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
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.
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
Malte Steiner is going to show art works from 2017 - 2026 at his exhibition Assorted Realities at XM3 Aalborg (DK) from 24. June - 27. June
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.