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.

codepage concert video

The video of the codepage live coding concert at the Helsinki Algorave data leap at WHS Teatteri Union on 1. March 2024 is online:

Codepage performs a live coding concert with their own software, gravel, which controls its internal synthesis and sample processing (implemented with Csound), as well as an external modular synthesizer via MIDI.

Performers Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner operate their laptops, which are synchronized via network cable. The screens are projected in an overlapping manner. They start from an empty canvas, typing the code in real-time, which generates the sequences. Additionally, Steiner plays a touch-controlled synthesizer he recently built.

new Elektronengehirn album Hardware

Elektronengehirn released a new album Hardware on block 4, as download and first time for Elektronengehirn since the 2001 album e/a, in physical form as CD, as hardware.

Malte Steiner initiated Elektronengehirn in 1996 as an experiment to create music exclusively using software-based sound synthesis. Elektronengehirn is an old-school term from the 60s for computers, when they were referred to as electronic brains. What sounds trivial today was, back then, a pretty radical idea, especially when one lacked access to the computational resources of institutions like universities. Computer sound synthesis for the masses was in its infancy, and not much was possible in real time. Initially, Steiner used Csound in non-real-time mode to create complex soundscapes. Later, with more powerful computers, he also employed Pure Data and Max/MSP, which both run strictly in real time.

Meanwhile, block 4 studio added more and more hardware, like the ever-growing Eurorack Modular system since 2002. It became silly to ignore all the equipment and not incorporate it into the electro-acoustic world of Elektronengehirn. With the album 'Hardware,' it was time to break with the original concept and combine all the possibilities: software and hardware, digital and analog, virtual and physical.

Gravel at Code&Share Aarhus

On tomorrows Saturday Malte Steiner will present his new open source live coding system Gravel at Code&Share in Aarhus DK, 13:00-17:00 10.December 2022. An alpha version for Linux, Mac and Windows is to be expected soon...

Piksel 2022

Malte Steiner is guest at Piksel #20 in Bergen,  Norway with three contributions: The Absolute Power work rewriting history: I keep forgetting faces is shown in the exhibition, tonight he performs the very first concert of his new open source live coding system Gravel he developed since September together with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, a first alpha will be released by the end of the year. And tomorrow Steiner will be part of the talks about 20 years of Piksel. Full schedule: https://22.piksel.no/program-by-dates/

Csound on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi + Python + Csound is a good combination, especially with OpenCV thrown in. I created a new instrument by embedding Csound in a Python application which I am going to use on our upcoming TMS concert 29. May in Ii. Steven Yis examples helped me to get started:

https://github.com/csound/csoundAPI_examples/tree/master/python