengeviertel.  Anlass ist das Releasen unseres jüngsten Kataloges, dem nämlich aus 2009. Aus unseren Restfördermitteln und viel Eigenarbeit dokumentiert er alle Ausstellungen, Aktionen und dazugehörige Textauszüge zum Jahresthema 2009 "shared space".  Sharde space ist ein holländisches Verkehrskonzept und bedeute "gemeinschaftlich genutzter Raum". Die Jupibar des Gaengeviertel an der Ecke Speckstraße und Caffamacherreihe nutzen wir nun gemeinsam mit den beteiligten KünstlerInnen und Gästen, um diese Broschüre, die 2010 im Hyperzineverlag erschienen ist und vom EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V. herausgegeben wird, öffentlich zu machen. Es gibt eine kleine Leseaktion mit Brigitte Engel-Hiddemann und das, was die Jupibar zu bieten hat.  Wir freuen uns auf interessierte Gäste. Die benachbarte Ausstellung in der Speckstraße von Silke Peters und Kimberly Horton "Unter diesen Umständen" wird zeitgleich geöffnet sein.

sqlite tool

2010-04-17T05:48:00.000-07:00

When working with SQLite Databases (hint: IPhone), this can come handy as an editor/management tool:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817

Google open sources VP8 video codec

2010-04-13T04:32:00.000-07:00

Google going to open source vp8 video codec which could be a good thing for HTML5 web video:

http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/google-to-open-source-vp8-for-html5-video/

mastering an Akustikkoppler album

2010-04-11T13:52:00.000-07:00

Mastering an album of my band Akustikkoppler which I present tomorrow to a Hamburg label. Its very dark ambient, hopefully it gets a release.

A synthpop vinyl single by this project is due since a year, but the label we gave the master took so long to get their act together. But now its about to be released but I believe it when I hold it in my hands.

Meanwhile tracks can be listend at Soundcloud, on our Myspace page together with our first music video and we have a Facebook page too.

which label? and what kind of music is this?

2010-04-10T11:06:00.000-07:00

Passed this afternoon with a friend listening to the latest yet unreleased Notstandskomitee album to determine what kind of music it is and which label might be interested. It would be the 5. album release. You can get a glimpse at Soundcloud. Its difficult to judge on your own. Jim 'Foetus' Thirlwell once said "bleed now, sell later" and this is what I do, creating the music and later sort out the tracks and compile them to a album.

http://soundcloud.com/notstandskomitee/sets/t-e-m

Linux Audio Conference 2010 schedule

2010-04-03T09:21:00.000-07:00

First glimpse of the packed schedule of Linux Audio Conference 2010 in Utrecht

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/LAC_Times_2010_04_02.pdf

case of miserable easter bunnys

2010-04-01T03:45:00.001-07:00

Its close to easter and its not the first time I blog about strange candys. The look of these chocolate easter bunnys is remarkable. I mean they could at least made them smiling but so the small faces bear all the misery of life.

robot voice control via Android cellphone

2010-03-31T11:40:00.000-07:00

Some people use an Android phone for robot voice control. Interesting is that the voice recognition is done online, the phone send a recording into the 'cloud', read to Google, for analysis, getting back a textstring. But pretty powerful Api anyway, just one line of code for doing this.

http://androidcommunity.com/cellbot-diy-android-robot-gets-voice-control-video-20100331/

vhs covers

2010-03-29T04:38:00.000-07:00

I already posted it a while ago on my Facebook account, but I really spent some time here, browsing through old 80s VHS covers discovering known and unknown trash movies.
"The covers in this section may contain violent themes." . Yeah.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/vhs-videos

screencast tutorials on CSound editor QuteCsound

2010-03-26T06:55:00.000-07:00

More screencasts, remind me to do some for Minicomputer and AMS. Alex Hofmann shows how to work with Csound through QuteCsound editor:

The others

First instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0AEok0FlS0

Using MIDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFx5QPLW6Cg

About configuration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFnZytyNuWc

basic Linux synthesizer tutorials by Leigh Dyer

2010-03-26T06:27:00.000-07:00

Leigh Dyer made some basic synthesizer tutorial screencasts on Linux:

Check out his blog for Flash free Ogg Theora videos:
http://blag.linuxgamers.net/?cat=117

Icon Midi controllers

2010-03-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

Never heard before from this company, Icon. Because I build my own software instruments I tend to drool more over controllers than the current boring synthesizer offerings. So far I missed some news about controllers from Musikmesse, but Icon seems to build some USB class compliant devices so that they run under Linux, unlike the epic fail Novation Launchpad.

