* (DVD Dead Drop MP3)
* is a mini album with 7 songs in an eerie dub/jam style. It is only available through a hole in the wall of the Museum of Moving Image in New York. Until March 4. It’s part of DVD Dead Drop Volume 5, curated by Fach & Asendorf and uses an installation by Aram Bartholl.
Huh?
Yeah, you bring an empty DVDr to the MOMI, look for the hole, insert the disc, and in 7,5 minutes the DVD pops out with works from 78 (net) artists such as A Bill Miller, Constant Dullaart, Daniel Rehn, Francoise Gamma, Jörg Piringer, Max Capacity, Nicolas Sassoon and Yoshi Sodeoka.
My release is mostly done with a C-64, a TR-808, a Casio keyboard and plenty of echoes & reverb. It also includes a sample from Ring P1 that disses self-proclaimed experts on the storage of water, courtesy of Altemark.
This continues my past years experiments in distribution. There’s been vinyl and minidisc, Kopimi-licenses, MP3 and executables, a video playlist, music disks for web and Playstation Portable, a letter and last but not least – a real McDonald’s cheeseburger with a mini-DVD! Read more here.
> How to burn a DVD video
> DVD Dead Drop @ MOMI
> Fach & Asendorf
Photo by Kim Asendorf.
Sloths, Sex and Pirates
Our new C64-demo Dansain was presented at the Datastorm copy party last weekend. It’s a pirate story told in text graphics, tightly integrated with the audio. There’s explosions and sloths, boats and bars, sex and dancing – everything you need! For now there’s no video, but I’ll post it soon enough.
It received some very good criticism at the party. Good to get applauses and screams from an audience that appreciates the effort and the format. Quite different to pop/art where results & concept is so dominant.
On the other hand, the aesthetic conservatism of the scene is not exactly fresh, lol. But I guess it’s what keeps it together. All the way to its death! Oh well, enjoy the demo. It was very much inspired by Lennart Hellsing.
Mind the Volcano
“Mind the Volcano is a text-based TV-performance with a typewriter logic. All the visuals consist of text characters, based on words and images from books. The music is composed live in a text-based software, shown as a part of the visual story. Words, images and music work closely together.”
This is likely the first ever performance with remote controlled teletext visuals. Right? Not to mention all of the fantastic typewriter-style PETSCII animations. Raquel Meyers, yup yup! And then me doing lots of live music – sometimes even completely from scratch. Oh boy!
New Video!
Yesh yesh! Raquel Meyers made this video, and then I made the sounds for it. It was released in the magazine Det Grymma Svärdet 13/14.
Wiiiii! Uiuiuiui!
Memoblast
We were invited by Transmediale to make a new version of our fax performance (also check the book). This time we will do it an office setting, working more with e.g stamps & typewriters. -> MEMOBLAST!
And you can be part of it! Please fax us on the 29 Januari, 17.00-22.00 (Berlin time). Your faxes will arrive straight into our performance, and get the memo treatment. If you don’t have a fax, you can also do it online (see below).
Fax your way to the top! +49 30 39787 288
Click the image to get more info/links.
My Cute Pop Music
I made a remix of JulieHally’s first single, Maji-Kaji. Out now on CD in Japan! It’s kind of fast, ultra poppy, and has a feel-good-about-the-world vibration going on.
JulieHally consists of, well, Julie & Hally. Hally is a big name in the chipscene and in 2005 he turned my easy listening song into frantic pop. Anyway:
Come Together / Warm Leatherette (Skwica 7″)
Video of My Talk, Hackers & Suckers
This is my talk about 8-bit users at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. I try to explain why it’s so often framed in nostalgia or appropriation, and why we should talk about it in a different way to stay up-to-date with state of the art philosophy!
I wrote more about the talk at Chipflip, and if you want more background you can read my MA thesis on chipmusic. If you dare!
The talk was part of a series called Do You Believe In Users, organized by Olia Lialina. Check more videos of e.g Jason Scott at Merz Akademie’s Vimeo.
Acid Burger in Australia
The Acid Burger has finally arrived in Australia! It’s a mini-DVD with music and video, placed inside a real hamburger. With cheese.
Since we’ve had troubles with shipping to oz before, we sent the mini-DVD without the actual burger this time. And it worked!
It arrived safely with Ilkke, who found his own burger to put the DVD in. And made this little animation. Fanx! Click to get a better view.
We should all try to find our own burger in life.
On the Radio on the Internetz
Upitup tells us that Dub Szekhaz Radio Show published a nice eclectic downtempo mix. It includes a song from The Ferret Show that pops in like a little squirrel towards the end of the mix.