CCCamp 2015 Aftermath ##################### :date: 2015-10-14 16:00 :modified: 2015-10-14 16:00 :tags: ccc, camping, cccamp2015, world domination, c-base, berlin, zehdenick, nwsec, peter ohm, mitch altman, alwin weber, schräge runde, circuit circle, silicium, modular, synthesizers, v01d, synthiszer village, audio village :category: events :slug: cccamp2015-aftermath :summary: A review of Chaos Communication Camp 2015 :authors: David Runge The Camp ________ | This year's |chaos_communication_camp| has been pretty damn awesome (and I'm very late to tell that... I know)! .. figure:: /images/cccamp2015_disco_ball.jpg :alt: Disco ball in the trees at CCCamp2015 Disco ball in the trees at CCCamp2015 | How best to begin to describe? It's pretty hard actually, as there was so much going on. | Possibly it would be best to start with the general direction of this event: * It's not a festival (no music stages, however there's music happening) * There's wifi and RJ45 based Internet access everywhere! * There are conference-grade talks about various topics (I made it to... two?) * Many hackerspaces/ hacking groups from all over the world bring their projects (or even half of their interior) * An old brick factory was used as the playground for all this. Awesome place! The Van _______ | Before going to CCCamp2015 I tried to get in touch with people setting up the Audio Village there. Turns out, that there wasn't much of a solid group to build upon. Additionally it became more and more time consuming to plan ahead for the event, because of work. | Luckily though, I got in touch with |silicium|, who brought his van and his modular synthesizer, so we had some nice jams with some folks, namely |hellais|, |psychotronic| and |stoerenfried|. .. figure:: /images/cccamp2015_audiovillage_van_day.jpg :alt: The CCCamp2015 Audio Village Van (day mode) The CCCamp2015 Audio Village Van (day mode) .. figure:: /images/cccamp2015_audiovillage_van_night.jpg :alt: The CCCamp2015 Audio Village Van (night mode) The CCCamp2015 Audio Village Van (night mode) These are the recordings I made (as mp3). If you want some flacs, let me know! * Long session with |silicium|, |psychotronic| and |hellais|. |recording_van1| * Shorter session with |silicium| and |psychotronic|. |recording_van2| Unexpected Encounters _____________________ | Especially bumping into the latter again, after a first encounter at 2014's |bended_realities|, was a very pleasant surprise. | To all of you, who don't know who Alwin Weber (aka. |stoerenfried|) is, go check out his |circuit_circle| and book him for a soldering workshop, to make one of his famous noise toys! He's always a damn impressive positive force of nature to reckon with and generally a very pleasant person. | One of the main reasons for him being at CCCamp was actually to give workshops, alongside people like |mitch_altman|. .. figure:: /images/cccamp2015_weber_noise_toy.jpg :alt: Alwin Weber's Noise Toys Alwin Weber's Noise Toys | I also met a lot of nice people from |c-base|, v01d, |metalab| and |erich_moechel| (whose |moechel_nsa| you should all watch!). .. figure:: /images/cccamp2015_moechel.jpg :alt: Erich Moechel and me Erich Moechel and me The Oven and Ideopolis ______________________ | Additional to the awesome - most of the time purely moduluar - jams in the van, we (|psychotronic|, |stoerenfried| and `I `_) also did a session in one of the old brick ovens and (|stoerenfried| and `I `_) one in the |idiopolis| dome. | Both were a lot of fun. The first one was pretty much a five hour playground/ freak show, the second more of a full on electronica/glitch/techno session (where we even made the camp organizers come over to turn down the music). | |idiopolis| was proud. * Session at the oven with |stoerenfried| and |psychotronic|. |recording_oven| **Note**: There are also videos [|video_vimeo1|] [|video_vimeo2|] available on vimeo, that show a subset of the above recording * Session at the |idiopolis| dome with |stoerenfried|. |recording_ideopolis| | | So after all, the CCCamp2015 turned out to be much more DIY live music than I initially anticipated! What a pleasant surprise! | In between all that music madness, I helped cook some food at the |c-base| outpost, hung out at v01d village with d1g, swam some rounds in one of the nearby lakes and nearly slept through the entire big storm on Saturday. .. figure:: /images/cccamp2015_c-base_antenna.jpg :alt: The antenna of c-base outpost The antenna of c-base outpost | There was not much time to actually `finish up on anything `_, or even configure/ use my |rad1o| much. | | All in all, CCCamp2015 was a great experience (although there are really way too many stories to tell) and I'm already looking forward to the next one! .. |circuit_circle| raw:: html website .. |hellais| raw:: html hellais .. |psychotronic| raw:: html psychotronic .. |erich_moechel| raw:: html Erich Moechel .. |metalab| raw:: html Metalab .. |rad1o| raw:: html rad1o .. |idiopolis| raw:: html Idiopolis .. |bended_realities| raw:: html Bended Realities .. |stoerenfried| raw:: html störenfried .. |chaos_communication_camp| raw:: html Chaos Communication Camp .. |silicium| raw:: html silicium .. |c-base| raw:: html c-base .. |mitch_altman| raw:: html Mitch Altman .. |moechel_nsa| raw:: html talk from 31C3 .. |recording_van1| raw:: html .. |recording_van2| raw:: html .. |recording_oven| raw:: html .. |recording_ideopolis| raw:: html .. |video_vimeo1| raw:: html 1 .. |video_vimeo2| raw:: html 2