Goodiepal
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Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a controversial Danish/Faroese musician/composer
wanted by the Danish police authorities for an unsolved theft from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
.
The eccentric and self-made Goodiepal has influenced the course of modern music
through radical excursions into computer technology and media art. He performs and lectures about his work and ideas worldwide and has so far done about 150 universities around the world according to the Danish newspager Information. Until recently he has been employed as a teacher at DIEM (Danish Institute for Electro-acoustic Music) at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
, Denmark. Goodiepal declared intellectual war against the stupidity in modern computer music
and media art, which is to say against The Royal Academy of Music, when he quit the job in 2008. As per 2010 he lives somewhere in Denmark or Scotland.
and playing video games and role playing games before going to a Rudolf Steiner
school where gadgets such as computers, calculators, walkmen, and Game & Watch
games were prohibited. This led to Goodiepal's participation in secret demo groups releasing demos on floppy discs for Commodore and Amiga computers. Only very few of these demos have survived to this day but some can still be found as downloads from various peer-to-peer services. Goodiepal departed from the Steiner school after eight years and embarked on various activities with hacker groups in the grey area of computer software programming and distribution in order to provide for his musical career, by then already in full progress.
, Denmark, where they were kept in order to be rereleased ten years later on the date of pressing. Circulation of Events was a name used by Goodiepal but sometimes also by early mentors such as Odd Bjertnes and Halfdan Larsen. In 1993 Kim Grønborg and Goodiepal premiered the light concert Interelektrolux at Galleri Høgsberg in Århus, Denmark. The show consisted of two rooms with individually computer programmed light sources creating a one hour long concert running continuously for two weeks.
in Denmark. The notoriously shy Goodiepal operated the sound system from inside a five meter tall inflatable rubber chicken placed on top of the stage, an act rumoured to be a tribute to the legendary American band Cock E.S.P.
.
In the following years, Goodiepal worked as a producer and programmer for a number of Danish artists and also released the single "Sincerely Christmas" on major label BMG
Europe/RCA
with Danish techno equilibrist Bjørn Svin. This release was seen as an act of black nihilism typical for Goodiepal and was generally hated at the time of its release. Nevertheless, in 2006 Danish artist and physicist Teppop claimed that the single was one of the most important releases he had listened to during his formative years.
In 1998, Goodiepal hosted two extravagant shows called Friends of The Goodiepal at Den Anden Opera in Copenhagen, Denmark, presenting V/Vm
, Anthony Manning, Thomas Brinkmann
, Escaping From the Zoo and many other friends.
was established when the Manchester
-based label released the two legendary 7"-series Goodiebags and Demonbags consisting of nine+nine singles. Programmers and sound artists such as Anthony Manning, Lucky Kitchen, V/Vm
, Steuea, Per Hoier, Voks and Team Doyobi
were featured on the 18 vinyls, which came with a secret Codebreaker manual sheet.
The series were concluded in 2000 and Goodiepal immediately carried on with the new Mainpal Inv. Brand-archive consisting of a series of autonomously manipulated sound designs for a range of companies such as Sony
, Nokia
, Chupa Chups
and Bang & Olufsen
. Goodiepal is said to have been working for the Danish advertisement agency Danesadwork/Propaganda at the time as a creative consultant, fuelling rumours that the Brand-archive reclaimed material he had produced for these companies. Subsequent lawsuits supposedly had him kicked out of the business and despite the hype no one dared to employ the Goodiepal afterwards, so he started working as a home carer on the Faroe Islands
as well as in Frederiksberg
, Denmark. The Brand-archive, dealing with matters such as authenticity, modification, folklore, and corporate companies, inspired a lot of other actors in and around the electronic music circles of the western world, and works such as the album The Civil War by Matmos
would probably not have existed without it.
In between numerous releases, Goodiepal toured extensively all over the western world and in 2000 relocated to London becoming closely connected to the Italian duo Gamers In Exile and their record label Unbearable Recordings. Goodiepal/Mainpal appeared with some of the tracks from the Goodiebag/Demonbag-series on Unbearable_Heroes Wave 2.
, released Goodiepal's debut album Narc Beacon on CD, it was subsequently released on vinyl as well called Nag Nag Bacon. The album was praised in several magazines as one of that year's best releases, and also listed among the most important 50 Danish records ever in the Encyclopedia of Danish Rock Music (Dansk Rock Leksikon).
British music magazine The Wire wrote, "On the first few spins, the disc feels like a sonic translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It's an immersive, disorientating trip that marries Sgt Pepper-esque chunks of psychedelic digitalia, jaunty folk jigs, children's TV jingles, baroque music box follies and indescribable sonic oddities."
Right before the release of Narc Beacon, Goodiepal proclaimed that he would take a break from releasing music and that his next major work would be a brick based compositional musical language. This would take the form of a game, which would deal more radically with computer music and later develop into the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra compositional game scenario. Originally intended to be premiered around 2003, the game was not brought into action until 2007 when it was premiered at the gallery Andersen's Contemporary in Copenhagen, Denmark. Goodiepal toured most of the western world again with a set consisting of sound bites from the album, whistling, and clips from the Brand-archive. His live concerts during this period were highly praised with one notable concert, recorded by national Danish radio, receiving six out of six stars in the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet.
