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)
(enjoy)
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.
Dataslav Performance Today
Today I do the DATASLAV performance, where I make music on command. Visitors fill in a form to request the style, and I make it happen in like 15 minutes. On the Amiga. The results are given out on floppy disk.
So I sit an an old police reception on Hisingen Island in Sweden. It’s part of the Dataslöjd Summer Exhibition, together with Raquel Meyers and Geraldine Juárez.
C64 Acid For Baroque Floppy People
A little invitro (invite-intro = invitation to a scene party) was just released with my music in it. It’s for Baroque Floppy People in Helltown in August. I made the music, and I think Frantic remixed it a little and there’s fresh PETSCII graphics by the old master Jucke. I recommend you to go and visit, if you dare!
Computer Rooms
After being commissioned by Click Festival and awarded by F.A.T, my book Computer Rooms is finally available to order! It’s a collection of photos of people’s computer rooms. Both from geeks other people. From the book:
“This is what computer culture really looks like. A collection of photos that show the messy reality behind the shiny online facade. Where we make our living and spend our free time. And try to be creative. Or maybe even worse.”
The book has 36 pages of full colour photographs that the owners of the rooms have sent to me. The design was made by Raquel Meyers. So what did I do? Except for text, I collected photos like this for 4 years and sorted out the gems for you. So go and get it! It’s only 15 american dollarez.
Btw, don’t mind the bad picture at lulu. It looks a lot better printed (for once). Oh, and all the photos here were taked by Geraldine Juarez.
> Info & order
> Article at nerdcore.de (German)
> Post on Prosthetic Knowledge