Their I-Stage and I-Creative are most destinct, I wonder of the quality and wether the leds can be controlled via Midi to give optical feedback, would be cool for stepsequencers!

They also offer a MackieControl clone called QCon for 500.- €, only downside: only 1 of the 9 motorized faders is touch sensible.

http://www.icon-global.com/music/music/index.php

reverbscapes with Csound

2010-03-24T09:05:00.000-07:00

Ever reverbed a signal, pitchshift the reverb, apply delay and bandpass to it and feedback to reverb? Instant Eventide feel, just done with Csound on Linux. Nice resonances and reverbscapes. Going to provide the patch soon...

Elektron +Drive memory upgrade

2010-03-24T07:19:00.000-07:00

I dont like to make advertisement for free but as a Machinedrum owner I was curious, here is the text from Elektrons collapsed site:

The +Drive divides a machine in 128 Snapshots, which allows for thousands of patterns, sounds and songs to be stored internally and more or less instantly recalled. The +Drive also makes it possible for the Machinedrum SPS-1UW+ MKII to host over 6000 ROM samples. The Monomachine SFX-60+ MKII can be loaded with more than 8000 DigiPro user waveforms.

A Machinedrum Snapshot can contain up to 128 patterns, 64 kits, 32 songs and 8 globals. If the Machinedrum is a UW model, each Snapshot also contains a sample bank. A UW MKII sample bank consists of 48 ROM sample slots. A UW MKI sample bank consists of 32 ROM sample slots.

A Monomachine Snapshot can contain up to 128 patterns, 128 kits, 24 songs and 8 globals. In the case of the Monomachine MKII, a Snapshot also contains a Digibank consisting of 64 DigiPro user waveforms.

Either load a completely new Snapshot or a single Machinedrum sample bank/Monomachine Digibank. When loading a new Snapshot, all data will replaced by new content. Loading a new sample bank/Digibank means all other content of the current Snapshot stays intact. Load times for both options are just a few seconds.

The +Drive gives the enormous advantage of having thousands of patterns and kits available. Change Snapshots during a live performance for a completely new session. Load a fresh Machinedrum sample bank or Monomachine Digibank and experiment with new sounds in your currently active patterns and kits. A +Drive opens up a world of new possibilities.

All Machinedrum and Monomachine models are possible to upgrade with a +Drive. When you buy a +Drive, you will receive detailed instructions how to send in the unit for the upgrade. Shipping back to you after the upgrade has been carried out is included in the price.

If you have bought a new Machinedrum UW/Monomachine after Feb 1st, you are eligible for a 30% discount on the +Drive upgrade price. This offer is valid until August 1. Mail us for more info about how to obtain the discount.

Elektron Octatrack at the Messe

2010-03-24T06:52:00.000-07:00

Musikmesse is open and the news roll in. While Roland release just another virtual analogue synth, Korg surprises with a toyish analogue pocketsynth, basing on MS20 technology they said:

http://www.production-room.com/korg/korg-monotron/

Elektron presents their Octatrack which is a 8 track sampler/sequencer with realtime timestretch and warping, someone said already its Ableton in a box.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/musikmesse-2010-elektron-octatrack-prototype-video-241309

Their website collapsed but interesting was a note about socalled +Drive which gives more machines in Monomachine or Machinedrum, sounds like a softwareupdate but not sure for now.

new poly synthesizer by Radikal Technologies

2010-03-20T06:48:00.000-07:00

Radikal Technologies presents a new digital polyphonic synthesizer at Musikmesse, the Accelerator. Soundengine uses the digitial osc and filters from Spectralis, unfortunately not the analogue filters. Its subtrative synthesis again but with some expanded modulation goodies.

http://www.spectralis.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1717

one more Notstandskomitee remix

2010-02-24T02:02:00.000-08:00

Made a new Remix for Trike, check out for free at:
http://trike.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-tears-notstandskomitee-remix

eat the cat!

