Reuses of the Ferret Show
The Ferret Show is a musical that me, the Uwe Schenk Band and Raquel Meyers did. We released it as video and as MP3s at Upitup. Those MP3s were completely free for others to use (ie, it was not creative commons), so it was published as public domain at Free Music Archive.
It seems like that made it reach out to a lot of people who don’t normally hear my music. So there’s a pretty bizarre collection of YouTube clips that uses one of the songs from the Ferret Show:
A guy on a motorbike buying sushi ingredients, someone talking about customer service, duct tape artist documentary, instant art career, dinosaur comedy, unpacking pokemon, new zealand trans something, the game go, backseat gamer, video game sex, a machinima movie or sth, how to draw ASCII weapons, some kind of cartoon, an article about Brooklyn Circus style, and so on. And here’s even more:
Wealth Transfer Piracy Power Bass Paranoid Statistics Trance
On August 28, Geraldine Juárez is showing her Wealth Transfer at Piracy Today – a London-exhibition by Hardcore Software. Geraldine made music based on the waveforms of stock market crashes, and I did a remix. It’s like finance disco pop with equal amounts of total power bass and paranoid statistics trance. FACT mentioned this among 10 absurdly limited records.
Remote Control Music Studio
I was invited to this year’s International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF) and decided to make a music software called Remote Control Music Studio. If used properly, it allows the user to perform live and feed various TV- and radio-information into the software to use as audio waveforms, sync, modulations, etc.
For one month this will be shown on German, Swiss and Austrian teletext along with works by e.g Dragan Espenschied, Max Capacity, Raquel Meyers, Dan Farrimond, Ubermorgen, LIA, and several others. There are also some AFT (Away from TV) events, such as an exhibition at Ars Electronica later on.
> Read Teletext Art – An Overview at Chipflip
V/A: BACKUP13 (Platina, MP3)
BACKUP13 is a festival in Cologne inbetween art and games, and afaik it has its roots in the demoscene. Don’t miss the Amiga ASCII exhibition, because it will have lots of super-printed elite graphics from some of the scene’s finest!
Anyway. This free download compilation features Ponky Fonky Ferret by me and The Uwe Schenk Band. Other artists are Sulumi, Radlib, Poke-1,107, Eric Skiff, Ok Ikumi, The J.Arthur Keenes Band, Kris Keyser, Anamanaguchi and Sycamore Drive.
20 Years Is Nothing (video)
This C64-production celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hack n’ Trade, a group I started when I was a pre-teen Guns n’ Roses hacker. For this demo called 20 YEARS IS NOTHING I made the sounds, Acid T*rroreast (Raquel Meyers) typed the visuals, and Mathman (Johan Kotlinski) did the magic coding.
The visuals were really typed by hand, one by one on a Commodore 64. No undo function. I think it was something like 50 000 key presses for the whole thing. We made it in a few days, and it was a process with lots of twists and turns, so the music could’ve been better (especially since I did a lot of it at a place like this).
Thanks to Lemming/Offence/FIG for capturing it properly. Not an easy task!
Our Academic Paper on ASCII Art
Me and A. Bill Miller wrote a paper on ASCII art and presented it at CAC3 last year. Now we’ve put it online at chipflip.org/06 so check it out!
(logo by Spot/Up Rough)
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Dataslav Recordings
In June I made a performance called Dataslav at the Dataslöjd Summer Exhibition. In an abandoned police reception, full of important papers and secret telephone lines, I sat with my Amiga to receive orders from the guests. They filled in a form, and I set a timer to 5-15 minutes, depending on the complexity of it. When the clock rang, I stopped working and gave the song away on a floppy disk.
The idea was to turn “artistic composing” into “hard labour” or, since I didn’t get paid, “slave labour”. Here is a recording of all the songs made. Also presented at this exhibition was Raquel Meyers’ Trevligt, Bra, Billigt and Geraldine Juárez’ Wealth Transfer.
Fågeldisk With Top Secret Software
When I was a kid I started a group called Hack n’ Trade, and now it’s 20 years old. To celebrate this, we made a release disk – FÅGELDISK – with bird-related C64-productions like 20 Years Is Nothing, double and triple SID music by Jellica, burning birds and also some very secret HT-tools and games.
We made 10 copies and spread it around at the BFP copy party, so we’ll see when it starts to spread around. In the mean time, here’s how it looks:
Instant Art Career
Niklas Roy‘s video of his Instant Art Career project uses a song by me and Uwe Schenk. From The Ferret Show. Forgot to post this earlier.
Hyperball – Avoid Everything!
Hyperball is a simple little game that uses an old song of mine. It was made using Scratch, MITs game engine for kids. Play it now.