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| Is there a demo scene in Australia now? Man I remember the days of the Amiga when the demo scene here was alright.
I know there's a public access show in WA that airs demos run by a guy I know called The Heavyweight. That's about as far as my knowledge goes on the current scene movement. | | |
| | I'm not giving up on this. Come on is there any individuals who are in overseas groups then? | | |
| Oh this is just freaky. I too am Tasmanian. Launceston actually.
The Heavyweight started Trip (he's a WA'er), maybe he and a Adelaide boy co-started it.
I use to be in the scene in the Amiga days as a graphician. A few Aussie ones, a Polish one, and finally a Russian group at one point. Heavyweight has invited me to join up with his plethora of groups over the years, but I never really had the urge.
Now I'm looking around to see if there are any local groups out there to test those waters again. It's been a long time since I've done any scene work, but I'd love to give it a shot for the fun of it. | | |
| I doubt we've met, I've never been to a LAN in my life. Unless you've been to some comic/zine meetings in Hobart I'd say we're like passing ships in the night. :)
Without sounding to dumb (yeah I know way to late for that), what would you need with another graphician if you have no coders? What would I do?
Oh yeah, and unless TRSI has dropped it's status since I was last in the scenes I'm way out of their league. | | |
| Hey ho hi...
Keen to see the forhorse.org site. I really love coding, but alas my mathematical skills are just not good enough to really do anything creative. Actually I love coding more than pixeling, but I just don't have the brain for it. SULK!!! | | |
| hiyas ....
there are a few of us around that i know of, although we've been extra lazy this year =)
a coincidence you guys mention the heavyweight - i'm actually looking to get in contact with him (never actually spoken to him, though) to see if he has any amiga info/prods for the .au scene archive a few of us have started working on...
the amiga/c64 sections of the archive are ridiculously incomplete at the moment, so maybe if any of you who read this could be bothered, you could have a look at the state of the archive and email me any info about missing productions (regardless if you have them or not)
current address of archive - here ... please bear in mind that this is on a temporary home server, so leeching the crap out of it at this point is probably just going to annoy ;)
cheers
ript [at] disasterarea.net | | |
| | Funny enough my plan was to restart the OzScene archive that my brother ran many, many years ago. Looks like you beat me to it.... I've got heaps of Aussie Amiga stuff, but ask The Heavyweight first, as he's collection is way more organised than mine. Post here when you've changed locations so I can dl like crazy.... ... .. .. . . | | |
| i'm not sure how soon the archive will be moved at this point - it's not just up to me, there are a few of us who've been doing stuff for it so far ... i'm reasonably sure that it won't be too far off, though. i think the original idea was that we get it to an acceptably complete state and then go from there.
about the heavyweight, i don't actually know any way to contact him - i should've probably mentioned this last post ;)
if you do know an email or an irc hangout or something for him, i'd be grateful if you could email me the details .... i don't think he'd kill you, either ;) (i'm not that much of a bastard)
if you'd like to help out as well, then you're more than welcome to ... it's probably best to email me about it since i'm not always dropping by here ;)
cheers,
ript [at] disasterarea.net | | |
| | I'll give you The Heavyweights email, when I get it again. The one I have isn't working, so I've had to email his work address to get his priv one. | | |
| | You dudes should join us in idling away in #demoscene on irc.uq.edu.au sometime. | | |
| | hey shplorb! didn't land that job in adelaide? | | |
| | It seems there is small group of people enjoying demoscene stuff in Townsville. Anybody interested, please come for TLUG meeting every 2nd Monday and u'll get direction to proper people. regards, warlock/amnesty | | |
| | Hi ppl. I'm quite new to all this but I'd really like to be involved in some way in making a demo. I've been wanting to for a while but haven't had time and I don't know how to code. At the mo, I'm sort-of trying to teach myself C. I have done some graphics work in the past but not much more than just mucking around. I have also been writing music since about '98. Just thought I'd let you know I was interested... | | |
| Hi Guys.
This is The Heavyweight/Affinity (ex trip, devious designs, etc..)
First of all. I am now heading a new group.. Affinity, and this on is PC only. We are now in the process of trying to release a few things into the wild.. check out simpletro (my first pc demo), which is on our web site www.teamaffinity.org .. (the current blue web site is getting redone).
AFAIK, there is no other real groups out there ? But what i really want to do, is to make Affinity the Australian "Super Group"!!. as i see there is really no other group.
