[arg_discuss] Nine Inch Nails ARG

[Steffen P. Walz]

hi eva,

this is steffen from the ETH in zurich - i lead a secret life as a  
musician. too;-). so here's some shameless self promotion:

my own record label playbe records tried a hippie trading game of  
sorts in 2004...not so much ARG, but more a structural /  
distributional game...we called this experiment "careware", where  
people could order a CD by the artist steffen strom (=me) online for  
free, after listening to the music on the site. the label shipped the  
CD to germany, switzerland or austria, even paying the shipping  
(nuts, huh?). in return, we asked people who had ordered to return a  
counter value they thought the music on the CD was worth. or, if they  
wanted, to pay a nominal price. the music itself is licenced under a  
creative commons licence, too...

a friend at DaimlerChrysler trend research - burkhard järisch - & i  
had come up with the careware idea; we wanted to figure out what  
people were wanting to trade for music, and how many would get back,  
wire money, and, of course, WHAT people would send in return. an  
estd. 2/3 of all orders sent us something, out of which ca. 30% snail  
mailed stuff such as

-a buttered bread (yuk)
-a flower voucher
-a self made CDs
-a long love letter
-weird and outdated currency (e.g. former yugoslavia)
-a "last" shirt (there is a saying in german: "i'd give my last shirt  
to support this", so the gentleman sent me his one and only shirt;-))

check out the order / trade website, it's still online, but german  
language only:

www.strom-musik.de

at http://spw.playbe.com, in the web section, go to "Audio Careware  
Game" to see an image with some of the items we received.

hope this is not too off topic -
spw

Am 21.05.2007 um 18:13 schrieb eva nieuwdorp:


> citation:

> <Also, I nearly ruined a great pair of pants upon seeing the color  

> change>

> They got me too...quite a hoot and a half.

>

> It's a cool concept to tie in games with music...I am looking into the

> possibility of writing a paper on the subject. Anyone know of any  

> previous

> cases like this (I heard Beck was looking into it at one point too,  

> and Tori

> Amos is also expanding her work into a more transmedial realm)?

>

> Any leads gladly appreciated!

> Cheers,

>

> Eva

>

> On 5/17/07, Andrea Fryer <andrea.fryer at gmail.com> wrote:

>>

>> Ohhhhhh nooooo... I didn't know about that! I was at the NIN  

>> concert in

>> Helsinki which wrapped up the tour. Now I'll be forever tortured not

>> knowing

>> whether or not a memory stick was under my seat :-P :-).

>>

>> - Andrea

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Steffen P. Walz
ETH Zurich
Game Design Research                        Department of Architecture
Phone +41 44 658 16 36                       Chair for CAAD, HIL E 15.1
E-Mail walz at arch.ethz.ch                     CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

http://spw.playbe.com (my playce)
http://wiki.arch.ethz.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/SteffenPWalz (academic)