SUNZ Stereoscopic Website 1995
by 1995 I was an internet pioneer with The Sunz, trailblazing radical new ways for artist/producers and fan/supporters to cut out the middleman. Do your best to rollback 21 years ago to what the internet was like. We offered to sell the music independent of the medium of delivery for the first time ever. Full disclosure: done in anticipation of the CD product we posted demo tracks and 20 sec segments of Quicktime video.
We were on our way to producing a CD product but long before that now obsolete medium Hugh MacKenzie, Rob Strange and I were attempting to deliver audio and hints of video over 28k modems when there was only Navigator and IE, back at the start of the Browser Wars.
We saw what was coming at the very start of this nightmare in Teknowledgy from right at the center of the belly of the beast and managed to both rail against it and use it against itself in the process of exploiting it for our own purposes which were… many. Our songs were edgy and cranky and our Press Releases were too many layers of word play laying bare how we were playing with words to free your mind to be able to receive The TransMission, even eschewing a band name for pictographic iconography and adopting an Abductee Outreach Program marketing parody. A hoot.
The Sunz.com site evolved as the content developed leading to a “Website Release Party” in San Francisco in Dec, 1996 at Anon Salon in conjunction with our most recent live show Corporate Product Demonstration 2.0 and the premiere of our video Domino Falls on Dirk Dirksen’s cable access tv show.
Prior to that, by the end of 1995 I had a working Sunz website that showcased a technically sophisticated band of multimedia producers cutting the edge of a new paradigm. Needing to take it one step further I produced a mirror version of the Sunz site in Anaglyphic 3D.
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