2010-02-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

Italy freaks out because a tv chef recommended to eat cats. What makes cats more privileged then chicken, cows or pigs? And why animal activists chime in in that case but not in the horrors of factory farming? Eat the damn cat or maybe considering stop eating meat/fish at all?
BTW I hate cat with synthesizer pix. I love cats, I love synthesizers but the combination doesn't work. Best Gearslutz post in a while was about a cat vomiting in an expensive piano. Great! Maybe it made it in the stock sample library of Omnisphere...

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,678515,00.html

new projector technology by Casio

2010-02-15T07:26:00.000-08:00

Being a media artist, video projectors are a key component for me. In my exhibitions I have to run projectors rather long, sometimes extended outside the opening times as in my installation deStatic which is shown in public every night. A major concern are the expensive bulbs which usually ran for 2000 or 3000 hours. LED based projectors are out for a while but they are not that bright. Now it seems that Casio find a new way to combine LED and lasers to create a bright projector with 20.000 hours runtime. And no mercury!
http://casio-projectors.eu

Rosegarden sequencer update

2010-02-15T06:35:00.000-08:00

The free open source Linux midi/audio sequencer and notation software Rosegarden just got a major update to modernize the application and the codebase. It was a years worth of work to port from old QT3 to QT4.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com

new Xyramat 7" on MMLabel

2010-02-12T07:31:00.000-08:00

Xyramat released a limited 7" on MMlabel, a collaboration with Thorsten Soltau:"Lack klebt auf Schwarzgeld nicht: Korruption I und Korruption II"

http://www.myspace.com/xyramat

Linux Audio Conference 2010 Utrecht, The Netherlands

2010-02-11T19:15:00.000-08:00

This years Linux Audio Conference happens to be at the artschool in Utrecht, in The Netherlands 1.-4. May 2010. Its for both, developers and users, with a lot of lectures and concerts. More details at

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010

I hope to be able to perform there a piece with Elektronengehirn and the new set by Notstandskomitee at the clubnight.

Minicomputer binary for Ubuntu 9.10

2010-02-02T15:57:00.000-08:00

I don't provide binary packages for Minicomputer (to much hassle for all the distributions) but for Ubunutu 9.10 Karmic there is one available at following Launchpad repo:

https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra/+sourcepub/948759/+listing-archive-extra

Minicomputer version 1.41 released

2010-01-30T11:26:00.000-08:00

just released the version 1.41 of the softwaresynthesizer Minicomputer for Linux. Its mainly a bugfix release:

- fix: names of patches and multis were displayed wrong, only the last letters which are usually blanks (1.4 from yesterday didn't resolved it completly)

- fix: change so that it can be now compiled without being in C99 mode

- new: using alsaseq eventfilter to receive only events that are processed

more at

http://minicomputer.sourceforge.net

introduction into Arduino hacking

2010-01-19T11:47:00.000-08:00

Found this nice and simple introduction into hacking with Arduino, so for instance you can create your own USB controler for music or interactive installations:

http://tuxradar.com/content/arduino-hardware-hacking-part-1
http://tuxradar.com/content/arduino-hardware-hacking-part-2
http://tuxradar.com/content/arduino-hardware-hacking-part-3

network concert sunday 17.1.2010

2010-01-13T14:26:00.000-08:00

As a member of PD-Graz I perform on sunday a network piece I composed in Pure Data. I will perform in Hamburg, stage is at ESC in Graz. But ORF will pick up and maybe even a stream is available, not sure about that.

http://esc.mur.at/artsbirthday2010programm.html

new Notstandskomitee remix

2010-01-13T06:17:00.000-08:00

Notstandskomitee remixed a song for Trike, check it out at

http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs-remixes

Arno Juerging

2010-01-04T15:32:00.000-08:00

Lets begin this year with some cineastic. Splatterbuffs certainly are aware of Andy Warhols Frankenstein and - Dracula, drastic reinterpretations of the famous tales (avoid the German DVD releases, they are cut!). Both have German actors in the main roles, Udo Kier as lead and Arno Juerging in servant roles. While Kier continue to act till this day on both sides of the big sea, its difficult to trace Juerging which stuck in my head for his outragious performances in both movies. IMDB lists only a few movies for him and its said that he commited suicide shortly after the release of the two horror movies, which cant be true -at least regarding the point of time- because I found traces at least till 1984 (which can be just the release year). There is an Arnold Jürging in the German comedy Didi Der Doppelgänger, and here is a clip featuring him again in a supporting role:

Alsa Modular Synthesizer 2.0.1 released

2009-12-28T06:53:00.000-08:00

ams 2.0.1 has just been released.

