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This past weekend I have been doing a couple of shows (1 – coming soon, 2, 3) from the Nordlicht demoparty in Bremen, Germany. I was also responsible for Stream Audio Direction, and then I have additionally been doing a couple smaller jobs, like recording all the different signals, and supplying a separate audio feed for gasman’s livecoding session (to use the audio for beat-synced effects).

This is what my workstation looked like:

(In the background you can also see scamp, who was responsible for combining the video stream from the party, the feeds of several cameras, and my audio stream into the result you could watch at SceneCity TV.)

The last time I was at Nordlicht was 2019, and it was really great to meet all the lovely people again, and to meet many people I had not yet met!

The party itself was pretty cool. A solid number of releases, given the size of the party, and an amazing variety of platforms as well! As someone whose first two computers were both of the Atari variety, I enjoyed the Atari entries a tiny bit more than the others…

I’m already looking forward to the next party I’ll be streaming from, which unfortunately will not be Deadline, but TRSAC ( – seriously, people, get an SSL certificate for your websites, it’s 2023, it’s not that hard!), in lovely Aarhus, Denmark.

I hope to see many of you on site in Denmark, and I know there’s going to be many more of you on IRC (#scenesat on EfNet), Discord, or SceneCity!

It’s Yours Truly™ once more, reporting a successful visit of the first demoparty I have been to since the pandemic started: Evoke 2023! I have done a couple of shows (1 – coming soon, 2, 3) from there with all the tasty compos with audio, I was responsible for Stream Audio Direction, and again I also recorded the whole shebang. All in all the usual amount of services SceneSat can provide for your demoparty! Contact us to find out what we can do for you!

This time it was possible for me to sit on the upper part of the balcony; during previous Evokes (2019 and earlier) I sat on the middle level, and let me tell you: hot air really does rise! (Not pictured above: the fan providing me with a bit of slightly-less-hot air flow.)

All in all it was a great party to visit as first party after the begin of the pandemic. The weather was nice, the people were even nicer, the barbecue was nicest, and the entries were yet nicester!

The next party I will be broadcasting from will be Nordlicht. You should really try to make it there, it’s a very cozy party with a number of special features you do not get anywhere else, and a huge variety of platforms, given the usual number of releases. I can’t recommend it highly enough.