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- The <link=g10.scr>Alternative</l> Party
-
- General Public Invitation v1.2 (10 Nov 2001)
-
-
-
- The Alternative Party stands for the continuing fight against the
- mainstream. The battle for the rights of the individual and their chance to
- express themselves freely. We stand by machines forgotten by the masses.
- We investigate music and art which is widely ignored. To understand new
- ways of thinking and unique perspectives.
-
- Our main event will bring together creative people focusing on art, music
- and computers that bring out the best in us. The party is equally relevent
- to people with a ZX Spectrum or C64 as it is to people with a horrifically
- powerful UNIX workstation or weird experimental hardware. The Atari scene and
- the Amiga scene will finally unite. Improvised jazz will sit beside dark
- industrial. Do you see things differently?
-
-
- Where and when?
- ---------------
-
- The revolution will take place January 11th to the 13th, 2002. Doors open
- at 12:00 on Friday, and close at 18:00 on Sunday. We are organising it in
- 'Gloria', Helsinki, Finland. Gloria is a fantastic place for an event such
- as this. Internal A/V system, large audio system, video projectors,
- sound mixing facilities, special lights, cafe with its own sound system and
- DJ table, Internet streaming, showers etc. It is close to a wide range of
- pubs, restaurants, discos and clubs. It is definitely the best venue so far.
-
- Exact address: Kulttuuriareena (Culture Arena) Gloria, Pieni
- Roobertinkatu 12, Helsinki, Finland.
-
-
- How much?
- ---------
-
- If paid beforehand, the fee is 20 euros. This must be paid before December 1st.
- Contact mailto:tuomas.toivonen@fishpool.fi for details.
-
- At the door, the fee is 25 euros.
-
- The fee is the same for everyone. There are no separate fees for people without
- computers or people visiting for only one day.
-
-
- Artists
- -------
-
- Pnmf! will be playing their mix of experimentation, electronics and ambient.
- http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/u/pirtola/pnmf/
-
- Telamurska combine HC techno with distortion and noise into an appealing
- factory-like sound.
- http://telamurska.cjb.net/
-
- Happo (or Juha MatinmΣki). An act from Turku with a long interest in
- techno & acid.
- http://reimari.saunalahti.fi/~djbeta/happo.htm
-
- No I Aint. Harsh industrial, distortion and thumping beats. Just the way
- we like it. http://koti.mbnet.fi/akauo/noiaint/
-
- Tero MΣyrΣnen is famous for his beats and sounds created with a C64 and
- mixed live. http://mp3.com/tero/
-
- To chill off, Analogia will play ambient and sounds to help you relax.
- http://kohina.cjb.net
-
-
- Competitions
- ------------
-
-
- Overhead Projector Competition
-
- * We provide the overhead projector, you provide to show. Graphics, animation,
- lights, puppets or anything else you think appropriate. Some slides will be
- available at the party place but we recommend that you finish (and practice)
- your presentation beforehand.
-
- * You have 5 minutes to show anything you wish.
-
- * If you wish to have sound in your presentation, bring us a cd or generate
- the sound by yourself (a narrator or live band, perhaps?).
-
- * You are not allowed to use liquids or anything that could damage the
- projector.
-
-
- Realtime Music Competition With No Samples
-
- * During the party you can use some of the Amiga 500's we provide. You have at
- least an hour to make your song and more if no one wants to use the machine.
-
- * You will be given an auto-booting disk containing the ProTracker 2.2a
- executable and some documentation. You are to save your work on this disk (as
- standard PT MOD) and hand it to the organisers.
-
- * You are not allowed to use any sample disks or insert any other disks in the
- machine's disk drive! If you think you need samples, you can use the
- executable or the docs as sample data and modify them to suit your needs.
-
- * Maximum playing time of the song is 5 minutes.
-
-
- Alt-Machine Demo Competition
-
- * You can participate with any computer except PCs with a CPU better than a
- 386.
-
- * You must bring your computer with you!
-
- * If you are going to bring a Cray supercomputer or something similar, please
- bring your own portable power plant.
-
-
- Most Obscure Machine Competition
-
- * As usual we will pick the most obscure, strange or rare machine we can find.
-
-
- More competitions are to be announced.
-
-
- Community
- ---------
-
- We have set up a community that anyone can contribute to. Our goal is to
- have a wide range of information on alternative platforms, demoscenes
- and groups, as well as articles and news about music and other forms of
- experimental art. Anybody can help build the site: just click "Edit text"
- at the bottom of any page, and edit the text freely. Read the help to find out
- how to add new pages and links. The community site is available at:
-
- http://www.altparty.org/wiki/
-
- In addition, an IRC channel is available for active discussion (in English).
- The name of the channel is #altparty, and can be reached from any IRCnet
- server.
-
- We have also strived to keep an open organisation where anybody can take part
- in suggesting ideas and actively having their say. We have two mailing lists,
- altparty and altparty-announce. The former is for discussion about the
- party: what to do, how to organise compos, how to advertise. Anything
- related to the Alternative Party organisation. The latter is for party-related
- announcements (which are also posted to the altparty list). For details on
- joining those lists, see our website.
-
-
- More information
- ----------------
-
- For updates about the party, the alternative scene and more, see our website
- at http://www.altparty.org/.
-
- If you have any questions, suggestions or comments about the party, please
- feel free to email mailto:setok@fishpool.com, or phone +358-40-7312273.
-
-
- Final words
- -----------
-
- We truly believe this will be the best Alternative Party ever, and one of the
- greatest parties of all time. If ever there was a good moment to visit and
- take part, this is it. I know I'm already very excited and I do hope to see
- a lot of people from all round getting to know each other, showing off their
- machines and just having a really good time.
-
-
- -- Setok / Aggression
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