Beyond 2000 ... 1994, CDROM and CYBERSPACE!

YouTube via TomEllard | July 04, 2010

"I thought I had lost this bit of nostalgia. Maybe I should.
Here is the infamous Severed Heads segment from Beyond 2000, one of those TV shows that looked forward at ... well... now. The year is 1994 and I'm showing off the near completed Metapus CD-ROM. I think that's playing on a 486 with a 1Gb drive, but the video segments are definitely playing off an Amiga 4000. This is around the time that the Amiga was dying. The CD-ROM is authored on ToolBook which is more primitive than Netscape 1 - and of course mp3 hadn't been invented yet. Under the Commodore monitor sits two Super VHS machines and the Fairlight CVI. Wotta lotta boxes.

Predictions in this episode: some kind of 'video disc' and the games console as media centre. DVD was formalised about a year after this.

The reason I look really uncomfortable is that I've left my pants in the washer too long and they have a mouldy smell I only just noticed when the crew arrived. There is nothing like being interviewed by a friendly blonde doctor on national TV with mouldy pants.
Not sure if I'm more embarrassed then or now. Anyway this is important historical stuff."

Martin Perlich - An Interview with Barry Schrader

You can find the interview here.

http://www.barryschrader.com/

Barry Schrader did quite a bit of work with early Buchla systems. You can find previous posts featuring him on MATRIXSYNTH here.

MOTHERBOARD - RALPH LUNDSTEN'S ANDROMEDA GALAXY

"While ze Germans usually hog all the credit for pioneering electronic music in the 60s and 70s, there was actually a rainbow coalition of northern European nutballs contributing to the rich cosmisch stew that eventually got strained down into "krautrock." Sweden's Ralph Lundsten is just one of those balls.

Raised in a tiny town north of the arctic circle, Ralph was composing quasi-religious ambient space jams on his homemade analog synths back when Kraftwerk's ancestors were still banging on bongos. These days he lives in a castle outside of Stockholm that houses all the experimental instruments he's invented over the years (including the DIMI-S, or "Sexaphone," which produces tones based on how you feel) as well as Andromeda, his space-age recording studio which looks like the control room for planet earth. It's also its very own micro-nation, which is like a regular nation but cuter! (And less internationally recognized!)

In this edition of Motherboard, VBS get our passports stamped at the Andromeda Galaxy Embassy and are welcomed into Ralph's little personal country."

via vbs.tv

Deacon studio vid

"IN THE STUDIO Dan Deacon Snow Ghost" via Pitchfork TV via Alex