UPCUMMING EVENTS & MEDIA LINKS

UPCUMMING EVENTS & MEDIA LINKS

FOR  UPCOMMING  EVENTS  KLICK HERE! We have video and audio documentation on this website under MEDIA BUT for: Youtube VIDEO'S  klick Here ! flicker PHOTO'S klick Here! Soundcloud Audio (aif)  klick Here!  

Staalplaat ~ ((Radio))

Staalplaat ~ ((Radio))

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Staalplaat ~Radio Each Thursday from 11.00 PM  until 01.00 AM. 
We started early 1983 at the notorious Amsterdam radio pirate "Radio God". The program stopped late 1999 when all pirates were killed by selling of FM frequencies commercially. Recently it resurrected...

Ohm @ Instruments Make Play Festival 2017

Ohm @ Instruments Make Play Festival 2017

OHM is a relatively new collaborative project where Geert-Jan Hobijn, Gijs Gieskes and Radboud Mens perform using self-built tools. The three have a very impressive status of each other and this cooperation could be referred to as a 'super group' of instrument...

OHM concert at Stedelijk museum Amsterdam

OHM concert at Stedelijk museum Amsterdam

https://soundcloud.com/staalplaat-soundsystem/ohm-at-the-stedelijk-museum-24-02-17-amsterdam Ohm is more a side project with Geert-Jan Hobijn, Gijs Gieskes and Radboud Mens. Each of us has build their own instruments that we bring. This was our first show, we did not...

Gogbot 15

Gogbot 15

At the Dutch GOGBOT festival we presened for the first time our new sequencer system. Now we can play our machines live. On the main square of Enschede a frame is set up round the local monument . In this set up we placed: 12 bog boxes 10 metal grinders 12 vacuum...

Cairo Kids Cobra workshop

Cairo Kids Cobra workshop

Kids Cobra workshop building instruments and performing.Building and Performing Mechanical InstrumentsStaalplaat Soundsystem has created a multitude of Machine Installations usually...

YOKOMONO WHITE

  We did out first version of Yokomono-white at in 2007 Podewil for a one of colaboratuion consert  with Hassan Khan The idea for ‘Yokomono White’ was made for the Avanto festival in Helsinki but never realized nor tested. “Yokomono white” is just old turntables...

WANKING ON WEIRD SET UP FESTIVAL

staalplaat soundsystem made a very simple sound installation: a set up with 4 coffee machines at  DOK-Gent, Belgium. 4 electronic valves control the water. 4 sequencers control the valves. This is a remake of Sweet Sissy and the Ballroom Hiss that we did in 2002 In...

Composed Nature

Composed Nature

  LOLA landscape architects and Staalplaat Soundsystem present a new installation Composed Nature, developed for the Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, it consists of a matrix of 64 trees. Controllable, mechanical vibrators are mounted on each individual...

YOKOMONO 03.5

YOKOMONO 03.5

staalplaat soundsystem is releasing a series of artist vinyl release used in our own yokomono sound installations. This new record is a second attempt to create random vinyl . Our first attempt was the release of Yokomono 03 where we hoped to cut two tracks, one...

FluxYOU at Auditorum in Rome

FluxYOU at Auditorum in Rome

"Fluxus Biennial 2010-2011"Staalplaat soundsystem presented a new installation/concert  ‘Musica povera al dente’ or fluxYOU commissioned by Fondazione Musica per Roma, Rome Auditorium”For the set up we build 20 hand driven turntables,...

we made a track for Palais de Tokyo in Paris

They say" A l'instar de Christian Marclay, qui dans sa vidéo Telephones (1995) a rassemblé des extraits de films hollywoodiens montrant des acteurs répondant au téléphone, Staalplaat réalise un montage de sonneries de téléphone et de conversations téléphoniques...

nine lives of Buddha in Rome

We were asked to do a Buddha machine remix and so did our own interpretation of the little sound box: The Buddha machine has nine loops and we destroy nine machines in nine ways as a interpretation of Dick Raaijmakers Intona (1991) where he deconstructs 12 microphones.

Sonic Therapy in Netwerk Aalst 24-04 till 12-06

Sonic Therapy in Netwerk Aalst 24-04 till 12-06

Sonic Therapy has developed itself permanent en even when it was not active, resting in boxes, we were working on new idea's and talking to artists on collaboration plans.With the presentation at Netwerk the centrum voor hedendaagse kunst in Aalst and the support of...

Cleaning staalplaat soundsystem archive

We are cleaning our archive and put all (500) cd-r etc. on a hard disk. We found nice things , and we miss important things. Anyway we are putting photo's video's and more up in sets on flickr and youtube, making slide shows on this web side. Where? well the really...

kids racing audio concert

kids racing audio concert

for the 9th September @ the staalplaat Berlin store I infited 4 children that ride 4 tricycles on each tricycle I  mounted several radio’s and asked the kids to drive up and down the street (two on each side). I did bring my turn table out on the street that has 4...

for the spirits of dead computers

for the spirits of dead computers

During the Sonic Art 08 residency I have made a "for the spirits of dead computers" a sound-machine from things I got for no reason or for other planned that did not work out.I used a car window wiper engine ,intended for the otto Berlin piano, and empty computer...

Otto Berlin

Otto Berlin

Otto BerlinOn a previous Khoj Sonic Art residency in 2006 there was a project done by Cynthia Zaven named  "Untuned piano concerto with Delhi traffic orchestra" . Khoj organized the Untuned piano, (named Otto Berlin) and it was still standing in the Khoj hall when I...

V2 zone at MOCA Taipei

V2 zone at MOCA Taipei

"Made In Taiwan" invites people to play with a complex mechanical sound orchestra, installed in the museum by using their mobile phones. The students have made a mechanical orchestra consists of modified, hacked, changed and customised, electronic household devices...

Zuidas Free Spaces / AIR initiative

‘If buildings and roads are the city’s hardware, then culture is the software that brings the city to life.’ - Geert-Jan was working five months in Amsterdam on a new project for the Zuidas Free Spaces / AIR initiative wich brings together urban planners, developers,...