Steve Goodman (Kode9), Jaša Bužinel Festival INDIGO 2022

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• 00:00:00

  Thank you all for joining us this evening. I'm very excited to welcome Steve Goodman, aka Code9, who you will be hearing play the closing DJ set tonight for the festival. And he's a man of many projects. First of all, Hyperdub Records, big in the dubstep scene from London, Breaking Burial and other amazing artists I'm…

• 00:05:02

  I wanted to ask you about this concept like 20, maybe 25 years later. Is it still relevant in terms of describing all the new subgenres and innovations that happened in the past decade? Maybe I can answer that by not really answering it. When we came up with the name Hyperdub as a music magazine before it was a label…

• 00:15:46

  I don't know, I don't have like a bird's eye view of the field of science fiction Would you say that maybe it's because also like both cinema and music aren't as well as literature maybe aren't like the most popular media per se because you also have like gaming and virtual reality maybe it's there that this I think…

• 00:26:28

  I mean another side of this story is another reason why it failed is because it was sabotaged by the English and the Spanish empires so Scotland attempted to have an empire it completely fucked up that's how Scotland ended up in the UK with England and then the more research I did well Scotland actually ended…

• 00:33:04

  And I've always been interested in essay film like Chris Marker, and things like this. So, it's just a way of and also, sonic fiction, what the writer Kojo Eshin describes as sonic fiction, in the work of kind of, for example, Drexia, where science fiction is conveyed through sound, before it's conveyed through text…

• 00:37:40

  All with like digital overlays to make it look like it's all from the same game. You know, I'm not, it's the first time I've VJ'd and it's certainly, I've never done the visuals while doing the music at the same time. So it's a bit of an experiment and learning experience. But unlike the stuff I've done with Lawrence…

• 00:42:28

  Amazing way of telling stories, whether they're interactive or not. Okay. Maybe we're going to come back to Aster Darien later. But I'd also like to touch upon Hyperdub. Especially your... Basically your approach to curation. Because you've managed to remain one of the most relevant dance music or electronic music…

• 00:49:09

  No. Okay, so I guess you're going to see. Thanks, Steve, for this pleasant conversation and thank you all for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.