Its a realtime modular software synthesizer for Linux.

tar.gzip and tar.bzip2 are available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alsamodular/files/

the NEWS:
========================================
ams-2.0.1 (2009-12-26)

Fixed Bugs
o Compile error for Qt 4.2 fixed
o Highlight MIDI controller in Control Center,
if MIDI event has been received.
o Fix crash unbinding multiple controllables connected to the
same midi controller.
o Initialized variable in env-module.
Fixes env-module mute bug discribed by lee(mrleelee).

General Changes
o MIDI channel numbering changed from 0..15 to 1..16.

ams-2.0.0 (2009-06-12)

New Features
o Redesign of 3D look
o Application icon
o German translation
o Keyboard shortcuts for menu and dialog items
o Menu item for recently opened files
o French translation (by Fank Kober)
o New --name command line option to specify the ALSASEQ/JACK
clientname
o Legato in monophonic mode using the "--poly 1" command line
option (by Atte Andre Jensen)

General Changes
o Port form Qt 3 to Qt 4.x library.
o A newly written autoconf/automake environment now provides the
usual "./configure && make && make install" comfort.
o Command line options are reworked.
- JACK now is the default interface, if the connection fails ams
connects to ALSA. This behavior can be modified using the -J and
-A options.
- The initial patch file to be loaded no longer needs the -l
option.
========================================

Hoerbar Ausklangfestival 28./29.dec 2009

2009-12-28T05:44:00.000-08:00

*Jahresausklangfestival 2009*

Die Hörbar befindet sich Brigittenstr. 5 in Hamburg St.Pauli in den Räumen des B-Movie.

*Montag, 28. Dezember 2009, ab 20:00 Uhr*

MoHa!
Rainer Deutschmann und seine Freunde
Bohrmaschine Privat

*Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2009, ab 20:00 Uhr*

Paul Schütze + Simon Hopkins
Wolfgang Müller
Thorsten Soltau

Zusätzlich werden an beiden Tagen DJs im Keller auflegen und
Labelbetreiber ihre Waren anbieten.

Zu den einzelnen Konzerten:

*Montag, 28. Dezember 2009*

*MOHA! *(Norwegen)

sind Morten J. Olsen (Drums & Supercollider3) und Anders Hana (Gitarre & Keyboards)

MoHa! spielen eine etwas lautere Musik, die an zerhackten Bebop
erinnert. Manche sagen, es sei Geräusch-Splatter, andere bezeichnen es
sind schnatternde, zuckende Sounds, die ihre Formen verändern; intensive Kompositionen, wild und scharf in den Raum geschmettert.

www.n-collective.com/moha

www.myspace.com/themoha

www.runegrammofon.com

*BOHRMASCHINE PRIVAT *(Hamburg)

Wolfram Meier, elektromechanische Skulpturen (Bohrmaschinen) in
digital-elektronischer Klangbearbeitung, eine Neo-Fluxus Performance.

*RAINER DEUTSCHMANN UND SEINE FREUNDE *(Hamburg)

Rainer Deutschmann... Den gibt es doch gar nicht? Doch, es gibt ihn!
Tief in Dir schlummert er und wartet auf Kontakt mit etwas was Dir fremd ist und überwältigt Dich mit seinen Vorurteilen.

Seine Freunde:

*M. Stabenow *

(Audible Pain / VoiceNoise / www.ReduktiveMusiken.de
/ www.hoerbar-ev.de
)

*Volker Havlik *

(Renoised www.virb.com/renoised / Willi
W. / VoiceNoise / Konform / Fluxtrat / www.hoerbar-ev.de
)

Noise als Therapie:

-> Noise löscht die Erinnerung an eingefahrene Denkprozesse und macht
die Synapsen frei für neue Verbindungen.

-> Wir wollen Dir damit helfen die Angst vor allem Fremden aus Deinem
Kopf zu entsorgen.

Also lass Dir helfen: Komm zur Therapie!

Die Musik:

Raner Deutschmann macht interaktive Musik: Es existiert kein Thema, über das improvisiert wird, sondern die Musik entsteht augenblicklich – ein Dialog der Geräusche. Die Musiker formen klangliche Angebote, die sie einander machen, zu einem musikalisch homogenen Ereignis.

*Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2009*

*Wolfgang Müller *(Berlin)

Seit 1980 treibt sich Wolfgang Müller in der Kunst- und Musikszene herum und hat als Mitbegründer der Band „Die Tödliche Doris“ für viel Aufsehen gesorgt. Und es ging hier nicht nur um die reine Musik: Die LPs „Unser Debüt“ und „Sechs“ ergaben gemeinsam, gleichzeitig abgespielt, „Die Unsichtbare Neunte LP“. Sie ergänzen sich nicht nur musikalisch, sondern die Titel bekommen auch inhaltlich einen neuen Sinn.

Er ist einer der wichtigsten Begründer der Genialen Dilletanten und
Herausgeber des Buches „Geniale Dilletanten“, das Texte von Blixa
Bargeld, Alexander von Borsig, Dagmar Dimitroff, MaLe, Nikolaus
Utermöhlen u.a. enthält.

Zeitweise lebt der Berliner in Reykjavík und hat dort Kontakt mit den
Elfen. Er hat "bewiesen", dass es auf Island eben doch eine Eisenbahn gibt.

2008 nimmt Wolfgang Müller das Hörwerk „Séance Vocibus Avium “ auf. Hier macht er die Laute elf ausgestorbener Vogelarten wieder hörbar. Er nimmt die historischen Beschreibungen der Vogelstimmen und versucht sie
hiernach zu rekonstruieren. Umgesetzt werden die Ergebnisse von Justus
Köhncke, Annette Humpe, Frederik Schikowski, Frieder Butzmann, Hartmut
Andryczuk, Max Müller, Nicholas Bussmann, Wolfgang Müller, Françoise
Cactus, Brezel Göring, Khan, Namosh und Kristbjörg Kjeld.

Für „Sance Vocibus Avium“ erhält Wolfgang Müller 2009 den
Karl-Sczuka-Preis.

Hier alle seine Veröffentlichungen als Musiker und Autor und seine
Ausstellungen zu erwähnen würde den Rahmen sprengen. Da sei dem
Interessierten seine Website empfohlen, wo alles gelistet ist.

Links:

http://www.wolfgangmueller.net/

Das aktuelles Schaffen ist auf Myspace zu hören:

http://www.myspace.com/wolfgangmueller

Weitere Links:

http://www.die-toedliche-doris.de

http://www.myspace.com/dietoedlichedoris

* *

*Paul Schütze und Simon Hopkins* (Großbritannien)

Seit 25 Jahren ist Paul Schütze als Komponist tätig und hat sich in den
vergangenen Jahrzehnten ebenso einen Ruf Installations- wie als
Videokünstler und Fotograf erarbeitet.

Schütze hat mehr als 30 Alben veröffentlicht, war Gründungsmitglied der
Industrial-Legende „Laughing Hands“ und hat damit Musikgeschichte
geschrieben.

Seine musikalischen Stilrichtungen verändern sich immer wieder aufs
Neue: Ambient, Free- und Electronic-Jazz, Soundtracks.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich Paul Schütze auf die Arbeit an Sound- und Videoinstallationen konzentriert. Ausstellungen in London (Teilnahme an der legendäre „Sonic-Boom-Ausstellung“ 1999 zusammen u.a. mit Brian Eno), Riesenprojektionen im Gasometer Oberhausen 2001 und weitere Aktivitäten in Madrid und aktuell Paris.

Die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Gitarristen Simon Hopkins, ehemaliger
A&R-Manager von Virgin Records, begann vor 12 Jahren. Seitdem spielen
die beiden Künstler hauptsächlich bei Live-Auftritten zusammen.

Vor kurzem ist der gesamte Backkatalog von Paul schütze über iTunes
wieder erhältlich.

Ein freier Onlinerelease von beiden Künstlern:

http://www.paulschutze.com/uploads/4/5/8/9/458975/01_plasma_falls.mp3

Homepage Paul Schütze:

http://www.paulschutze.com/

Weitergehende Infos über Paul Schütze:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sch%C3%BCtze

*Thorsten Soltau *(Bremen)

Thorsten Soltau präsentiert live neues und teilweise unveröffentlichtes
Material aus der Musique-Concrète -Periode seines bürgerlichen
Klangimprints. Thorsten Soltau steht für Plunderphonics in Kombination
mit digitalen Treatments, präparierten Instrumentalspuren sowie den
Einsatz von zweckentfremdeten Schallplatten (Endlosrillen, blanke
Vinylseiten).

