N3krozoft Ltd

A collection of bleak soundscapes and obscure field recordings, published on the German/Russian underground label Blutgift. Minimalistic dark ambient with a black metal spirit. Album page on Blutgift.de (label website) Album page on last.fm Album page on Discogs.com

Title: read_me – Software Art & Cultures – Edition 2004 Edited by: Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin Format: Paperback book Release date: 2004 Featured project: HAMLET.3.1 Article by: Annina Rüst University of Aarhus, Denmark. ISBN 87-98844-404-0 A publication accompanying the read_me festival 2004. Find this book at Unipress Denmark Website of read_me Festival

Series of single video frames recorded on the full lenght of a high quality VHS cassette 15 minutes, PAL, color Editions of 5

Inspired by Philip K. Dick’s novel “UBIK”, N3KROZOFT’s eponymous project began in a dark room with a chair, a table and a telephone. When a visitor picks up the telephone, he hears fragments of UBIK dialogues and vocal interventions of previous visitors. Should the visitor react to what he hears and start talking into the [...]

This video was recorded during the live performance at plug.in, Basel, on October 7th 2004. Timecode of the file is [02:16:29] – [02:19:52], which is 12 minutes after the beginning of the performance (full duration: 80 minutes). Live soundtrack provided by 10111.org.

VCD release containing extracts of live visual performances. Album page on 7-bit recs website

A collection of remixes and reconstructions of audio material by the russian teenage pop phenomenon T.A.T.Y. Rammstein did it, so why should we not… Recorded in various locations between 2002 and 2003. Album page on F0rkb0mb GmbH website Album page on last.fm :: Audio samples Get the Flash Player to see this player.

This video fragment is taken from the performance which took place on May 30th 2004 at Les Voûtes, Paris, in the frame of the exhibition Global Resistance (with Bureau d’Etudes and Horia Cosmin Samoïla). The timecode of this extract is: [02:49:34] – [02:54:12], which is 46 minutes after the beginning of the performance (full duration: [...]

Article de Michel Masserey, paru le 9.4.2004 dans Le Temps, Genève. De l’OTAN à NATO Ljubljana, le 8 avril 2004. La Slovénie est devenue hier membre de l’alliance atlantique. Alors que dans le centre de la capitale slovène, au dôme Cankarjev, Janez Drnovsek, Président de la république de Slovénie, prononçait un discours soulignant les avantages [...]

Le Temps, a swiss newspaper, gave an account of N3krozoft’s perfomance in Ljubljana. Its journalist Michel Masserey, who was sent there to cover Slovenia’s adhesion to NATO, mistook the N3krozoft show for an event linked to the official festivities. Nevertheless, the swiss journalist wrote an article published the following day: ” Ljubljana, april 8th, 2004. [...]

we are no felons we keep it real like the real ones from the bronx we want to plot diagrams, we make them for you, just before your eyes, we are some fake artists, coming here to get applauses, here we are like anyone in the world, in a pure optical sound situation

In april 2004, the N3krozoft Media Group settled for a journey through the Balkans. Bringing to the stage their live video performance with the solemnity and apathy of a rock band, a team of three N3KROZOFT agents toured during one month with a show that was described by the press as “an intimate interaction between [...]

“The chat log is screened all the while in real time like film credits rolling: for 80 harrowing minutes the time code of the dialogue determines our sense of time. The authors of N3krozoft Mord intervene subtly in this sober yet obsessive repetition of the event. The footage of a moving camera is manipulated in [...]

On January 12th 2003, in Phoenix (Arizona), a 21-year old computer addict died of an overdosis of prescription drugs while chatting on the internet. Soon after this tragic event, a text file containing a transcription of the dialogs that occured in the chatroom appeared on numerous websites. Re-processing the dialogs recorded before, during and after [...]

Soundcheck in Pula. Location: HackLAB MonteParadiso, Pula, Croatia Date: 02 April 2004