Pics of Remote Control Music Studio
Some photos by ARD Text of my Remote Control Music Studio, exhibited at the International Teletext Art Festival 2013. There’s also a video here, for those who missed it.
Micomonocon
Micomonocon is a music game where monkeys try to play human acid pop. Set in a luxurious text mode environment, your mission is to prevent chaos and promote business. Do you have what it takes to be a top monkey?
Made by Raquel Meyers, Jens Nirme and Goto80 2013 for LA Game Space. Featured in Experimental Game Pack 01 along with indie game heroes such as Keita Takahashi (Katamari Damacy), Cactus (Hotline Miami), Chris Osborn (Bit.Trip series), Jeremy Bailey, Jeremy Douglass, Tracer & Minusbaby, Party Time! Hexcellent, and many more.
Micomonocon runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and requires Java. It’s likely the best way to practice your secretary skills and prevent monkey acid at the same time.
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Typewriter Week at Text-Mode
It’s typwriter week at text-mode.tumblr.com and you won’t wanna miss this one. We’ll post our characteristic mix of old/new and classy/trashy that we collect from countless books and sites. So far we’ve done 1512 posts, including plenty of typewriter art. We’re worse than the NSA, ffs.
Malmö, Berlin, Viiala
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
My Teletext Music Software
Tracker, artificial intelligence, speech synthesis rap, stats sucker, printer, video feedback… Remote Control Music Studio is the best teletext music software around! Thanks to Peter Kwan for the platform, and Raquel Meyers for help.
(fire and horses not included)
> More at Create Digital Music, Prosthetic Knowledge, Nerdcore, Neural, Keep America at Work
Data Klubb – Free Beer For Personal Data!
When the Piratbyrån-book was published, F.A.T also did the Data Klubb for which I submitted some personal data and filmed some. Also check out the great teletext stuff tele-F.A.T. Good stuff by Geraldine, Raquel and bigup2dance!
A Book About Piratbyrån
Piratbyrån was a loosely organized group that exploded the discussion and practice of copyright in the 00s. Now there is a book about them, which was launched last weekend in in Copenhagen. It presents fragments of their activities, such as The Pirate Bay, the Kopimi “license” and 100000 other things.
I’m happy to be included in the book, since I performed at some of their parties like the Spectrial. The book was designed by Raquel Meyers and you can read more about the book at her site.
Reuses of the Ferret Show
The Ferret Show is a musical that me, the Uwe Schenk Band and Raquel Meyers did. We released it as video and as MP3s at Upitup. Those MP3s were completely free for others to use (ie, it was not creative commons), so it was published as public domain at Free Music Archive.
It seems like that made it reach out to a lot of people who don’t normally hear my music. So there’s a pretty bizarre collection of YouTube clips that uses one of the songs from the Ferret Show:
A guy on a motorbike buying sushi ingredients, someone talking about customer service, duct tape artist documentary, instant art career, dinosaur comedy, unpacking pokemon, new zealand trans something, the game go, backseat gamer, video game sex, a machinima movie or sth, how to draw ASCII weapons, some kind of cartoon, an article about Brooklyn Circus style, and so on. And here’s even more:
Wealth Transfer Piracy Power Bass Paranoid Statistics Trance
On August 28, Geraldine Juárez is showing her Wealth Transfer at Piracy Today – a London-exhibition by Hardcore Software. Geraldine made music based on the waveforms of stock market crashes, and I did a remix. It’s like finance disco pop with equal amounts of total power bass and paranoid statistics trance. FACT mentioned this among 10 absurdly limited records.
Remote Control Music Studio
I was invited to this year’s International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF) and decided to make a music software called Remote Control Music Studio. If used properly, it allows the user to perform live and feed various TV- and radio-information into the software to use as audio waveforms, sync, modulations, etc.
For one month this will be shown on German, Swiss and Austrian teletext along with works by e.g Dragan Espenschied, Max Capacity, Raquel Meyers, Dan Farrimond, Ubermorgen, LIA, and several others. There are also some AFT (Away from TV) events, such as an exhibition at Ars Electronica later on.
> Read Teletext Art – An Overview at Chipflip