‘Wii Undressed’, Frank Balde/STEIM, NL


Frank Baldé will present the “Wii undressed” workshop, where he will show how a Nintendo Wii controller can be repackaged to create a new kind of musical instrument controller using Steim’s junXion and LiSa software. In the workshop the focus will be on making ‘musical’ patches in the junXion and LiSa software and a number of interesting gesture mappings will be discussed and shown. Also during this workshop a basic explanation will be given of junXion, a real-world to MIDI routing application, and LiSa X, a MIDI controlled live performance audio sampler.

Pre-booking:
Pre-booking and payment necessary:
Contact: Sofia Oliveira, CADA
Email: sofiaoliveira AT cada1.net
Phone: (+351) 21 343 07 77

Workshop Details:
Workshop Cost: €50
Participant no: 10 people
Materials: All materials provided. Participants required to bring their own computer (MacOS X)
Location: Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2o [ao Chiado]

Link

http://www.steim.org

Credits

Frank Baldé

About the Creator

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.