Unter gleichem Namen als Produzent für musikalische Projekte wie
JuliJuni, TITO und Stefan Roigk tätig, wird unter klangakustischen
Aspekten der Ansatz einer verfärbten Musique Concrète auf das zugrunde
liegende Quellmaterial projiziert – und das fremde Material somit zu
einem Hybriden aus produziertem Projekt und Thorsten Soltau selbst.

Für den besonderen Anlass spielt Thorsten Soltau an diesem Abend in
völliger Dunkelheit. Präsentiert wird unter anderem ein
unveröffentlichter Auszug aus der aktuellen Zusammenarbeit mit dem
Berliner Künstler Stefan Roigk.

PDforLogic

2009-12-09T03:00:00.000-08:00

Still not decided for one platform, with Elektronengehirn I tend to use Ardour on Linux but for Notstandskomitee I still use Logic on Mac. With Jack its easy to route audio from Apple Logic to Pure Data and back. So you can create your own plugins : http://jackosx.com
After you started the Jack server with Jackpilot, you need to select it as audiodevice in Logic to get the routing possibilities. When you activated the autoconnect with physical ports in Jackpilot, a predefined multichannel routing in Logic behaves like before without making changes. Now you can use the in and outputs of Logic to connect to PD, also done in Jackpilot, or use the Jackplugin to insert PD in a channel.
Its also possible to route Midi between applications on OSX. So it has a similar flexibility as Linux which enjoys the blessings of Jack a bit longer.
Pure Data is recommended in the extenden edition which has the Jackpossibilities: http://puredata.info/downloads

diy position sensitive midi drum pad

2009-12-06T07:18:00.000-08:00

a diy position sensitive midi drum pad as open source project by Andrew Baxter: http://home.ganglion.me:8000/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=synpad:home

media lab in Hamburg?

2009-12-01T07:36:00.000-08:00

Thinking about setting up a media lab in Hamburg, a hackspace for artistic research. Its badly missed, a lot of people would enjoy but I have no clue how to financiate a permanent space. Founding was impossible already in the last years and its getting worse as Hamburg is out of money which they gave to the banks. It would be my third attempt to create a open media lab here.

video about Graz exhibition

2009-11-29T14:52:00.000-08:00

just found this video about the exhibition in Graz at Esc Im Labor last October with sounds and an interview by me: http://vimeo.com/7098986

Dass es so weitergeht, ist die Katastrophe! from ulrich a. reiterer on Vimeo.

2009-11-29T03:31:00.000-08:00

from the pd mailinglist: a nice page on controlling LCD screens:
http://www.spikenzielabs.com/SpikenzieLabs/LCD_How_To.html

bugfixing time!

2009-11-24T17:46:00.001-08:00

remember that I wrote about the bug in deStatik? Fortunally I could fix it a while ago. I guess I have the line from the examples of OpenCV where the mainloop is stopped when no frame can captured from the camera. In deStatik the image processing is done in a separate thread and that break statement lead to a simple stop of that routine while the rest of the program continue to run but didn't get any motiondata. It makes sense in examples and debugging sessions but its not good to have break statements in application which have to run 24/7!

But I wonder why it didn't happend in the first place in Graz. It had a month time to show up on two computers.

Anyway, tonight I fixed a small but annyoing bug in Minicomputer, not showing the patch and multinames correctly. So far its in the svn repository only.

at last: realtime shadows on Intel chipset under Linux

2009-11-22T18:35:00.000-08:00

With new Xorg Intel drivers and new Mesa I got finally realtime shadows running in OpenSceneGraph on my laptop with GMA965 chip. That makes the difference and change my plans for my upcomming live visualisation for Notstandskomitee performances. Finally my switch to Archlinux has a significant benefit.

The night of the Berlin Wall

2009-11-10T12:04:00.000-08:00

I remember when the wall in Berlin came down, for a short while it was not clear whether Germany will be reunited or a new country was born. In the east they created an interims government and it could have been sort of best of both worlds, I watched it carefully and even considered moving there.

