Asmus Tietchens recently released a piece based on stochastic Material by Malte Steiner. It can be downloaded for free on the netaudio label Plakatif.

Malte Steiner, aka Elektronengehirn, has contributed a generative piece, Broadcast Engine, to rand()% webradio.

rand()% is a net.radio and digital exhibition space curated by Joe Gilmore, aka Plank. Recent rand()% activities include:

rand()%lab: 04.11.01 - 07.01.05 The Media Centre, Huddersfield.
Featuring audio installations by Joe Gilmore, Tom Betts, Alku and
audiovisual works by Dextro, Lia + Carvalhais, Steinbrüchel + Brusa,
Thor + Runar Magnusson, Thor Magnusson + Birta Thrastardottir, Renox.

Microwave - 30.10.04: net art exhibition curated by Casey Reas,
Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong, China

rand()% is pleased to announce the inclusion of the following new works:
+. Douglas Repetto: SineClock
+. Jason Kahn: Brown White Blue Pink
+. (the aforementioned) Elektronengehirn: Broadcast Engine

More details:

> Malte Steiner official website

> Joe Gilmore official website

Malte Steiner's next Pure Data workshop will be held at Vivid in Birmingham, UK. The week from 18. to 22. October will cover many aspects of this open source real time modular audio- and videosynthesizer software. Included is soundsynthesis, video processing and realtime 3D. Seats are limited and registration required so follow the link if you areplanning to be in the UK at that time and would like to attend.

More details:

> www.vivid.org.uk/bulletin.html

> Pure Data

Albert Casais (aka Omnid) will be performing at two concerts in the New York area in September.

NY Phonographers Meeting Concert
September 25
Troy NY with Impulse Response
The Gasholder Building
1115 5th Avenue, Troy, NY
concert begins at 8pm / Suggested Donation: $5

September 26
6 & B Garden LES, NYC, NY
5:30 pm soundwalk led by Michelle Nagai
6:30 - 9pm outdoor concert
participants include Mike Rosenthal, The Beige Channel, Michelle Nagai,
Jonathan Way,Tommy Birchett, Scott Allison, Omnid, Andrew Hayleck,
Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood, Seth Cluett, and Ben Owen

More details:

> Email Omnid

"SoundLab Channel," a net.art project coordinated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne as part of his [R][R][F]2004->XP project, will include the work of several Stasisfield artists when it is presented at the 2004 Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth, Australia this September.

Stasisfield founder john kannenberg was asked to participate, as well as help curate a portion of the exhibition. Glenn Bach, Thanos Chrysakis, Lee Kwang Goh, Neil Jendon, David McKenzie, Malte Steiner and john kannenberg have contributed sound pieces dealing with the exhibition's themes of memory and violence.

The exhibition will be on display online and in Perth from 7 September thru 17 November.

The pieces on exhibit include:

- "gravid" and "sliceinterlude" by Glenn Bach
- "Poém Neuromnimonique" by Thanos Chrysakis
- "TheConceptOfViolence" and "TheSurfaceOfTheMemory" by Lee Kwang Goh
- "The rest is pretty much like this" by Neil Jendon
- "northwest to harvard" and "selmara" by David McKenzie
- "Soundmirror" and "whoami" by Malte Steiner
- "For Spalding Gray (in memorium)" by john kannenberg

More details:

> BEAP 2004

> [R][R][F]2004->XP

Stasisfield will be the subject of an extensive label profile on July 25's episode of Symbiosis, a program dedicated to experimental music that broadcasts on Melbourne, Australia's 102.7fm on late Sunday nights.

Simon Hampson, Symbiosis' presenter, will conduct a telephone interview with Stasisfield founder john kannenberg as well as play a large selection of Stasisfield releases during the two-hour show, which broadcasts from 12am - 2am Sunday nights local Melbourne time (1pm - 3pm Sunday afternoon GMT).

The program is also available for listening online with RealPlayer via a link on the Symbiosis web site.

