Malte Steiner
born 1970 in Germany. Programming computers, creating visual arts and
electronic music since the early 80s. 1986 he took a course on
electroacoustic music in Lüneburg by H.W. Erdmann and gave first live
performances. In the following years several concerts in Germany, France
and Belgium. Studies Technical Assistant for Computer Engineering from
1992 to 1997 because multimedia classes where not yet available. 1995
first CD release. In 1998 he started creating electronic art and
installations which were shown in Kiel, Rantzau, Hamburg, Kassel, later
in Malmö, Berlin, Copenhagen and Chiang Mai.
Steiner presents his music more international on festivals for instance in Havana, Cuba, in 2000. Since than he starts to share the knowledge via radiofeatures and lectures, for instance a pd workshop at Vivid, Birmingham, UK and several ones for the multimedia composition class of Georg Hajdu at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. While he occasional uses the name Elektronengehirn for the experimental concerts he also runs the musical projects Das Kombinat, Notstandskomitee and Konform.
in 2003 he created several new webart inclusive a collaborative visual networking environment which can be interfaced by web and mobilephones with a special J2ME client, shown in the german feature of Javamuseum and Computer Space Festival 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria. Ongoing collaboration with the student of urban planning Karsten Drohsel under the name Urban Units exploring the intersection of architecture, urban concepts, media art and electronic music. Last exhibition was in may 2006 and a concert of the 31101 orchester, the sound outfit of Urban Units, in Berlin 22. july.
http://www.elektronengehirn.de
- installation: MyArtpieceInfo
- performance: P5GlovePerformance
- lecture: BlueTooth