Workshop 2

Location: STEIM, Amsterdam
Center for Research and Development of instruments and tools for performers in the electronic performance arts.
Date: 19th - 21st June 2007
Lead artist: Michel Waisvisz (NL), Composer, performer and instrument maker and the director of STEIM. Working in the area of hand held interfaces/instruments for live performance in a variety of contexts.
Participating artists: Tom Bugs (UK), Sonia Cillari (NL), Isaac Carlos (NL), Teresa Dillon (IRL/UK), Ivan Franco (PT), André Gonçalves (PT), Kathy Hinde (UK), Torsten Lauschmann (UK), Rudolfo Quintas (PT), Tom Verbruggen (NL), André Sier (PT).

Public Performance Schedule

NIP @ STEIM, AMSTERDAM
Live Performances: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Time: 20.00
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Admission: £5
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690

For the live performances at STEIM, Amsterdam the NIP artists will be joined by STEIM director Michel Waisviz. Together the group will create an evening of short compositions and performances using existing and emerging techniques for live and gesture-based performance interaction.

Performance Schedule

BOP UK
BOP are Teresa Dillon and Kathy Hinde. Together they draw on contemporary audio-visual and live art techniques to create playful and brutal real-time compositions

Feltro, PT
Delicate and resonant computer music compositions by Portuguese multimedia artist André Gonçalves

Michel Waisviz, NL
Composer, musician, instrument maker and director of STEIM, Michel Waisviz will create a short The Hands improvisation with visuals from André Gonçalves

Ivan Franco, Air Stick, PT
Ivan Franco will play his self-made ‘Airstick’ a Theremin style, physical instrument for gesture based musical performances

Tom Bugs, UK, and Hilary Jeffery, NL
NIP participant Tom Bugs teams up with local Amsterdam artist and musician Hilary Jeffery. Over the last year Bugs and Jeffery have been performing together creating droned out sounds on trombone and tromboscillator.

TokTek, NL
Visual artist and sound maker, TokTek ‘plays’ his rocked out, joystick live set.