From STEIM's website:
The studio for electro-instrumental music is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts.
The foundation's artistic and technical departments support an international community of performers and musicians, and a growing group of visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work. STEIM invites these people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment in which concepts can be given concrete form. It catalyzes their ideas by providing critical feedback grounded in professional experience. These new creations are then exposed to a receptive responsive niche public at STEIM before being groomed for a larger audience.
Importantly:
STEIM promotes the idea that Touch is crucial in communicating with the new electronic performance art technologies. Too much the computer has been used, and designed, as an exclusive extension of the formalistic capabilities of humans. At STEIM the intelligence of the body, for example: the knowledge of the fingers or lips is considered musically as important as the 'brain-knowledge'. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place for the new live electronic concepts.
Seems like lots of cool things are going on here so this will be worth a detailed look at some point. Following the Electronicmusicalinstrumentsexhibition link provides access to several video demonstrations of some of STEIM's alternative controllers, which can be accessed directly here
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