Education of the noobz is a project by dragan espenschied. Live in stoccarda is a 3-track 7inch recording of a concert with uwe schenk SHOW band.
It was probably the event of the year 2011 in Stuttgart village. Dragan Espenschied aka "Education of the Noobz" teamed up with "Uwe Schenk Show Band" to perform a bunch of the incredible beautiful output of EOTN in a hypridform: computers & (real) instruments. This EP is a tribute to this evening and features 3 live recordings.
The artwork was developed out of the idea of collison balls: The infinity of Dragan's tools + the finiteness of the the instruments played by human beings. These two forces always worked against each other in a powerful, sometimes even romantic way: the precicion of the computer gets to an illusion of itself. Utopia and dystopia were never been so close and swop their meaning in the context of EOTC's music, Newton's cradle woule love it.
Literally "Stoccarda in Stuttgart" - accompaying graphic on the artwork
"[...] Before professional games, before cracker intros and before demos, home computer users were peeking and poking around their machines‘ memory in search for the addresses the soundchip would react to. They often used the built-in BASIC commands to recreate Christmas songs, Bach fugues, military marches, sometimes „Smoke on the Water“.
The source code was published in home computer magazines or copied around on disk or tape mags. It was a kind of folk culture. One can argue that this spirit lasted into the sound tracker culture, where the source code for music is available to those who want to see it.
But with the coming of audio recording formats like MP3, you get „free music“, however you cannot see how it is made anymore. MP3 contains mixdowns, parts may be recorded from sources outside of the computer. And if somebody would give you their Cubase file, it would hardly help because you would not have the right „virtual synth“ installed. And the huge selection of arbitrary virtual synths one might or might not own makes it difficult to interpret music, at least if you want to go deeper than „aewsoem“ or „suX0rz“.
In order to revive some of these things that appear valuable to me, I am trying to create a new kind of folk music for standardized instruments easily available to everybody: obsolete and therefore cheap computers. Plus, I publish all source code on http://noobz.cc/ in the hope that somebody will learn from it.
In sound chip music, every sound is deliberately set. There is no magical recording moment or microphone or compressor setting that would be impossible to recreate. And by default, there is nothing, just silence. There is no set of 9999 snare drums included. Well, okay, if you use the Microsoft General Midi synth, like it did with „Zombie & Mummy“, there are 127 instruments included. But you know them all, you heard them a thousand times before. I think they are as much a standard as the square waves produced by the YM2149 sound chip of my Atari.
This means that I took care of everything („gekümmert“) and certainly hope this album will bring out some tears.“
