EBOMAN = JEROEN INTERVIEW 29/05/2003 By Release the reality dot Com

Slamy beats and EpilepsiK Video Jam's Dutch Electrician Duo, EBOMAN's Gig was held on this weekend in paris. Our RTR CREW exclusively interviewed JEROEN HUFS !!! - Courtesy to Arno Réveillon@G.P.C. -

Q: 1st of all, How did you start all sound+video enginiering ? have you played music instrumethal before or any academic art studying in yr life ? I cant remember when i started fooLing around with images and soundZz, it has aLways been like that, drawing, tape mixing, recording, tearing up records etc. etc. i bought my first sampler when i was 14 (siLLy casio thing) and since i got my first computer my sociaL life was ruined. Thank god for the C64 and especiaLLy the Commodore Amiga because thanks to those machines i never had to touch paper, tapedeks etc. again. since than I'm speciaLiZzed in digitaL madnesS : SampLe madnesS. I went to art schooL but was aLLready completeLy into my own worLd of sampLing and didn't pay much attention there. It has aLL been self-study.

Q: Yr 3 mac portables are connected all via USB cables. Can you explain us bout this game soft based System ? and also how yr "wacom, wheel and board" tool's functioning with them ? MAX/MSP/JiTTer is used to be abLe to use game controLLerZz and the wacom pen as skrtZz tooLzZ and fx controLLrz. especiaLLy the pen worx reaLLy cooL I like the pen even more than anaLogue record skrtZzin. Yep, goodbYe vinyL djZz.

Q: I quite like your very way of massive creation-distruction by TV culture sampling. I mean often so humourous, ironiacal and even Kitch ! These all ideas, where it comes from ? They faLL from the sky.

Q: You are absed in Amsterdam. Since some years Amsterdam changed so much. How the scean of Experimental music and art in Amterdam ? (favarite place or neywork there ???) It's ok. the generaL dutch state of mind is very cool, very abstract and liberaL minded. you can do anything. but lately things tend to be to commerciaL, house and RnB everywhere. especiaLLy in Amsterdam. aLso becauZze d Amsterdam scene is so polluted by fucking tourists and coffeeshopheadZz.

Q: Can you tell me bout yr future plan and works you did with other artists (remix you did before etc) ? Just finished a track with Octagonman/Depthcharge for his new aLbum. Now I'm putting the new Eboman websiTe together so it will show very efficiently everything I did sinCe 1987, aLso I want to reLease aLL those composition (over 400) through the internet in a non-lineair fashion.

Q: I quite like yr concept to put all in internet free. we can all share yr image and sound, it's realy cool. Do you know the exposition calls 'illegal art" in the States? It's on my journal article >>> http://www.releasethereality.com/web/may03/26bis.html It's exposition with the art works who has a problem with Copyright control. Holland is quite advanced country for copyright in Cyberspace. Comparing with your any plan for publishing naughty DVD or CD-rom , what you think bout all sampling art stuffs ??? fuck copyrightZz. sampling is very naturaL, its a naturaL way of how peopLe create and come to new ideas. I sample, but my styLe is so fucked up that my creativity and originality is what makes the compositions interesting not Britney SpearZz or whoever I sample. sampLe cLearanCe sucks, its hypocrite So many asShoLes copying other peopLes shit and getting away with it, whats so speciaL about sampling? at least than you dont cover up that yr steaLing, yr honest. Madonna, MetaLLica, PhiL coLLinZz, U2 and aLL those other bastardZz trying to stop mp3-ing and sampLing should fuck off with their miLlion seLLing aLbums, if you listen to their stuff (especiaLLy madonnaZz and U2s stuff) all the ideas r stolen from underground so called 'hip' djZz and producerZz, and than they r saying that underground freaX like me cant sample their shit ? fuck them ! keep internet free ! keep the anarchy alive ! people that r against a free and anarchistic internet r scared because they know that their million-dollar-name is worth nothing.

Q: Tell me bout your gig plan in yr town and other city. there is no plan. if anybody wants me to play : book me.

***Tcheck EBO-SITE >>> http://www.samplemadness.nl/

*** Who is Eboman ? Dutch Artist based in Amsterdam, Eboman (Jeroen Hofs) develops and produces concept of "Sample madnesS", It's interactive audio-visual compositions created from digitized samples. At the occasion of this evening, it presents a new version of The Driver "MadMan", & film sampled from more than one hundred of retro movie. These fragments are combined & generated into completely new synchronization of the sound and visual experiments. Various innovating techniques of composition were developed to make of this film, Many scenes are played on line on Live with spectacular interfaces such as skrtZz ARM", "skrtZz board" & "skrtZz wheel"o This film was presented at the International Festival of the New Cinema and the New Media of Montreal, with the Museum of Modern art of Hasselt (Belgium), with the Museum of Modern art of Amsterdam, in Holland Festival, l"nstitute of Contemporary Art (London) like in World Wide Video Festival (holand) - ©G.P.C.

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