Paniq

Paniq (or paniq, born Leonard Ritter, on July 31, 1980 in Frankfurt am 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Third place at the Breakpoint 2004 demoparty “streaming music” competition for his single Instruction Pointer.
2003
* Second place at the for his single an den wahren menschen.
* Sixth place at the Breakpoint 2003 demoparty “streaming music” competition for his single cubeworld.
Selected works
Demos
* fr-036: zeitmaschine (2003) — received 1st place at the tUM 2003 PC demo competition. Music and graphics designed by Paniq.
* fr-038: theta (2004) — received 2nd place at the tUM 2004 PC demo competition.
* Die Ewigkeit Schmerzt; received 1st place at the Evoke 2006 PC demo competition.
* Masagin - Nvision 2008 Invitation; received 1st place at the Breakpoint 2008 PC demo competition.
* fr-062: the cube (2009) — received 1st place at the tUM 2009 combined demo competition. Paniq wrote the soundtrack for the Demo.
Music albums
* Better Tomorrow (2001)
* Unsecurious (2002)
* Advertising for Metaphysics (2003)
* Mentalmilestones (2004)
* Neurons: Fire At Will (2005)
* Lost Known Good Configuration (2006)
* Story of Ohm (2007)
* From Zero to Hero (2009)
Programs
* Aldrin, a modular sequencer/tracker application.
* PyBuzz, a Python host for Jeskola Buzz.

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