totally forgotten:

"Institut Fàtima, una de las propuestas más osadas de esta edición del Sònar...
Guy Debord...grandes cantidades de consumidores que se narcotizan en condiciones de control absoluto".

hä? read full interview here

more interviews (first for another continent)

The chilenean webzine "Super45" has made a nice interview with us. Read the full interview here

12./13. de deciembre: Nuevo Taller/workshop ableton live con Institut FATIMA

esta vez en nuestro propio eschbazzio FATIMA en poble nou.

fechas: sábado 12. de deciembre y domingo 13 de deciembre, 11 hasta las 18 horas. (12 horas, max. 8 personas)

El taller tiene un precio de 95 Euros por persona.

En el taller mostraremos todas las funciones de Ableton Live, mostramos como producir un tema desde el principio hasta el final, como trabajar con temas o muestras de audio grabados, como pinchar música con Live, midi instrumentos, como utilizar los efectos de Live para directos, y mucho mas.

Vamos a estar los dos integrantes de Institut FATIMA - Carsten y Paul - durante todo el curso, así que uno de nosotros siempre esta a disposición de asistir individualmente. Va a tener lugar en nuestro estudio, cerca del metro Bogatell / Marina, en un ático con terazza. Habrá proyector, altavozes, una selección de controladores-midi, micrófonos, tarjetas de sonido etc. para probar y experimentar. (el taller dispone de un CD para cada participante que contiene Live-Sets con ejemplos, samples y presets, vst´s y mucho mas para poder empezar a producir directamente. tambien te vamos a disponer un manual de ableton live 8 gratis.)

Para mas información y inscripción contactanos en
http://institutfatima.org/contact/index.html

Make music with your brain!

This video is showing us what was possible in 2005 already. We got it from here. Institut FATIMA is taiking it to the next stage. More here soon.

Optamos por el futuro (interview with yodj.es)

¿Cómo creen que será la técnica audiovisual en 10 años? ¿Qué instrumento o Software inventarían?
"Habrá más instrumentos que son capaces de componer e improvisar. Las máquinas aprenden a escuchar y entender. Y habrá interfaces que conecten directamente con el cerebro.
También habrá sistemas de sonido que harán posible que se oiga música en un lugar específico sin que se escuche algo alrededor, así que no molestas a los vecinos. Habrá pianos para zurdos. Guitarras para ciegos y trompetas para muertos. Pero nadie se va a interesar mas por la música, es un género del pasado. En el futuro todos van a mirar fútbol en 3D y comer patatas fritas con vitaminas."

¿qué es lo que les gusta de participar en eventos masivos?
"tocar en el Sonar era más un sueño que se ha hecho realidad, con la diferencia que en el sueño las bebidas eran gratis."

More here . More on the photo above, soon ...

Flussi was great!

Great days in Avellino, Italy (just found out that this is the town where Tony Soprano's family comes from). We showed our reacBall installation, up there on the photo you see Carsten explaining it to someone. We made friends with some very nice people that played there. Yagama and Karol from bulgaria, Andrea Sartori and Fabio Orsi from Berlin, Italy, Christian Kleine from Ableton/Main and many more. Hope to see you all again some day!! Lots of fotos from the festival on the myspace of Phorm here .

Next stop: Italy, Avellino, 26-30 of august 2009

Institut FATIMA will participate at the Flussi Fetival in Avellino, Italy. We will exhibit our reacBall-system, and maybe play a concert or do a surprise-performance on the festival.

26.07.2009 DJs contra la fam

DJs contra la Fam invited us to play on this year's festival.Beautiful open air venue on the Gloreis Encants market. Unfortunately Carsten couldn't make it to the concert (he had a broken neck from a horrible car crash, but now he is better). Paul played the gig with some support from Apfel. On the photo you can see a levitation-experiment that took place during the concert.

first video from our Sonar Concert in the old chapel

Institut FATIMA no Sónar from alg-a on Vimeo.

thanks for the video by alg-a.org

and here are the fans of institut fatima waiting before the haus:

Das reacBall System on Sonarmàtica

Video of people playing with our installation on the Sonarmàtica-exhibition. Sorry for the bad quality of the sound, I shot this with my photocamera. Anyway, those guys had a good time rocking the ball, and they were able to make some gabber-techno with it that we didn't have in mind when we programmed the set up. It was nice to see how people used the system on the exhibition - some were quite clueless, but had fun trying. Others got really into it (maybe they had read the instructions?).

first fotos sonar festival concert

Sonarventanica in "my beautiful parking"

Above some photos from the concert we did tonight at my beautiful parking for the fix or die-crowd, those people that drive bikes without gears and brakes. We sat in the window and sung until the police came. and then just a little bit more. Watch the video below ...

Institut FATIMA on spanish TV

here for the catalan show "els nous catalans"
http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20090615/sonar-darreu/525344.shtml

and for the spanish television rtve during a live show for RADIO 3 "Siglo 21"

Sónar 2009 - Institut FATIMA

let's have a ball

PreSonarPreparations

We are preparing our activities on the sonar 2009 festival. On thursday, 18th, we play a concert at 21 hs on the sonarkomplex-stage. On the exhibition (Sonarmàtica) we will display the reacBall, that short time ago also was featured in the CreateDigitalMusic-blog.
On friday 19th we will play a little set on national radio RNE3, at 18hs approximately. And on saturday, 20th, we will do a Cumbia set at the bikeshop "My beautiful parking" (to be confirmed). Lots of work, we will try our best.

Big in Japan?

http://www.monogocoro.jp/2009/05/28/das-reacball.html . Japaenese Blogs mentioning us? How come? Well, we had made a funny video of das reacBall, put it on youtuben and it got picked up by the CreateDigitalMusic-blog. And of course, next day people put it on their blogs all over the world. Great!! If you like the idea of a football controller and want to try it: The reacBall will be on display at the Sonarfestival in three weeks. Right now we are working on some other set-ups of sample-sets for it, some funny stuff is definetly possible.