{"product_id":"the-steim-touch-andi-otto-9781915983459","title":"The Steim Touch","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe story of STEIM and the first sensor instruments in digital music.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe STEIM foundation in Amsterdam was a music studio radically dedicated to the live, physical performance of electronic sound. From 1969 to 2021, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music supported artists in building new instruments, insisting on tangible, hands-on engagements with electronic sound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book provides a comprehensive overview of STEIM's work, drawing on original interviews and extensive primary source research in the archive of its longtime artistic director, Michel Waisvisz (1949-2008). It traces the studio's evolution from its roots in the anarchic, situationist spirit of 1960s Amsterdam to the famous Cracklebox and to a long line of pioneering developments in sensor-based instruments between 1984 and 2000. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA primary focus is Waisvisz's landmark instrument The Hands (1984)--the world's first sensor-based gestural controller--and the SensorLab platform it inspired. This emerging expertise fuelled an international artist-in-residence programme, attracting figures like Jon Rose, Nicolas Collins or Laetitia Sonami among many others and fostering a global wave of experimental instrument design. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe common thread through this history is a paradigm called Touch, which championed musicians' embodied presence over automation and predefined control. By documenting the pursuits of immediacy within highly mediated technologies, The STEIM Touch offers a crucial historical lens for today's ongoing negotiations between artificiality and physicality in music creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andi Otto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915983452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915983459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goldsmiths Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Andi Otto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48066627961087,"sku":"9781915983459","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d25a5d5-c349-464d-afc4-902abb78219c.jpg?v=1768679524","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-steim-touch-andi-otto-9781915983459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}