A MAZE. Interact Music Games Exhibition

Director of the Computer Game Museum in Berlin, which opens early 1997 the worlds first permanent exhibition dedicated solely to interactive digital entertainment culture.

The artists’ live performance
 is an audiovisual trip to the past, re-creating the collective subconsciousness that divided the East and the West for decades.

Computadora is DJFW aka Herr Galatran and his intelligent happy computer. The sounds come from the chips of Commodore 64, Amiga & Atari XL/ST and the passion comes from the early computer demoscene fanaticism.

What if you could change yourself into somebody else? And what if that someone was an illustrated character with all the fancy accessories you have always wanted? Pick a handdrawn moustache, an electric guitar or cover yourself completely with great animated accessories!

This duo results from a crossover of all possible sorts of multimedia. They are not German, they are Myspace and Commodore – they are Jump’n Run. They talk in 8bit, they see 256 colors, they hear in stereo.

Julian Oliver is a New Zealand-born artist, game developer and lecturer.

Musician, composer, video game audio coder. Teacher at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and lecturer at diverse events like the Game Developers Conference and the New Forms Festival.

“In times of a further and further diversifying media
consumption, computer games are an important additional
platform for music.”

Head of the degree program Music and Media Art as well as professor for sound design and media theory at the University of Arts in Bern.

‘A Battre’ is an invitation to play ‘Tekken 3’ via a physical drum-set. The drum kit is the interface and each drum controls an action on screen.

“We are all Guitar Heroes and YouTube is the new
MTV. Games are music platforms, and playing music
is a game.”

The complex sound programming of Don Atari Electro aka STU allows the arranging of soundscapes that are more digitally harsh than any other electro available. Raquel Meyers, accompanying VJ from HOMEMADE collectif, Visual Berlin, MicroBCN, Lightrhythm visuals and Bleepstreet Records, is the perfect match.