Videos of my show at Ric’s.
With out Nightshok I don’t think we would have any live footage for you guys to look at. Thank you very Kindly. Please enjoy and I’ll be posting up some new gigs very shortly.
It’s so Light
The Messenger
You Said Hello
hunz at Ric’s on Sat, 13 Mar 10
Hunz w/Polaroid Fame & DJ Valids - Rics 13th of March
Show Details
Remixta Episode 8: March 2010
Remixta is a Renoise podcast that features renoise only created music, funny enough 
. This podcast included “You Said Hello”. I havn’t had a chance to listen to the Podcast yet but I know what I’ll be putting on in the office this morning. Please enjoy! Thank you Remixta.
A post from across the globe
It still amazes me when I read posts like this because it’s from the other side of the Globe. I love how music can bring cultures, countries and people together. I thought I would draw your attention to this post on www.phlow.es. (And yes this is using Google Translate)
Phlow
Energetic Pop from across the planet
Energetic Pop from across the planet | Hunz shared with Henrik Jose and Mosaik (of whom I talked in previous articles) his past in the demoscene, the subculture of audiovisual creation and source of the trackers netlabels cradle of a decade ago now. Since he started publishing his tracks in the late 90s in the select group Five Musicians was characterized by entering your voice in song, something unusual then, but he eventually led the band toured with Beanbag by the United States.
Later he returned to his native Australia to return to producing music and released his first album, When Victims Fight, which contained some old and some new themes. And last year, decided to participate in the RPM Challenge, which consists of recording an album in 28 days, and thus produced their second album, Thoughts That Move, which is available for free download at Bandcamp (although not licensed Creative Commons). This album mixes a more aggressive pop with a base provided electronically, although the voices are the stars and the common theme of all themes.
Another feature of Hunza is its commitment to the community and musical innovation. All his albums have been self-produced and sold / distributed directly between him and his audience, and from Thoughts That Move that is totally focused on the social media and crowdsourcing. Its website has a blog where he explains his news, has profiles on all major social networks and updated often with all sorts of experiments.
But the most interesting is that also publishes the source files of their songs, clearly influenced by the time of the modules of the demoscene, and no wonder then that the tracker are RENOISE format, which also has as an artist on staff . Thus authorized Hunz get remixes of his songs which he later republished in his site and fill up his own music.
A clear example that one need not be a “great” to offer good products at your fans and build you an entire community around you.
Read the whole thing here.
David Domingo
‘Thoughts that move’ – Renoise Forum discussion
For those of you that might be interested an open Forum has started up in which I’ll answer any questions you might have about the album I recorded in the month of February last year. For those that are doing RPM ignore this message and get back to work! 
An RPM-Challenge Challenge
It’s almost February, and that means that it is time for all musicians to consider the RPM Challenge. The goal is to take the month of February to record an album of 10 songs or 35 minutes of previously unreleased music. (See the full details of the challenge here.)
I took the challenge last year and somehow wrote and recorded Thoughts That Move in one month. (With the mixing help of mr mark dollin) If you missed it, I blogged the whole process, which you can read starting at the bottom of the page here and working back through feb.
I’ve been asked by many people (including my wife and even myself) whether I’d be doing it again this year. As tempting as it is, I’ve decided to keep my focus on the animations that I’ve been working on and keep that ball rolling. I am challenging myself to make some progress on my clip during February.
the challenge
But I’m putting out the challenge for all other musicians to sign-up at rpmchallenge.com, and then leave a comment here. I’d love to see how other people go with it and hear your progress. It might feel like it’s last minute, but I signed up on the 28th of January last year. Just commit to it and see how far you get. If nothing else, you might crank out a couple interesting new tunes or make you rethink how you write to get it done.
Starting sunday at midnight.. you can doo eet!
Audio driven Animation – The Tests
So at work on Friday, I had mentioned that I wish 3dsmax had some kind of audio input so you could use different parts of the instrumentation to trigger events off. One of the guys said, “it does, and you are a n00b”. Fine.
After messing around with it briefly at work, I got all excited about it. So I spent my 4 days off playing with my recent Christmas purchase (thanks Danielle!) of box#2 and my new-found, audio-driven animation. If enough people like it, I might even consider doing up some tutorials on how it was put together. One thing I did realize is, I miss my power machines at work.
But here are some lowres viewport previews of the tests. Some of it might make it into the final. If you don’t know what a “viewport preview” is then prepared to be underwhelmed. It basically is what I see in the program. The prettiness happens later on, and it is what most people are used to seeing. Also note that below is some pretty intense geek talk.
Audio generated Animation 01
Particle face creator (PFC) is the inspiration for this whole piece. PFC is like a live boolen with a bit of a blobby mesh thresh hold to boot. It allows you to cut particle simulations into geometry. So After messing around with Box#2 I layered 50+ spheres. Placed particles through it all and gave them the PFC treatment. Ta da.
Audio generated Animation 02
This is simply seeing if the system works with the real song section I want to use. I also turned the gravity off and started lighting the scene. I wanted the scene to have all natural lights, so they all use the kelvin temps.
Audio generated Animation 03
After watching it all through, I really wanted the “GO” parts to explode, so I decided to rip up the floor using particles and the Particle Skinner. In this preview the flickers are due to shadows and polygons being to close together for the viewport to understand. The floor rip is also very chunky, which it won’t be as much in the final. Needless to say, I should have something early next week that is the final product. It is just going to be a snippet for the song “The Commotion”, but I might write a lead-in and lead-out for it. Stick around for the finished project.
Hope you enjoy these little teasers. This is the year of visual art and design for hunz while I work on my studio album. There will be plenty more on its way.
Brisbane’s Best Offer Free Downloads
Scenewave.com have posted links to free music in Brisbane and I have been listed. Included are some of my favorite Brisbane artists so it’s a good chance to see if you like ‘em too . Thanks again Scenewave for putting this list together and supporting indie bands.
This is the link to scenewave.com
“The Commotion” Remixed
I can’t believe the amount of fan generated remixes that have happened for my last album, Thoughts that Move. This one really show cases a new direction in carefully controlled distortion which really pumps more energy into the track. Really fantastic work. Also note the video clip that runs with it. Some amazing old footage that really works a treat with the song. I can’t tell you how in awe I am. Thank you Extraneous Vapor
LOFLY RECORDS top ten acts of 2009
Lofly listed me in there top ten as the best acts to see, that played in their venue “The hanger” of 2009. Lofly Records run a venue called “The hanger” and it is one of those undiscovered treasures in brisbane. If you do get a chance to see a band there do it.
LOFLY RECORDS
(Brisbane independent label
peeps, Hangar venue/practice
space operators and all-round
nice guys)
Best Hangar sets of 2009
1. Kid Sam (May)
2. McKisko (May)
3. Re:Enactment (December)
4. Do The Robot (August)
5. Bastards of the Epic Day (A.K.A.
Axxonn) (September)
6. Idle Cranes (March)
7. DZ (June)
8. Nova Scotia (April)
9. Hunz (September)
10. Big Strong Brute (August)
(Rave says: support The Hangar in
2010! It’s one the city’s coolest venues
and best kept secrets. www.
myspace.com/lofl yhangar)
Here are some related links :
A review of the show – possibly the best review I’ve ever had
