Michel Waisvisz, leader of the STEIM foundation in Amsterdam since the early eighties, has died.
From the STEIM obituary:
Michel Waisvisz died peacefully in his home last night after fighting the mean cells in his body for the last eight months.
He was born on the 8th of July 1949 and lead STEIM as Director for 27 years. [...]

Music Thing’s Tom Whitnell put out the word that Steim - the Dutch experimental music organization behind the Cracklebox - needs help to avoid getting shut down by the man:
Steim is the Amsterdam-based electronic music lab best known around here for inventing the Cracklebox. They’ve done a great deal more - lots of work on [...]