We are after someone who can do 3D graphics. and also the odd coder won't go astray.
Also is there anyone interested in the Scene living in Perth ? as i am looking for more perth members. But this is for PC people only (although if there are a few aiga guys...)
As with my Amiga collection, the scene archives, that is offically closed at something like disk #12700..
Talkng about the scene archives (the biggest amiga scene archive in the world). I have sent in the cds to scene.org, so it should soon be all avaialble from here (even the unfinised 12th volume!) .
if anyone wants to get in contact with me, email me at hweight@teamaffinity.org
Over and out. | | |
| Some of you will know of the infamous Adelaide party, Coven - the last party of which was back in 2001. Founder of Coven, MZ, may or may not do another party... although I am still interested in the idea myself. 2005 would be a great year to organise it again as it is 10 years since the first Coven party...
As for demo groups, FTS exists as far as a name goes, but not one of us has done much in the last 5 years or so. I guess, work, careers, study, life in general has taken a priority :)
Griffin still MC's and makes tunes and is a big part of Adelaide's club/rave scene. Spoony has recently taken up messing around with graphics again, and we've been talking about at least getting an FTS portal website up and running (more talk, no action as yet, we're living up to the FTS reputation). Pheon works for Sony in Los Angeles, not really sure what other FTS members are now upto (there was 20 of us at one stage).
If there is enough interest and enough people (30 sceners in Australia, there must be?!), then I'd be happy to take MZ's role to organise another Coven, based in Adelaide.
Drop me an email if your interested in another Coven, budweiser@fts-crew.com
~Bud | | |
| | from mz's www.blerk.org site, it seems he's now in Sydney. I'm in Melbourne now also, forgot to mention. :) | | |
| Well us JiNX guys who pretty much pwned the Australian demo scene for a number of years have pretty much gone into retirement. www.jinx.vg
Although we certainly do keep an active interest in what is going on around the traps. Our coders have all gone onto high flying jobs, one is in london working for Sony SCE making PS3 games (marvin) another in perth working for a mining company (penfold) and another (Hex aka Deepthroat [he saw the error in his ways and after years of double entendre-based harassment from us, and other .au sceners, he gave up his original name derived from the X-files informant, named DT]) is now in Adelaide working on top secret stuph for the government at the defence science technology organisation (dsto). One of our musos is now a music teacher, and I am in melbourne working as a scientist (doing genetics and stuff).
All us JiNX members would like to send a shoutout to all the crew that we've crossed paths with in the past 10 or so years, FTS, Disaster Area, and even some bloody talented sceners from .nz (big wave to Grape/Steel Dawn if you're still out there ya crazy talented bastard!), and who could forget NOR! :)
here's the links to the Coven releases from over the years.
Coven 95
Coven 96
Coven 97
Coven 98
Coven 2000
Coven 2001
We're working on a rendered DVD of all our stuff at the moment, ahh the memories. :)[Post edited by baldrick on Friday 4 March 2005 - 7:07] | | |
| dvize/planet.jazz (ex. devious dezigns ^ limited edition) here. just thought i would let you guys know that i am still floating around and keeping an eye on the scene. would be keen to get back in contact with ex dvs members. also like the idea of a aussie super group :)
cheers,
dvize | | |
| Hey guys,
thought I would just say a hello.. I am a PC demoscene follower, a musician by day and very interested in any aspect of scene aesthetics.
i think its a bit strange we don't have a happening .au scene; from the work that i do (most of the main unis in melbourne) I'm sure that we have the musicians and designers...
anyway, in the back of my head i am starting to play with the idea of launching a demoscene event down here in the coming years (probably 2007?)...
sequentially,
~scott/sword of gaia~ | | |
| it'd be great to get the aussie demoscene running again. You need a conduit between musos/designers and the compsci/comp eng. guys at uni.. If you can convince them that its worthwhile, you'll have groups popping up all over the place..
cheers,
baldrick | | |
| hmm.. like i said, i'm interested in helping out with music and graphics (2D) but i can't code. i think a lack of interested coders (or good coders, no offense) is a bit of a problem here in oz. at least that's how it appears to me. i'm in adelaide and if there are any interested musicicans, please visit my site, i'm trying to create an Australian community. :)
see http://www.whitetealounge.net | | |
| heyy, nice looking site fREEZEdREAM :) . Quite a valiant effort! I will get myself involved as soon as I get my own shit together ;)
I'm in Melbourne so kinda hard to say what Adelaide is like... but I don't feel there is a lack of coders in Melbourne and Australia... at least in Melbourne, anyway. It is a pretty booming IT(CompScience) Industry here; with many programmers in the city, both from here and abroad.
