Hello Renoisers,
Seasons greetings to all of you. I have been reading the following books this month, and they are very nice works.
Impulse Tracker, Ovi Demetrian Jr.
Hacking Europe
Any other books you guys might know, let us what here.
Cheers!
Hello Renoisers,
Seasons greetings to all of you. I have been reading the following books this month, and they are very nice works.
Impulse Tracker, Ovi Demetrian Jr.
Hacking Europe
Any other books you guys might know, let us what here.
Cheers!
Oh shit I know Ovi. We havenāt spoken in quite some time, because I became (essentially) a hermit (for assorted reasons).
Heās a very cool guy, Iāve got his Lifehacks graphic novel (signed by both he and the artist, so Iām extra cool).
I had no idea he was into trackers, let alone that he would write freakin book about Impulse. Live and learn.
He built and runs this site: https://indieaisle.com/
Wow, that is some good news indeed, thank you for the inputs. I really like his Impluse Tracker book and I am already checking out his other works.
Btw would you care to share how living as a hermit feels like and who or what were the influences that directed you in this path and lifestyle:-)
Iām not strictly a hermit. I was a bit facetious.
A few years ago I decided to stay home rather than continue going out to assorted social gatherings (hacker meetups, artist groups, local cons), and spend more time with my wife and focus on my art and music.
So I lost contact with everyone except immediate family and a handful of close friends (all but one living out of state).
Iām sure thereās a better word than āhermitā for this but I couldnāt think of it.
Sounds good, it just means you are enjoying your family and personal time. You have kids or you donāt like so many nowadays? How would having kids affect ones married life and social life?
Iāve read the short story today, due to the title I first thought that was a biography of Jeffrey Lim, the Impulse Tracker creator. That was not, but Iāve appreciated the ambiance, reminded me the 90ā.
That could have been me during this period. ^^
Yea it is a nice short story, and I wish it was longer and also about the originators of the tracker. But after reading the dense tome Hacking Europe, I am glad it was a lighter read. The historical accounts are very detailed and the chapter on the hacking scene in Yugoslavia almost made me feel nostalgic about a nation that is not around any more, but the presence can be felt even then. It is amazing how Europeans appropriated American technologies and how France felt sympathetic for Yugoslavia after political upheavals and sent world class researchers and scientists to help build a new economy using computer technology and make it a home grown industry. Being a computer guy or hacker here was a party Kool thing rather than how it was in America where nerds had a hard social time even as a stereotype. Poland and Yugoslavia actually partied hard and learnt computing by nearly smuggling computers from borders in neighboring countries or in German markets. It is an amazing side I never would imagine unless someone told me about it. European computers are relica of a time when governments were motivated towards progress and educating their population. Microsoft eventually took over much of the market and Netherlands became the first country to adopt and welcome this new technology en masse. We all know how Germany was always had a hacker scene with the Chaos Computer Club, and it is a fascinating fact that Pixel magazine was a major force in the Greek hacking scene. Even Czech Republic invented infrared machines to build wireless networks because of local laws and landlords prohibiting cables and lights installations. Politics, market forces, including the demise of Commodore because of stronger competition, local markets and a far more encouraging culture made the Demoscene ubiquitous (especially in Finland) and even parts of America and Japan but far less in comparison. It is a great read if you find it for free or pay the hefty price(totally worth it), itās also for folks who use trackers or are interested in computing history. There is not a lot of music tracker related details except the words āvoice trackerā mentioned as a software used by one of the protagonists. It is Demoscene specific not technology specific.
where are you from bro? where can i find more stories regarding that āYugoslavianā āhackingā era. iām quite young :P.
