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 streaming concert Helsinki - Aalborg - Nantes 25.Feb 2022 19:00 at Audioblast by APO-33
TMS is an experimental electro-acoustic project by the artists Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner. The format is improvisational sound pieces and concerts built out of Steiner and Madsen’s sonic interactions, where noise-scapes and complex structures emerge from intense layering of various in- and outputs. The choice of instrumentation and method varies for each performance and piece, where each chosen element is crucial and the combination of these play a vital role in the compositions. The inputs can be analogue as well as digital; modulated, transformed and distorted.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen & Malte Steiner will in their online concert Relay Station explore multiple layers of transmission and relaying forward of information. Madsen and Steiner here regard themselves as two sonic sources, researching what possibilities are present when they are sounding together but not located in the same place, one being in Helsinki (FI) and the other in Aalborg (DK). One sends a sound source over the network, to be received and responded by the other, who then forwards their multiplied signal back into the stream, as the final live feed. Like response rings over sonic air waves. Crucial for the piece is that live networked communication includes potentials for delay, chance encounters, and even failure, which here are regarded as creative forces feeding back into the work, as dynamic variations and potentials.
Aalborg: The Working City was an audiovisual site specific concert reflecting on the industrial past and current transition of the Danish city, performed outdoors 2. September 2021. Being a former industrial workers city, Aalborg has to find its way so it still can function and stay attractive.
With transition comes change and not without effects on its citizens and the face of Aalborg. One doesn’t have to look into the writings of Richard Florida to know about the dangers of these processes such as gentrification but he also formulates what makes a city tick.
Malte Steiner works with these urgent topics of urban development in his artistic practice, the latest realisation is the art project The Big Crash he started in 2019. For the event Aalborg: The Working City he creates a show with his electronic music project Notstandskomitee, founded in 1991. The departure point of this piece is the past of Aalborg, illustrated with Industrial sounds and realtime generated visuals with a custom software and historical pictures from a private archive, slowly transforming into modern Click’N’Cuts and IDM sounds. It is performed with a combination of prepared material, live modular synthesizer and metal percussion, not only illustrating the history of the city but also the development of Notstandskomitee itself, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
Organised by Brolandingerne and supported by Aalborg Kommune and Vigenstarteraalborgsammen The all new tracks are going to be included in the next two Notstandskomitee albums for release, the start makes the upcoming CD album scheduled for January 2022.
Notstandskomitee released the split LP Elektrofusion with the German minimal synth project THX 1971 on the label Minimalkombinat. Its also available in the block 4 shop, also some of the limited 12" red vinyl records which also comes with a CDR.
2005 Malte Steiner released his videogame Space Guards for which he composed 4 tracks with his project Notstandskomitee in a Space Lounge style, mixing old and new electronics. Outside the game they were never available but now they can be enjoyed as digital download or on the limited edition vinyl EP with 2 tracks on each side, 45 rpm, 300 copies in translucent orange.
