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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Wii-Osculator - a whole lot of shaking going on

Mr. Kevin Brady remixing an Institut FATIMA-track by waving his extraordinary skillful arms

Since a couple of moths we are using the wiimote a lot. This remote game-controller gives you for cheap three sensors for measuring acceleration-data in the three dimensions of space, that are submitted via bluetooth to our computers. There the data gets converted first into OSC and then into the midi-format. In the video above you can see one of the possible uses of all that.

All of this would not have been so easy to realize without OSCulator, a wonderful piece of software that allows to convert all kind of data inputs (gamepads, wiimotes, reacTIVision and many more) to midi or keystrokes. The developer Camille is a very kind and helpful person - we had contacted him once regarding some issues with reactivision and he updated his software for us immedeatly!
He opened a forum on his web now (http://www.osculator.net/bp/) - definetly worth checking out if you want to learn that stuff!!

Eschbazzio remixes

So we had made this song inspired by Semolina Matic. It's called "En mi Eschbazzio" and is about those places where people act with passion and power in arts and culture. Inspired by Semolina's powerful speech on the "Puto Encuentro" we improvised this song together. So we had this scetch of it on our laptops that we never finished, but one day we had the chance to record some voices for the chorus. After a couple of months we edited it, and got a half-backen final version of it. The other day we played it to some people at the NIU, and now Jordi aka Deep Fried or Dwight Fried or D-fright has made two very nice remixes, here they are:

Dancefloor Version:

My eschbatzio (Dwight Fried rmx) by institutfatima

Dubby Dark Version:

Mi eschbatzio (d-fried rmx) by institutfatima

And here is the original song:

En mi Eschbazzio by institutfatima

Bye bye Hangar

Here is the last foto from our studio at the Hangar. Note the wireless artist and the angel. Now we moved into a nice new place that we share with Miguel Marin/Arbol. First fotos and music soon here.

foto from mataro

Institut Fàtima,
originally uploaded by raulroncero.

just found this foto from our concert in can xalant ...

Some new recordings, one note tracks

We have some music up on soundcloud, a music-sharing website: soundcloud.com/institutfatima. Lately we did some conceptual stuff, as composing a tune without actually composing music, but setting up rules in the arpeggiator. we start with just one note that is holding, and give instructions to the computer to play patterns based on this note. This is fun, and sometimes nice music. Here are three of those pieces:

na gut, oder by institutfatima

one note melancholy by institutfatima

Ya No Retumba (harp2) by institutfatima

This year so far

OK, it's quite early for a review of 2008, but I just made a short list of music that we produced this year:


Suma Fatima - In a Garden


Satangela


Die Bäume


(Hit the) Wall of Sound


En mi Eschbazzio


Comanche Fatima - I can't get me no nothing


Attraktiver Junge


I am the Kapital

Improtrónica again

Improtronica session with the colombian dubsters Territorio Comanche.

En mi eschtudio

We have entered the hangar.