very interesting read
Yo bro, I am from India, which ironically has no Demoscene whatsoever. I am not a very local kind of person to begin with because I had a very international upbringing. But as I would like to know more and more about computer cyber culture scenes, I am fascinated by the computer culture in Europe especially. All this info about Yugoslavia can be found in the book Hacking Europe released in 2014. I can try to post the bibliography over here (canāt post any full links or material becos @deepblue will cancel it)
Excerpts from the book;
Chapter 5 Galaxy and the New Wave: Yugoslav Computer Culture in the 1980s Bruno JakiÄ
1 Economist. 1984 . Yugoslavia. In The world in fi gures , 240ā242. London: MacMillan. For an impression of daily life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia 1945ā1990, see: Edin VeladžiÄ, Goran MiloradoviÄ, et al. 2010 . Yugoslavia between East and West; Ordinary people in unordinary country . Online project EUROCLIO ā HIP http://www.cliohip.com . Accessed 24 Nov 2011. B. JakiÄ ( *) Independent researcher, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands e-mail: bruno@ai-applied.nl
2 Interview author with Gordana RadeviÄ, M.D. in Belgrade, a student of medicine in Sarajevo 1985ā1990, July 18, 2010. 3Interview author with Rafo DužnoviÄ, VareÅ”, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Summer of 2009. 4Interviews author with Darko and Andrej Å olar, Sombor, Serbia, early 1994 and Novi Sad, Serbia, July 13, 2009. 5This chapter has been based on magazines Galaksija , Svet Kompjutera , PC Pres , Džuboks , Polet , and Ilustrovana Politika as well as the online resources and recollections by Zoran Modli, a Yugoslav counterculture icon from the 1980s, ( http://www.modli.rs/ . Accessed 20 Feb 2011); āSrbima Treba Vremeplov,ā Interview with Zoran Modli, Feral Tribune , Split, Croatia, June 23, 2006; recollections of Dejan RistanoviÄ, Yugoslav 1980s home computing pioneer. http://www. dejanristanovic.com . Accessed 23 Sept 2010; documentary fi lm āSretno Dijeteā about the New Wave in Yugoslavia (Zagreb, Croatia, 2003). 6 William Zimmerman. 1987 . Open borders, non-alignment and the political evolution of Yugoslavia . Princeton: Princeton University Press; Sabrina P. Ramet. 2006 . The three Yugoslavias: State- building and legitimation, 1918ā2005 . Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
Zimmerman in 1972 sketched the Yugoslaviaās restricted room to maneuver in terms of Rothsteinās concept of āsmall power,ā bound to short terms policies. William Zimmerman. 1972 . Hierarchical regional systems and the politics of system boundaries. International Organization 26(1): 18ā36, here 30. Robert L. Rothstein. 1968 . Alliances and small powers . New York: Columbia University Press. 8 Gary K. Bertsch, and Thomas W. Ganschow. 1976 . Comparative communism: The Soviet, Chinese, and Yugoslav models , 131ā133. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. 9 Untypical of Zimmermanās āsmall powerā behavior, Yugoslavia succeeded in creating an international milieu for what DuliÄ and KostiÄ refer to as āsocialist self-management.ā It developed such long term policies as a defense industry. Zimmerman, Hierarchical regional systems and the politics of system boundaries, 30. Tornislav DuliÄ, and Roland KostiÄ. 2010 . Yugoslavs in arms: Guerrilla tradition, total defence and the ethnic security dilemma. Europe-Asia Studies 62(7): 1051ā1072, here 1052. J. Barryman. 1988 . The Soviet Union and Yugoslaviaās defence and foreign policy. In Yugoslaviaās security dilemmasāArmed forces, national defence and foreign policy , ed. M. MilivojeviÄ, J.B. Allcock, and P. Maurer, 192ā260. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Glenn E. Curtis. 1990 . Yugoslavia: A country study . Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. William C. Potter, Djuro MiljaniÄ, and Ivo Slaus. 2000 . Titoās nuclear legacy. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 56(2): 63ā70. 11 The organization and funding of Yugoslav scientifi c programs with (semi-)military purposes has traditionally suffered from intentional lack of transparency, as indicated by Robert J. Walen, Stevan Dedijer, and Pavle SaviÄ of IBK VinÄa. 1953 . O dva bitna uslova za razvitak atomske energije kod nas . Belgrade. However, the institutes receiving funding from the defense budget were the fi rst to initiate research and production of automatic computers in Yugoslavia. 12 For the nuclear aspect of this institute, see Potter, MiljaniÄ, and Slaus, Titoās nuclear legacy. 13 R. TomoviÄ, A. MandžiÄ, and T. AleksiÄ, et al. 1960 . Cifarski Elektronski RaÄunar CER10 IBK VinÄa. ETAN-1960 1:305ā330.
14 Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, and Margaret C. Jacob, et al. 2007 . Western civilization: Ideas, politics, and society , 860ā865. Boston: Wadsworth. 15 Jelica ProtiÄ, and Dejan RistanoviÄ. 2011 . Building computers in Serbia: The fi rst half of the digital century. Computer Science and Information Systems 8(3): 549ā571. 16 TomoviÄ, MandžiÄ, and AleksiÄ et al., Cifarski Elektronski RaÄunar CER10 IBK VinÄa. 17 Vladan BatanoviÄ, and Jovan Kon. 2006 . IMP Riznica znanja , 25ā28. Belgrade: M. Pupin Institute and PKS. 18 Milan MesariÄ. 1971 . Suvremena znanstveno tehniÄka revolucija . Zagreb: Ekonomski institut. 19 See: CIAās overview in the annual World factbook (Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1975).
