blog4
A blog by Aalborg medialab, label and publisher block 4 http://www.block4.com Amongst the block 4 artists are Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner, whose work ranges from visual art, performance to sound and experimental music. The electronic music goes from Industrial via IDM to Noise, including projects like Notstandskomitee, TMS, Elektronengehirn, codepage, Akustikkoppler and Das Kombinat. This blog also bring news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Pictures from Elektronengehirn Berlin concert
Thursday, March 27, 2025
concerts spring 2025
Elektronengehirn will play 19. April at Noiseberg Berlin, Germany
Notstandskomitee will play 17. May Object Permanence Festival at Caisa Culture Centre Helsinki, Finland
Saturday, March 8, 2025
The Tradwives
First shown at Oksasenkatu 11 Helsinki (FI) last September. Part of Steiner's art project Absolute Power.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Microwave XT knob replacements
Friday, February 14, 2025
new Notstandskomitee album this year
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:
Thursday, February 13, 2025
b4DigiMatrix synthesizer
pictured here between the French Kodamo Essence FM synthesizer and the DBX compressor, is the digital synthesizer b4DigiMatrix in white which Malte Steiner built 2023. It is based on a STM32 Arm Microcontroller and has three wavetable oscillators going in a multimode filter with several configurations. The routing inclusive the 2 function generators are all done digitally with toggle switches. It mainly lives in the studio but for local concerts or jam sessions Steiner dragged it out the rack.
Firmware is open sourced: https://github.com/HerrSteiner/b4DigiMatrix
Sunday, February 2, 2025
synth in a suitcase
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."