Tag: NO CARRIER

  • NO CARRIER Call for NSF composers.

    august_pwNO CARRIER is looking for fresh NSF’s for his series of Pulsewave NES
    ROM fliers. These ROM’s are used to promote Pulsewave, a monthly chip
    party in NYC. He has been creating original ROM’s each month for over
    two years. They were even recently featured as part of Uninteded Uses,
    an art show at the Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia. Join Nullsleep, Baron
    Knoxburry, Animal Style, Peter Swimm, Alex Mauer, and 8GB and become
    (more) famous on the interwebs by submitting your tunes for his ROM’s.

    If you haven’t seen them yet, go here to download the previous fliers:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20111001062536/http://www.no-carrier.com/software.html

    There is a thread with more information found on 8bitcollective:

    And don’t miss the exciting third anniversary of Pulsewave!

  • NO CARRIER’s NES soft circuit bending

    [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ZvYSsf1VKw" width="425" height="344" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /]

    NO CARRIER writes:

    This is an example of what I like to call soft circuit bending. When you circuit bend a Nintendo/NES you usually end messing up the graphics and corrupting the RAM. This ROM does just that, but with software – and you can see the results are similar to what you’d expect with hardware circuit bending.

    All effects in the video are controlled by buttons – when the image is static a button isn’t being pressed. You can see that there are a lot of possibilities, including pressing multiple buttons to simultaneously scroll and corrupt the screen.

    If you’re interested in this and want to know more, check out my web site soon.

    I plan to have tutorials to help you write your own NES bending software with full open source examples. In the future I will also have kits for sale for those that would like to run these ROM’s on real NES systems

    His website.

  • 8Static This week.. Catch Nexus Radio

    Like a less talented high school radio station..The men of chip speak
    Like a less talented high school radio station..The men of chip speak

    In December I appeared with NO CARRIER, ALEX MAUER, ANIMAL STYLE, and CHEAP DINOSAURS. Check out live sets and the entire 3 hours of glower here:

    http://truechiptilldeath.com/wp-content/uploads/squarewaves_on_teh_airwaves.mp3

    And don’t forget to check out this weekends 8STATIC!

  • Best Live Visuals I

    VJs are a core element in today’s music shows.
    Wherever you will go to a show, you will see an assortment of screens with visuals on it. Unfortunately, the importance of the VJ is usually under appreciated.

    For certain they yield big power: they can enhance or destroy a performance. Many times I have remained in awe gasping at a screen on a music show, and many times I wanted to yell “turn off the fucking screen”… Having being a “full time VJ” (that means, this being my main and only means of income) for about 8 years, and having curated many a VJ events and exhibitions in that time, I am pretty certain of what makes or break a good one and some times believe me, for the sake of conserving the good name of live visualists, it would be best to shut the screen off :P

    The task is a complex one. In my view, the VJ is a bit of a “Swiss Army Knife” in the electronic music business. He or she has to have a grasp of visual aesthetics, obvious dominance of the video field (be it live motion video or animation), a bit of layout/design skills, music sense or, better, more advanced music knowledge and last, but not least, notions of scenography and stage setup, as well as all the tech know-how that makes each of these possible. They usually have to provide, as well, all the gear that makes their set possible, with no such thing as a “house backline” for VJs existing in many places (sometimes, venues will not even have a projector). It makes you think a lot each time you think that shoving images on-screen is an easy task.

    I’ll cut the babble short now and present you with our first nominee in the Live Visuals Award. Hailing from Philly in the United States, he is a very regular VJ at the monthly Pulsewave events at NYC, as well as other events around the area and abroad. Frequent workshop lecturer and fine 6502 coder, please welcome him:

    NO CARRIER
    [Philadelphia, USA]

    [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQ1PBTsJ4lw" width="425" height="344" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /]Cow'p + No Carrier @ Blip Festival 2008
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  • 8Static Philly was lovely

    The birds are real.
    The birds are real.

    Last weekend, the Philadelphia area was blasted with what is hopefully the first in a series of regular chip shows under the 8STATIC name. The event, at a yoga studio felt like being in a big (and awesome) living room.

    The lineup included Graffiti Monsters, Cheap Dinosaurs, Animalstyle, glomag, BitShifter and the stunning visuals of VBLANK, NO CARRIER, Voltage Controlled and noteNdo.  Additionally there was a screening of the documentary “Reformat the Planet”

    The media coming in from this event is as impressive, with shots from the flickr stream, and the following videos on the Cheap Dinos youtube.

    b00DaW also provided some bootlegs of some of the artists performances as well. Check them out:

    mark_denardo_-_live_at_8static_philadelphia__10-18-2008_ Mark Denardo and Grafitti Monsters

    cheap_dinosaurs_-_live_at_8static_philadelphia__10-18-2008_ Cheap Dinosaurs

    glomag_-_live_at_8static_philadelphia__10-18-2008_ Glomag

    bitshifter_-_live_at_8static_philadelphia_10-18-2008_incomplete Bit Shifter (partial)