'Assembly`2000'
party report
by Milan Kolarovic (a.k.a. Acumen).

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Someone had noticed a house on fire about 200-300 meters away from the Hartwall Arena, on the other side of the rails, and had called the fire department. The picture was taken after the firemen had extinguished the flames and were packing up their equiptment.

Here are a few positive [+] and negative sides [-] I experienced during the 4 day period. [+] Like last year, I loved travelling on trains. Safe, easy and comfortable. [+] Girls&Women. There were much more women this year at the party place, which was very positive thing in general, but some of them were so good looking that you couldn`t resist your head and eyes turning as they went past you. ; ) [+] The combined demo competition was excellent! My favorite demo ('Spot' by 'Exceed') won the whole competition with a huge marginal to the second in total votes given. The overall quality of demos was extremely high this year. [+] Wild Demos. Like last year, the wild demos were hilarious, too bad that I didn`t saw all of them, but those that I saw made me laugh my eyes out. [+] 'Organizing'. A big overall thumbs up for the organizers who did a good job dispite some minor flaws. I`m all 100% behind the organizers in their tight "anti-alcohol line". I`m not an absolutist with alcohol, but in my opinion demoparties should stay as they are, and not turn into a boozing event. I`m sure people can find another weekends to get themselves drunk, right? [+] Music styles in compos. Compared to last year, the style variation was almost ten times better. I don`t know if people made and entered more serious stuff than they did last year, or was the jury`s action different from last year`s, but a definate improvement to last year in my opinion. [+] Public access computers. Compared to the last year`s situation, this year there were 3 public computers instead of last year`s one or two which didn`t even have a floppy drive. So this year you could have entered your work for the competitions through the public computers if needed (as I did with my 'Oldskool music compo' entry). [-] Multichannel compo overall quality. I was very disappointed in the overall quality of the multichannel competition, it sounded more like people only entered the competition for the fun of it, and not really paying attention to the quality of their work, and this goes for me and my work also! I finished my song for the multichannel competition in a hurry before I left home, and I never was really satisfied with it. Assembly`2001? .. I cannot say for sure cause it`s too early, but if I do get good song ideas that I feel are worth fighting with, I`ll most surely be there hopefully to improve my this year`s accomplishments.

~ Milan Kolarovic (a.k.a. Acumen) on 01.10.2000

The official Assembly`2000 website: http://www.assembly2k.net During Assembly`2000 a finnish computer magazine called Mikrobitti made an interview of me. It was available in their website's Assembly`2k journal in finnish language. Assembly`2k journal Haastattelu: Scenemuusikko Acumen