postvinyl
(Space Age Tool for the DJ, 2005) is a project in progress developing space age tools for the DJ. Our current game level contains recordplayers, records, sleeves and posters to be viewed at the discretion of the virtual DJ. The level was built for stage performances of DJs Olliver Farshi (UK) and Andy Odia (UK), Canadian DJ Michelle, Finno-Mancunian DJ Teemu Metsälä, and Mathias Fuchs (AT/ GB). The current version enables the DJ to scratch in V-space. Sonic spaces will be constructed as ludic 3D environments and the DJ player pawn will be armed with a soundgun - a powerful tool to emanate his sounds. Think of the old fashioned DJ-suitcase with its content of vinyls as his pickup base - and the samples of his AKAI as his audio ammunition.

Mathias Fuchs
LevelDesign, Art, Models, Programming
Olly Farshi
Live audio (Reason)
Andy Odia
Decks

postvinyl

This game – post-vinyl – plays the game of hybridization on two levels. On a hardware level it is a hybrid of a digital computer with analogue sound modifications, content wise it is a hybrid of an exploratory 3D shooter with tunnels and corridors and a DJ performance set-up. The users have to slip into the role of a virtual DJ who can start and stop vinyl records by jumping on the record players, picking up records and placing them on turntables. The users can also look for custom-built sound guns, i.e. weapons that allow for the placement of spatialized sound sources in the performance environment. In this regard, the game once more cannibalizes commercial mainstream games: the concept of the weapon is taken up and transformed into a musical instrument.

EQUALEYES feat. RESFest 2005 Closing Night

20-22h

EQUALEYES Sehschule - Your Update on Visual Culture

Mathias Fuchs (A/UK): Postvinyl – Unreal Tournament DJ Gameplay
Marko Kosnik (SLO): The dark bathysphere of Captain Picard
Moderation: Stefan Lutschinger

22-04h

FUTURE ARTEFACTS - Das Bildrauschen der Zukunft
Performance/ Liveacts

Mathias Fuchs (A/UK), Oliver Farshi (UK), Andrew Odia (UK): Postvinyl. A Computergame for DJ's

Microthol
Idee concrete
VJ's

4youreye - HD visuals
C27
MingoTV
DJ's

Rainer Klang (klein records, private dancer)
Christian Fuchs (FM4, bunny lake)
Mikka Blank (blankTON, TSD, KFD)
Eine Produktion von DOCUZONE, EYE:CON, POOOOL und Visualist/In/Daba