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.. title: CCCamp 2015 Aftermath
.. date: 2015-10-14 16:00 UTC+02:00
.. modified: 2015-10-14 16:00 UTC+02:00
.. 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)!

.. TEASER_END

.. 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
_____________________
| 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
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| Additional to the awesome - most of the time purely moduluar - jams in the van, we (|psychotronic|, |stoerenfried| and `I </music/deviser/>`_) also did a session in one of the old brick ovens and (|stoerenfried| and `I </music/deviser/>`_) 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 </2015/chaos-communication-camp-2015>`_, 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

  <a href="http://circuitcircle.de/" target="_blank">website</a>

.. |hellais| raw:: html

  <a href="https://twitter.com/hellais" target="_blank">hellais</a>

.. |psychotronic| raw:: html

  <a href="https://soundcloud.com/psychotronic" target="_blank">psychotronic</a>

.. |erich_moechel| raw:: html

  <a href="https://moechel.com" target="_blank">Erich Moechel</a>

.. |metalab| raw:: html

  <a href="https://metalab.at" target="_blank">Metalab</a>

.. |rad1o| raw:: html

  <a href="https://rad1o.badge.events.ccc.de/" target="_blank">rad1o</a>

.. |idiopolis| raw:: html

  <a href="https://idiopolis.org/index.php/Idiopolis" target="_blank">Idiopolis</a>

.. |bended_realities| raw:: html

  <a href="http://bendedrealities.blogsport.de/" target="_blank">Bended Realities</a>

.. |stoerenfried| raw:: html

  <a href="http://www.trieblaut.de/" target="_blank">störenfried</a>

.. |chaos_communication_camp| raw:: html

  <a href="https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Chaos Communication Camp</a>

.. |silicium| raw:: html

  <a href="http://ketahole.de" target="_blank">silicium</a>

.. |c-base| raw:: html

  <a href="https://c-base.org" target="_blank">c-base</a>

.. |mitch_altman| raw:: html

  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman" target="_blank">Mitch Altman</a>

.. |moechel_nsa| raw:: html

  <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6430_-_de_-_saal_2_-_201412291130_-_nsa_points_of_presence_in_at_-_erich_moechel" target="_blank">talk from 31C3</a>

.. |recording_van1| raw:: html

  <audio controls preload="metadata">
    <source src="https://static.sleepmap.de/audio/CCCamp2015_AudioVillage_ModularSession_DevisingSilicium.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
  </audio>

.. |recording_van2| raw:: html

  <audio controls preload="metadata">
    <source src="https://static.sleepmap.de/audio/CCCamp2015_AudioVillage_ModularSession_DoubleMacro.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
  </audio>

.. |recording_oven| raw:: html

  <audio controls preload="metadata">
    <source src="https://static.sleepmap.de/audio/CCCamp2015_AudioVillage_OvenSession.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
  </audio>

.. |recording_ideopolis| raw:: html

  <audio controls preload="metadata">
    <source src="https://static.sleepmap.de/audio/CCCamp2015_Ideopolis.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
  </audio>

.. |video_vimeo1| raw:: html

  <a href="https://vimeo.com/160672575" target="_blank">1</a>

.. |video_vimeo2| raw:: html

  <a href="https://vimeo.com/160672468" target="_blank">2</a>