Japanese musician Quarta330, promoter of Tokyo’s Lo-Bit Playground party, twisted plenty of heads on the dubstep scene last year with his immense 8-bit refix of Kode9’s towering 9 Samurai track. He recently performed at Tokyo’s Back To Chill night alongside other Japanese artists such as Goth Trad and T2R, armed with nothing more than two Game Boys, an interface and some effects pedals. Hosted both here and on Laurent Fintoni’s blog, the set has a few jumpy levels and even a little technical down-time midway through; but don’t let that put you off — along with the essential styles currently blasting out of the Jahtari camp, this really is some of the heaviest, most off-the-hook 8-bit music out there at the moment.”
Category: Live Events
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Quarta330 Live In Tokyo
“Half an hour of crunchy 8-bit deepness from Japan’s Game Boy dubstep wizard. -
Blip Festival 2007: Video Collection Teaser
Blip Festival 2007: Video Collection Teaser from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
“Live performance video compilation featuring one track from each of the 32 performers at the second annual Blip Festival, held in New York NY in 2007, and curated and organized by 8bitpeoples and The Tank.
The Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware – such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy – exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character as musical instruments and motion graphics workstations.
In addition to the 32 videos, this collection features a bonus disc packed with interviews, music videos, photos, and more.
The DVD will be available for purchase at this year’s Blip Festival (Dec 4 – Dec 7) and online following the conclusion of the event.
blipfestival.orgProduced, filmed, and edited by 2 Player Productions
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Music: “Retro Attivo (Jonkie Screw)” – The Hardliner” -
First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
Thanks to 8bitweapon who posted this heads up on 8bitcollective, we can bring you some old but fresh news :D
“The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show. It was organized by Dick Moberg of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society.
“Several people in the area had been producing music with their computers so I suggested we have a computer music concert.” said Dick Moberg, organizer of the feast. “John OK’d the idea and we went to work calling our friends and urging them to perform.”“The concert was finally held in one of the larger ballrooms of the Sheraton Hotel. Our borrowed sound system was set up and sound checks made for the recording. We opened the doors to the crowd outside to find several hundred more people than the room could hold. Many sat on the floors of the halls as the music filled the hotel.
Hal Chamberlin had set up an oscilloscope that would project the waveform being played on a screen. The result was a fantastic synchronized light show!”
The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show.
You can listen to the music online or download the songs in MP3 format. The navigation sidebar to the right includes the album’s liner notes, which describe the event, the programmers, and the computers that created the music.
Downloads, tracklist and more at the release’s website
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Colourama Event 2008
Colourama, The first (of what I hope is many) chipfests was held in Malaysia last weekend. It looks like it was a rad time. More info from their blog:
Bit the Medusa (video-Dimbo Dimbo Lets Go! – thanks a.NAS.t FILLeUNiQuE) : http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45873463
more photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/suebahrin08/Colourama08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/afiqr/tags/colourama08/
http://picasaweb.google.com/nikaizu08/Colourama2008
http://picasaweb.google.com/panahpetir/Colourama
http://picasaweb.google.com/munzir86/ColouramaReview & Photo:
http://luieonthemove.blogspot.com/2008/11/photo-colourama-08.html
http://www.gundu.com.my/content/140
http://nik-aizu.blogspot.com/2008/11/chiptune.html
http://seratsehat.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/oleh-oleh-dari-colourama/#more-421Colourama’08 was a blast!! We have greaaaaaaaaaatt experience in making this event a successfull one! The performers was great, the visual was superb magnificient and the crowd was awesome! Seriously, we are satisfied with what we done!