National Computer Industry in Socialist Yugolavia . CER-10 (Cifarski Elektronski Racunar 10āNumerical Electronic Calculator 10) was the fi rst computer designed and built in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, used from 1961 to 1967. Yugoslaviaās geopolitical position at the time, sandwiched between the forces of the NATO on one side and the Warsaw Pact on the other, while being a member of neither and potentially hostile to both, prompted the government to make large-scale investments in the development of domestic military, scientifi c, and industrial sectors. Domestic computer development was one of the priorities, resulting in a long line of domestically built CER machines. These computers were used for scientifi c, military, and business purposes over the next 30 years. Operated by highly trained specialists, they were not accessible to ordinary citizens. Source: Image by Dusan Hristovic, in the public domain
Patrick H. Patterson. 2006 . Dangerous liaisons: Soviet-Bloc tourists and the Yugoslav good life in the 1960s and 1970s. In The business of tourism: Place, faith and history , ed. Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson, 186ā212. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Patterson, Patrick H. 2003 . Consumer culture, the new āNew Class,ā and the making of the Yugoslav dream, 1950ā1965 . Paper presented at states and social transformation in Eastern Europe 1945ā1965. London: The Open University Conference Center. 22 ProtiÄ and RistanoviÄ, Building computers in Serbia. 23 Ibid. 24 New Scientist Technology Review. 1971 . Yugoslavia Grows Ripe for computer boom. New Scientist and Science Journal 51(768): 576. 25 Yugoslavia Grows Ripe.
ProtiÄ and RistanoviÄ, Building computers in Serbia. 27 D. Abramovitch. 2005 . Analog computing in the Soviet Union. An interview with Boris Kogan. IEEE Control Systems 25(3): 52ā62. 28 Nikola Markovic. 2009 . E-Potencijali Srbije nr1. CEPiT E-volucija , 3ā11. Belgrade: Studeni. 29 Patrick H. Patterson. 2009 . Making markets Marxist? The East European grocery store from rationing to rationality to rationalizations. In Food chains: From farmyard to shopping cart , ed. Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz, 196ā216. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. 30 Patterson, Dangerous liaisons. 31 Petar JanjatoviÄ. 1998 . Ilustrovana Enciklopedija Yu Rocka 1960ā1997 . Belgrade: Geopoetika
Margit Rosen. 2011 . A little-known story about a movement, a magazine, and the computerās arrival in art; New tendencies and bit international, 1961ā1973 . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 33 Holm Sundhaussen. 2012 . Jugoslawien und seine Nachfolgestaaten 1943ā2011. Eine ungewƶhnliche Geschichte des Gewƶhnlichen . Wien: Bƶhlau. See especially the section āVom Dogmatismus zur Verwestlichung der Kulturszeneā, 148ā151. 34 Time magazine. 1972. Yugoslavia: The specter of separatism. TIME Magazine , February 7, 1972.
Central Intelligence Agency. 1990 . World factbook . Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency. 36 Marie-Janine Calic. 2011 . The beginning of the end: The 1970s as a historical turning point in Yugoslavia. In The crisis of socialist modernity. The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1970s , ed. Marie-Janine Calic, Dietmar Neutatz, and Julia Obertreis, 66ā86, here 76. Gƶttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 37 Harold Lydall. 1989 . Yugoslavia in crisis , 102ā105. Oxford: Clarendon. Calic, The beginning of the end, 79. 38 āUS Policy toward Eastern Europe,ā National Security Decision Directive NSDD-54 and NSDD- 133 (partially declassifi ed in 1990).
Predrag MarkoviÄ, āWhere have all the fl owers gone?ā ā Yugoslav culture in the 1970s, in Calic, Neutatz, and Obertreis, The crisis of socialist modernity , 118ā133. 40 Sergei Zhuk. 2010 . Rock and roll in the Rocket City: The West, identity and ideology in Soviet Dnepropetrovsk . Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. 41 Dalibor Misina. 2008 . āWhoās that singing over there?ā Yugoslav rock-music and the poetics of social critique . PhD thesis, University of Alberta, Alberta; Thomas Taylor Hammond. 1954 . Yugoslavia between East and West . Washington, DC: Foreign Policy Association.
Tjebbe van Tijen (ed.). 1989 . Europe against the current: Catalogue on alternative, independent and radical information carriers . Amsterdam: IISG; Tjebbe van Tijen. 1990 . Europa tegen de stroom. De Gids 153(6): 466ā471; John K. Cox. 2005 . Slovenia: Evolving loyalties , 77. London: Routledge. 43 Interviews with Gordana RadeviÄ; with Rafo DužnoviÄ; with Darko and Andrej Å olar. Cf note 2, 3, 4.
44 Interview author with Gordana RadeviÄ (cf note 2); interview author with Zdravko JakiÄ, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19, 2010. 45 Interview author with Djordje JovanoviÄ, co-owner of such a small fi rm in 1984, Belgrade, Serbia, July 24, 2009.
