The STEIM Touch (SONICS #9)
by Andi Otto
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The 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.
This 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.
A 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.
The 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.
Details
- Publisher
- Global Book Sales
- Author
- Andi Otto
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Sep 22, 2026
- ISBN-13
- 9781915983459
- ISBN-10
- 1915983452
- Pages
- 256
- Carton quantity
- 3 copies
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