More details:

> Symbiosis online

Eva Sjuve and Malte Steiner will be teaching workshops at the Bergen Center for the Electronic Arts in July 2004. More information about attending is included below.

Physical Computing Workshop with Eva Sjuve
at BEK, Bergen, Norway, July 19-23, 2004

Pure Data Workshop with Malte Steiner
at BEK, Bergen, Norway, July 24-25

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Physical Computing Workshop with Eva Sjuve

The workshop is aimed at artists and musicians who are interested in physical interaction with the computer, a way to interact, by not using the keyboard and the mouse. In the workshop we use a microcontroller, BasicX-24, programming it using Basic language, and use it as a tool for interaction with various kinds of sensors. The workshop is basic, no programming or knowledge in electronics is necessary, but preferred. To attend the workshop is free, the participant has to pay for their own travel and lodging to Bergen, Norway. The participants will be able to keep their project from the workshop.

To participate or for more info send an email to: eva@bek.no

And include a motivation to participate in the workshop. The workshop is limited to 7 participants.

Eva Sjuve has been working with computer-based projects since the 80's, and is building and performing with physical interfaces. She has been exhibiting in Europe, US, South America, Asia and Australia, since mid –80's. Eva Sjuve studied microcontrollers at The Physics Department at Lund University, Sweden, and later at The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. She holds a MA in Art Theory and Master's studies in Drama/Theatre/Film, Lund University, Sweden and a MPS at ITP, New York University. She also studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York, and at Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), Paris, France.

For more info:
www.bek.no/~eva
moomonkey.com

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Pure Data Workshop with Malte Steiner

Pure Data (PD) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing, originally developed by Miller Puckette. This workshop is aimed at beginners and will include installation of PD/GEM, serial control from a microcontroller, building of a basic sound patch and introduction to GEM (an OpenGL and video extension for Pd).

Pure Data is a free software and can be used on Mac OSX, Linux, Windows 32.

pure-data.iem.at/about/
www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html

Malte Steiner (Hamburg), media artist, programmer and developer. He
has been developing interactive art installations using PD, MAX/MSP as
well as projects for theater, web and mobile phones in Europe and in
Asia. Steiner is also an electronic musician with performances in
South America and Europe with his Elektronengehirn project. He has
been holding workshops and lectures in Germany, US and in the UK.

block4.com/

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Bergen Center for Electronic Arts [BEK]
C.Sundtgt.55
5004 Bergen, Norway
phone: +47-55233080
www.bek.no
The workshops are supported by PNEK, (Production Network for Electronic Arts, Norway) pnek.no/

Composer David Hahn recently completed a 3-movement suite for mandolin and guitar called "Passionate Isolation." The movements are: Ritual, Misgivings, and March and the piece is about 6 minutes long. Hahn is currently at work on some electronic music and compositions for choir.

The past season has been a busy one for Hahn. June 1 saw the performance of his work for percussion ensemble "Mbira" at Seattle's Kane Hall by the University of Washington's Percussion Ensemble directed by Tom Collier. In Apirl, Hahn's friend, guitarist Cem Duruoz, played Hahn's "4 Short Pieces for Classical Guitar" as part of his Carnegie Hall debut program (these pieces are also available on Duruoz's Centaur CD "Contemporary Music for Guitar.") In March, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra gave a series of 3 performances of Hahn's "Concerto ala Barocco." An mp3 recording of the premiere of the Chaconne Movement of this piece is available on Hahn's personal website.

Hahn also had a couple of choral pieces premiere this past season: his Christmas carol "Tirlee, Tirlo!" and a sacred Renaissance-style composition called "De omnibus apostolis."

More details:

> David Hahn online

Jochen Gutsch [aka Hinterlandt] relocated to Cologne, Germany this past February from Sydney, Australia. With that relocation comes three new releases:

HINTERLANDT: "The Power Of Del te" CDR

"The Power Of Del te" is out now on Grain Of Sound in Lisbon/Portugal. It consists of a single 42-minute-track and is more on the minimal/microsound side of Hinterlandt. Comes in a stylish, clear, roundish kind of cover with a nice PDF booklet by Nuno Moita.

