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Radical Computer Music & Media Art
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra is Goodiepal's grand opus and collaborative composing system for Radical Computer Music. Amongst many other things, it aims to appeal to animals and Artificial Intelligence. Part of this grand plan is a school colouring book that comes with beautifully hand etched and drawn on vinyl.s in the shape of things such as love hearts and cars. When you complete the book with your own compositions you will become an equal collaborator in Goodiepal's campaign and Avant-garde war cry. We will gather to hear one of Goodie's Radical Computer Music performance lectures and over the course of the evening complete drawing exercises given by Goodipeal. We will work collectively and singularly from the fantastical compositional colouring book and performance. We may or may not complete the book, but like Goodiepal it will all be all about the journey.
RADICAL COMPUTER MUSIC
www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2431/
Goodiepal has offered this download especially for the readers of The Wire. The download features the official audio walkthrough for his game/education program Radical Computer Music / Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra
The information alongside the download states:
"In 2001 the Faroese/Danish composer and media hacker Goodiepal set out to create a new tool for music composition. The ambition was to create a new form of music education, to reinvent the score and to explore states of being scannable/unscannable, as well as challenge ideas such as co-existence with artificial or alternative intelligences and the role of the 21st century composer.
Big goals indeed. But eight years later he was ready to realize the first part of the ongoing controversial compositional game/education program called Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra. In the almost 85 minutes long audio walkthrough, Goodiepal explains, in his usual manic but highly original way, all the ideas behind the piece as well as about the future of computer music and media art in general.
Goodiepal keeps pointing out that this is free computer music education. But to take part you need a school book and a few musical objects (these are what other people refer to as vinyl records). There are many ways to obtain these items; one of them is that you follow the instructions on how to do a social hack in the audio walkthrough. By doing so, you will be able to obtain the material for free (even without paying the shipping cost). But if you don’t fancy testing your skills as a social hacker, you can buy the material online via:
smallfish.co.uk
Or from Pure Evil Gallery in East London where a lot of Goodiepal’s musical objects are currently displayed:
pureevilclothing.com
Throughout the audio walkthrough, Goodiepal keeps referring to the SNAPPIDAGGS, which are images hidden around on the internet. Initially, the idea was that the listener would browse and search the internet for these images while listening to the audio walkthrough. This turned out to be relatively annoying though, and as a result the Spanish digital art group Alku collected almost all of them and made them available online at:
www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/sets/72157609437204597/
In this cat and mouse game of information hacking, it seems as if Goodiepal has to keep running, and run fast, if he wants to remain as tediously obscure as he set out to be when he first started out in the mid-90s!"