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A Matrix of Alternative Light and Sound

Zonavar's Sticky (!) Labyrinthian Web Basement

aka Craig Dewick's alter-ego Basement, where I help to Promote a

Nice And Safe Attitude

Hello, welcome to one of my alternative Web pages. On this page I am in the guise of Zonavar (formerly known as Navar), a supporter and creator of experimental electronic audio and visual arts. I suppose you'll be asking who am I, and how did I become a DJ, etc.? Well, read on to find out the answers to all this, and more...

However, before you go any further, take a look at the picture of me to the right of this paragraph. Now you have no excuse for not recognizing me! 8-)

[ The picture on the right hand side was taken in mid-August 1997 during my trip to Ohio in the US to visit Jenni, aka Jennifer Palmer, and Jaguar, aka Jennifer Wischer (both from Vrave) and be a guest DJ at their birthday bash called Jenerator. This view is cut from a pic of me leaning against Jenni's car out the back of her parent's house in Hamilton, Ohio. For more information about the Jenerator story, check the site ]

Support Unrestricted Use of DVD (Digital Video Disk) and MP3 (MPEG-1 Level 3) Distribution Technologies!

The OpenDVD.org site serves as a comprehensive resource for developers looking to implement DVD technology from an open-source perspective, and for users to take full advantage of all the benefits that DVD's and MPEG encoding have to offer.

One site which carries a swag of DeCSS information (and source code!) is David Fisher's Australian DeCSS Resource Centre.

It's important that these emerging technologies are not restricted in their application, as the DAT (Digital Audio Tape) standards were, by bodies such the RIAA, etc...

If you have an interest in region-free DVD players, check out my Hiteker DVD player info page. These players are the exact same ones that are being sold in North America under the Apex brand name. The Hiteker/Apex players are a hackers dream, as some of the sites linked from the Hiteker page will show!

Related to this is the saga surrounding MPEG-1 level 3 (aka MP3) audio data encoding, which is a well-proven and very efficient method of compressing audio data. The major record companies claim MP3 provides an easy avenue for piracy of commercially-produced music. All I can say to this is good for MP3!

My MP3 archive is a growing collection of old-skool techno and trance electronica...

Space - Where Time Becomes a Loop

Please read my semi-biography to find out more about me in this guise. You can also check out my event- and tape-ograhpy to check out the mixtapes I've produced, and the events I've spun at.

Since this is not my main home page, you might like to go there to find out more about me in general. From there you can access my generic biography, as well as jump to a page with heaps of other links (not necessarily related to alternative electronic arts).

Speaking of alternative electronic arts, etc., I've assembled a collection of links to some other sites and services related to the alternative electronic arts scene both here in Australia and elsewhere. If you can suggest any good sites I should add links to, please send me some email with the details. Try my alternate address if the main one doesn't work.

If you're ever checking out chat sites on the net, I can often be found lurking around on the net at Spacebar which is a quiet, friendly place to go for a chat. More info at the Spacebar home page.

I also used to spend a lot of time on Vrave, which was hosted at HyperReal, however it closed down due to admin conflicts in late 1997. I run two Yahoo groups derived from Vrave:

- Vrave-7283 is a group set up basically to replace the former Vrave talker. Any discussion relating to raves and rave culture is welcome, but sexual discussions should be kept to a minimum.
- TechnoTranceRaveSex is a totally different group which caters specifically for the eroticism of raves and the sensuality involved in raves and rave culture. Providing it's legal, and is related to raves, you can talk about it in this group.

Audio Hardware and Software Support
for Sun and other Unix Systems

I am heavily involved with the excellently reliable computer gear made by Sun Microsystems through my social and commercial interests.

Audio hardware and software support for Unix systems is a rare commodity, but slowly there is more audio support emerging as multimedia becomes more integrated with contempory IT platforms. My Unix audio page contains references to all of the audio hardware and software that I know about which runs under Unix variants such as Linux and Solaris. More contributions, etc. are always welcome...

Something new! A small group of people, led by John Stone, are working on the development of a package of core MIDI system components and applications for Sun machines and other Unix platforms. You should check this out if you're interested in workstation-based MIDI music solutions.

Don't forget to visit

Which now also include a hard house section as well!

This page has been accessed times.

I loosely group the machines here and what I do under the umbrella of the Core Matrix Foundation - my personal affront at the efforts of governments, etc. to restrict our rights to free speech, particularly in electronic communication. If you are concerned about this, please take a look and see if you can make any suggestions to improve the look and content of the site.

If you'd like to send me some email, please feel free to do so. If this link doesn't work for you, my email address is zonavar@lios.apana.org.au, or you can try my alternate address. Don't forget to remove the anti-spam feature!

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