‘Wii Undressed’, Frank Balde/STEIM, NL


Frank Baldé apresentará o workshop “Wii undressed”, onde demonstrará como é que um comando de Nintendo Wii pode ser remontado de modo a criar um novo tipo de instrumento utilizando o Steim’s junXion e software LiSa.

Os Participantes terão de trazer laptops MacOS X.

Reserva Obrigatória:
Máx: 10 pessoas
Preço:€50

Contacto: Sofia Oliveira, CADA
Email: sofiaoliveira AT cada1.net
Tel.: (+351) 21 343 07 77

Local: Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2o [ao Chiado]

Credits

Frank Baldé

Bio Abreviada

Frank Baldé is software designer at STEIM - the studio for electro-instrumental music, The Netherlands. STEIM is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. Over the last twenty years, he has closely collaborated with with Michel Waisvisz, the artistic director of STEIM, which resulted in the devleopment of number of musical installations, objects and programs for live performance, including amoung others junXion, LiSA.

Within various artistic and live performance circles, juXion and LiSa, were some fo the first softwares to allows for sophicated and subtle, real-time manipluation possibilies. Frank also teaches at the Sonology department of the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. In recent years, he has done major development work on junXion, which now has become a very powerful tool to configure, reroute and process all sorts of input data like from joysticks, touchscreens, midi keyboards, open sound control messages, etc. into other MIDI and OSC data to control (mostly) audio software.