BACKGROUND

Jump around and make sounds by moving your body, or grapple with strange looking “musical” instruments in this exciting space – the likes of which have never been seen or heard in South Africa.

In 2004, Toni Olivier decided to create an interactive sound exhibition, featuring a number of instruments she had invented, as well as installations by other pioneering South African artists.  In addition, she invited STEIM to bring a selection of gadgets from their Electro Squeek Club in the Netherlands.

MORE ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

Studio for Interactive Sound, headed by Toni Olivier, is based in Grahamstown, and is dedicated to creating interactive environments, sound installations and new musical instruments. SIS offers educational programmes including workshops and tours, opening up new multimedia technologies and skills to visual artists, musicians, choreographers and scholars.

Steim (the studio for electro-instrumental music), based in Amsterdam is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. The foundation’s artistic and technical departments support an international community of performers and musicians, and a growing group of visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work.
>> link to their website

WALKING TOURS

Experienced facilitators guide you through the space and explain how the instruments and machines work. Participants gain an insight into how computers are used to translate your movements into sounds or how you can create your own composition using anything from a bicycle to a joystick.