Narc Beacon was awarded an honourable mention at the Ars Electronica
Festival in Linz
, Austria, in 2002, and the same year Goodiepal gave his first lectures in the USA, among other places at CalArts, Brown University
, and University of Iowa
. He also lectured with a broken leg and damaged arms at Princeton University
, US, after throwing himself out from a balcony in east London, UK.
2004 also saw Goodiepal sell a huge library and sound archive called the Hacker Pack in an attempt to devalue recorded media. The content of the Hacker Pack was mainly what he described as "reclaimed sounds", in other words sounds that he had made for various jingles and advertisements a few years earlier. Due to the shady copyrights of the material, Goodiepal shipped most of the discs, which also included various software and data on conspiracy theories and UFO activities, from his home on the Faroe Islands.
He went on to participate in the installation Circus Pentium by Danish artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
opening at Statens Museum for Kunst
, Copenhagen, Denmark, also in 2004. The work comprised a circus set-up with Goodiepal playing the lute alongside other actors and was also shown at Art Basel
, Switzerland, and Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam
, Holland. The spectacular installation generally got a negative response from art critics in Denmark while it was received to greater acclaim outside Scandinavia
. The same year saw Goodiepal employed as a teacher in History and Aesthetics of Electronic Music at DIEM (Danish Institute of Electro-acoustic Music) The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, subsequently moving on to teach in Composition as well.
In 2005 Goodiepal released an untitled double-12" coloured vinyl on V/Vm Test Records
with the catalogue number VVMT24 containing a selection of iconic Goodiepal music such as the home-built music box, whistling, action packed trance plus not least the famous mechanical bird, including one of the wake-up calls as mentioned above. The release came in 100 copies with engravings in Goodiepal's significant style, which has also been a greatly admired feature on a number of other of his releases. Despite quickly selling out, the album was widely considered a failure not reaching the high level of Narc Beacon, something Goodiepal dismissed as he regards it as one of his most interesting, dealing with the concepts of mechanics and presets. The release, as well as many other Goodiepal releases, is available for free download from V/Vm
's Brainwashed website http://brainwashed.com/vvm/micro/parl/index.htm. 2005 also saw the release of the live-album Mort Aux Vaches on the Dutch record label Staalplaat
with relative international media attention to follow.
In continuation of his dealings with the unsuccessful synthesizer manufacturer Key2Sound, working without any payment, Goodiepal decided to take action by hiding an unnamed piece of music in the system source code of a prototype called INetSynth. The prototype and source code were then brought up for auction offering the head of Key2Sound a veto-price of 10 Danish kroner, if he wanted his prototype back. Through this act, Goodiepal reclaimed a symbolic fee for the work he had done for Key2sound, and since they did not respond, the INetSynth, with tag, went to an unknown Dutch collector.
In 2005, Goodiepal was commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers to create a sound piece representing Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland
, and Greenland
at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. The result was a generative computer music program playing Goodiepal music through countless speakers in three exhibition spaces in the exhibition's Nordic pavilion.
, for people interested in Radical Computer Music
and other of his arts. The school, open from 9am to 10:10am every weekday, is free of charge and financed through his skillful work as a fixer of fine mechanics.
The term Radical Computer Music
was coined by Goodiepal in relation to the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra compositional game scenario. It promotes an expanded dialogue between human beings and artificial and alternative intelligence
s as a way to transgress a condition of stagnation, according to Goodiepal prevailing in contemporary computer music
and media art. The game scenario is an exercise in the creation of musical scores to challenge the mindset of "other" intelligences, considering issues such as utopia
, time, notation
techniques, language
, levels of unscannability, and the role of the composer
.
In late 2007 Goodiepal made a famous appearance on the Danish late night talk show Den 11. Time (The 11th Hour), lecturing about his musical theories and the future of artificial intelligence. He was initially given a time slot of about 25 minutes, but exceeded that by far lecturing for over an hour. So the lecture was edited down to 15 minutes of highlights, to fit the program format, and made available in full length online.http://www.vimeo.com/710236
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra was launched as an educational program at a special lecture given in April 2008 at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, the work as such was first premiered in October 2007 at a solo exhibition at Andersen's Contemporary in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the opening, a collection of 45 individual bindings, holding nine musical objects for the Radical Computer Music
game scenario, was brought up for sale. The boxes started at a low price, which went up significantly throughout the exhibition and a few remaining copies are supposedly still available from the Danish publisher Pork Salad Press. Throughout the exhibition, Goodiepal gave a number of lectures covering various fields in modern composition and computer music.
On 27 October 2008, Goodiepal received a first class merit certificate, with distinction, from StoryTellerScotland being the only known existing proof of his qualifications. He is now officially allowed to call himself a Master Storyteller of the highest accord in the UK.
Towards the end of 2008, Goodiepal created what he considers an expert panel consisting of members with various skills and backgrounds such as Andreas Hauer-Jensen, Anders Jørgen Mogensen, Uglemads, Martha Hviid and Tordis Berstrand. He has since taken the panel around Europe to help him lecture and perform and during the trips told them most of the secrets behind the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra game scenario and Radical Computer Music
. Some of these ideas are also described in Radical Computer Music & Fantastisk Mediemanipulation: A Corrected and Illustrated Transcript of the Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough published in 2009.
