Artists Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner have been artists in residency in the Life on a Leaf house for the month of September. On Sunday 27.9, they will host an event at the Leaf house presenting some of the artistic processes they have worked with, as solo concerts, scores and software art. The event will start at 16.00 until 19.00, and there will be time to hang out and have conversations with the artists.
https://www.lifeonaleaf.fi/en/events
impressions from the TMS concert 19. June at Linux Audio Conference 2026 in University Maynooth, Ireland. Pictures by Jörn Nettingsmeier
Our travel is supported by Art Music Denmark
From the desk of Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen:
"Back after a great Linux Audio Conference at Maynooth University in Ireland, and it is always a pleasure to be in good company with fellow Linux Audio and FLOSS enthusiasts! As a DIY and Open Source artist and user, it is crucial that these communities and gatherings exist.
At LAC, we performed the piece Occurrences as TMS (a duo consisting of artist Malte Steiner and myself), for which we have created a cybernetic system that registers and processes each our sonic input coming from metal percussion and tactile resonance via piezo-microphones. The computer then responds to our playing and calculates control data, not only for internal sound synthesis but also for an external DIY modular synthesizer and real-time generated visuals.
Overall, the system holds an open source backbone and runs from a Linux computer as well as it uses Pure Data for the analysis, processing, and responding with internal synthesis and controlling the external synthesizer hardware which TMS has been developing over the recent years. The process is further visualized by a custom software written in Python. The usage of open source software is important for us to both have full access to the technical infrastructures and develop these further as well as being independent from the corporate world.
Photos of our performance by Iain McCurdy.
TMS' travel to LAC26 has kindly been supported by Art Music Denmark
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TMS (Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Malte Steiner) performing their piece Occurrences at Linux Audio Conference 2026 in Maynooth University Ireland 19. June. Our travel is supported by Art Music Denmark
Picture by Iain McCurdy
TMS (Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner) are performing their piece Occurrences at Linux Audio Conference 2026 at University Maynooth Ireland 19. June 2026
and a concert 15. August 2026 at Sydhavnens Festival Aarhus (DK)
The experimental electronic project TMS (Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Malte Steiner) will perform their piece Occurrences at Lydknust 26 festival in Esbjerg (DK) 19. April.
Occurrences debut was 2024 in Helsinki and for it TMS developed a cybernetic system which registers and processes their sonic inputs coming from metal percussion and tactile resonance via piezo-microphones. The computer responds to their playing and calculates control data, not only for internal sound synthesis but also for an external DIY modular synthesizer and real-time generated visuals.
Petri Kuljuntausta: When Birds Dream of Dinosaurs... and Sing a Song to Ancient Times & Aspen
concert 13. February 2026 as part of Block 4 dialogues I at Toinen Kerros / Äänen Lumo, Helsinki (FI)
https://block4.com/dialogues1.php
The impetus for the solo performance is birdsong and the structure of birdsong. We do not know what the birds "say" in their songs. But at least we can imagine the themes that have been passed down from one generation of birds to another. Petri Kuljuntausta: guitar, electronics. Petri Kuljuntausta improvises as a guitarist and with electronic instruments, plays with animals and birds, makes underwater performances, performs in different natural spaces with environmental sounds, compose electronic music and create sound art. Kuljuntausta is currently developing the technique on how to play as an artist with nature and animals: How to connect through sound to the sound processes of the environment equally and without disturbing the nature's own sound processes.
ASPEN The work is based on two soundscape recordings Kuljuntausta made in summer 2025: a huge aspen tree swaying in the wind on the shore of a lake, and early morning bird soundscape. The work begins with the rustling sound field created by the leaves. When the wind blows, thousands of leaves beat against each other. As the protein-rich leaves of the aspen are hard, this produce rhythmic sounds when they hit each other. A wide "clapping sound field" is created. A few dotted water sounds and the splashing of water might tune the ear to the waves. But this is an illusion, it is the sound of aspen. The second sound layer is a modified, abstracted and distanced, bird soundscape. This provided a starting point for new sounds generated with granular synthesis. The work ends as it began, with the sound of a huge aspen tree in the wind.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen: vibrational difference # III (a remembrance of collapse) concert,
part of Block 4 dialogues I at Toinen Kerros by Äänen Lumo(Nokiantie 2), Helsinki (FI)
vibrational difference is a series of sound performances based on Madsen's geological field recordings from mine explosions undertaken at the iron mine Malmberget, Sabmé in June 2024, where sound waves are activated by human-induced seismic events which in the piece are the foundation for a gradual drone composition which bear witness to a dynamic and violent transformation of the landscape. The dynamite blastings are here witnesses of a resonance moving across the geological and the socio-political. The fieldwork and recordings undertaken at Malmberget took place every night at midnight where Madsen visited different locations around the mine area with a geophone. The first recording was the closest possible to get to the main pit and the following recordings had varied degrees of intensity, also beyond the audible, and on the last day some rock-matter collapsed as a consequence which also became an evident rumble many kilometres away.
