Michel Waisvisz

Michel Waisvisz ( born July 8, 1949 in Leiden, South Holland, † 18 June 2008, Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, improviser and developers of electronic musical instruments.

Waisvisz lived in Amsterdam, where he for 27 years headed the STEIM Foundation for electronic performances. He received international recognition for its development of controllable with your hands or data gloves electronic instruments such as the Crackle Box and The Hands, but also for the development of appropriate software, such as LiSa or Junxion. Since the early 1970s, he performed with musicians and performance artists, as Gunter Hampel, Maarten Altena, Derek Bailey, Lodewijk de Boer, Willem Breuker, Moniek Toebosch, Richard Teitelbaum, Steve Lacy, Shusaku, Peter Brötzmann, Achim Knispel, Patrizia van Roessel, Najib Cheradi, Laurie Anderson, DJ Spooky, Hans Reichel, Shelley Hirsch, Misha Mengelberg, John Edwards, Uli Boettcher and Paul Hubweber.