4shrooms

Last Sunday was NetzNetz voting day and we were awarded 3000 euros for our 4shrooms4u documentation/education project.

Big thanks are due to MA7 and Stadt Wien and the underappreciated NetzNetz CoordinationSlaves!

Next steps: rewrite the plan to deal with this harder budget number, and start writing some scriptlets. The concept surrounds a series of 30second video clips, each one describing one technique. All the techniques together are collected into an educational resource for spreading the 4shrooms feeling.

…plötzlich geht’s rund…
dann noch: Phillip’s space, vielleicht Okto, ……….
oh du meine güte, 4shrooms everywhere, aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

The 4shroom analogue VIP lounge series was successfully launched last saturday (2.2.08) at the soundframe festival party @ TU wien, prechtlsaal. With special guest appearance of Andi, our new overheadgeekfriend! Welcome Andi!

For the first time we had 4 OHP continuously worked on for 3 hours! But we truly broke a record in spontaneous audience OHP takeover. we never knew who they where, but hey, they looked as if they had done this all their lives long. We shall hire them the next time, or at least get their e-mail adresses.

anyone having photos please say so!!!!!!!!!

as we now have a few new images turning up … I was forced to write an automatic website. This takes away the artistic composition of before and creates a dynamic random composition, with the sole exception of leaving the big picture where it is.

Now … every time you refresh, the page re-arranges. So it is like a lottery of colour.

To make this tractable in programming terms, I simplified the words that were scattered across all blocks and put them into one single white block. Yeah, a little more boring but easier to find? Anyways, try it.

Georg is working on a History of Projection Lecture for 9th of January.

Keep the date free! He needs helpers…

It’s at MuseumsQuartier in the evening. More details as they come to hand…

I’ve written some notes on the background of 4shrooms here:

http://4shrooms.com/tradition.html

Now, they are all taken from my understanding and memory and are no doubt wrong!! Let me know.

Which reminds me, does La Trinchera know about 4shrooms yet????

A good performance at the re.sonance closing night!

For some reason that cannot be explained by fun visuals, loyal crowd and jam-sandwich sound, the performance upstairs at the ragnarhof drew most of the crowd upstairs! Okeydokey, wasn’t our fault guys, perhaps matthias’s bass boxes just weren’t big enough

The show had some flaws… layout of the equipment meant that the crowd weren’t drawn to the front. We started somewhat chaotically, and never quite built up a climax.

On the other hand, it ran on for 3 hours and nobody complained…. For ambience, it rated 5 exploding stars. Nice one, and it gives food for thought as we rush into the traditional dieting season known as xmas.