In the performance and piece vibrational difference # III, Madsen uses effect pedals to improvise with the recorded sounds to evoke a relation to both colonialism and human infrastructural damage through the sonic traces of mineral extraction from the mining industry. The low frequency sounds are thus extending themselves across the site of recording as pulsating sonic matter which connects the listener to both resonances of remembrance but also as an access to direct geological destruction.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen: electronics, field recordings.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (DK) is an artist and researcher who works between performance art, sound, open technology, and matter, in a mode of practising and collaborating with philosophy and geological agency. Madsen holds a doctoral degree (Doctor of Arts) from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI) at the Department of Art and Media, and has worked with facilitation and education in multiple frameworks. Madsen has presented their sound and performance work internationally and is the founder of performance protocols, a nomadic platform for instruction-based art and collaborative processes. Madsen is a member of the Finnish Bioart Society, the Eco- and Bioart Lab (LiU), and a certified facilitator of Deep Listening workshops from the Center for Deep Listening, Rensselaer Polytech Institute (US).
https://tmkm.dk
Elektronengehirn audiovisual concert Hardware 13. February 2026 as part of Block 4 dialogues I at Toinen Kerros / Äänen Lumo, Helsinki (FI) https://block4.com/dialogues1.php
Malte Steiner initiated Elektronengehirn in 1996 as an experiment to create music exclusively using software-based sound synthesis. The name Elektronengehirn is an old German term from the 1960s for computers, which were then referred to as electronic brains. What sounds trivial today was, back then, a pretty radical idea, especially when one lacked access to the computational resources of institutions like universities. Computer sound synthesis for the masses was in its infancy, and not much was possible in real time. Meanwhile, Block 4 studio added more and more hardware over the years, like the ever-growing Eurorack Modular system since 2002. The album Hardware from 2024 breaks with the initial Elektronengehirn concept and features tracks which are also done with Eurorack modular synthesizer and custom electronic instruments that Steiner has been developing since 2022. During the concert pieces from the album are performed live on computer and DIY modular synthesizer. The Linux computer runs Pure Data for the audio and a custom software created with the game engine Godot for visuals.
Here is the second round of the fantastic photos by Roman Odjinud of the block 4 dialogues I event Friday the 13. at Äänen Lumo in Helsinki from the soloconcert Petri Kuljuntausta and the impro trio Kuljuntausta - Madsen - Steiner
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Here is the first round of the fantastic photos by Roman Odjinud of the block 4 dialogues I event Friday the 13. at Äänen Lumo in Helsinki from the concerts Elektronengehirn and Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen,
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Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen is performing a streaming concert February 6th at Apo33 Audioblast festival:
Coming up: Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen will perform the piece vibrational difference # II (meditation on extractivism) at Audioblast #14 on February 6th. 2026. The festival is organized by Apo33:
Live en ligne et hybdride – “Hyperécoutes en réseau”
Online live – “Networked Hyper-listening”
Vendredi 6 février 2026 de 14h à 22h. Performances en direct via la plateforme de streaming d’APO33 et en multistreams, sur place à Apo33 (Psalette) avec places limitées (réservation obligatoire)
You can now watch online last weeks Elektronengehirn concert at Piksel 25 Bergen (NO). It was the maximalist version of the concert Hardware with pieces from the same named album: three independent videoprojections (like the 2024 concert in Aarhus (DK)) and quadrophonic sound. The main projection Malte Steiner programmed with the game engine Godot, the side projection comes each from a Raspberry Pi with a C program done with Raylib. Remotecontrol was done from the PureData patch on the main computer via OSC through ethernet cables. Additional sound source was a custom made modular synthesizer system Steiner developed in the past years. This audiovisual concert comes close to his vision of the Gesamtkunstwerk.
Elektronengehirn is going to perform a concert at Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway on the 22. November at Østre. During Piksel Malte Steiner also shows the installation The Tradwives at the exhibition from 20.-23. November.
