A live video of the Den Haag Philharmechanic Cobra Youth Orchestra concert as a result of the Kids Cobra workshop building instruments and performing. video of the Den Haag Philharmechanic Cobra Youth Orchestra
Kids Cobra workshop building instruments and performing. Building and Performing Mechanical Instruments Staalplaat Soundsystem has created a multitude of Machine Installations usually featuring odd machine orchestras constructed from consumer electronics and a plethora of found objects, we noticed that children were fascinated by our way of playfully misusing everyday household items. In 2005, we then […]
Our children mechanical instrument building workshop + cocncert. It is all about making various types of acoustic and mechanical instruments, we teach the students to design and build entirely new „machine instruments.“ We also show them how to use PVC piping and plastic bottles to make simple acoustic instruments, such as flutes.
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 with paper tubes and a pin using our own Yokomono […]
Invited by Netwerk for the Festival: StraatHerrie (literally translated ‘Street noise’) we did our concert in Aalst and used 16 sirens. (written for shiphorns) I got the hand written score from Alvin and had it transcribed and then saved to Midi, we played it as DMX (with a self programed Max patch) It worked very well. […]
20-07-12 till 26-08-12 Klankenbos NEERPELT Klankenbos in the context of Manifesta 9 Musica organises a summer exhibit presenting a new and permanent installation COMPOSED NATURE. Vibrant trees are the focus the of the Dutch Composed Nature installation by staalplaat Soundsystem and Lola landscape architects. An interactive installation brings a series of motorized trees shaking causing […]
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 vooruit Gent where we used coffee machines , but […]
Our work Yokomono-pro is presented at Forte Piano in the Auditorium in Rome from 02/05 2012 to 10/07/2012 it sais Artisti invitati Prima Parte Vito Acconci, Nanni Balestrini, Massimo Bartolini, Riccardo Benassi, Roberto Benigni, John Cage-Nam June Paik, canecapovolto, Gino De Dominicis, Maria Thereza Alves-Jimmie Durham, Jan Fabre, Emilio Fantin, William Furlong, Al Hansen-Jerry Mulligan, […]
Staalplaat Sale Away installation video A video of the installation, made for LACE during our recidency to stay up to April 15 Staalplaat performance video For this performance we were using “everyday electronic junk†scavenged from thrift stores and donations, staalplaat soundsystem fashioned new “orchestra†of “sound machines†controlled by self-build sequencers. All sounds come […]
Yokomono-Pro is a car horn concert performed by vehicles moving through a city. Each city and each type of vehicle has its own tone and each combination results in a different concert. The project was developed and written as a commission by the International Sonic Residency 2008 for The KHOJ Artists’ Association in New Delhi […]