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.

Figu 2009 Erlangen

Camisetas

OK, now we have T-shirts for sale. Just contact us at institutfatima (at) gmail or come to one of our concerts. Look, Luca printed them yesterday while we played.

30.04.2009 Camiseta gratis

In Walpurgisnacht (thursday 30th of april) we play a concierto at the opening festivities of the Gracia based Shop Que enfieste la pieza. They make T-shirts and other stuff there, and so we thought we use the occasion for a Seriografía-concert happening. You can bring your T-shirt, underwear or whatever to the concert, and we will print our logo on it while we play. Is that fantastic? Yes it is, and it's free. Address: Calle Verdi, 56, time 8 pm - 10 pm. Come and have fun. See below our three designs that might be available:

The logo of our brand new concept called Uebersteuertes Selbstbewusstsein


The Turroborro


Our logo with the eye of Fátimarsten

No Chance Live Video

Institut FATIMA - no chance from Institut FATIMA on Vimeo.
At Convent San Agusti. Camera Dr. Tikov and Txalo Toloza Fernández. Edited by Coni Eilend in a oneshot with a Wiimote.

Sonar 2009

We will play at this years Sonar Festival!
http://2009.sonar.es/es/artistes/institut-fatima_90.html

Convent Sant Agustí "BCN Nous Sons" fotos

Tea Guarascio did again great fotos from the Convent Sant Agustí concert, where we had a wonderful audience with a lot of friends and friends of our friends. really good vibrations we all imagined in this old beautiful hall. we want to thank Cristobal from equipo for oranizing this event and the whole tecnical equipo from the convent, they really did a super job!
Dr. Tikov and Taxlo also filmed the whole concert, we are curious about the first footages in some days...

Friday 13.03.2008 BCN NOUS SONS

Next concert: We play in the beautiful Convent San Agustí, in the Borne in Barcelona. On friday the 13th, uhhhh. Free admission, and together with "All together now", a Barcelona supergroup formed by members of Jahbitat, equipo and Chupaconcha. We start at 21 hs, they start at 22hs. So better be there on time!

Winner!

Paul has won a sounddesign contest! The Selector Contest from Puremagnetik, a company that delivers samples, sounds and content for sequencers and samplers as Ableton Live, Reason or Kontakt. Paul made some interesting drum-racks for ableton with a couple of their samples and won the first prize!

Great fotos from our last show

Tea Guarascio made some great fotos last tuesday, see all of them here in her myspace! If you, dear reader, should have any fotos or videos from our concerts, we would be so happy to see them - just send us a mail to institutfatima (ät) gmail (dot) com.

We teach!

You would like to learn how to convert your laptopcomputer into a musical robot that makes music with his eye? You want to shake your arms and the music goes wild? We will show you how!
Institut FATIMA is giving a free workshop next month in the Barcelona Civic Centre PuntMultimedia (where we just played, see post below). We are going to give a introduction into reacTIVision and OSCulator, two applications that we use to remotely control the sound and music during our shows. reacTIVision is the tracking engine of the famous reacTable, invented at the Barcelona University Pompeu Fabra. With Institut FATIMA we have explored some of the many possibilities to use that application. We used it for an interactive instllation we once showed at the Sonar Festival, we used it for some funny instruments we built ourselves (the reacBall for example), and we use it during concerts to trigger stuff.
OSCulator is a program written by french programmer and musician Camille Trouillard that allows to convert messages from all kinds of controllers into MIDI. It's a great tool when you want to use gamecontrollers as the WIImote to control your music. We found some clever ways to integrate it into an Ableton-Live-Set.
All of this will be presented, explained and demonstrated on 28th of march at the Puntmultimedia, in the middle of the beautiful little park beside the Sants-TRainstation. . And after the workshop there will be a gathering of brazilian DJs and VJs. If you want to come, check out all infos here and write a mail for inscription to puntmultimedia@puntmultimedia.org.

And for everyone interested in an introduction into ableton live: We do that again on three tuesday afternoons at the NIU - check out here.

Next concert: 17.02.2009 BCN Visualsound

We will be playing as top act on the opening night of the BCN Visualsound-Festival. On 17th of february at the Parque Industrial (Estación Sants) in Barcelona. Find more details here: www.bcnvisualsound.org . With us there will be a presentation of the Tenori-On, of the reactable and of the laser installation Aurora. Looks interesting. The whole festival starts at 19.00 hs, we will play at 21:30 hs. See you there!

here is the map and the direction:
Carrer de Lluís Muntadas, 5, 08014, Barcelona

Größere Kartenansicht

25-01-2009 PVC Club

Sunday afternoon, rocking the afterhours in the PVC club. What a pity - this venue will not exist any longer. They were located in a backyard-warehouse behind the Fira Montjuic. A really nice spot, something that you don't see too often in Barcelona. We played a energy-laden tekno-set. Fantastic response from the audience. Thank you Annette for sending the two fotos below!

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