Demoscene - Chaos Constructions 2004 eyes Atarishnika Drx from Germany: "The artist or you're a musician, but without the encoder you are nobody?"

<b>Demoscene</b> - Chaos Constructions 2004 eyes Atarishnika Drx from Germany:

This year, Chaos Constructions visited by the user platform
Atari, member of the collective YM Rockerz, Dragan Espenschied. 
We Dragan was asked to give their assessment of the event, 
because In addition to personal presence at the festival, he 
participated in the Music Competition.



CC04 - What to do without an encoder?
by Drx


Being a fan of the music chip and an active musician on the 
Atari ST YM2149 long time I was going to visit the SS04. 
Language barrier and differences in iron still separates 
western and eastern Europe in terms of stage of home computers. 
For example, ZX Spectrum as a platform or OPL synthesizer chips 
on Adlib and Soundblaster maps is not as prevalent here. 
Conversely Atari or C64 very popular. So, I really wanted to 
see and hear Eastern scene, especially the most active - Clone 
ZX Spectrum. 

Originally from Germany to St. Petersburg, and observing the 
work I stsenovye was really shocked by the level of coders, 
artists and musicians, working on the Spectrum. Some even had

signs of high art, my favorite of which is "Inmost
Sun "and" Nature Rules ". The overall quality and freshness of 
the" solo " ringtones and graphics were just very good.


However, the low interest of the public on the SS04 to the 
music and the Spectrum schedule for me seemed odd, even rude. 
All were busy socializing and parties and totally inattentive 
to impressions ANSI and Spekovskoy graphics. Himself was quite 
the display of works sloppy and inconsistent with the level of 
party. During the Spectrum music compo many just went to Amigo 
and cut in there loud music, thus effectively preventing. On 
the other hand, Spectrum demos were well received and provoked 
a storm of applause. 

It seems that the problem in the organization of the 
components. Artists and musicians rules can not specify their 
names in his works. And in the time of voting their names are 
not too pronounced. But demos contain a lot of names and 
kreditsov. People can simply vote for a team that they just 
like more. This good, but personality - a very influential 
factor on the scene. But Musicians and artists are deprived of 
such opportunities. And it turns out that the rules of the 
components are right for coders. The artist or you musician - 
you can not make the demo alone, and therefore you can anyone 
fail to notice the scene. But here's the work without a name 
specified in it - just falls out of context. And a bad show 
work when they are shown once, without pausing to discussion, 
they do everything worse. Of course, when we shall show or 
intro this can generally not be necessary - they are for 
themselves show the context, which was enclosed. While this is 
so like clear, however, things should be different for

music and graphics.

What does it mean that you're nobody without an encoder? It's 
not fair, rules should be changed: either all the work entitled 
to kreditsy, or should be permitted only 64K intro and demos. 
While the demos - not complete indicator of the state of 
affairs at the scene. 

I can already see, at least in the Western scene that artists 
and musicians begin to separate activities, because their

limit these rules and traditions. MOD labels chiptyunovye
labels or graphical components begin to be carried out 
separately, being made by the scope of some global stsenovyh

events. Organization of individual components through the 
Internet as Antique Toy, it seems very logical. This component 
gives confidence that your work (which sometimes takes weeks)

will not be turned off after a few seconds of. Also, more
importance is the ballot itself.

In general, it is necessary to take into account those already 
become accessible formats as GIF, MP3 and OGG. They are 
unnatural for the average spektrumista, but may attract more 
attention to the whole 8-bit stage and are a good compromise. 
So I want to advise to take part in international projects such 
as http://www.pixelgala.org/ or excellent

http://www.micromusic.net/ ...

... why do you think I was interested spekovskoy scene? Y
I do not have the emulator, I just listened to the mp3 from AY 
RIDERS. And now I'm I want to buy a real Spectrum.