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October Meeting, Feat. Tammo “kb” Hinrichs

Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 6:30 PM (ET)

Boston, MA

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The demoscene is a computer art subculture which evolved out of the
video game cracking scene in the late nineteen-eighties. It is
centered around demos, or realtime, generally noninteractive,
demonstrations of prowess in graphic arts, music composition, and
code. The demoscene now has its own musical ecosystem which inspired the rise of netlabels and modern chiptunes, and demosceners have created many tools, including a variety of trackers and synths for
creating electronic music.

One core aspect of the demoscene is an emphasis on overcoming
technological hurdles with creativity and skill. As a result, two common demo competition categories are 64 kilobyte and 4 kilobyte demos, which include visuals and music in files equivalent in size to a single page of unformatted text.

Tammo “kb” Hinrichs of Farbrausch, a coder and musician, will explain how synth programs intended to create music for 4K and 64K demos work, and discuss some of the challenges involved in syncing visuals and music.

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Digital Musicians Boston is a group of Bostonians (and trespassers form the neighboring cities, who don’t think we notice, but we do) who are passionate about making music with computers. We use DAWs, soft synths, effects, monomes (whatever those are), and who knows what else? We track, mix, master, synthesize, equalize, modulate, convolve and a whole bunch of other things we should probably tell our doctors about. And we gather about once a month to share our war stories and receive wisdom from others.