“[S]ince 1991 [Steina] performs with a MIDI violin to increase the variety of programs: ‘The Zeta Violin is a five-stringed electric violin with a MIDI output. The assignment at the moment is that stops on A and E string point to frame locations on the disk. The D and G strings control speed and direction and the C string is a master controller assigned to address segments on the disk. In another programming scheme, the C string controls which upper strings get assigned their function, as I experiment to make the performance more musical.’ [Steina] While this setting was originally used for performing with a laser disk player, since the late nineties other schemes and string assignments are performed on a PowerBook using the software program Image/ine, developed in 1997 by Tom Demayer at STEIM, Amsterdam, in consultation with Steina.”

Steina: “It becomes sort of the editing suite. Because these are a series of edits, all of them. And it is different from the early work I did with the violin, which was an analog violin, which generated wave forms that interacted with the picture. Here it is the cut. It is the typical difference between what the analog does and the digital does. So I have a digital violin.” [also see description of Violin Power (1969-78)