NSI

NSI. Non Standard Institute. ...is the partnership of Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer, and if you know these names, you will know to expect only the unexpected from their collaboration. If any single word sums up NSI.'s approach, it's eccentricity: not in the sense of being weird for the sake of weirdness, but in its spatial, elliptical connotation, as deviating from a circular path. Repetition, the lifeblood of electronic music, is key to NSI's approach, but nothing in their music ever happens the same way twice. This is thanks primarily to the fact that NSI don't merely program, but rather play their instruments in real time. (You could, in fact, call it real-time programming, code-crunching with an analog underpinning and lots of twisting wrists.)