Get it from > www.grainofsound.com

HINTERLANDT/ZU/CAN CAN HEADS: "Eccentrics #1" CD

"Eccentrics #1" is out now on Tenzenmen in Sydney/Australia. This is a three-way-split CD featuring 20-30 minutes each from Hinterlandt, Italy´s freejazzrockwonder ZU, and Finland´s nowavers Can Can Heads. Hinterlandt in this case makes Electropop shake hands with Death Metal, Microsound, Surf Rock and Field Recordings. Uncompromising music from an uncomromising label.

Get it from > www.ten-zen-men.com

PROFESSOR: "Academizer" 3"CD

Professor was a group consisting of Martin Ulrich, Tim Ilsemann and Jochen Gutsch which played a very extreme type of grinding death metal, operating around 1993. Tumult records in San Francisco now had the insight to re release their only 7" EP (originally released by Epistrophy) as a nice and handy 3" CD.

Get it from > www.tumult.net

More details:

> Hinterlandt.com

Stasisfield founder john kannenberg's "indeterminate topography" series of digital image compositions are featured in issue 1 of Sonic Scope Quarterly, the new contemporary visual art pdf magazine from Portugal's Grain of Sound label.

Also featured in the issue are works by taylor deupree, julie fowells, margarida garcia, nuno moita, m.sá, manuel mota, andreia oliveira, miguel soares, undo, diogo valério, and joão vicente.

More details:

> Grain of Sound

> john's official web site

Burkhard Kerlin's amazingly prolific Retinascan label has just released a new full-length CD by Stasisfield founder john kannenberg. The album, Gelidus, is a sonic interpretation of extreme cold in six parts.

Lavishly packaged in a clear DVD case with foil cover and a 12-page booklet containing a new suite of kannenberg's digital image compositions as well as images by Stasisfield photographer Alessandra, Gelidus is now available at the Retinascan shop and is now available for sale here at Stasisfield.

More details:

> Retinascan

> john's official web site

Writer for The Wire and Signal to Noise magazines (as well as a recent Stasisfield contributor) Dan Warburton posted his detailed review of the latest Stasisfield compilation CD on the web site of ParisTransatlantic magazine, the excellent online resource devoted to avant garde music that Warburton edits.

More details:

> Audible Still-Life reviews page

> ParisTransatlantic Monthly

Albert Casais, aka Omnid, will perform as part of the Scarecelight "Desktop Rock Tour" March 18th at The Tank, just off Times Square in New York City at 432 w. 42nd St. Omnid will be performing along with EBSK, Satellite Grooves, Accelera Deck, EVOL and Mikroknytes. Doors Open at 8:00pm, music begins at 8:30pm.

More details:

> The Tank gallery

Sound and visual artist Malte Steiner is currently exhibiting work developed along with Ulrich Raatz and Andreas Pflitsch at the S.K.A.M. gallery, Hamburg through February 13th.

Das Kombinat, another of Steiner's projects, has released their latest music video in the current issue of the art CDr magazine tinah (thisisnotahomepage)#1.

More details:

> S.K.A.M. gallery

> tinah

> Malte Steiner official website

David Hahn's latest work "Concerto alla Barocco" for 4 Guitars and Orchestra premiered on 15 November 2003. The piece was performed by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, who commissioned the work, and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. The performance received a standing ovation. The piece is scheduled for several performances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in March 2004.

David also has a free mp3 release available for download as part of The Diagram's special audio issue. The issue also includes pieces by Thanos Chrysakis, John Hudak, and many others.

More details:

> David Hahn online

> The Diagram

Jochen Guetsch, aka Hinterlandt, has just released two new CDRs. BO CHCNG HU is available from CUE Records, while POPREKORDT is available from Dhyana Records.

More details:

> Hinterlandt.com