. The following is a brief breakdown of Goodiepal's war declaration:
• Round one: The terrifying truth - Goodiepal set out to define his objectives against academia in general, and the Aarhus version in particular, at a special lecture given at The 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art. He also released the audio piece "Future Shock" http://brainwashed.com/vvm/downloads/gpal/various/goodiepal_future_shock_may_2008.mp3 - sometimes called "Black Heart for Scandinavia" - on heart-shaped vinyl. As predicted, his actions were met by silence from the opponents in Aarhus.
• Round two: A possible solution for the future of computer music and media art in general - With reference to The Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough http://i3hypermedia.com/audio/Alku69_MAVEE_Walkthrough.mp3 Goodiepal distributed his school books and solution to the crisis in computer music and media art, widely, using all means such as spamming, banner ads, and giving lectures across Europe. He was again met with silence, if not outright ridicule from his opponents.
• Round three: The great debate - Goodiepal carried on buying banner ads on selected internet sites as well as giving lectures. In December 2008 he bought four pages in the music magazine The Wire to prove his merits and capability of undertaking the work, he had set in motion. The opponents also carried on, laughing, including Professor John Deathridge
, King's College
in London, UK, who rejected Goodiepal's application for a Master degree on the basis of the autonomous and un-academic actions.
• Round four: Claim your victory and collect your Danegæld
- On 13 April 2009, Goodiepal released a statement http://www.mediafire.com/?zngoimqwdgj claiming that he possibly suffers from the neurological disorder Huntington's Chorea. This act was carried out as the final step in his war to – A: prove that not just his music but he himself is, if not unscannable, then very hard to scan; B: as a possible manifestation of Schrödinger's cat
since Goodiepal has entered a sort of superposition; C: in deep respect of Andreas Hauer-Jensen, one of Goodiepal's closest friends and artistic side-kicks, who was hit by a car and upon the release of the statement was still in a coma.
Goodiepal also for a while threatened the students and technical staff at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
with the dreadful claim that if he was not paid some sort of Danegæld
for his struggles, he would break into DIEM – the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music's studios at the academy and confiscate every single power cable for each computer available there. Perhaps as a consequence of that, Goodiepal was awarded a special one-of-a-kind medal at a small surprise ceremony on 15 September 2009 by professor Wayne Siegel
, leader of DIEM. The medal was given in honour of Goodiepal's kamikaze strikes against the old and stubborn mindset of the academy, and it might or might not prove that he won his playful war game. It did however create quite a bit of debate since most people in charge at DIEM and the old fashioned Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
would, and still to this date will, not accept the medal as an official gesture. So, Round 4 in Goodiepal's "Gentleman's War" is therefore potentially not yet won. No matter what, he did leave the room stating that it takes much more than a piece of plastic to shut him down! On the 31st of October, 2009, after a concert/lecture at Starr Space in Brooklyn
, New York
, Goodiepal was awarded the honorary 7 Secret Golden Keys to Bushwick by The Stiff Left Arm of Brooklyn / the people of 340 south 5th street. The award was given as an acknowledgement of the importance that America sees in Goodiepal's War on the stupidity of modern computer music and media based art.
• Round five: Heal the wounds and apply the new solution - Goodiepal has since 2007 been running autonomous schools from around Scandinavia
, among other places at Momentum – Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art 2009 in Jeløy
outside the city of Moss
, Norway, http://www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/3887418206/in/set-72157609437204597/ and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde
, Denmark, http://www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/4420014579/in/set-72157609437204597/ where Goodiepal gave lectures, performances and workshops during 2010.
By the end of 2008, Goodiepal declared himself nearly bankrupt having spent a significant but unspecified amount of money on his Gentleman's War. Towards the end of 2010, Goodiepal apparently borrowed 750.000,00 DKK, equalling around 92.865,19 US Dollars, from a friend in Ukraine and gave them away in an attempt to fight growing racism in Europe.
In November 2010, Goodiepal received the Danish Heinrich Prize at Den Grå Hal, Christiania, for his war on the Royal Academy of Music. Rumours had it that he would not show up, due to the arrest order placed on his head by Danish police, but Goodiepal managed and from the stage warned about a new wave of racism growing inside the European welfare system. He left the party without any interference from the police.
• Momus, "Goodiepal" from the album Jeomus (Cherry Red Records, 2008)
• Scotter, "The Hardcore Massive" from the album Jumping All Over The World (Sheffield Tunes, 2007)
• Kevin Blechtum, "Get on Your Knees Boy" from the album Eat My Heart Out (Chicks on Speed, 2005)
• T.S. Høeg, "Nnooijjj, nu går det stærkt, men det skal nok gå alt sammen", piece for chamber ensemble 3 Betingelser for Liv (1999)
• T.S. Høeg, "Når galskaben først er sluppet løs" from the collection of poems Albue (Copenhagen: Borgen, 2008)
• Negativland, "You’re the sole reason we still take contemporary European music seriously"
• Jason Forrest-Donna Summer, "100% Goodiepal" (Ljud Records, 2004)
• V/Vm, numerous tracks on the mp3-file V/Vm 365 (V/Vm Test Records, 2006)
• Ascoltare, "Gaeouija" http://www.nochexxx.co.uk/#/gaeouija/4524167296
• Mark von Schlegell, Mercury Station (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009)
• Viola Thiele, "1+1=3, Auf der Suche nach dem gemeinsamen Dritten in Kunst und (Pop-) Musik" (Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Kunste, Berlin, 2008)
• TR Kirstein, "Runyon, a boy who knows" (Performance, 2011)
• Rasmus Espenhain Nielsen, "Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra: En Indledende Scanning" (Musikvidenskab, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, 2009)
• Maria Kjær Themsen, "Død over Køerne - kritiske strategier i dansk samtidskunst" (Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab, Litteraturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, 2009)
• Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, "Escroc Filou" (Video, 2011) http://www.denfri.dk/2011/03/escroc-filou/
• Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, "Applesauce" (Video, 2011) http://www.denfri.dk/2011/03/applesauce/
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
wanted by the Danish police authorities for an unsolved theft from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, is a conservatoire under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture...
