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.

The Tradwives

Last year Malte Steiner learned that there is an antifeminist movement. Female antifeminists. Further research lead to the art installation The Tradwives: Three color e-paper screens generate and show unsupervised and uncensored collages of material which was data-scraped from Tradwife influencer profiles on Instagram. The material was first decomposed with Machine Learning into smaller bits which within the installation are rearranged to ever changing collages.
First shown at Oksasenkatu 11 Helsinki (FI) last September. Part of Steiner's art project Absolute Power.

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

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."

b4 modular synthesizer

The last months Malte Steiner expanded his knowledge of analog electronics, researched and build a modular synthesizer system. The idea is to create a cheap, repairable system which one would check in during a flight and drag onto stage. The most expensive is actually the suitcase, the whole system is around 500.-€ instead of the 2000.- to 3000.- € a comparable Eurorack suitcase would cost.

research & development

recording

    

This weekend: Performance and Workshop

This weekend concludes the Kunstpionererne program in Aalborg with an event in Hjørring over several days and they curated Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner as part of their program this weekend:

https://www.kunsthalnord.dk/kaerlig-hilsen-x-3-afgangsprojekter-2023/kaerlig-hilsen-x-3-afskedsprojekter-2023.aspx

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen is doing on Friday her performance
celle(re)komposition i tisl have

Fredag 23. juni, 17.00-19.00. Jernbanegade 12, 9800 Hjørring


and on Sunday Malte Steiner gives a Granular Synthesis workshop for Pure Data, participants going to build a DIY Midicontroller and improvise together processing their own recordings.
Søndag 25. juni, 10.00-16.45, Jernbanegade 12, 9800 Hjørring

Absolute Power exhibition Aalborg 4. - 30. November 2022

 The first solo exhibition of Malte Steiners new art project Absolute Power is shown at XM3 gallery Aalborg, Denmark. The opening is 4. November at 16:00, the exhibition goes till 30. November.

the installation impotence + power

The topic of Absolute Power, power structures and the mechanics behind them, has so many aspects that there are going to be several chapters in the next years. This is the first one: From Initiation Rites To World War

The Big Crash exhibition Aalborg

In one week on the 1. August the new art space XM3 opens in Aalborg, Denmark and I am honoured to have the first exhibition there with my project The Big Crash - Art For The Pending Burst Of The Real Estate Bubble. My soloexhibition features some new art pieces I show the first time and can be visited from 1. till 25. August.

Piksel in Bergen exhibition till 9 December and Mozilla Hubs

The Price Of Berlin can be seen till the 9. December at the Piksel exhibition on location at Studio 207 in Bergen, Norway. The Mozilla Hubs version of The Big Crash VR can be experienced at https://hubs.mozilla.com/ufU2mgo/the-big-crash within a browser on desktop, mobile or VR headset.

See also http://www.thebigcrash.net

The Big Crash at Piksel20

Tonight 18:00 Piksel20 festival opens in Bergen, Norway, and online. I contributed with parts from my The Big Crash, art for the pending burst of the real estate bubble project (http://www.thebigcrash.net): the installation The Price Of Berlin at the exhibition on location and The Big Crash VR as multiuser version in Mozilla Hubs at Piksel Cyber Salon. I will be online in Hubs:

https://20.piksel.no

AMRO Linz 2020

The next outing of my art project

The Big Crash, art for the pending burst of the real estate bubble

will be at the Art Meets Radical Openness 2020 festival in Linz, Austria later this May. I was invited to show The Price Of Berlin at the exhibition but history took another turn, so instead physical on location I prepare something for the online edition. I do miss the traveling but apart from that not much changed for me.

Detail of The Price Of Berlin, as shown at the exhibition at Spanien19C Aarhus this year, just before the lockdown.

last day of The Big Crash exhibition Aarhus

After a month my solo exhibition The Big Crash at Spanien 19C in Aarhus comes to an end. The last day is this Sunday the 8. March, from 13:00 to 17:00. Come and experience art pieces for the pending burst of the real estate bubble. AI based oil paintings, kinetic sculptures, VR environments and more.

Kunsten.nu made a nice review in their gallery round, you find it in the lower part of the article in Danish.

Some quick impressions can be seen in this video:

music video The Price Of Berlin

the video to The Price Of Berlin from my Elektronengehirn album The Big Crash, made with the CAD data from my exhibition of the same name.

Often in Berlin you have to hear that there is a price you have to pay for being there, but you wanted it.

The Big Crash VR demo video

The Big Crash VR

a virtual reality artpiece based on real estate data and the pending burst of the housing bubble

I uploaded a screencast directly done from the Oculus Quest to demonstrate my new piece, created with Unity. It can be the first time experienced at The Big Crash exhibition in Spanien19c Aarhus in February 2020. For more details check out: 

http://www.thebigcrash.net

The Big Crash

I worked in the last months on my new art project The Big Crash dealing with the instability and pending burst of the big bubble of the Real Estate market. It encompasses art pieces like VR, paintings and sculptures for exhibition and electronic music made with the data.

The electroacoustic 'Piece For Modular Synthesizer And Real Estate Data' I will perform with my project Elektronengehirn the first time at Experimentik Berlin 18.September 2019.


Read more at

https://www.block4.com/art/theBigCrash.php

The Building Blocks Of The Big Crash