STEIM organizes Patterns + Pleasure Festival:: September 26, 27 and 28, 2011, daily from 10:00 am to 0:00 pm. :: at Frascati, Nes 63 Amsterdam :: Day-ticket: € 30,- (symposium + festival), Festival Passe-partout: € 75,- ::

STEIM (Studio for electro-instrumental music) organizes the Patterns + Pleasure Festival a festival for adventurous contemporary electronic music, on 26, 27 and 28 September at Frascati Amsterdam. This three-day festival presents the latest and most adventurous contemporary electronic music from today. There will be lectures, workshops, debates and performances by musicians and sound artists from home and abroad. Starring Alex Nowitz, Tom Johnson, Jessica Rylan, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Steina Vasulka, David Toop, Moldover, Edison and many more.

STEIM has been working with a growing international network of musicians, performers and visual artists for more than 42 years now. STEIM invites people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment to work on the development of unique instruments and new music.

The Patterns + Pleasure Festival provides an overview of the latest creations and developments within electronic live music. The daily program consists of workshops and a symposium with lectures by artists, writers and scientists on themes such as improvisation, intuition, complexity, and the changing relationships between past, present, and future. In the evening there is an extensive music program with various artists. Many of them will be performing for the first time in Amsterdam.

For the complete line-up and tickets see: www.steim.nl

Patterns + Pleasure Festival, 26, 27 + 28 September 2011, open daily from 10:00 am to 0:00 pm. Frascati, Nes 63 Amsterdam. Day-ticket: € 30,- (symposium + festival), Festival Passe-partout: € 75,-.