[manse-modeemi] [MAINOS] Alternative Party

Mon Jun 26 14:55:09 2006

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tätäkin ryhmää lukemassa ihan riittämän monta.

  The Alternative Party

  General Public Invitation v1.0 (23 Oct 2001)
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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?
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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?
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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
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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/

To chill off, Analogia will play ambient and sounds to help you relax.
http://kohina.cjb.net

More artists to be announced later. Please contact mailto:setok@fishpool.fi
if you are interested in performing.

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
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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
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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.

-- 
- Tommi -