Demodulation 2023 — smart urban festival

Опубликовано 12 августа 2023, 17:50

Yandex Museum is holding its fifth Demodulation, a festival about the history of technology, human intelligence, and progress.

0:00:00 Start

0:07:59 Festival opening
Museum keepers Alexander Shmelyov and Oleg Senin, along with host Alexey Obrovets, inaugurate Demodulation 2023 and discuss what awaits the audience.

0:12:58 About Yandex Museum

0:19:04 Our friends’ booths
The Museum of Telephone History has the world's largest collection of phones. For Demodulation, our friends have brought some of the most significant devices.

0:29:05 Launch of demoscene contests. Chiptune music
Oleg Senin and artist Dmitry Smolyannikov (Grongy) explain how computer creativity contests are structured in the demoscene theme and introduce the first contest, chiptune music.

1:42:43 Our friends’ exhibits
How often does a 70s machine make mistakes when counting money? How does it compare coins? Now, onto another topic: How does a gramophone differ from a phonograph? Experts from the Financial Culture project and the House of Vintage Music discuss these and many other topics. The Paintball Museum, Level 1UP!, and the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines brought an exhibition of arcade machines.

1:56:35 Demoscene contests. Graphics
Contests of graphic works in various text modes, for historical 8- and 16-bit platforms that imposed many restrictions, as well as for more modern 32-bit platforms.

2:20:11 Live feed from the tournament hall
As per tradition, many tournaments take place at the festival, including on, of course, the one and only ZX Spectrum. But we didn't neglect the Soviet BK and more modern PCs. Tournaments are organized by our friends from the GBX, RTS, LegacyZ, Retro Gaming Club and CAFePARTY communities.

2:49:46 Roman Krylov's color music collection
Roman has put together the only comprehensive exhibition of more than 60 Soviet color-music devices.

3:01:21 Shorts about museums in Italy and Switzerland
The Video Game History Museum in Rome (Vigamus) and Musée Bolo in Lausanne have sent a special greeting to the viewers of Demodulation! Learn more about these two fantastic collections.

3:11:17 Shadershow battle
This is a competition among programmers to create real-time visual effects (shaders). All participants code simultaneously: each must write a shader in 25 minutes!

3:39:16 Our friends’ exhibits
Video equipment collector and co-founder of the "Vidachestvo" project, Alexey Kashkin (VCD), talks about his collection. Then, Alexander Straystar debunks myths about the MSX platform, and Alexander Kokovin presents the "Ponitronics" entertainment booth featuring their own games.

4:10:22 Demoscene contests. Intro and demo
Demos feature visual effects with sound and graphics, while intros are effects programmed with code size limitations. Who created the most impressive clip this year?

5:06:07 Our friends' exhibits
The Cryptography Museum is the first and only science and technology museum in the country that covers this topic. Additionally, Alexey Obrovets chats with Victor Kupriyanov, the director of the Cyber Museum in Murom – he collects various hardware, not just computers.

5:19:18 Clip from the Computer Museum in Tallinn
The museum has been around since 2005 and recently expanded its exhibition: we are grateful for the video made especially for Demodulation!

5:25:39 Tatyana Palmova, a keeper of the Yandex Museum in Saint Petersburg
The atmosphere in the Saint Petersburg Museum is quite different to Moscow: Tatyana explains how it differs from the Moscow one. Then we move on to the fishertechnik booth with amazing German construction kits.

5:36:32 Shadershow battle. The finale
Writing a GLSL/HLSL shader again that will wow the audience! Authors who passed the preliminary selection, fight for the top three spots.

6:09:00 Our friends' exhibits
Egor Timofeev collects lunar rovers Electronica IM-11 and their American "ancestors". The Yandex robot courier also resembles a lunar rover: you can see the rover's internals and feel the atmosphere of the Museum in the Park of Culture.

6:26:57 Awards ceremony for demoscene contests
The long-awaited presentation of prizes in 12 categories (a record for the history of the festival). Congratulations to the winners, and may the spirit of the demoscene be with them!

6:54:09 A tour of the HomeComputerMuseum in the Netherlands
Bart van den Akker, the founder of the museum, has organized a complete tour for Demodulation viewers of his incredible collection in Helmond. Here's the full version: youtu.be/sPDYHWyAZYo

7:17:31 Elektronika-60 concert
A concert by indie artist Ivan Levchenko, better known as Elektronika-60. Retrosynthesizers, drum machines, elements of the chiptune, and 8-bit music: you can catch the 80s vibe immediately.

8:18:19 Broadcast closure

Russian broadcast of the Demodulation: youtube.com/live/cTQSy76EPSM
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Register for Museum events: yandex.ru/museum/events