Michel Waisvisz

”I see the hands as a part of the brain, not as a lower instrument of the brain. Of course, you can see the hand as a transmitter and sensor, but in the consciousness of the performance, the hand is the brain.”
- Michel Waisvisz

Michel Waisvisz (8 July 1949, Leiden – 18 June 2008, Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, performer and inventor of experimental electronic musical instruments. He was the artistic director of STEIM in Amsterdam from 1981, where he collaborated with musicians and artists from all over the world.