CCCamp 2015 Aftermath
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: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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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!).
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:alt: Erich Moechel and me
Erich Moechel and me
The Oven and Ideopolis
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| 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|
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| 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.
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:alt: The antenna of c-base outpost
The antenna of c-base outpost
| There was not much time to actually `finish up on anything 2015/chaos-communication-camp-2015.html>`_, or even configure/ use my |rad1o| much.
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| 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
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