Midi-to-CV

From the desk of Malte Steiner: 

"My favorite microcontrollers are from the STM32 ARM family, which offers a wide range of integrated peripherals. Recently, I developed a MIDI-to-CV converter for the DIY modular synthesizer system I have been working on over the past few years. It generates three control voltages (CVs) and several digital gate signals from incoming MIDI messages. 

The STM32 Nucleo board, pictured in the foreground, provides three independent DAC channels, so I didn't need any external converters for this design. The circuitry includes a standard 5-pin DIN MIDI input with an optocoupler providing galvanic isolation before the signal reaches the microcontroller's UART. This prevents ground loops, as recommended in the original MIDI specification. 

I developed the firmware using STM32CubeIDE. However, I'm also considering a more affordable variant based on the Seeed Studio XIAO SAMD21, using multiple MCP DAC chips connected via SPI. This would allow me to generate additional independent control voltages and control more synthesizer parameters."

Waves Up North Festival

Malte Steiner's fixed media piece Carceral Memory K is included in the Waves Up North festival and will be presented quadrophonic on Saturday the 31. October 21:00 at Det Gamle Rådhus · Torvet 5 · Nørresundby (DK).
The piece was composed during Steiner's artist-in-residency at Life on a Leaf Turku, Finland last September.

https://wavesupnorth.dk

concerts & exhibition 27.9.2026 Life on a Leaf Turku (FI)

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

installation retexturizing: recontextualizing

Malte Steiner's generative projection piece ‘retexturizing: recontextualizing‘ for the open house Konstrundan event at Life on a Leaf 6. September in Turku (FI). A computer generates and animates randomly collages out of 1892 image fragments of processed real estate ads from Steiner's project The Big Crash, Art for the pending burst of the real estate bubble . Programmed in Pure Data / Gem, running on a Linux computer.

 

reading performance in Turku

On todays 8. September Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen will facilitate the performance textual repetition at Turku Main Library at the non-fiction department from 18 to 19. This one is for world literacy day, and Madsen will facilitate another on 20. September 14:00-15:00 at the Rotunda, for Turku day.

sound installation at Life on a Leaf

sound installation by Malte Steiner with a generative patch on DIY modular synthesizer for open house Konstrundan event 6. September 2026 at Life on a Leaf in Turku. (FI)

We put the modular to bed, something you don’t see everyday

Life on a Leaf residency September

In September Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner are going to be artists-in-residency at Life on a Leaf in Turku in Finland. It starts with open house the 5. and 6. September, on 5. September they perform at 14:00 the TMS piece Occurrences and on the 6. they have artist talks starting on 14:00.

They work on new pieces in September and going to present results at the end of the residency.

https://www.lifeonaleaf.fi/en/events

Elektronengehirn Aalborg concert video

The Elektronengehirn Hardware concert 8. November 2025 at Galleri Niemi Aalborg (DK):

anticomic VR at Stadtwerkstatt Linz

Malte Steiners latest VR art work anticomic: livecomic VR is going to be shown at Stadtwerkstatt Linz Austria 7. - 13. September 2026 at the Haunted exhibition.

https://stwst84x12.stwst.at/en/anticomic_livecomic_vr

more TMS pictures from Aarhus

TMS performing a noise concert on their DIY instruments at Sydhavnen Festival 2026 Aarhus (DK) at Kvindelig stage on 15.8.2026. Pictures by Sofie Seemann

TMS pictures from Sydhavnen Festival 2026

TMS (Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Malte Steiner) performing a noise concert on their DIY instruments at Sydhavnen Festival 2026 Aarhus at Kvindelig stage on 15.8.2026. Pictures by Simon Bendix Borregaard

 

 

block 4 stops shipping

Due to the new regulations in EU concerning packaging recycling (PPWR, which we welcome) and the need to register in any EU country for a fee to report packaging (EPR, impossible for us), the ever rising postage costs while lowering the quality of service and the random tariff of the day we decided to stop any shipping. Every sale was actually a loss already (we were never in for the money) but now it doesn't make any sense anymore. We concentrate our physical sales via distributors and shops and of course you can buy our records on our events and concerts. Digital downloads remain available through Bandcamp.

Notstandskomitee concert video from Helsinki

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.

Verwandlung live

On 31. July 2026 André Niemi and Malte Steiner will do a first concert performance of their experimental electronic project Verwandlung at Data Hell II event at 1000fryd Peepshop Aalborg (DK)

Notstandskomitee pix

the Notstandskomitee concert at the Data Hell 1 event at 1000fryd Peepshop Aalborg (DK) 17. July, pictures by André Niemi

anticomic VR screencast

My latest, extremely reduced and stylized VR art piece anticomic VR from 2026. Screencast directly from the headset. Like all works of my new anticomic project it is based on graphical artifacts from comic books, creating abstract works as dysfunctional comics dropping any narrative.

Developed with the open source Godot game engine, models created in Blender. As in many of my works, the sound design is equally important.

It was first shown in my solo exhibition Assorted Realities at XM3 - rum for samtidskunst Aalborg (DK) in June with a Quest3S headset.

Notstandskomitee concert Aalborg (DK)

Notstandskomitee is going to play a small set at Data Hell event at 1000fryd Peepshop 17. July 2026 20:00

impressions TMS concert

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

purity and corruption

purity and corruption is a sound art installation created by artist Malte Steiner 2026 and first shown at his solo exhibition Assorted Realities 24. - 27. June 2026 at XM3 Aalborg (DK). Based on a XIAO SAMD21 microcontroller it generates with random parameters a pure sinus wave which got corrupted by another sinus wave by FM. The result is used to resonate a metal plate through a transducer which contributes to the corruption. The LEDs show the upper 8 bits of the 10 bit digital to analog converter of the microcontroller.

Tina M.K. Madsen performance at XM3

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen will facilitate a durational performance at XM3 space for contemporary art in Aalborg as an artistic research process which connects to ideas of unconformity as a critical practice that considers the complex layers of human agency and nonhuman sourroundings where modes of hestiation become artistic possibilities.

It starts on Sunday June 28 2026 12:00-17:00 and continue on the following days, June 29 and 30, also 12:00-17:00.