RecommendationsPosted by j 2010-07-17 03:14:14Idle Sunder is throwing a
Sleep Concert (Sunday 25/7/10) and everyone's invited.
Check out the flyer for more information. If you're in or around Belgium, you should come say hello and enjoy a night of ambient scapes while you're at it!
Also worth mentioning is
Farbrausch' 02:20. A demo for which Idle Sunder has provided the soundtrack (Brainscape, a track taken from the
Psygnosis III [
NTT055] album). Sit back, and watch
this!
EntityPosted by j 2010-07-06 02:10:06
Ukrainian glitch experts
.at/on and
v4w.enko - who will be performing this album live at the
Alt-E festival - decided to have both their warm ambient glitch album as well as accompanying audiovisuals (in collab with
aiuto) released on Entity.
Go on and enjoy the fruits of their labor!
InteractivePosted by j 2009-04-16 14:41:33
Having spent a weekend at
Breakpoint 09 (Bingen/Germany), i decided to rant about some of my impressions as a newcomer to the
demoscene.
Sure
i had been enjoying demo's since i discovered them on the scene.org
servers a long time ago. It was therefore a pleasure to meet some of
the guys responsible for what i consider to be the greatest form of
digital art.
Admittedly, i was a little unimpressed with most of the
demo's that i had seen at the party, since i thought previous years had
better productions. Not that i could do it any better.
I should probably mention that i'm mostly into the PC demo's, in case any of the numerous
AMIIIGAAAAA freaks should feel insulted.
Still's decision of not releasing their PC demo production (yet) may have had a lot to do with it. (edit: apparently they did show their demo as "
ill")
Not surprisingly,
Farbrausch and
MFX (link to invitation demo since "Cognoscere" isn't online yet) had the best effect on me.
What the
4k and
64k demo people do is also pretty unreal.
The summit of the whole weekend however was the showing of ASD's
Rupture, which got released on
The Gathering, another demoparty that was going on simultaneously in Norway.
Demoscene style / Netlabel absenceMuch like in the music (sub)cultures, the demoscene has its own mainstream attractions.
Since
the competitions have a democratic voting system, i wasn't too shocked
to find out that MFX's noise-based demo "Cognoscere" ended up a little
underrated (imho).
It's understandable that not everybody is up for
noise or similar more experimental expressions. The demoscene is
however the only good place where things like these can be found.
Demoparties are places where creative people who make profound digital art get to interact in realtime.
Netlabels
are underrespresented imho. Sure it's a demoscene gathering, but i was
surprised to find out that most people had never even heard of
netlabels.
WTH, there could be loads of convenient co-ops between
netlabels and demogroups. Not that there aren't enough demoscene
musicians already, but groups looking for something that breaks the
demoscene "mainstream" are more than welcome to contact
me.
I could probably hook you up with any type of electronic musician you
might be looking for. Needless to say, i'd gladly attempt experimental
demo soundtracks myself.
Other than that, it could be
interesting to have some netlabel artists present their music on events
like these, maybe something for the organizers to think about.
"Welcome home"The real party however was outside, in the company of 1000+ visitors from all over and a hot sun.
I
didn't always feel like infiltrating every group i encountered, but
ps/Enough Records persisted in introducing me to people i would
otherwise never have met (much appreciated!).
Meeting up with Toxie/Ainc (who coded
NTT040 -
Tetroid 2012)
was also more than a pleasure. Chances are we will collab on something
new, but for your own sake don't hold your breath just yet.
There was an unspoken amount of respect in the demoscene atmosphere that i hadn't encountered before.
I could hardly believe that "Truck" (oldschool scener, can't miss him) actually welcomed me home. He had a good point.
There's
no real way of summarizing what the people there were like. At some
point Ra and i concluded that the only thing most of the people there
have in common is something psychologically based, be it some form of
ocd, isolation, autism or other out of the ordinary (?) personality
factors that turn one into a computer art-fascinated
freak/geek/whatever.
It would be wrong to label all of the attendees
in such a superficial manner, but i certainly learned about my own
relation as a person to this environment.
In conclusion, it was
a ride to say the least. Depending on circumstances, i just might
return next year, hopefully with something more interesting to present.
Greetings to all i exchanged words with. Let's hope they had some value.
Now would be a good time to link me up with the demo's you think i should see.