Dejan RistanoviÄ, http://www.dejanristanovic.com/rac1.htm . Accessed 23 Sept 2010. 47 ProtiÄ and RistanoviÄ, Building computers in Serbia. 48 Voja AntoniÄ. 1983 . Galaksija . http://www.paralax.rs/pr83.htm . Accessed 17 June 2010. 49 Ratko BoÅ”koviÄ. 1984 . Kako je rodjena Galaksija. Magazine Start , February, 25ā26. 50 ProtiÄ and RistanoviÄ, Building computers in Serbia.
Galaksija designer, Voja Antonic, in a Yugoslav Homebrewing Scene . The Galaksija home computer was designed and prototyped by Voja Antonic ( right ), who was well known in Yugoslavia at the time as an electronics engineer and science publicist. Antonic is photographed here testing one the fi rst Galaksijaās with a friend. The design and schematics for the computer were published in the Racunari u vasoj kuci ( Computers in your home ) magazine in late 1983. So was a list of parts, which could either be bought in most electronic stores or ordered as a kit. From the very start, Antonicās vision was to create an affordable computer that would both educate ordinary people about how computers work by having the experience of assemble assembling one as well as let them explore the potential of computers and software. Many users went on to share self-made computer programs and games for the machine through a variety of channels. Source: Image from personal collection Voja Antonic, under Creative Commons license
Ibid. Recollections of Zoran Modli. http://www.modli.rs/ . Accessed 20 Feb 2011.
Galaksija home computers were usually self-assembled by their users and did not come with a computer case. Sometimes parts were used that were compatible but not specifi ed in the original design. While recommendations for computer case design were supplied in the original design documentation, some users chose not to use a case for the computer at all, as seen here on the image on the top . Other users customized their Galaksija cases to refl ect their individual preferences, like the design shown in the image on the bottom , giving expression to their individuality through yet another medium. Of the approximately 10,000 Galaksija computers assembled, most acquired distinct looks, created by their users. Source: Courtesy Old-computers.com
Zoran Modli. 2011 . Ventilator 202 recollections . http://www.modli.rs/radio/ventilator/ventilator. html . Accessed 20 Feb 2011. 53 AntoniÄ, Galaksija .
ProtiÄ and RistanoviÄ, Building computers in Serbia. 55 Cox, Slovenia ; interviews author with Darko and Andrej Å olar; Wikipedia contributions by Aleksandar Å uÅ”njar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_in_the_SFRY . Accessed 21 Feb 2011. 56 ProtiÄ and RistanoviÄ, Building computers in Serbia.
Interviews author with Gordana RadeviÄ; with Rafo DužnoviÄ; with Darko and Andrej Å olar, note 2, 3, 4. 58 Marie-JosĆ© Klaver. 1998 . De digitale vluchtweg. NRC Handelsblad , October 29. CFJE. 1999. CFJE Joins Campaign to support Radio B92 in Belgrade. CJFE News Release , March 26, 1999; Marie-JosĆ© Klaver. 1999 . Boem, boem uit de chatroom. NRC Handelsblad , May 17.
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About Impulse Trackerās book. Is there any way to read it in Spanish format?
I am particularly interested. I grew up composing music with the Impulse Tracker by Jeffrey Lim. I guess this programmer will now be old, with a cane and contact lenses but it opened an entire era along with other programmers of the time.
sorry for remedy regarding impulse tracker, but this is awesome. Where can i find the book to buy?
Iām from Serbia, and hence the interest.
Thank you!
To reassure you, itās only around 8 pages, itās more a short novel than a full big book.
Itās good for training reading english too.
I intended to share it with some friends in my native language. But if it is in English, better than not.
You can get it for free from the Google Play link and other similar ebook shops. About Spanish I donāt know yet. But it is a good practice to improve your English and for all who would like to read something entertaining, informative and relevant.
No children. My wife was developing some health issues, and I saw the importance of being with her as much as I could while I could.
If it can be read online then one can try reading the English and use Google Translate (or similar) to translate and see if you got it right. (Caveat: GT does not always get things right : ) ).
I do that stuff like that to improve my German (Iām native English-speaking).
(Kindle is pretty good for that sort of stuff too, easy to have it translate selections of text.)
A tracker hardcopy book in Czech language or Cestina as they call it. It reads more like a user manual printout and less of an instructional book. But nonetheless its an item of interest for sure. I really want to rekindle the Renoise book/ebook project sometime very soon.
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I am staying in Europe and for work in Prague and Brno regions, been to Scandinavia/Germany/Slovakia/Vienna in the past 8 months. I am yet to visit a Demoscene festival but this year looks ripe for that.