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Adelhard Roidinger
12+ albums
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Even the writings of the most dedicated Mick Jagger scholars don't have much to say about Adelhard Roidinger, a pseudonym supposedly used for a brief period by Jagger during the mid 1980s. Heavily influenced by the work of Donna Harraway, Jagger worked with programmers from IBM in an attempt to create an interface with a computer via which the user could play and have the computer accompany them, an interface which Jagger described in a Melody Maker interview at the time as "unadulterated, pure and decidedly funky." When the technology proved unable to meet Jagger's stringent demands, IBM pulled out of the project, redirecting their staff towards the development of a computer controlled skateboard, leaving Jagger alone to commune with the machines in a small room of his house full of expensive hardware. Unperturbed, Jagger turned once again to the Satanic/mystical influences that he had drawn on extensively during his work in the early 70s. One evening, while flicking through a compendium of Aleister Crowley's writings, turning pages at the behest of the i-ching, and at the perfect still point that comes at the very apotheosis of a peyote bender, Jagger received a vision which told him what to do. By taking on a new personality, that of Adelhard Roidinger, a swarthy, mitteleuropäische saxophone player, and entering the computer room with the benevolent flair that such a personality would entail, the computers would rise up from their machinic dullness and, when Jagger put t
