Goethe Institut Barcelona: interview with our artificial brain

Video from Balconitis - 05.12.2009

This was a wonderful event - five groups playing on the balconies of the Placa Comerc de San Andreu. Josep, thank you so much for inviting us

Video from Antic goes electric

Nice video with interview from last week friday's concert at the Antic Teatr.

27.11.2009 Artificial Brain at Antic Teatr Barcelona

Fotos: Jean Benoit Kaufmann -

see all the great fotos here :http://www.jean-benoit.com/institut-fatima/

First live-concert with our artificial brain! We had developed it during summer, by using some science we found on the internet and some material we found at the chino and elsewhere. It's powered by a fruit-battery and it can speak. Most of the time it's hard to understand, but it works. Last friday our concert-as-proof-of-concept. We got invited to play the antic teatr, this beutiful underground-location in the heart of Barcelona. After an opening with Climnoizer (Berlin/Italy) playing a rubbergum-bassguitar and Carlas playing a mindblowing set on the reactable we started against all technical odds (equipment not working during soundcheck, the brain being unconfortable at this place, the audience talking about masturbation, etc.). And it rocked. The brain spoke to the audience. We played with our new launchpads. And then, suddenly David Apfel crawled on stage for a blasting performance of "Impossible".

This piece of music plus presentation of state-of-the-art-science-poetry never got performed so well. David waas wired, really (see it on the photo above). The audience did feel the pain. And suddenly everything worked together and the walls started to shake. Yes, so war das.
And in the end we sat down and everyone smiled.

12 & 13 of November: Rocking the schoolhouse

4 concerts in two days, for the youngest audience we had up until now: Institut FATIMA played for a school in San Agusti de Guadalix. We got invited to do some "conciertos didacticos" by the music-teacher of this school. They do concerts every year for the kids between 5 and 11 years, and after last years concert of middle-age-folk-music they wanted to offer something from the 21st century. So we adapted some of our songs, traduced them into spanish and made lyrics for the kids, and we invited our friend Marisol to come with us - as she is working as a clown for children theatre. It turned out very well. Very, very well. 200 kids shouting for an encore is a real kick! We had such a good experience that we really want to carry on doing shows for kids.

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

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