Demoscene

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The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer. The main goal of a demo is to show off programming, artistic, and musical skills.

Rather odd that there is almost no discussions about this here, some well known musicians (like Brothomstates - Dune/Orange) were part of demogroups... and there is many very talentuous people in there, generally the music is made to fit the visuals (or vice versa), both are complimentary, generally with great technical limitations (example: custom built soft synth, all sounds synthetized in real-time etc)

Here is some of my favorite demos, old or not so, of eclectic style not especially well known outside the demoscene (keep in mind that demos aren't just videos, they are programs that are meant to run in real-time, you can download all of these demos on pouet)

[youtubehd]mZnNqcZazaU[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]G1E4Yf6ZDYY[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]f-yVc78Q4AA[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]o2MUI_Ywk1A[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]8MMwO8Mvqfs[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]8qhiz9t9rqE[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]-wtMEBPWeMo[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]jubhyqFS6do[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]aStoq5NJ554[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]qjxZQWhmy1M[/youtubehd]

Anyway share your favorite etc...

Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms

we have discussed the demoscene many a time here before.

My favorite demo ever; the track is just out of this world...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbQel8spz0

my fav:

Like this one. 4k demo.

Text mode FTW. You need to watch this in HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJDNHtcTHN8

  On 5/27/2013 at 10:13 AM, mokz said:

Text mode FTW. You need to watch this in HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJDNHtcTHN8

that's pretty fucking cool, obviously Wav to CAd is possible somehow if this is

  On 5/27/2013 at 10:13 AM, mokz said:

Text mode FTW. You need to watch this in HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJDNHtcTHN8

This is fucking mindblowing!

I especially like the bit at about 1:02 when the plasma texture in the background is done as a text but that text is also zoomed in and it's also done with text.

  On 5/27/2013 at 5:58 AM, RadarJammer said:

Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms

great

oldschool one: http://dhs.nu/video.php?ID=172

These are amazing.

I might be mistaken, but isn't the demoscene community particularly notable in Scandinavia? (Finland comes to mind too)

It seems that the demoscene is indeed a more European thing. There's the yearly Assembly party in Helsinki which brings 5000 or so people to a hockey arena, although it's strictly just not a demoparty but more of a LANparty.

Plenty of large-scale demoparties are in northern europe.

[youtubehd]dPAmzWk2MSE[/youtubehd]

  On 5/27/2013 at 7:36 PM, joshuatx said:

These are amazing.

 

I might be mistaken, but isn't the demoscene community particularly notable in Scandinavia? (Finland comes to mind too)

Right you are.

My two older brothers were part of the amiga demoscene in the early 90's, under cascade's swedish division. They used to go on conventions in germany... and passed around a lot of floppy disks.

This demo of theirs is from 1990:

I'm not particularly familiar with the demoscene post early 90's amiga, as I never considered it to have the charm like the early ones..

the boundary between the demoscene and the acid/rave scene was very blurry:

The latest amiga demos are pretty fucking insane, considering they're running on the same hardware:

have you seen some of the souped up Amigas out there?

they're true frankensteins.

  On 5/27/2013 at 5:05 PM, thus said:

 

  On 5/27/2013 at 5:58 AM, RadarJammer said:

Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms

 

great

 

oldschool one: http://dhs.nu/video.php?ID=172

 

this is fucking awesome. that atari acid line at 3:40 is delicious

  On 5/27/2013 at 8:27 PM, azatoth said:

It seems that the demoscene is indeed a more European thing. There's the yearly Assembly party in Helsinki which brings 5000 or so people to a hockey arena, although it's strictly just not a demoparty but more of a LANparty.

I was in Assembly when it still was a demo party, in 1994.. But there were already some gaming. I think I remember a Doom LAN game.

As I understand the demo groups still throw old school demo parties but they're a bit underground, although I haven't really followed the scene in the last 10 years or so. But I know some people who still attend them.

was anyone here ever in a demogroup? i used to be in a group called BaFH and we had a lot of crossover people from the demoscene like this chap

  On 5/28/2013 at 2:20 AM, Nebraska said:

was anyone here ever in a demogroup? i used to be in a group called BaFH and we had a lot of crossover people from the demoscene like this chap

I've been in a few in the 90s, but not in any that have any fame and they were all like permutations of the same 8 people. Mostly we threw small scale parties of our own with our mates and spent 2-4 nights boozing and coding in a ski cabin with the windows covered with plastic bags and music blaring inside, lol.

The demoscene is vaporwave af. I really like c64 and amiga demos, especially the ones with polygons and cheesy music. Which is like, all of them.

For the love of God, though, can we spoiler those videos? At least do it if you're going to post more than 1.

Upgrade your computer^

pretty sure it was being exposed to the demoscene at a young age that influenced my musical tastes. lots of love here.