new dates

New dates on the horizon: On tuesday, 7th of february, we will do a performance on the opening of the festival Visualsound. And on friday, 10th of february we will play at Cafe de Madeira, via  laietana, bcn, this one as an official off-mutek event. Soon more infos on both events.

kinect connect

We bought two kinect-cameras and are experimenting. The kinect camera tracks your body position in three dimensions and allows you to use your body-position as controller for all kinds of software.
We found a very nice software solution for using the kinect with ableton live by an american guy called Ryan Challinor. It's incredibly easy to use and pretty versatile. After a couple of minutes we had the first instruments ready to play by waving our hands in the air and Carsten recorded this video of myself having fun with it:

This was only the very beginning. We are now preparing a setup that allows to remix our music by dancing. Expect more videos soon....

Fotos & Video from our LEM concert

Our concert at the closing night of the LEM-festival was great. Lots of people dancing in the audience (and on stage). As we had only about 45 minutes to play we compressed all the stuff that went well during the last concerts into a non-stop-show. Intense, intense. After the show we danced a lot to DJ Gonzo's set. Must have been a couple of years ago that I have been dancing to Can's "Mother Sky", my god, what a great track for freaking out. I also was impressed by the concerto of Cargo, two guitars, lots of pedals and little samplers, doing a droney, spaced out improvisation set.
Here are some fotos, kindly submitted by fotographer Diego Bustamante Giraldo.

here is a short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_d5S4utz1Rw#t=123s

and here a nice review: http://lookingfordrama.com/2011/10/institut-fatima-nibble-the-hand-that-feeds-them-cargo-go-safari/

Ableton Live User Group Barcelona

After giving last saturday's Masterclass we decided with the participants to found the Ableton Live User Group Barcelona. There is a facebook group here. Meetings, workshops, all kinds of activities are expected. 

Hangar concert footage

this was a nice concert, we played for the farewell of our friend Jovan, who went away to germany as so many oter friends, during this time of depression, repression, crisis and mutlosigkeit. Anywaty, it was so hot inside the building that most people were standing outside, in front of the door. so we decided to play in the door. so people don't have to come inside for the concert. and we had a sofa. and we had good times. see it yourself.

Alle kommen mit: Oktoberfest!!!

Bar Seco, Poble Sec, Barcelona

Saturday 1st of october at 8 p.m. 

Institut FATIMA. 

y despues: Crapulesque (psycobilly iberico)

Video from the Music Hack Day

Only found that today on the web, a video from our presentation on the musichackday2011 at the Sonar, BCN

Endlich auch mal auf dem LEM

29th october, Espai Jove La Fontana, 190, Gracia, Barcelona

Lots of dates!!

Summer is nearly over and we have a lot of dates coming:

17.09 Hangar, BCN: Concierto Institut FATIMA + DJ Set Familärer Terrorismus
21.09 NIU, BCN Institut BenGala: Paul Rose & Raffaele Cuccu in concert
01.10 Bar Seco, Poble Sec, BCN: Oktoberfest - Concierto Institut FATIMA
07.10 Jornades Electroniques de Bergueda: Presentation of our installations and concert
22.10 NIU, BCN: Masterclass Ableton Live + Improvisation session
29.10 LEM-Festival, Gracia, Barcelona: Concierto Institut FATIMA

Sabado 23 de julio 2011: Festa Mayor de Poble Sec

Tomorrow night we are going to play a free concert on the Fiesta de Poble Sec, at 23 hs in front of Bar Sec - just at the end of C/Nou de la Rambla. Exciting, everone tells me that this stage usually has a big crowd. Right before us at 21 hs Matias Costa will play Canciones Reggae de Autor. After us we have DJ Kronikdarling with teknominimal. Whow.

20.07.2011 Sant Feliu de Guixols

Wonderful concert in an abandoned hospital in the centre of Sant Feliu de Guixols. The decoration they had come up with was all the x-mas-decoration from town stuffed together!! Best sound since a long time, the sound guy had some custom made subwoofers that made yummy bass (that's the company: www.nouso.net) . Hooray. The white whine was excellent, thank you, Luz, for bringing me another bottle to the stage! The party afterwards was wild. Breakfast was yummy again (tostadas with tahima and honey). Then we got invited for an exclusive visit of an exhibition of sound installations by Luthiers Drapaires. Excellent stuff, we especially love the Maquina de Amor that has been at several festivals where we played lately.:

















Then to finish our visit we had a nice swim at this beach, just around the corner. And excellent lunch on a parking lot in the harbour. Thanks  a million to Stefan and Barbora for driving us!

Sabado 25 de junio 2011: Antic Teatre

uh, nex stop Sonar - Music hack day

OK, so we are going to be on the Sonar Festival again. This time on the Music Hack day (http://bcn.musichackday.org).
We will try to find hackers that help us with our new interface: digital noisemaking animals. Soon more about that here on our webite!!

Next stop: Antic Teatre 25 june 2011

New material from Intitut FATIMA: we have been preparing a liveset with singer ben Gala, aka Fisheart. In a couple of weeeks, on the 25th of june, we are going to present it in a double feature concert show at the Antic Teatre in Barcelona. Soon fotos, videos, music and more here on our website.

Picnic!

From our friend Helena Acosta we received this little video from our performance on last year's "Paradis Perdut"-picnic. This makes me think that we really should play another picnic in some park here in Barcelona. Anyone up to organize such event with us?

Lleida! Y Reus!

Tomorrow, saturday 30 of april we play in Reus. And on monday 9th of may we play on a balcony in Lleida! Nice poster, isn't it?