.
The eccentric and self-made Goodiepal has influenced the course of modern music
Modern music
Modern music may refer to:* 20th-century music* 20th-century classical music* 21st-century classical music* Contemporary classical music* Modernism * Modern rock* Popular music...
through radical excursions into computer technology and media art. He performs and lectures about his work and ideas worldwide and has so far done about 150 universities around the world according to the Danish newspager Information. Until recently he has been employed as a teacher at DIEM (Danish Institute for Electro-acoustic Music) at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, is a conservatoire under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture...
, Denmark. Goodiepal declared intellectual war against the stupidity in modern computer music
Computer music
Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...
and media art, which is to say against The Royal Academy of Music, when he quit the job in 2008. As per 2010 he lives somewhere in Denmark or Scotland.
1988-1992: The computer demo scene and a young hacker
Goodiepal spent his childhood painting Citadel MiniaturesCitadel Miniatures
Citadel Miniatures Limited is a company which produces metal, resin and plastic miniature figures for tabletop wargames such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000....
and playing video games and role playing games before going to a Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher...
school where gadgets such as computers, calculators, walkmen, and Game & Watch
Game & Watch
is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from to . Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each Game & Watch features a single game to be played on an LCD screen in addition to a clock and an alarm ....
games were prohibited. This led to Goodiepal's participation in secret demo groups releasing demos on floppy discs for Commodore and Amiga computers. Only very few of these demos have survived to this day but some can still be found as downloads from various peer-to-peer services. Goodiepal departed from the Steiner school after eight years and embarked on various activities with hacker groups in the grey area of computer software programming and distribution in order to provide for his musical career, by then already in full progress.
1992-1995: Vip.ibex
The first full-length CD Vip. ibex was released by the Danish record label Spoof Records in 1995 under the name Circulation of Events. Only a limited number of copies were distributed and the rest were deliberately hidden away in a basement in North Jutland CountyNorth Jutland County
North Jutland County is a former county in northern Denmark. It was located on the eastern half of Vendsyssel-Thy and the northernmost part of the Jutland peninsula. It was the largest county in Denmark, but with a relatively low population. The county seat was Aalborg, Denmark's fourth largest...
, Denmark, where they were kept in order to be rereleased ten years later on the date of pressing. Circulation of Events was a name used by Goodiepal but sometimes also by early mentors such as Odd Bjertnes and Halfdan Larsen. In 1993 Kim Grønborg and Goodiepal premiered the light concert Interelektrolux at Galleri Høgsberg in Århus, Denmark. The show consisted of two rooms with individually computer programmed light sources creating a one hour long concert running continuously for two weeks.
1996-1998: Sincerely Christmas and Friends of The Goodiepal
1996 saw Goodiepal produce the debut album Knee for infamous Danish (then teenage) rockband Düreforsög. The album consolidated the band's great talent and led to a performance as the opening act on the main Orange Stage at 1997's Roskilde FestivalRoskilde Festival
Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer...
in Denmark. The notoriously shy Goodiepal operated the sound system from inside a five meter tall inflatable rubber chicken placed on top of the stage, an act rumoured to be a tribute to the legendary American band Cock E.S.P.
Cock E.S.P.
Cock E.S.P. is a US-American band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group draws on the most extreme, subversive and absurdist elements of both popular and experimental Twentieth century music and performance art, creating abstract high-energy entertainment. Influences include noise music, punk...
.
In the following years, Goodiepal worked as a producer and programmer for a number of Danish artists and also released the single "Sincerely Christmas" on major label BMG
BMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
Europe/RCA
RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...
with Danish techno equilibrist Bjørn Svin. This release was seen as an act of black nihilism typical for Goodiepal and was generally hated at the time of its release. Nevertheless, in 2006 Danish artist and physicist Teppop claimed that the single was one of the most important releases he had listened to during his formative years.
In 1998, Goodiepal hosted two extravagant shows called Friends of The Goodiepal at Den Anden Opera in Copenhagen, Denmark, presenting V/Vm
V/Vm
V/Vm is the experimental music and sound collage project of James Leyland Kirby, from Stockport, England. Although starting out mainly in the style of noise music, Kirby is also a composer of original electronic music and remixes. His vast output is released primarily on his own V/Vm Test Records...
, Anthony Manning, Thomas Brinkmann
Thomas Brinkmann
Thomas Brinkmann is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s...
, Escaping From the Zoo and many other friends.
