Farbrausch

Farbrausch is a German group of demomakers which made themselves especially famous in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64kb intro called "fr-08: .the .product". Using techniques like procedural textures, scenes and animations together with a high-quality software synthesizer, ".the .product" is an 11 minute 3-D show featuring complex scenes which opened a new era in demo making, showing that CPU power and mass storage is not a substitute to the creative human brain. This is an achievement since most demos created in the 21st century tend to focus much more on the aesthetic rather than optimization skills and number crunching. Farbrausch has reintroduced the idea that you can still do both in the modern computer age.

Their work has won numerous awards, and their name a good degree of fame. In 2004, a subdivision of farbrausch called ".theprodukkt " released a 96kb first-person shooter game named ".kkrieger", and an earlier version of the tool they currently use to produce some of their demos, named ".werkkzeug", or "Tool".

Since then they have periodically released ever-improving compositions such as "fr-019: Poem to a Horse", "fr-030: Candytron" or "fr-025: The.Popular.Demo". Ironically, The.Popular.Demo also happens to be the most highly favored demo production by a significantly wide margin on the comprehensive demoscene index, Pouet. [1] The.Popular.Demo is also the recipient of the "Public Choice Award" from the 2003 scene.org awards. [2]

Farbrausch Members

• David "Bombe" Roden, programmer/rigger. (Livejournal, home)
• Dierk "chaos" Ohlerich, programmer. (home)
• Kai "cp" Pöthkow, artist.
• Marco "crash" Schultz, programmer.
• Dirk Oliver "doj" Jagdmann, programmer. (home)
• Dennis "exoticorn" Ranke, programmer.
• Thomas "fiver2" Mahlke, artist.
• Christoph "giZMo" Mütze, artist. (home)
• Tammo "kb" Hinrichs, programmer/musician. (Livejournal, home)
• Leonard "paniq" Ritter, musician/artist/programmer. (home)
• Fabian "ryg" Giesen, programmer/artist.
• Ronny "rp" Pries, musician/artist. (discography)
• Nils "torus" Pipenbrinck, programmer.
• Sebastian "wayfinder" Grillmaier, musician/artist. (home)
• Felix "yoda" Bohmann, programmer/webmaster/design.
• Frank "franky" Baumgartner, programmer, musician

Farbrausch Releases

(Note that the numbers do not specify release date order - the members have stated that they allocate the numbers as they start working on the project, not when they finally finish it.)

• fr-01: Lifestyle 600
• fr-02: Raum, Klang und Design
• fr-03: Untitled
• fr-04
• fr-05: Konsum
• fr-06: Black 2000
• fr-07: Luke
• fr-08: .the .product
• fr-09: Goldrausch
• fr-010: Art (in cooperation with Scoopex)
• fr-011: MS2001 Invitation
• fr-012: Kapital
• fr-013: Flybye
• fr-014: Garbage Collection
• fr-015: La Sculpture
• fr-016: Bytes
• fr-016b: 5 bytes less
• fr-016c: Fuenf (in your face)
• fr-017: Area 51
• fr-018: AGB
• fr-019: Poem to a Horse
• fr-020: In Control
• fr-021: D (Stands For)
• fr-022: Ein.Schlag
• fr-024: Welcome to...
• fr-025: The.Popular.Demo
• fr-026: 34b mul & cycle
• fr-027: Out of the Blue
• fr-028: Brullwurfel
• fr-029: Dopplerdefekt
• fr-030: Candytron
• fr-031: Faded Memories
• fr-032: E.T.
• fr-034: Time Index (in cooperation with Haujobb)
• fr-035: Deleted Scenes
• fr-036: Zeitmaschine
• fr-037: "The Code Inside" - Breakpoint 2004 invitation (in cooperation with MFX )
• fr-038: Theta
• fr-039: Collage Faction
• fr-040

"Non-serious" releases:

• fr-minus-01
• fr-minus-02: Ah
• fr-minus-03: Farbomat
• fr-minus-03.2: Rausch-o-mat
• fr-minus-04: Planquadrat
• fr-minus-05: Forestnerdbitch
• fr-minus-06: Ghettorocker
• fr-minus-07: Cargo cult

External links

• Farbrausch Workthings A fan-site dedicated to the Werkkzeug demotool. Includes a .werkkzeug "workthings" wiki.
• Farbrausch main website
• .theprodukkt by Farbrausch
• Farbrausch demos
• All FR demos on pouët.net
• The ARTS Episode 6: Features an interview with DOJ of farbrausch who explains the history of "Elitegroup". (MP3 audio)