I’ll be in St Petersburg and Moscow this weekend to perform. Just like with my last Russian tour, I will make a new album for this one too. One hour packed with power acid, buskis dub, teletext pop and other unreleased or previously hard-to-get material. Mail the fax if you’re interested.
Me and Raquel Meyers are performing Mind the Volcano at Piksel Festival in Bergen, Norway on Saturday. We’ll use C64 PETSCII and Teletext, among other things. We premiered this at Transmediale earlier this year, and this is the current version of it.
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 arranged and even composed live in a text-based software, shown as a part of the visual story. Words, images and music work closely together.
I was at Triad‘s C64-party Zoo in Finland last weekend. I was there to do a live concert (with lots of Amiga electro pop which is my current fetish). I also did a quiet live jam during food (again) and released a short thing called Boklöv for the music competition. Aaand, made a song for the short demo Monday Night by Extend, including graphics by Tommy Musturi (see above).
This was by far the biggest dose of PETSCII and disk covers in any demoscene competition. Really high quality, too. Zoo also had the highest amount of (half)naked sauna men with data bellies, which was a great feature.
On November 6th I will be at the developer conference Øredev to talk about the demoscene and make a performance.
The talk will be about my favourite aspects of the 8-bit demoscene. I will relate it to modern computer art, since art is the theme of this year’s conference.
The performance will be made on a C64, completely improvised from scratch right infront of the audience. While they’re eating. I’ve done eatable music before, but this is a first for me.
The screen of the C64 will be projected too. So I will have hundreds of hungry coder eyes examining my hexadecimal ambient music. It will probably sound a bit like 2SLEEP1, this or this.
Dataslöjd is taking part in Simultáneo, an online event organized from Mexico. Me and Raquel Meyers will make an improvised C64 textmode show around 19.30 (GMT+2) – a bit like this – and then Geraldine Juárez shows Wealth Transfer. 2SLEEP1 is also showing, aswell as other videos from the other artists of Simultáneo.
If you are near Göteborg, drop by Kulturlagret around 19. Everything is streamed online too – stay tuned at Twitter or Facebook if I forget to update this post with URLs.
Live show and DIY arcade games in Göteborg 6 October. We play around 22. More
I don’t do many gigs these days but when I do I deliver only the freshest new styles. Teletext techno, monkey acid, turbo funk, megamix pop, vapor rave, etc. So don’t miss out! Photo above by Olia Lialina (iirc) from mine and Raquel’s gig in Stuttgart last year.
> 5 October, Malmö: Synth’n’Bit Party w/ Ras Bolding, Nordloef, Fastbom, Sarofer Zertaga
> 18 October, Berlin: Autumn Blips III w/ Rico Zerone, Pulselooper, STereochan, Trippy-H, Midi Man, irrlicht project, obasilakis, Mano Plizzi
> 9 November, Viiala: Zoo w/ VCS2600 and the whole Finnish C64-demoscene
Some events coming up:
> 27 October: a very special live performance in Stuttgart. Together with Uwe Schenk and his band I’ll perform along with text visuals by Raquel Meyers. Both songs and improvisations. Don’t miss out! Read more.
> 10 November: live gig at Nalen (Klubb Escape) in Stockholm, with visuals by Raquel Meyers. Also performances by Dunderpatrullen and Djurpark.
> 14 November: Talk at the public library in Stuttgart, as part of the series Do You Believe In Users?. The point is to talk about the 8-bit underground from the perspective of the user, and explain why ideas like nostalgia, limitations and appropriation just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Are there any people who perform in text mode? Yes. Me and Raquel Meyers have two text mode performances coming up – both in Göteborg (Norway). The first one is at the chip-noise event BIT BRUS. We will only use C64s, so it’s 100% PETSCII SID DATA. Improvisations will be based on Oso, Acid Burger, In The Name of the Sword and other petscii hits.
The second performance/installation is called Mind the Volcano and will be presented at Textival. The idea is to explore the area inbetween books and movies (film and typewriter) in text mode. There will be 40 headphones for the audience to use. Musically, the sounds will be more like 2SLEEP1.