But soon it became clear that Kohl wanted to write history as the man who caused the reunited Germany so they pushed it without really thinking about the consequences.

The celebration night in Berlin I perceived with some horror, it was odd with the reoccuring patriotism. I think it was videoartist Björn Melhus who did once a videowork with these pictures, mirroring my feelings of it. With the samples from that broadcast I did at least 2 songs as Notstandskomitee.

deStatic installation acting up

2009-11-09T08:39:00.000-08:00

Damn, deStatic installation is acting up. It currently runs allnight at Einstellungsraum Hamburg in the shopwindow but it seems to freeze sometimes. Actually the software is still running but the interaction is gone, i guess it loses contact to the USB cam. Perhaps the electricity is a bit shaky there, causing the USB ports to be underpowerd? Tomorrow I insert an active USB hub, maybe that will do the trick. In Graz it runs on two computers in two different locations, one which is used here in Hamburg too, for weeks without problems.

Ikea and Hamburg

2009-11-08T11:15:00.000-08:00

Ikea gets not much love by the local Hamburg art scene because a new big store by them means the loss of several ateliers and artspaces in Altona.

http://www.kein-ikea-in-altona.de

Meanwhile the city of Hamburg celebrates Ikea in a museum, what a coincidence, not.

exhibition 5.-27.november 2009 Hamburg

2009-11-04T02:45:00.000-08:00

next exhibition with interactive electronic art by Malte Steiner is in Einstellungsraum Hamburg from 5.-27. November 2009, read on for the german invitation:

Vernissage: 05. November 2009 19h

Dauer der Ausstellung:

05. bis 27. November 2009

Geöffnet donnerstags und freitags jeweils 17 - 20h

und nach Vereinbarung

Sie und Ihre FreundInnen sind herzlich eingeladen

Diese Ausstellung ist die neunte im Jahresprojekt shared space 2009 des EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V.

http://www.einstellungsraum.de/archiv_news42.html

Mit der Ausstellung Verkehrsfluss präsentiert Malte Steiner seine neuste elektronische Installation. Zum ersten mal wird im EINSTELLUNGSRAUM mit 'Augmented Reality' gearbeitet, der reale Raum wird um digitale Informationen erweitert. Mit optischen Markern, die vom Computer erfasst werden, können die Austellungsbesucher mit einem simulierten Verkehrsgeschehen interagieren, welches projiziert ein animiertes Kunstwerk ergibt. Das Jahresthema ist share spaces und hier können im Virtuellen die Konsequenzen stadtplanerischen Handelns erprobt werden.

Malte Steiner arbeitet als Medienkünstler ausschließlich mit Open Source Software. Zur Realisation musste er eine komplett eigene Computerapplikation entwickeln, welche nur durch die Verwendung von quelloffener Programmierbibliotheken möglich wurde.

Malte Steiner, 2009

http://www.block4.com

EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V.

FÜR KUNST IM STRASSENVERKEHR

Wandsbeker Chaussee 11

22089 Hamburg

www.einstellungsraum.de

Tel./Fax: 040 - 251 41 68

U1 Wartenau

Bus 25, 35, 36

Gefördert vom Kulturausschuss des Bezirksamtes Hamburg-Wandsbek und der Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

tracks released on online compilation

2009-11-01T10:03:00.000-08:00

Elektronengehirn and Akustikkoppler just released new tracks on the free online compilation placas on amencoma

http://amencoma.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/amn010-placas

Its under creative commons.

csound blog

2009-10-26T14:34:00.000-07:00

a blog about csound can be found on the noisepages at:

http://csound.noisepages.com/

Geocities closing down

2009-10-26T12:48:00.000-07:00

Geocities is closed down today by its owner Yahoo. I don't know if it is something that we will miss but certainly a piece of internet history is taken away. Archive.org tried to preseve as much as they could but Yahoo was very uncollaborative.

Anyway, here is a beautiful collection of 'under construction' signs taken from geocities pages, those were the times: http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

Märchengrottenbahn and the last night in Graz

2009-10-18T15:26:00.000-07:00

On todays sunday (just passed) we made it at least to the Märchengrottenbahn in Graz, another surreal attraction. Unfortunately didnt saw the Weltmaschine which we plan to do when we are in Austria next time, hopefully I get invited again. Soon we have to fly back to Hamburg, just checked our flights...