Werner Kaegi – Midim Concerts and the MIDIM group

Midim Concerts and the MIDIM group

In 1982 some assistents and students of Wener Kaegi formed the MIDIM-group. Inspired by Werner Kaegi the group organised all kind of activities. Between 1982 and 1990 there were around 30 concerts in which electronic compositions (made with the MIDIM/VOSIM-system) were presented, combined with all sorts of artistic disciplines. Visual artists and writers collaborated with musicians and technicians to create new combinations. The group experimented with automatic creation on stage. What's more the group did research on several fields (gamelan, speech synthesis, software development, music theory, film) and gave courses and lectures. The group was supported by Stichting Gaudeamus and Muziekcentrum Vredenburg.

For further reading see: MIDIM/VOSIM Reports, special issue of Interface, vol. 15 nr. 2-4, Swets and Zeitlinger, Lisse.

The main members of the MIDIM-group were: Jos Janssen, Paul Goodman, Pieter Kuipers, Heinerich Kaegi and Pierre van Berkel. The group collaborated with many composers and artists from Holland and abroad.

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On 16 March 2024, Werner Kaegi passed away in South of France at the age of 97. His passing leaves a huge gap in the lives of his family and friends, as well as his professional successors. You can react to his death via the contact form.

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Summer 2023 Archivation of Master Tapes

The tape archive of Werner Kaegis works is incorporated in the Sonology Archive in The Hague. The main works will be digitalized from the original master tapes. We hope that most of the electronic works will be published in the next years!! We are very happy that finally this wonderful material can be saved for the future.

VOSIM66 software and Vosim Website by Heinerich Kaegi and Ludger Hurts

Between 2020 and 2026 Heinerich Kaegi and Ludger Hurts developed a new Vosim programm VOSIM66 based on the original ideas of Werner Kaegis Vosim and Midim systems. This programm is created in GNU Octave and runs on Windows, Mac. It's open source and is available via www.vosim.eu