The Steim Touch - Andi Otto

Descriere The Steim Touch - Andi Otto

The story of STEIM and the first sensor instruments in digital music. \nThe STEIM foundation in Amsterdam was a music studio radically dedicated to the live, physical performance of electronic sound. From 1969 to 2021, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music supported artists in building new instruments, insisting on tangible, hands-on engagements with electronic sound. \n \nThis book provides a comprehensive overview of STEIM's work, drawing on original interviews and extensive primary source research in the archive of its longtime artistic director, Michel Waisvisz (1949-2008). It traces the studio's evolution from its roots in the anarchic, situationist spirit of 1960s Amsterdam to the famous Cracklebox and to a long line of pioneering developments in sensor-based instruments between 1984 and 2000. \n \nA primary focus is Waisvisz's landmark instrument The Hands (1984)--the world's first sensor-based gestural controller--and the SensorLab platform it inspired. This emerging expertise fuelled an international artist-in-residence programme, attracting figures like Jon Rose, Nicolas Collins or Laetitia Sonami among many others and fostering a global wave of experimental instrument design. \n \nThe common thread through this history is a paradigm called Touch, which championed musicians' embodied presence over automation and predefined control. By documenting the pursuits of immediacy within highly mediated technologies, The STEIM Touch offers a crucial historical lens for today's ongoing negotiations between artificiality and physicality in music creation.\n

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Goldsmiths Press

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ENSTK

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9781915983459

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1

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