Showing posts with label Amsterdam Dance Event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amsterdam Dance Event. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Amsterdam Dance Event ADE Lab 2025


Amsterdam Dance Event is just around the corner.
Every year it transforms the city into a buzzing mix of conference, festival, and networking hub, where more than 2,500 international artists come together.
For me, the highlight will probably be the ADE Lab — four inspiring days at the cosy Westergas terrain in Amsterdam.

ADE 2025 takes place from October 22—26, 2025
This year, ADE Lab is expanding into its very own Lab Village, a creative playground dedicated entirely to sound. It’s a multi-day program where sound synthesis, audiovisual art, and innovative ways of making music are shared, demonstrated, and developed. Expect everything from artist and engineer talks, to immersive AV installations, live performances, DIY workshops, and the unveiling of new gear.

The program spreads across several spots at Westergas:
WestWeelde is the industrial heart of it all, where big ideas stick. Here you’ll catch plenary talks and masterclasses, then retreat into the cosy Lab Living area to recharge, meet peers, or simply take it all in.
Radio Radio, the iconic nightclub, will transform into a workshop playground. You can roll up your sleeves in the hands-on sessions or drift into the vinyl listening bar, where the turntable itself becomes the teacher.
Pacific Amsterdam is the place to dream big. This studio-like club will host intimate talks with some of the most influential names in the game. Plus, the Gear Test Lab and Workshop Room will let you try the newest tools yourself — brand reveals are still under wraps, but I can’t wait to see what’s coming.

Me on the Verbos system
The last time I visited ADE Lab was back in 2016, when it was still called ADE Sound Lab and took place at De Brakke Grond and the Compagnietheater. 
I went with my good friend (DJ) Guido, and had fun wandering through booths from brands like Ableton, Moog, Pioneer DJ, and Roland. 
That year, Roland had just introduced their Boutique series — the TB-03 Bass Line, VP-03 Vocoder, and TR-09 Drum Machine. 
The VP-03 really stuck with me... I even own one now...

With Daniel from
LiveStock Electronics

The European eurorack distributor Alex4 was also there, showcasing Doepfer, AQA, and BirdKids, among their other brands, while Elektron and Erica Synths brought their gear-heavy setups, including an impressive Eurorack system.
I played with the Verbos system and had a great chat with Daniel from LiveStock, a Dutch modular manufacturer that sadly closed its doors in 2022. 

To close the day, I headed back to the Compagnietheater for a showcase of Dutch modular artists — an unforgettable night of sound exploration.

And now, years later, ADE Lab is bigger than ever. I can’t wait to dive back in.
đŸ‘‰ Get your tickets and i hope to see you at Westergas!


Allert from SonarTraffic performed in the evening

Monday, October 24, 2016

Livestock Electronics at ADE SoundLab

Daniel from LiveStock Electronics showing me their range of modules
It's always fun to meet new Modular manufacturers, especially when they're from the Netherlands
and/or Belgium.
Last Saturday i had the chance to talk with Daniel Mulder, one of the co-founders of LiveStock Electronics at a special Amsterdam Dance Event SoundLab showcase event.

Livestock Electornics was founded in early 2016 and is about to release their fist modules at the end of this year. Their modules are heavily inspired by the chiptune and DIY-scene, and Daniel showed off a few interesting sounding new modules... you can find all info on their website.

LiveStock Shepard
The SHEPARD is a 4-channel step sequencer specifically designed for live settings.
This module is great for polyphonic and polyrhythmic sequences. And has a lot more to offer than just triggering notes and gates!
The interface is divided into two modes, play and edit mode. In play mode loops of several channels can be selected at the same time, and easily duplicated. While edit mode gives you the possibility to create dynamic sequences for each channel. Gatescan be delayed or held, notes can be pitched, and sequences can be of different lengths, speeds and directions. Each step can also send two control voltages with a optional glide while triggered, this gives you the option to control other modules during a sequence.

The memory has room for 8 tracks with each 16 loops of 64 steps for each of the 4 channels. The loops and tracks can be selected during play mode, or controlled through cv input.
Note: This module is moddable with the Arduino IDE and modding manual (available after release).
LoveStock also supports users in modifying their modules...

LiveStock Bang
BANG is a digital wavetable oscillator in which you can create and share your own wave libraries using the Bang Application, or simply download user wave libraries from our website. Once uploaded to the Bang Module you can use the waveshaping algorithm built into Bang to create new waves using the waves in the library.
LiveStock Electronics Bang Demo video by Paul Tas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIF1jsUHz0

LiveStock Maze
MAZE is a routing and mixing module. Route audio, cv’s or gates to several outputs, determine their intensity and mix them together. Routings can be saved and selected by a knob or by using the cv input.

Felix
FELIX is a two 1:3 buffered multiple with attenuators.
Use this module to copy CV’s, Gates or Audio and change the amplitude or intensitywith the attenuators.

MIR and MIR Expander
MIR is a mixer, inverter and VCA. It has four 2:1 mixing VCA's with uninverted and inverted output.
MIR comes along with an expansion module, which gives you the option to change the amount of cv input and whether the VCA responds linear or exponentionally. Place the expansion board anywhere you like, you can also set the parameters on the pcband leave the expansion board out if you need to save some hp.

LiveStock Kepler


KEPLER is a unique low-pass filter with four poles that are individually
controllable with knobs and cv.
The sound can range from soft and clean sounding sweeps to highly resonating self-oscillating sweeps. The cutoff is even controllable with v/oct which means that you could use the filter as an oscillator.

​The LiveStock Electronics crew will tour some more through the Netherlands in the next few weeks with these new modules, so try to check them out at:
28/10 @ Bizarre Sound Creatures (Dutch Design Week) Eindhoven
02/11 @ Nerds on Stage Rotterdam

The Bang and Felix will probably be released in December or January. As for the other modules, the release depends on the next batch of prototype pcbs. If it goes as planned, you can expect them from January to August 2017!
Website: www.LiveStockElectronics.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LiveStockElectronics

GearSlutz demo video from ADE : https://youtu.be/9nYzxFV0CqE