1997-2000: Goodiebags and Demonbags
Goodiepal's connection to V/Vm Test RecordsV/Vm Test Records
V/Vm Test records is a record label based in Stockport, England and was started by James Kirby and Andrew Macgregor in 1996...
was established when the Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
-based label released the two legendary 7"-series Goodiebags and Demonbags consisting of nine+nine singles. Programmers and sound artists such as Anthony Manning, Lucky Kitchen, V/Vm
V/Vm
V/Vm is the experimental music and sound collage project of James Leyland Kirby, from Stockport, England. Although starting out mainly in the style of noise music, Kirby is also a composer of original electronic music and remixes. His vast output is released primarily on his own V/Vm Test Records...
, Steuea, Per Hoier, Voks and Team Doyobi
Team Doyobi
Team Doyobi are an electronic music duo, Christopher Gladwin and Alexander Peverett , currently signed to the Skam Records label. They began their collaboration by producing electronic soundtracks for self-made video art in the early 1990s...
were featured on the 18 vinyls, which came with a secret Codebreaker manual sheet.
The series were concluded in 2000 and Goodiepal immediately carried on with the new Mainpal Inv. Brand-archive consisting of a series of autonomously manipulated sound designs for a range of companies such as Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
, Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
, Chupa Chups
Chupa Chups
Chupa Chups is a lollipop company founded by the Catalan Enric Bernat in 1958, and currently owned by the Dutch-Italian multinational corporation Perfetti Van Melle. The name of the brand comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck."- History :...
and Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen is a Danish company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, whose first significant product was a radio that worked with alternating current, when most radios were run from batteries...
. Goodiepal is said to have been working for the Danish advertisement agency Danesadwork/Propaganda at the time as a creative consultant, fuelling rumours that the Brand-archive reclaimed material he had produced for these companies. Subsequent lawsuits supposedly had him kicked out of the business and despite the hype no one dared to employ the Goodiepal afterwards, so he started working as a home carer on the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
as well as in Frederiksberg
Frederiksberg
Frederiksberg Kommune is a municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It surrounded by the city of Copenhagen. The municipality, co-extensive with its seat, covers an area of and has a total population of 98,782 making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most...
, Denmark. The Brand-archive, dealing with matters such as authenticity, modification, folklore, and corporate companies, inspired a lot of other actors in and around the electronic music circles of the western world, and works such as the album The Civil War by Matmos
Matmos
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...
would probably not have existed without it.
In between numerous releases, Goodiepal toured extensively all over the western world and in 2000 relocated to London becoming closely connected to the Italian duo Gamers In Exile and their record label Unbearable Recordings. Goodiepal/Mainpal appeared with some of the tracks from the Goodiebag/Demonbag-series on Unbearable_Heroes Wave 2.
2001-2003: Narc Beacon
In 2001 the French label SKI-PP, run by DAT PoliticsDAT politics
DAT politics is a French electronic band created in 1999. Their energetic live shows explain the cult like enthusiasm that surrounds the French electronic combo as they’ve been touring the world extensively over the years...
, released Goodiepal's debut album Narc Beacon on CD, it was subsequently released on vinyl as well called Nag Nag Bacon. The album was praised in several magazines as one of that year's best releases, and also listed among the most important 50 Danish records ever in the Encyclopedia of Danish Rock Music (Dansk Rock Leksikon).
British music magazine The Wire wrote, "On the first few spins, the disc feels like a sonic translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It's an immersive, disorientating trip that marries Sgt Pepper-esque chunks of psychedelic digitalia, jaunty folk jigs, children's TV jingles, baroque music box follies and indescribable sonic oddities."
Right before the release of Narc Beacon, Goodiepal proclaimed that he would take a break from releasing music and that his next major work would be a brick based compositional musical language. This would take the form of a game, which would deal more radically with computer music and later develop into the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra compositional game scenario. Originally intended to be premiered around 2003, the game was not brought into action until 2007 when it was premiered at the gallery Andersen's Contemporary in Copenhagen, Denmark. Goodiepal toured most of the western world again with a set consisting of sound bites from the album, whistling, and clips from the Brand-archive. His live concerts during this period were highly praised with one notable concert, recorded by national Danish radio, receiving six out of six stars in the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet.
Narc Beacon was awarded an honourable mention at the Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...
Festival in Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...
, Austria, in 2002, and the same year Goodiepal gave his first lectures in the USA, among other places at CalArts, Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, and University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
. He also lectured with a broken leg and damaged arms at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, US, after throwing himself out from a balcony in east London, UK.
2004-2005: The mechanical bird and Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra
In 2004 Goodiepal premiered his self-built mechanical bird, which became a popular feature at numerous live events around Europe together with a set of planets and a wind-up music machine, the latter using punch cards of Goodiepal's own fabrication. Numerous mobile phone images and film clips can be found online from these shows and rumour has it that Goodiepal spent most of 2004 with his family on the Faroe Islands building these instruments and show gadgets. He further commissioned Anthony Manning and Pure to record special wake-up calls for the mechanical bird.2004 also saw Goodiepal sell a huge library and sound archive called the Hacker Pack in an attempt to devalue recorded media. The content of the Hacker Pack was mainly what he described as "reclaimed sounds", in other words sounds that he had made for various jingles and advertisements a few years earlier. Due to the shady copyrights of the material, Goodiepal shipped most of the discs, which also included various software and data on conspiracy theories and UFO activities, from his home on the Faroe Islands.
