Klangendum is the name for the former Worm Sound Studio. We do the same but probably more; making radio, organising and producing radio art and events and organising residencies
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.
WORM Presents, yet another workshop, this one held a few months ago, and was very well received by the participants. It was called the Home Swinger D>I>Y workshop, done by Yuri Landman. The movie was done by Maria Botella.
since our venue is in a state of in between new building and old being stripped, i moved the livecast camera installation to the studio for a temporary setup, allowing us to keep developing and testing some features related to camera control and remote control - using PD for control over ip we can practically stay at home livecasting our shows.
here you see the temporal set up and 2 very bright people in the field of code and useful applications development. (marko and dennis are for hire!)
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
Here's a release by ben butler and mousepad recorded in the WORM studio last year.
"Recorded during a residency at Worm / CEM Studios, Rotterdam, over the course of a week in June 2010, using Worm's all analogue equipment and mixing desk.
Almost everything was recorded live in the studio, with minimal edits and no programming"
WORM'S Muzieklab organises the coming 3 months 3 workshops;
saturday 26 februari ; Build your own electronic fun-box; The Benjolin by Rob Hordijk en Joker Nies.
Build your own Noise Synthesizer!
5, 12, 19 , 26 maart; Pure Data For Beginners
An introduction in the world of possibilties of the open source program 'Pure Data' : by Katja Vetter
2, 9 16, 23 april; Controlled Synthesis. By Radboud Mens.
How to set up cv and midi or vice versa: How does midi to cv/gate converters work, how to use analogue synths with pc's
more info at www.wormweb.nl, or mail to lukas at wormweb.nl
also check out the links below
http://web.me.com/klangbureau/DIY/Workshop.html
http://electro-music.com/forum/index.php?f=185
about rob & joker; http://web.me.com/klangbureau/DIY/The_Team.html
On the STRIPE Festival in Eindhoven we were well payed (3 whole euro's) by ORF KUNSTRADIO to put their 'song poem' about radio-art to 'music'. See HERE (and scroll down)
We invited Rudolf Eb.er aka Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck (& imported him from japan, where he lives) to do a performance workshop @ WORM. Why? Because we like his audio & visible works and we think he can add a flavour (to...?) that is not available HERE at the moment.
He's currently working in the studio on a radioplay, later to be released on the WORM Horspil Series.
You got a minute? Listen here to the soundpiece wich was recorded live at his workshop end performance. Made by Rudolf Eb.er, Robert Kroos and LG Simonis
Listen to Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock Performance 121210 Live at WORM
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.