Getting 'Good/Interested' coders is the hard bit... granted, they are less outgoing types and hence generally harder to find than designer/muso counterparts. Also, as we all know, demo programming is pretty low-level; and can get pretty heavy at times... Still, I think the potential is there.
I should also say that; whilst its very embrionic and unofficial and stuff at the moment, myself and a friend are thinking about heading across to some of the big events in europe in '06 (Assembly06, Evoke06 etc), with - amongst other things, maybe shooting a docco. But certainly one of my main aims would be to find out about how these are run so successfully, with perhaps a view to similar sorts of things here...
Anyway, that's it from me..
sequentially,
~scott/sword of gaia~
PS - You can find me on pouet most of the time ;) | | |
| Hello,
I just thought I'd add some au scene info/links to this thread that people might be interested in.
Xmas compo:
For the last couple of years ript/disaster area has been running the au xmas compo http://www.disasterarea.net/xmascompo/
This will be held again this year (one way or another) so if you are looking for a deadline to motivate yourself into doing something, use December :)
You can find the previous years's releases on disaster area's site (or pouet if you want).
IRC:
A couple of us still hang around on irc.
On ircnet #coders there are a couple of the 'old' australian scene still hanging around (me, gaffer etc). For the other 'old' people: it is still the same old #coders though :)
There is also a #demoscene on irc.sorbs.net (recently moved from irc.uq.edu.au) where just a few of us australian people hang out. It can be pretty quiet during the day though (damned work).
Archive:
The australian demoscene archive (pc,c64,amiga) is still being worked on. It's just a matter of finding time to put it together properly. Although it has been over a year now so we probably should just dump it all onto a server somewhere :)
If there was some interest we could also set up the scene-l mailing list again. It might be easier than creating a big thread on scene.org's forums :)
Finally, I wont bore you with what the individual members of kaolin/food/gyrzoon/brains don't bounce have been doing for the last couple of years, except to mention that the group recently turned 10 years old ;)
gyr/kaolin. | | |
| hi...
just thought I'd say hello to anyone else interested in the .au scene... Can't say I've paid much attention to the scene the last few years but would be interested in seeing what's going on :)
if you wanted to join the mailing list (scene-l which used to run but seems dead these days :) then you can do so by emailing 'subscribe scene-l' in the body of a message to majordomo at blerk dot org.
I've made a little script to help you subscribe:
http://www.blerk.org/scene-l.php
for the sake of 'where are they now' I used to help organise Coven with red haze/fts/baldrick/etc back when Adelaide was the demo capital of Australia ;-)
These days I live in sydney playing with electronics and superconductors for csiro industrial physics :)
-MZ[Post edited by mzarich on Monday 9 January 2006 - 3:00] | | |
| | Hey mate, hope all is well in sydney. I'm in Melbourne now.. handed up my PhD thesis last friday. Thank fucking god for that. :) | | |
| I am friends and have been with sceners from overseas for a good many years , i am in the group WOORLIC , headed by the famous Jonas lund , im also great friends with Dune of "Orange" , Distance and so many more in the finish ,swedish , and generally european scene's , and down with a fair few of the TPOLM crew , On the local scene in terms of Australia and in particular melbourne , i am a member of i2pi crew , we have done some demos , usually shown at european parties
http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=537
As the musician for those groups , although i dont and never have tracked, i make music under the name of SENSE.. just shouting out here to say hello and wh0rd up , good to see aussies onto the scene , better late than never :)[Post edited by sense on Tuesday 16 January 2007 - 15:28] | | |
| Woah!
Ok, looks like there is an uprising in what was the scene in Australia.. I guess you could say I'm one of the old PC guys from way back... Just signed back into spam-l ;)
And just caught up with Ript and Null the other night, so yes, I think we're gonna start doing stuff again.
Sense, btw, meant Jonas when I went through Sweden back in 2003.. | | |
| Hey Sense. I've seen some of the i2pi demos and enjoyed them. The Elran demo is kick arse, as is the black and white one in 30-odd-k. I didn't realize that members lived locally though.