He went on to participate in the installation Circus Pentium by Danish artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen is a Danish conceptual artist, who works in a variety of media, from sculpture and installation art to performance art and public intervention....
opening at Statens Museum for Kunst
Statens Museum for Kunst
Statens Museum for Kunst is the Danish national gallery located in Copenhagen....
, Copenhagen, Denmark, also in 2004. The work comprised a circus set-up with Goodiepal playing the lute alongside other actors and was also shown at Art Basel
Art Basel
Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...
, Switzerland, and Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum
Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for classic modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has been housed on the Paulus Potterstraat, next to Museum Square Museumplein and to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam Zuid...
in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, Holland. The spectacular installation generally got a negative response from art critics in Denmark while it was received to greater acclaim outside Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
. The same year saw Goodiepal employed as a teacher in History and Aesthetics of Electronic Music at DIEM (Danish Institute of Electro-acoustic Music) The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, subsequently moving on to teach in Composition as well.
In 2005 Goodiepal released an untitled double-12" coloured vinyl on V/Vm Test Records
V/Vm Test Records
V/Vm Test records is a record label based in Stockport, England and was started by James Kirby and Andrew Macgregor in 1996...
with the catalogue number VVMT24 containing a selection of iconic Goodiepal music such as the home-built music box, whistling, action packed trance plus not least the famous mechanical bird, including one of the wake-up calls as mentioned above. The release came in 100 copies with engravings in Goodiepal's significant style, which has also been a greatly admired feature on a number of other of his releases. Despite quickly selling out, the album was widely considered a failure not reaching the high level of Narc Beacon, something Goodiepal dismissed as he regards it as one of his most interesting, dealing with the concepts of mechanics and presets. The release, as well as many other Goodiepal releases, is available for free download from V/Vm
V/Vm
V/Vm is the experimental music and sound collage project of James Leyland Kirby, from Stockport, England. Although starting out mainly in the style of noise music, Kirby is also a composer of original electronic music and remixes. His vast output is released primarily on his own V/Vm Test Records...
's Brainwashed website http://brainwashed.com/vvm/micro/parl/index.htm. 2005 also saw the release of the live-album Mort Aux Vaches on the Dutch record label Staalplaat
Staalplaat
Staalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin. Created in 1982, the company's mission was created as a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music...
with relative international media attention to follow.
In continuation of his dealings with the unsuccessful synthesizer manufacturer Key2Sound, working without any payment, Goodiepal decided to take action by hiding an unnamed piece of music in the system source code of a prototype called INetSynth. The prototype and source code were then brought up for auction offering the head of Key2Sound a veto-price of 10 Danish kroner, if he wanted his prototype back. Through this act, Goodiepal reclaimed a symbolic fee for the work he had done for Key2sound, and since they did not respond, the INetSynth, with tag, went to an unknown Dutch collector.
In 2005, Goodiepal was commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers to create a sound piece representing Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, and Greenland
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. The result was a generative computer music program playing Goodiepal music through countless speakers in three exhibition spaces in the exhibition's Nordic pavilion.
2007-2008: The autonomous London school
In 2007, Goodiepal opened an autonomous school on the first floor of The Blue House in London, designed by FAT ArchitectureFashion Architecture Taste
Fashion Architecture Taste or FAT is an art and architecture collaborative that first established itself in the 1990s in London, England. Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob are the main members of the group. Emma Somerset Davis has been a previous member and a director of the group and...
, for people interested in Radical Computer Music
Radical Computer Music
The term Radical Computer Music was coined by the Danish/Faroese musician/artist Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, aka Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, while a teacher in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, between 2004-2008...
and other of his arts. The school, open from 9am to 10:10am every weekday, is free of charge and financed through his skillful work as a fixer of fine mechanics.
The term Radical Computer Music
Radical Computer Music
The term Radical Computer Music was coined by the Danish/Faroese musician/artist Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, aka Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, while a teacher in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, between 2004-2008...
was coined by Goodiepal in relation to the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra compositional game scenario. It promotes an expanded dialogue between human beings and artificial and alternative intelligence
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
s as a way to transgress a condition of stagnation, according to Goodiepal prevailing in contemporary computer music
Computer music
Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...
and media art. The game scenario is an exercise in the creation of musical scores to challenge the mindset of "other" intelligences, considering issues such as utopia
Utopia
Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The word was imported from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt...
, time, notation
Musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system that represents aurally perceived music, through the use of written symbols.-History:...
techniques, language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
, levels of unscannability, and the role of the composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
.
In late 2007 Goodiepal made a famous appearance on the Danish late night talk show Den 11. Time (The 11th Hour), lecturing about his musical theories and the future of artificial intelligence. He was initially given a time slot of about 25 minutes, but exceeded that by far lecturing for over an hour. So the lecture was edited down to 15 minutes of highlights, to fit the program format, and made available in full length online.http://www.vimeo.com/710236
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra was launched as an educational program at a special lecture given in April 2008 at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, the work as such was first premiered in October 2007 at a solo exhibition at Andersen's Contemporary in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the opening, a collection of 45 individual bindings, holding nine musical objects for the Radical Computer Music
Radical Computer Music
The term Radical Computer Music was coined by the Danish/Faroese musician/artist Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, aka Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, while a teacher in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, between 2004-2008...
game scenario, was brought up for sale. The boxes started at a low price, which went up significantly throughout the exhibition and a few remaining copies are supposedly still available from the Danish publisher Pork Salad Press. Throughout the exhibition, Goodiepal gave a number of lectures covering various fields in modern composition and computer music.
