Paniq
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paniq (real name Leonard Ritter), (born July 31, 1980 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany), is a German composer, coder, graphic artist and writer. He is a member of the German demo group Farbrausch.
As a demoscene musician, paniq has so far composed more than 150 pieces of electronic music. The music varies from a capella over a variety of modern electronic music styles, to wide-ranging crossovers spanning different musical genres. Most of his compositions are freely available as digital audio over the Internet.
paniq first began participating in the mod tracking scene in 1998, initially joining up with a Russian-based tracking group called Crystal Jungle Team. Shortly thereafter, he joined the established netlabel Tokyo Dawn Records, where he remained active for two years. In the year 2000, paniq joined the highly-rated demogroup farbrausch.
Awards
Throughout paniq's career in the demoscene, he has received many awards from various festivals for his productions. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
2005
- First place at the Breakpoint 2005 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single Elektronische Musik.
- Second place at the Optihack 2005 demoparty music competition for his single Heavy Working Robot.
2004
- First place at the Evoke 2004 demoparty music competition for his single The Manual. [1] (http://archive.evoke-net.de/2004/releases/mp3ogg/themanual.html)
- First place at the TUM 2004 demoparty music competition for his single 23 is the new 42. [2] (http://www.tum-party.org/past_tum04.php)
- First place at the Kindergarten 2004 demoparty "64K EXE music" competition for his single Maschinenzeit.
- Third place at the Breakpoint 2004 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single Instruction Pointer. [3] (http://breakpoint.untergrund.net/2004/results.php)
(paniq received highest honors in the last three music competitions he entered in 2004)
2003
- Second place at the Evoke 2003 demoparty OGG music competition (ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2003/evoke03/results.txt) for his single an den wahren menschen.
- Sixth place at the Breakpoint 2003 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single cubeworld.
Selected works
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Demos
- fr-036: zeitmaschine (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11248) (2003) — received 1st place at the TUM 2003 demo competition. Music and graphics designed by paniq. [4] (http://staticline.scenespot.org/issues/sl-052.txt)
- fr-038: theta (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15092) (2004) — received 2nd place at the TUM 2004 demo competition.
Music albums
- Better Tomorrow (2001)
- Unsecurious (http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fpaniq%2Funsecurious-album/) (2002)
- Advertising for Metaphysics (http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fpaniq%2Fadvertising_for_metaphysics-album-2003/) (2003)
- mentalmilestones (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=soulseek_artists&collectionid=paniq-mentalmilestones) (2004)
- Neurons: Fire At Will (http://www.paniq.org/index.php/Neurons:_Fire_At_Will_%282005%29) (2005)
Programs
- µ Framework (http://sourceforge.net/projects/muframework/), a library for scripting music applications.
- PyBuzz (http://web.hibo.no/~mva/machineinfo.php?id=827), a Python host for Jeskola Buzz.
External links
- www.paniq.org Official site (http://www.paniq.org)
- paniq at scene.org (http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=/music/artists/paniq/)
- paniq at (http://paniq.deviantart.com/) deviantART
- paniq on (http://www.scenemusic.org/research.htm?author=paniq) Nectarine radio
- www.farb-rausch.de