Our October guest is a legendary Demoscene musician and synth programmer Tammo “kb” Hinrichs.

The demoscene is a computer art subculture which evolved out of the video game cracking scene in the late nineteen-eighties. It is centered around demos, or realtime, generally non-interactive, demonstrations of prowess in graphic arts, music composition, and code. The demoscene now has its own musical ecosystem which inspired the rise of netlabels and modern chiptunes, and demosceners have created many tools, including a variety of trackers and synths for creating electronic music.

One core aspect of the demoscene is an emphasis on overcoming technological hurdles with creativity and skill. As a result, two common demo competition categories are 64 kilobyte and 4 kilobyte demos, which include visuals and music in files equivalent in size to a single page of unformatted text.


Tammo “kb” Hinrichs of Farbrausch, a coder and musician, will explain how synth programs intended to create music for 4K and 64K demos work, and discuss some of the challenges involved in syncing visuals and music.

When will all this happen? I’m glad I asked: Thursday, October 13th. Doors open at 6:30 pm (for chilling, mingling, socializing, etc). The presentation will start at 7. Important: Reservations are required. Please use the form below to register. And, if you haven’t already, join our 100% non-spam mailing list to keep up to date with everything that’s happening!

See you soon!