On 27 October 2008, Goodiepal received a first class merit certificate, with distinction, from StoryTellerScotland being the only known existing proof of his qualifications. He is now officially allowed to call himself a Master Storyteller of the highest accord in the UK.
Towards the end of 2008, Goodiepal created what he considers an expert panel consisting of members with various skills and backgrounds such as Andreas Hauer-Jensen, Anders Jørgen Mogensen, Uglemads, Martha Hviid and Tordis Berstrand. He has since taken the panel around Europe to help him lecture and perform and during the trips told them most of the secrets behind the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra game scenario and Radical Computer Music
Radical Computer Music
The term Radical Computer Music was coined by the Danish/Faroese musician/artist Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, aka Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, while a teacher in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, between 2004-2008...
. Some of these ideas are also described in Radical Computer Music & Fantastisk Mediemanipulation: A Corrected and Illustrated Transcript of the Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough published in 2009.
2008-2011: Five steps in a Gentleman's War on the stupidity of modern computer music and media based art
When Goodiepal left The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2008, he did not go quietly. The declaration Five steps in a Gentleman's War on the stupidity of modern computer music and media based art was released as a supplement to the audio piece The Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough http://i3hypermedia.com/audio/Alku69_MAVEE_Walkthrough.mp3 and the series of images called Snappidaggs http://www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/sets/72157609437204597 explaining the methodology behind Goodiepal's concept of Radical Computer MusicRadical Computer Music
The term Radical Computer Music was coined by the Danish/Faroese musician/artist Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, aka Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, while a teacher in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, between 2004-2008...
. The following is a brief breakdown of Goodiepal's war declaration:
• Round one: The terrifying truth - Goodiepal set out to define his objectives against academia in general, and the Aarhus version in particular, at a special lecture given at The 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art. He also released the audio piece "Future Shock" http://brainwashed.com/vvm/downloads/gpal/various/goodiepal_future_shock_may_2008.mp3 - sometimes called "Black Heart for Scandinavia" - on heart-shaped vinyl. As predicted, his actions were met by silence from the opponents in Aarhus.
• Round two: A possible solution for the future of computer music and media art in general - With reference to The Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough http://i3hypermedia.com/audio/Alku69_MAVEE_Walkthrough.mp3 Goodiepal distributed his school books and solution to the crisis in computer music and media art, widely, using all means such as spamming, banner ads, and giving lectures across Europe. He was again met with silence, if not outright ridicule from his opponents.
• Round three: The great debate - Goodiepal carried on buying banner ads on selected internet sites as well as giving lectures. In December 2008 he bought four pages in the music magazine The Wire to prove his merits and capability of undertaking the work, he had set in motion. The opponents also carried on, laughing, including Professor John Deathridge
John Deathridge
John Deathridge is a British musicologist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Lincoln College, Oxford culminating with a dissertation on Wagner's sketches for Rienzi, and is currently Professor of Music at King's College London...
, King's College
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
in London, UK, who rejected Goodiepal's application for a Master degree on the basis of the autonomous and un-academic actions.
• Round four: Claim your victory and collect your Danegæld
Danegeld
The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources; the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century...
- On 13 April 2009, Goodiepal released a statement http://www.mediafire.com/?zngoimqwdgj claiming that he possibly suffers from the neurological disorder Huntington's Chorea. This act was carried out as the final step in his war to – A: prove that not just his music but he himself is, if not unscannable, then very hard to scan; B: as a possible manifestation of Schrödinger's cat
Schrödinger's cat
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that might be...
since Goodiepal has entered a sort of superposition; C: in deep respect of Andreas Hauer-Jensen, one of Goodiepal's closest friends and artistic side-kicks, who was hit by a car and upon the release of the statement was still in a coma.
Goodiepal also for a while threatened the students and technical staff at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, is a conservatoire under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture...
with the dreadful claim that if he was not paid some sort of Danegæld
Danegeld
The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources; the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century...
for his struggles, he would break into DIEM – the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music's studios at the academy and confiscate every single power cable for each computer available there. Perhaps as a consequence of that, Goodiepal was awarded a special one-of-a-kind medal at a small surprise ceremony on 15 September 2009 by professor Wayne Siegel
Wayne Siegel
Wayne Siegel is an American composer living in Malling, Denmark.From 1971 to 1974 Siegel studied composition and philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After three years there he decided to complete his Bachelor of Arts degree in Århus, Denmark, where he studied with the noted...
, leader of DIEM. The medal was given in honour of Goodiepal's kamikaze strikes against the old and stubborn mindset of the academy, and it might or might not prove that he won his playful war game. It did however create quite a bit of debate since most people in charge at DIEM and the old fashioned Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, is a conservatoire under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture...
would, and still to this date will, not accept the medal as an official gesture. So, Round 4 in Goodiepal's "Gentleman's War" is therefore potentially not yet won. No matter what, he did leave the room stating that it takes much more than a piece of plastic to shut him down! On the 31st of October, 2009, after a concert/lecture at Starr Space in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Goodiepal was awarded the honorary 7 Secret Golden Keys to Bushwick by The Stiff Left Arm of Brooklyn / the people of 340 south 5th street. The award was given as an acknowledgement of the importance that America sees in Goodiepal's War on the stupidity of modern computer music and media based art.
