Mini Tour! New album! Russia!
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.
Live at Piksel Festival in Bergen
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.
Jucke’s Experimental Up Rough Show
This is a DJ-set by Jucke, mixing together material from Up Rough members like Qwan, Yoki, Dipswitch, Elusive and me. Released at Bit Jam, it continues a series of Up Rough mixes. Illustration here by Raquel Meyers, logo by Spot.
Very well mixed by Jucke as usual. And if nothing else, a good way to discover Qwan’s fantastic Amiga music.
From the Zoo
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.
Animal Romantics (MP3/Javascript, Chipflip)
Me, Raquel Meyers & evilpaul made a new thing! An online maxi-single with visuals made in Javascript and C64 text graphics (PETSCII). The song and visuals describe the construction of a monkey-dreaming sextext-lady.
Features some very good remixes by Limonious, Dr. Vector, The Toilet, Steve and Ljudit Andersson.
Made for the pl41nt3xt pavilion at the Wrong art biennale in São Paulo, with over 300 artists. They’ve also organized a number of AFK-events. And we also put it on Chipflip.
So it’s another release in a strange format. It’s audiovisual, but not video. It’s demosceneish, but not for the scene. Personally, I’d like to call this one a music disk, but it’s not exactly an established term. Should we just calt internet multimedia?
Anyway. You can insert your own text messages in the menu and get a custom URL for it. So send some
Talk & Performance at Øredev
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.
Video of the Textmode A/V Jam
The video of the performance yesterday, made with two C64s. I make music from scratch (no sounds or sequences prepaired) and add effects with a delay pedal. The music software is shown on the screen, and Raquel Meyers mixes it together with her typed visuals. Everything is in PETSCII. Thanks to Geraldine Juárez for filming. Dataslöjd power!
The music basically goes from ambient to acid and broken beats (?) to noise. As in any jam, some parts are pretty bad but in general I’m quite satisfied.
The performance was part of Simultáneo in Mexico.
Streamed Performance on Saturday in Göteborg
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 in Göteborg 6 October
Live show and DIY arcade games in Göteborg 6 October. We play around 22. More
Kung Fu Glitch in Aix en Provence
Kung Fu Glitch, a little piece of C64-noise that me and Entter did in 2007, is currently showing at Gamerz Festival #09 in Aix en Provence, France. It’s part of 44422435, which was basically an evening of audiovisual butchery in Bilbao. Sorry to everybody whose work we destroyed – you’re welcome!
I’m not sure if this was before or after glitching games was cool. Or was it never cool? Always? I keep forgetting.