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HT Gold showing in France
SWÄG 15 Years, Tampere
SWÄG is a top notch crew in Finland, that organized a gig with me way back in 2006. Now I’m playing at SWÄG’s 15 year anniversary in Tampere in June. Looks like a great event with people like Eero Johannes, Auvrel, Andy Stott and Droid Eater.
Did You Miss Shirbum?
If you missed out on the Shirbum album/shirt before it was too late, you can sign up to a waiting list here. Basically, if there’s enough people who want one, it would be possible for us to make another batch.
(And if you did order one but didn’t get it yet – bare with us a little bit more. Almost there!)
New Album on windows93.net
Hey look, I released an album in an operating system website!? Play this album on windows93.net and also see how I’ve sequenced the songs, as they scroll over your screenz. All the music was made in Protracker on Amiga, mostly with out-of-tune samples that I found on old sample disks to get that good ol’ home computer vibe.
Eventually this will be out on cassette as well, so sign up here if you don’t want to miss out.
DUBCRT has been cracked!
In 2016 we released DUBCRT – a C64-cartridge with interactive audio and PETSCII-visuals, as well as a Bandcamp-release with remixes. The cartridge had some hidden features, among them a remix-mode where all the songs could be severely decomposed.
Yesterday, it was cracked by the notorious C64-group Triad so now it’s free for download. Not only is it free, but there is documentation and a +3 trainer that gives you instant access to the remix mode, as well as cheats in the sort-of-hidden game. And of course, a crack intro.
Das ist alles gut! That’s exactly what we were thinking when we gave the DUBCRT to them. It means that DUBCRT has been transformed into something else.
From object to software. The original DUBCRT software-on-hardware is a pretty unique object that we spent quite some time to research and design.
From commercial to free. DUBCRT is still for sale (a new batch was just made) but Triad has now set it free.
From art to crack. This is no longer an art work that we made, but a crack that Triad made. They were the ones to set it free and “improve” it so on CSDb the praxis is to give all the credits to the crackers.
This means that DUBCRT has been lifted out of some kind of music/art world, into the scene! I’ve always been intrigued by the border between scene and non-scene, and played around with it before. In fact, I’ve spent quite some time on researching CSDb for an academic article that should be published in a journal later this year. How does CSDb work as a collective memory machine? But I’ll get back to you on that.
Now enjoy free data and kick out the jamz.
Exhibition in Hong Kong w/ PET.CORP
Some documentation from the exhibition by PET.CORP and me at Spaceblanket in Hong Kong. Photos by 69.mov and videos by nickoletsgo (except for shirbum and the robot).
More info and documentation at PET.CORP’s site.
The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology
The art happens here: Net art anthology is a book from Rhizome about net art from 1982 to 2016. I’ve contributed with a text about Eduardo Kac‘s Minitel works in the 1980’s. It’s a shortened version of When Net Art Outlives the Net.
Human Sacrifice Beta
Come on down to internet2008 to hear an early version of Human Sacrifice (from Shirbum).
Or play it right here, hotlinked from the lövely archive.org.
Live in Hong Kong w/ PET.CORP
Me, the robot and PET.CORP will do an audiovisual live set at Spaceblanket in Hong Kong on March 2! It’s part of an exhibition by PET.CORP and it also involves a celebration of our Shirbum album+shirt project.
More info here.
Live Jam with Kodek
Here’s a video of me and Kodek performing at Erica Synths Garage last weekend (about 68 minutes in). It definitely has its moments, thanks to zero preparations. Don’t miss the performances by BR Laser and Jacob Remin earlier in the same clip! Okay?