• Round five: Heal the wounds and apply the new solution - Goodiepal has since 2007 been running autonomous schools from around Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
, among other places at Momentum – Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art 2009 in Jeløy
Jeløy
Jeløy is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway.Jeløy was established as a municipality January 1, 1838...
outside the city of Moss
Moss
Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations. They do not have flowers or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems...
, Norway, http://www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/3887418206/in/set-72157609437204597/ and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde
Roskilde
Roskilde is the main city in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark on the island of Zealand. It is an ancient city, dating from the Viking Age and is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network....
, Denmark, http://www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/4420014579/in/set-72157609437204597/ where Goodiepal gave lectures, performances and workshops during 2010.
By the end of 2008, Goodiepal declared himself nearly bankrupt having spent a significant but unspecified amount of money on his Gentleman's War. Towards the end of 2010, Goodiepal apparently borrowed 750.000,00 DKK, equalling around 92.865,19 US Dollars, from a friend in Ukraine and gave them away in an attempt to fight growing racism in Europe.
In November 2010, Goodiepal received the Danish Heinrich Prize at Den Grå Hal, Christiania, for his war on the Royal Academy of Music. Rumours had it that he would not show up, due to the arrest order placed on his head by Danish police, but Goodiepal managed and from the stage warned about a new wave of racism growing inside the European welfare system. He left the party without any interference from the police.
Miscellaneous
Being a contemporary European music figure, a lot of people have drawn inspiration from Goodiepal and written him into their own story telling as a modern folk legend. Among these the most notable might be:• Momus, "Goodiepal" from the album Jeomus (Cherry Red Records, 2008)
• Scotter, "The Hardcore Massive" from the album Jumping All Over The World (Sheffield Tunes, 2007)
• Kevin Blechtum, "Get on Your Knees Boy" from the album Eat My Heart Out (Chicks on Speed, 2005)
• T.S. Høeg, "Nnooijjj, nu går det stærkt, men det skal nok gå alt sammen", piece for chamber ensemble 3 Betingelser for Liv (1999)
• T.S. Høeg, "Når galskaben først er sluppet løs" from the collection of poems Albue (Copenhagen: Borgen, 2008)
• Negativland, "You’re the sole reason we still take contemporary European music seriously"
• Jason Forrest-Donna Summer, "100% Goodiepal" (Ljud Records, 2004)
• V/Vm, numerous tracks on the mp3-file V/Vm 365 (V/Vm Test Records, 2006)
• Ascoltare, "Gaeouija" http://www.nochexxx.co.uk/#/gaeouija/4524167296
• Mark von Schlegell, Mercury Station (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009)
• Viola Thiele, "1+1=3, Auf der Suche nach dem gemeinsamen Dritten in Kunst und (Pop-) Musik" (Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Kunste, Berlin, 2008)
• TR Kirstein, "Runyon, a boy who knows" (Performance, 2011)
• Rasmus Espenhain Nielsen, "Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra: En Indledende Scanning" (Musikvidenskab, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, 2009)
• Maria Kjær Themsen, "Død over Køerne - kritiske strategier i dansk samtidskunst" (Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab, Litteraturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, 2009)
• Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, "Escroc Filou" (Video, 2011) http://www.denfri.dk/2011/03/escroc-filou/
• Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, "Applesauce" (Video, 2011) http://www.denfri.dk/2011/03/applesauce/
External links
- Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Exstra and Radical Computer Music explained by Goodiepal, Portland, USA, 2009 http://vimeo.com/11152592
- Video of Goodiepal's talk on Radical Computer Music at reboot 11 http://video.reboot.dk/video/526104/goodiepal-on-the-state-of
- Goodiepal profile on Discogs http://www.discogs.com/artist/Goodiepal
- Gaeoudjiparl microsite on V/Vm Test Records http://brainwashed.com/vvm/micro/parl/index.htm
- The Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough http://i3hypermedia.com/audio/Alku69_MAVEE_Walkthrough.mp3
- Snappidaggs as explained in the Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough http://www.flickr.com/photos/32556543@N05/sets/72157609437204597/
- Radical Computer Music group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=32383722932&ref=ts/
- Goodiepal lecture at CTM09 in Berlin, January 2009 http://structures.clubtransmediale.de/?p=191/
- Det Spekulative Øre - Danish blogpost by Torben Sangild about Radical Computer Music http://www.groveloejer.dk/detspekulativeoere/2009/01/radikal_computermusik_goodiepa.html
- Video of the mechanical bird http://www.eurodisney.biz/?p=193/
- Maxgumtree web exhibition with sound by Goodiepal http://www.maxgumtree.com/ See also "The Sequencer Paradigm" by Alessandro Ludovico http://art.runme.org/1107808355-10198-0/ludovico.pdf
- Letters of Recommendation http://www.sygnok.com/artists/goodie.html
- Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Exstra and Radical Computer Music explained by Goodiepal, Portland, USA, 2009 http://vimeo.com/11152592
- Temporary audio discussion board where Goodiepal answers questions relating to the Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough http://soundcloud.com/goodiepal-gaeoudjiparl/the-official-mort-aux-vaches-ekstra-extra-walkthrough