Deathemberfest, Leipzig, December 29
Me and Jacob Remin are bringing the Robot Music to Exlepäng!’s Deathemberfest on the 29th of December!
Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, December 28
Me and Jacob will present our Robot Music project at this notorious hacker festival at midnight between the 28th and 29th of December. We will talk, and the robot will play.
Big in Japan Documentary
I have some music in this new documentary that’s right now touring cinemas across Australia. Big in Japan is about contemporary fame culture, and about how a slightly geeky guy can become big in Japan for … something. Anything. My song Killer Piller is featured in the movie, remixed by cTrix who has worked a lot with the documentary.
Being replaced
Korridoren at Sandvikens Konsthall
For the past months I’ve been working on an exhibition called Korridoren for Sandvikens Konsthall. It’s about goats, virtual reality and immersive landscapes. Made by me and Björn Bengtsson together with Kirke Meng, Bob Nimbe and captain Stefan Lindquist.
The opening is on December 9th and it will be on display until January 14th.
Image: Försvarsmakten
Music as Recordings = Boring?
I talked to Elsa Ferreira who wrote a post about Algorave where me, Jacob Remin and the robot did a performance a few weeks back. I explained a bit about how the remixes on Floptrik could be “eternal remixes”, and then I got started on how boring it is that almost all digital music in the end gets released as boring recordings, stripped of all that juicy archeological data. I’ve released a lot of music as data rather than recordings, and it seems like the way of the future. Especially now, soon, when the bots can take all that data, analyze it, and commodify your creativity! Hooray!
Photo: James Vanderhoeven (at Algorave at Algomech Festival)
Robot Music Recording
The robot played two long laid back sets at Internetdagarna, while people mingled in the internet evening. The robot remixed a bunch of my songs live by typing on a Commodore 64 and adding reverbs and delays with a Kaoss Pad. Meanwhile me and Jacob sat on a table next to it and talked about what we should do.
There was something quite surreal about seeing hundreds of people listening to a robot transforming your music into the unknown cosmos…
So, we recorded it and here’s three hours of it. Mind the gaps between songs, that’s for the robot to load the next song.
ASCII Graffiti @ Internetdagarna
Made these two ASCII graffitis during Internetdagarna in Stockholm. ASCII in the morning, robot in the evening. Phew!
Maybe these should actually be called ANSI graffiti by now, with all those colour blocks? Hm…
ASCII Graffiti at Truckstop Alaska
I made some ASCII graffiti for Truckstop Alaska, one of the better venues in Gothenburg where DATASTORM is held, among other things.
Internetdagarna, Stockholm, November 20-21
I’m doing ASCII graffiti and a robot live show with Jacob Remin at Internetdagarna next week. Unlike the rave set at Algorave last week, the robot will play more low-key cocktail dub electronica ambient something. And the ASCII graffiti will be painted on canvas, which you might be able to get if you’re lucky.
