Vibrants
Wikipedia-style description
Vibrants is a group of mostly
Danish
computer coders and composers who created sound-related programs and
music for a wide range of computers. Although the group still exists today, it was far more active on the
Commodore 64
between 1989 and 1992, and to a less extent on the
PC
during the later 90's. Several of its members are either inactive or independent today.
History
The group was founded in 1989 by
JCH and
Link as a
Commodore 64
music group.
Drax joined later the
same year; he became the most productive member of the entire group, composing more than 1000 tunes for the
Commodore 64. In 1990, both
Laxity and
Deek joined the group;
Deek was the only foreigner as he came from
Scotland.
Metal and
JO joined in 1992 to help out
on the
Lollypop
game project on the PC. Finally in 1998 the latest member,
MSK, joined as
the webmaster of their first web site; a role he pursued until 2006. JCH took over the web site in
2007, redesigned it, and has been maintaining it since.
In the thriving Commodore 64 period from 1989 to 1992, Deek, Drax, JCH, Link, Metal and MSK used an
innovative
music editor
coded by JCH with comparable tracks combined with separately stacked sequences. JO and
Laxity created and used their own music players. Most of the music composed in this period was made for the
demoscene, but some of the
members also managed to compose for a few C64 games such as
Ballmania,
Guldkorn Expressen,
Harald Hårdtand,
Hermetic,
Pit-Fighter,
Special Criminal Investigation,
Su-Sweet, and
Super Oswald.
At the end of the C64 period, Deek decided to stop all computer music activities and left the group.
Vibrants experimented with
AdLib
(and Sound Blaster)
on the PC from 1992 to approximately 1995. JCH
created an AdLib
music editor
with the same track system as was used in his previous editor on the Commodore 64.
Drax, JCH, Metal, MSK and to some extent JO used this editor, although JO also created his own players for AdLib and
Roland MT-32
as well as a player on the
Amiga
computer. Some of the music produced in this period was composed
for games such as
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones,
Harald Hårdtand,
Hugo 2, and
Lollypop.
In the 90's as well as in the new millennium, almost all the remaining members of the group
composed music in
Triton's
FastTracker 2.
However, this period also started the decline of the activity of the
group. JCH decided to stop all music composing in the end of the 90's. Other members started making alternative
tracker,
console and
MIDI
music and eventually became independent.
Members
This is a full list of the members over time:
- Deek (Richard W. Rinn): composer
- Drax (Thomas Mogensen): composer
- JCH (Jens-Christian Huus): coder, composer, webmaster
- JO (Poul-Jesper Olsen): coder, composer
- Laxity (Thomas Egeskov Petersen): coder, composer
- Link (Klaus Engell Grøngaard): composer
- Metal (Torben Korgaard Hansen): composer
- MSK (Morten Sigaard Kristensen): coder, composer, webmaster
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