The Benjolin is a ‘noise box’ that is ‘bent by design’, meaning that it always has a definite amount of unpredictability, while it is still intuitive to play.
In a one-day workshop, conducted by the buddies in electronic madness, Rob Hordijk and Joker Nies, participants will build a analogue sound-device, that is very different from what you usually will find with other DIY-kits.
The kit will ONLY be available through attending the workshop, it is not sold separately. The Benjolin DIY-kit will be easy enough to build even for a beginner in electronics. After successfully building the instrument, which is guaranteed with the help of Rob and Joker, the workshop participants will take home a versatile and very unique analogue synthesizer that can can influence the behaviour of other voltage-controlled modules through seven different control-voltages. It is also able to receive control-voltages for filter-frequency and both of it‘s oscillators.
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OFF THIS VERY NICE WORKSHOP, HELD AT WORM VOC BUILDING. PICTURES BY JOKER NIES!
The awesome KKNULL was on tour with DAVE BROWN AND SHAUN BAXTER- aka TERMINAL HZ , in the neighbourhood, and with a few days to spare, to record some material in our studio.
Here’s some picts, audiomaterial will follow soon.
Part two of our workshop for kids is underway. About thirty kids participate each time and listen to an artist (a mini concert and a story on his music) and make a track in our analogue studio with the aide of Radboud Mens. The artist this week is MachineFabriek.
This project is a cooperation with SKVR.
Here’s a little clipc catching the studio atmosphere
Rotterdam RecordLabel z6 released 3 issues this year: By Huib emmer, LG Simonis/Anne Laberge and the Static Tics.
Here are some picts off the release party at roodkapje
The WORM radio/studiocrew were busy traveling, doing live horspil in linz, brno and vienna (at the MQ and ORF radio). we were especially happy to find out that alan ginsberg is still alive. (in more then 1 entity). Here’s the place we played in BRNO, Skena Louka…
And the next morning, David Subik (who organised the concert) and Josef Cseres (who attained) looked like this…
And this was in Vienna, our performance at Museumsquartier…
The final version of the radioplay was done at ORF Kunstradio and broadcasted the same evening. It was very well (live-)mixed by the ORF technicians. And of course, we stupid peasants were flabbergasted by the luxuries of the ORF Radioplay Studio. Except the usual stuff (great mics, 5.1 surround, very expensive looking HD recording gear) the pebbles path was out favorite…
And this is us, looking very relaxed….
A week later, the whole WORM crew to strp fest in eindhoven, where we build a song poem studio…
We made a Radia Network Program about it. Here’s the explanation….
THE WORM RADIO SONG POEM RADIA SHOW DECEMBER 2010
This show consists of a number of songs that were made by the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven (november 2010). The theme was ’80ties cassette culture’ and the idea was that the audience could choose a genre from a menu, write a text, pay 3 euro’s, and then the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew would make the song with ‘original’ 80ties gear (the most advanced device being a 4track cassette machine), hence the ‘vintage’ sound qualities of the pieces. The song was delivered within a short time (5 – 30 minutes) to the client on cassette tape. The available genres on the menu were; Depressing Lo Fi Noise, Boring Art Shit, Early Happy Commodore, Gay Budget Beats, Industrial SM Love Songs, Echoïstic Melancholia Dub, Fucked Up Cassette Hardcore and Incredible Cheap Casio-Pop. There were 19 songs made in a few hours, the best of them you’ll find here. Text subjects vary from ode’s to leaving colleague’s, the impossibilities of having a love affair where one lives in Eindhoven and the other in Amsterdam, Statements about Radio Art, a Monty Cantsin Neoist Song and lots of boring and horrible poetry. Enjoy!
People involved; Lukas Simonis, Henk Bakker, Robert Kroos, Merijn van Ham, Joost Bult, Alexander van Straten, Annemarie Nijhof, Rik Den Dood
Also performed was a testrun of HISS the tapemusical, with live music by: Wouter van Veldhoven – Aki Onda – Tapetronic – Zombies Under Stress
HISSSSS….. – a Cassette Docu Musical Revue
with a.o.: Frans De Waard and many guests. Soundclips of the preformances later to come.
