8static Festival, Philadelphia

Nov 5, 2016 |

Hey, I’m coming back to Philly soon to play the 3-day 8static Festival, which is one of the biggest chip-events in USA nowadays, I think? People like Cheap Dinosaurs, Saskrotch, fearofdark, Danimal Cannon and Nullsleep are playing. Check the full line-up here.

My First Battle of the Bits Contribution

Nov 4, 2016 |

I’ve been a member since I was a wee little lad running in the fields of glory. But I never submitted a track. Until now. So here is my first contribution to Battle of the Bits – the not enough known chip community that has outlived most of the other ones.

It’s an Amiga song, built around a short loop that my brother made back in his Amiga days. There’s no real ending to the song, because it’s supposed to loop – like all the Amiga chiptunes in the 1990’s did.

Essay for Rhizome about videotex art

Nov 4, 2016 | ,

I wrote a text for Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. It’s an online exhibition that just started, and will go on for two years to show old and new net art.

I was asked to write about Reabracadabra, made by Eduardo Kac in 1985. It’s made for videotex, an early network technology sort of like a two-way teletext that was successful pretty much only in France, with the Minitel.

It’s a fascinating (and forgotten) technology, and I’m glad Rhizome helps to bring this forth. I for one am going to keep on digging into the videotex world at t3xtm0.de if not somewhere else.

Live in Austin (last week)

Nov 4, 2016 |

Somehow I forgot to blog about the show in Austin that I took part in for Halloween. After a successful indiegogo campaign, they raised enough money to bring me over from California and Colorado, take down the wrestling ring in a beer brewery, and throw a great party!

I have upcoming shows and talks in Philadelphia, Montreal, Waterloo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and New York. Will try to be a bit more informative about those..

V/A: Rhythmus Records Presents…

Nov 3, 2016 |

I have a little soft reggae song (!?) on this compilation from Rhythmus Records, along with artists like Monodeer, dkstr, Firedrill and KeFF. Get it on Bandcamp.

I guess the idea for this song was to make 1990’s mainstream reggae, in some sort of chipstyle. Good idea, right?

80864 out now!

Oct 24, 2016 |

My new album, 80864, presents 2 years of experiments with the TR-808 and C-64. It’s out on 12″ floppy style vinyl, cassette and for download. If you buy the vinyl you also get 7 bonus tracks digitally. I think at least half of the vinyls and cassettes have already been pre-ordered, so don’t be lazy! Read more about it here.

Bandcamp for downloads, vinyls and cassettes
Spotify for streaming

Article in WOZ

Oct 22, 2016 |

I have an article in the current issue of the Swiss weekly magazine WOZ. The theme of the issue is soundtracks and my article is about game composing in the 1980’s. About the low status of music in a young industry full of craziness, and how some groundworking soundtrack works came out of this.

But also about what happens when you can make music in a game, and when your music software becomes intelligent and can offer game-like aspects to composing. Who owns the music then?

The text is in German and it’s available online (behind a paywall for now).

Impromptuous Set in NYC Tonight

Oct 11, 2016 |

Yes, from 6-9pm tonight I’m doing a small show with KODEK, OG J, KADAVER, NONHORSE and PAPER MACHINE. I’ll do a fully improvised C64-set from scratch, I think, so expect the expected to be expected.

The venue is the Detective Squad, 11 Stanwix St, Brooklyn 11206.

Pictured is Shrimps, the C64 destroyer.