I did a quick interview with Mike for Amiga Web, a few questions on retro computing, and a mention of me smashing my Amiga. The memories...

There's also a link to some of my earlier music, in module format.

I keep forgetting, some of my tracker music is actually available here and there in the tubes. I still have all of it stored in my digital vaults. One fine day I should find time to collect and somehow present my pre-2000 music.

"Virtual musicians are already real, and they’re only getting realer."

Wired describes Zenph Sound Innovations, which takes existing recordings of musicians (deceased, for now) and models their 'musical personalities' to create new recordings, apparently to critical acclaim (PDF).

The company has raised $10.7 million in funding to pursue their business plan, and hopes to branch out into, among other things, software that would let musicians jam with virtual versions of famous musicians. This work unites music with the very similar trend going on in the movies — Tron 2.0, for example, will clone the young Jeff Bridges. If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors? In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists."

(Via Slashdot.)

Kometkameratene Behind-The-Music: You can watch episodes directly from NRK or download official torrents. There is also a list of each behind-the-music entry. NEW: You can watch the whole video over at NRK Super.

My work for the Kometkameratene show is over, since production is wrapped up long before the episodes are aired. I think there are maybe 6 or 8 episodes left to be aired during this spring.

For these final episodes, it was not possible to produce a dedicated music video for each episode. So instead we did four independent music gags, disconnected from the episode theme, so the gags could be placed and recycled as needed. I don't know when each gag will be aired, and I'd rather not reveal them prematurely. So I'll wait for Easter, when they all should be available online, and type out the final four songs then. 

There's a hilarious drum battle, an excellent night-club jazz performance, a funny glove dance-and-hunt, and a jaw-droppingly awesome one-take performance by Rampejentene, struggling to get their animal tune right...