Notstandskomitee concert 17. May 2025 at Algorave Helsinkis Object Permanence festival at Caisa Cultural Center Helsinki (FI). Playing tracks from current album The Doomsday Layout
Live coding concert with Steiners own software gravel, augmented with a digital synthesizer he developed 2 years ago and the DIY modular he developed in the last months. Visuals are made with a custom software created with the open source Godot game engine, controlled by the live coding environment via OSC.
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.
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
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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Seems that Malte Steiners Industrial / IDM project Notstandskomitee has enough tracks together for a new album. block 4 suggests a CD this year. Not sure if we make it before the summer. Notstandskomitee is now focusing on the creation of the technical platform for upcoming audiovisual concerts.
Meanwhile check out the backcatalog:
From the desk of Malte Steiner:
"The current state of my DIY electronics modular synthesizer I developed in the past months, my take on a portable instrument in a suitcase for concerts and jam sessions. Before I develop a Midi interface I first revise the Clockworks gate module with a more flexible second version with variable gate lengths and random mode, based on Arduino. Second half of March I will be in Helsinki and I am open for concerts of my projects Elektronengehirn or Notstandskomitee, or jam sessions."
On 4.April TMS plays on the Akustmata Polyphonic Festival in Helsinki, free entrance, start 18:00:
Side-Line interview with Notstandskomitee / Malte Steiner:
https://www.side-line.com/click-interview-with-notstandskomitee-the-idea-was-to-paint-with-sound/