Sh0ck: good to hear you guys are thinking about getting into it again :-)
I'm really starting to look forward to our party in July... | | |
| I may as well add my quick Hello to this thread :).
I'm spoony/FTS.. (originally started FTS, helped organise the coven demo parties, ran morbid incite bbs for too many years) etc.
I'm still in Adelaide.. I've been at the DSTO (Defence science technology organisation) for nearly 5 years now.
Still into art/graphics/photography/etc.. but don't get much time with a 2yr old and another one due next month! :)..
We're all old farts now.. but I'm sure if something half assed got resurrected we'd have enough enthusiasm to atleast rock up.
I'd really love to ramble off a list of people to send a shout out too.. but there's just way too many people in the scene in .au that I've crossed paths with.. You all know who you are and if you read this then add to the thread :).
Anyway.. I'll sign off here and see what other action stirs on this thread.
Later,
Spoony/FTS | | |
| yeah, hello to you too, motherfucker FTS biatch!
;) | | |
| Shit, some OLD names in here I haven't seen in a while!
I'm Griffin/FTS. I was mainly a tracker, but I did a bit of ANSI stuff and was a member of FORCE for a while too.
These days you'll find me working at pretty much every Drum & Bass show in Adelaide, where I still live. I've been running a night at the Cumberland in the city for about five years now which is the longest running D&B night in Adelaide too. I pretty much love my job =)
I'm still doing music, working on getting a few 12" releases out early 2008. I was actually still tracking up untill about a year ago (Renoise) but I finally made the switch to SX3 and haven't looked back since.
I still see Phorte/FTS quite a bit too, he's comming in to the Cumberland on Wednesday to play a few records with me which should be cool.
So yeah ...hello everyone =) | | |
| Yo Griffin! Good to see ya on the threads! You should come down to Syntax Party 2008 with a tracked entry :-D And some 12" 's too.
I reakon I nearly went to one of your drum & bass nights last time I was in Adelaide. It was a massive chunky sounding doorway of drum & bass that we passed and chilled out to for a bit but didn't go in. I knew we should have! | | |
| Hey Shock, I reckon I saw you on Dandenong Road one day, maybe 6 months back near Pioneer.. either that or it was your Doppelganger, or I had one too many homebrews.
anyway, might see you at Syntax?
cya,
baldrick | | |
| shit, hi Adam - it's been a long while.
Can't remember the last time, but was probably around at Josh's place.
Have you heard from him lately? Is he ever coming back? ;) | | |
| | Hi ppl. I am seeking anikirob, the guy who posted on this thread earlier. I am wondering if anyone has had recent contact with the guy as he seems to have disappeared of this planet. I'm a friend from tas but now in melbourne. use the 4horse. thx Nudge | | |
| Baldy,
Dandenong rd? Woah.. wrong side of town, but then saying that, you know how many people probably look like me, hah!
I was at Syntax, you shoulda rocked up. I think we all gotta get together and make the next one massive. | | |
| I'm lookin forward to Syntax 2008 already :-) (not to mention .au xMas compo!)
I'm hoping everyone from Syntax 07 will be up for round 2, plus hopefully we'll get some newbies. We'll hopefully be doing a Uni Bash around town later on in the year and see who responds. | | |
| | what's a uni bash? is that something they do at Swinbourne? :P | | |
| | Whats the average age of people attending Syntax? I am mostly a C64 & Amiga Junkie and at 34 years of age, am i going to be a fish out of water if i attend Syntax 08 !? :) | | |
| No such thing as too old!
Judging by last Syntax, I'd _guess_ late twenties was average. Maybe you should look at the party photos on slengpung.com ;) | | |
| Never to old ;-) It makes sense - given the era of the C64/Amiga - that a bulk of us are 30ish (+/- 5yr). That said, there is certainly a younger group of new-wave coders/gfx/trackers who still very much appreciate oldskool as much as the new.
There should be plenty of 3D, gfx and audio ppls floating around – it is just a matter of them coming down to a party and checking out what it’s all about. It is quite hard to know where to promote an event like Syntax; for both the old sceners and new sceners. Word usually gets around after a couple of years though :-][Post edited by cTrix on Thursday 2 October 2008 - 11:18] | | |
| Yup, 32 this year...
But looks like I wont make melbourne yet this year:( Still to busy settling down.. | | |
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