BUT: LISTEN HERE TO THE SONG POEMS!!!!!!
analogue digitalism
radio art
say what’s up
servies
sm filosoof
tysmanus beuk
vibrations
vier tellen geleden
witte bloemen
xoxom
Here’s a movieclip of the songpoem studio in action:
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DO IT YOURSELF CLIP
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Also in progress is a big STUDIOworkshop held in cooperation with SKVR involving live music and studio recording for kids.
Sinds vijf jaar maakt en curateert WORM hoorspelen die het midden houden tussen het Stockhauseriaanse Hörspil en het piepende deuren/grindpad/fiktieve Doorsneehoorspel.
WORM’s huidige hoorspelreeks brengt steeds een geluidskunstenaar samen met een dichter. Verborgen agenda: het botsen of versmelten van geluids- en taalabstracties. Via Poetry International werd het contact met de Deense dichteres Ursula Andkjær Olsen gelegd. Haar tekst Gardensensibilities is de basis voor een live-hoorspel waarbij zij zelf een van de stemmen speelt. De WORMRADIOcrew – bestaande uit Lukas Simonis, Henk Bakker en Nina Hitz, Yuko Uesu – maakte bij de tekst een muziekachtig stuk dat behalve decor en sfeer ook personage is en zich als een beminnelijke natuurramp gedraagt. Sierbestrating, tuinhout, meubilair: Gardensensibilities voorziet in al uw wensen in en om de tuin. Voor particulier én hovenier.
Worm’s Geluidswerkplaats invited Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren to do a residency and we asked them specifically to work on a live-performance and not only work in our electronic studio but to see the whole WORM building as their playfield. They suggested that the project takes its starting point in the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland and what they would do during the week and during the performance would orbitate around that concept. And we said; yes please.
The reason we ask those two gentlemen is because –very simple- we like their work a lot, also because they don’t seem to linger around 1 certain subject and safely stay there, but they go forward in all kinds of directions –electronic music, drones, electronic voice phonomena, radio art, absurd performances, conceptual stuff, a virtual but-not-so-virtual kingdom…
They present on saturday 19th the result of their work at WORM.
Last weeks guests play an important role in the european free and independent radio scene, with many interesting projects for you to check out. http://knut.klingt.org
http://mobile-radio.net http://tonictrain.klingt.org
(Mobile Radio is the travelling radio and sound art project of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann. Our aim is to take radio production to places outside of the studio environment. Have a look at our broadcast itinerary where you can listen to excerpts of the shows we have produced so far. Photograph and text documentation of our past activities are also available for you to view.)
In the WORMstudio they concentrated on sound mining, to be used in various products- of the arp 2500 and the EMS Putney. We will hear from them in future days no doubt the result of their exploratory work.
THIS MONTH A WORKSHOP TOOK PLACE, BY FELIX KUBIN AND SOME 15 PARTICIPANTS, RESULTING IN 4 SHORT RADIOPLAYS.
THE BIRDMAN PERFORMED A LIVE HORSPIL….
HERE SOME PICTS AND A MOVIE. THE RADIOPLAYS WILL BE POSTED LATER.
felixkubinworkshop
The idea behind this workshop is to produce a professional radio play within a period of 3 weeks. During the production phase, the participants will have access to the studio facilities of WORM including the use of vintage and digital synthesizers, samplers, microphones, hard-disc recording and professional peripheral equipment. The participants will form crews and cooperate in creating the play.
Felix Kubin is a composer, radio-playwright and performance artist from Hamburg.
The Modern Composed Music by Golden Fur, is an interactif procedure between viola, cello and max msp processing. They worked in the studio to get some sample material to be used in future compositions. They worked three days in the studio, primarily working on the ARP 2500, 2600 and the Putney.
