Paniq

Paniq (or paniq, born Leonard Ritter, on 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 cappella 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.

His current effort is the Linux based modular tracker application, 'Aldrin', based largely on the design of Jeskola Buzz.

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:

2008

* First place at the Breakpoint 2008 demoparty demo competition for his demo "masagin".

2006

* First place at the Evoke 2006 demoparty demo competition for his demo "Die Ewigkeit Schmerzt".
* Sixth place at the Breakpoint 2006 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single "Occidental Nemesis".

2005

* Fourth place at the tUM 2005 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single "Der Weise". [http://2005.tum-party.org/past_tum05.php]
* First place at the Evoke 2005 demoparty "theme remix" competition for his single "Astronaughty".
* 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 tUM 2004 demoparty music competition for his single "23 is the new 42". [http://www.tum-party.org/past_tum04.php]
* First place at the Kindergarden 0xB demoparty "64K exe music" competition for his single "Maschinenzeit".
* First place at the Evoke 2004 demoparty music competition for his single "The Manual". [http://archive.evoke-net.de/2004/releases/mp3ogg/themanual.html]
* Third place at the Breakpoint 2004 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single "Instruction Pointer". [http://breakpoint.untergrund.net/2004/results.php]

2003

* Second place at the [ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2003/evoke03/results.txt Evoke 2003 demoparty OGG music competition] for his single "an den wahren menschen".
* Sixth place at the Breakpoint 2003 demoparty "streaming music" competition for his single "cubeworld".

elected works

Demos

* [http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11248 fr-036: zeitmaschine] (2003) — received 1st place at the tUM 2003 demo competition. Music and graphics designed by Paniq. [http://staticline.scenespot.org/issues/sl-052.txt]
* [http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15092 fr-038: theta] (2004) — received 2nd place at the tUM 2004 demo competition.

Music albums

* [http://scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fpaniq%2Fbetter_tomorrow-album/ Better Tomorrow] (2001)
* [http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fpaniq%2Funsecurious-album/ Unsecurious] (2002)
* [http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fpaniq%2Fadvertising_for_metaphysics-album-2003/ Advertising for Metaphysics] (2003)
* [http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=soulseek_artists&collectionid=paniq-mentalmilestones mentalmilestones] (2004)
* [http://www.paniq.org/albums/neurons_fire_at_will Neurons: Fire At Will] (2005)
* [http://www.paniq.org/albums/lost_known_good_configuration Lost Known Good Configuration] (2006)
* [http://www.paniq.org/albums/story_of_ohm Story of Ohm] (2007)

Programs

* [http://trac.zeitherrschaft.org/aldrin/ Aldrin] , a modular sequencer/tracker application.
* [http://www.mjoo.org mjoo (µ)] , a music application.
* [http://buzzwiki.wipe-records.org/index.php/PyBuzz PyBuzz] , a Python host for Jeskola Buzz.

External links

* [http://www.paniq.org Official website]
* [http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=/music/artists/paniq/ Paniq at scene.org]
* [http://paniq.deviantart.com/ Paniq at] DeviantArt
* [http://www.scenemusic.eu/searchengine.php?recherche=paniq&type=1 Paniq on] Nectarine radio
* [http://www.farb-rausch.de www.farb-rausch.de]