capturing Iijoki

The Iijoki river starts to flow again and we captured great material for our upcoming art installation in Ii.

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

Ii residency, week 3

We are in the third week of being artists in residency at KulttuuriKauppila in Ii, Finland. Tina finished already enough artworks for two exhibitions with her own brand of processual bio art, we made a lot of fieldrecordings and working on Pd patches and Csound applications for our upcoming TMS concerts. I made two drawings so far and work on tracks for my projects Elektronengehirn and Notstandskomitee. On May 8th we give our master class at the Oulu Art Museum, talking about artistic mapping with sound, movement and notation.

new Elektronengehirn album out

16 years after the last complete Elektronengehirn album µc, block 4 releases the new Ø with electroacoustic pieces from 2002 till 2017. In that time Elektronengehirn became more a live project, with which I experimented with different means of expressions, exploring alternative controllers like wind-controller, data gloves and custom build ones.

codepage liveset on Mixcloud

For the Algosix anniversary codepage played a live set which was streamed from the block 4 studio on 17. March 2018. This is the studiorecording of the live coding set performed by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner. We use Tidal Cycles as our instrument.
http://codepage.tmkm.dk

Notstandskomitee concert video

Notstandskomitee performed a concert on March 2nd at the Astrastube in Hamburg. The complete concert inclusive encore was recorded on video and can be seen here:

A new release on vinyl is in preparation which includes an extended version of Maschinenangst which was originally released on the second Notstandskomitee CD Strom 1997.

new Elektronengehirn album

Next week block 4 is going to release the fourth album of Elektronengehirn on Bandcamp. Many have heard Fjord already on Soundcloud which will be the opening track. The pieces on this album are made between 2004 and 2017.

A fascinating insight of Elektronengehirn working in the block 4 studio can be seen here, showing a complex drone patch for a new piece on the modular synthesizer: