1. Goodiepal's work engages with the past, present, and future of computer music, compositional practices and resonance computing, and his idea of Radical Computer Music.
14 Facts About Goodiepal
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In 2014, Goodiepal sold Kommunal Klon Komputer 2, a DIY velomobile that he used for personal transport, to the National Gallery of Denmark, where it is on display.
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Goodiepal went to a Steiner School, where electronics were prohibited.
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Goodiepal departed from the Steiner school after eight years and embarked on various activities with hacker groups in computer software programming and distribution.
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Goodiepal began seriously making and performing music in the winter of 1986.
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In 2002, Goodiepal gave his first lectures in the US, among other places at CalArts, Brown University and University of Iowa, on the subjects of Radical Computer Music and, similarly, radical software.
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In 2004 Goodiepal was hired as professor of History and Aesthetics of Electronic Music at DIEM, The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, and served as head of the electronic music department.
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In 2008, Goodiepal left The Royal Danish Academy of Music.
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In 2002, Goodiepal created a compositional musical language, based around 'musical bricks'.
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Goodiepal went on to participate in the installation Circus Pentium by Danish artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen opening at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2004.
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The work comprised a circus installation with Goodiepal playing the lute alongside other actors and was shown at Art Basel, Switzerland, and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Performances of EuroBOT are characterized by Goodiepal whistling the musical score.
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In 2007, Goodiepal opened an autonomous school on the first floor of The Blue House in London, designed by FAT Architecture, for people interested in Radical Computer Music and other of his arts.
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In 2016, Goodiepal released an album on Editions Mego entitled EMEGO 211, using the Wikimedia Commons as the device of dissemination, which thereby released the album into the public domain.