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I enjoy computer programming and I am fascinated by the history of cybernetics.
Especially I am interested in artificial intelligence in reality and
myth and in the scriptures of the social philosopher and mathematician
Norbert
Wiener (founder of cybernetics).
The fact that his brilliant book "Cybernetics" was an at least as revolutionary,
social- philosophically radical and visionary manifesto as the famous "Capitalism"
of Karl Marx, and that it covered way more than just technical topics,
got today unfortunately nearly unknown, because the work of the Master
soon got abused by the interests of power hungry cravat wearers, those
later claimed everywhere that it was nothing more than just a book of mathematical
contents. (More about cybernetics can be read in the Logologie-FAQ.)
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I collect historical videogames and homecomputers.
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I like to build/ repair electronic things (also tube electronics)
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I am interested in electronic musics, synthesizer technology and I compose
musics too.
My musical main style is gunk music (a special form of multivoiced
meditation musics, similar to tekkno trance), but I have already composed
in many other styles too. Yet my musical pieces I have made with "ProTracker"
in the MOD format on my Amiga electronic brain, and by tricks I managed
it to create partly very complex sounds on this historical 4 track program,
those are far beyond the sounds of average MOD files. (The total length
of all my compositions together are at least 110min. My music can be downloaded
here.)
I like a lot of musical styles (except opera arias and heavy metal). Besides
India style music, acid house and tekkno trance I am especially fascinated
by multivoiced squarewave music. (Squarewave music is a special, very electronic
sound style of the kind that is known e.g. from historical homecomputers
and cheap electronic music boxes. By its impulsive, monotonous structure
it often has an extraordinary meditative effect.)
I am interested in everything that makes unusual (mostly electronic)
sounds. I enjoy to modify cheapest music keyboards and toy organs (so-called
"tablehooters") to make with these things partly very bizarre sounds (perfect
for tekkno etc.) those normally nobody would expect by seeing them. I also
have build own electronic instruments and collect music keyboards (see
here).
I am also fascinated by spectral chanting (throat singing) with the
completely free usage of the own voice in the style of a synthesizer. Also
the development of new, more intuitive user interfaces for synthesizers
(by virtual reality etc.) I find extremely interesting, because with the
actual ones there are still too many keys between man and sound.
Additionally I write poems and short stories etc., work on movie
scripts, paint computer graphics, and I am generally very interested in
art and philosophy.
I am especially interested in science- fiction (Star Trek etc.) and
socially critical topics. Artistically I am also interested in the stylistical
elements of historical videogames, and I also would find it very exciting
to create interactive, computer controlled art installations (e.g. artistical
works about tekkno, like the construction of mechanical tekkno machines
etc.) You can find some of my works in the arts department of the Logologie
site.