Site of the STEIM studios on the Achtergracht in Amsterdam, 290 years before the author took over as Artistic Director. Print by Jan van Call from the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The legendary STEIM Kraakdoos (Cracklebox), c. 1972. Photo by Simon Lonergan.
Michel Waisvisz demonstrating the first version of his "Hands" MIDI controller, at De Vleeshal in Middelburg, Netherlands, November 1984. To his right (left in photo) you can see a large STEIM Crackle Synthesizer. Photographer unknown, from the archive of Frank Baldé. (This was the occasion of my first concert as a guest of STEIM.)
My ill-fated concertina, 1989. Photo by Andre Hoeksema.
Nicolas Collins, Die Schatten (1996). Work for two hacked CD players skipping through Franz Schubert's Eine kleine Trauermusik, accompanied by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble for their New Year's Day Concert in the Concertgebauw, Amsterdam, 1997. Live video processing by Tom Demeyer.