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Blip Festival 2007

Four days of low-bit computer music and visual art
40 artists from 15 countries around the world
November 29 – December 2, 2007
presented by The Tank and 8bitpeoples
held at Eyebeam Atelier | 540 W 21st Street, New York NY
http://www.blipfestival.org

[New York, NY - Oct 14, 2007] – Manhattan art space The Tank and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology. Featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world, 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. The festival’s nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world.

2006’s inaugural Blip Festival was the first showcase of its kind and the largest event in the history of the form, drawing over 1400 attendees. And the Blip Festival 2007 sustains its predecessor’s breakaway momentum. “Last year’s lineup and turnout made clear that there’s a large and growing interest in this movement that shouldn’t be ignored,” states Mike Rosenthal, Blip Festival co-curator and Managing Director of The Tank. “The Tank has been the New York home of the chiptune scene since about 2003, and we feel we owe it to this community to have a massive annual event that reaches out to the broader international community.” Long-standing friends of The Tank, Chelsea’s Eyebeam Atelier, lend their 5000 square-foot art space to this year’s festival, providing it with a perfect home.

Culturally and artistically, the Blip Festival has become its own reward for everyone involved. “In hosting this event,” states Rosenthal, “we not only nurture the chiptune scene by giving international artists a chance to meet each other face-to-face and to present their work, but we also give New Yorkers a unique chance to experience a very hip international subculture that continues to grow and thrive across the world.” So those in-the-know and new initiates alike will enjoy a rare chance to experience this pioneering underground niche movement in digital art and music, buzzing with the excitement of familiar devices doing unfamiliar things. And chances are you’ll find yourself dancing to some of the strangest, most resonant, and most unexpectedly compelling music you’ll have ever heard. We’ll see you November 29th.

http://www.blipfestival.org/
http://www.eyebeam.org/
http://www.thetanknyc.org/
http://www.8bitpeoples.com/



Confirmed lineup (so far!):


Anamanaguchi [NEW YORK NY US]
Bit Shifter [NEW YORK NY US]
Bodenständig 2000 [GERMANY]
Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou (B.S.K.) [JAPAN]
Bubblyfish [NEW YORK NY US]
Crazy Q [SWEDEN]
Mark DeNardo [NEW YORK NY US]
8GB [ARGENTINA]
Gijs Gieskes [THE NETHERLANDS]
gwEm and Counter Reset [UNITED KINGDOM]
Lo-bat. [BELGIUM]
Alex Mauer [PHILADELPHIA PA US]
minusbaby [NEW YORK NY US]
No Carrier (visuals) [PHILADELPHIA PA US]
noteNdo (visuals) [BALTIMORE MD US]
Nullsleep [NEW YORK NY US]
Otro (visuals) [FRANCE]
Postal_m@rket [ITALY]
Rugar [SWEDEN]
Saskrotch [CHICAGO IL US]
Markus Schrodt [AUSTRIA]
6955 [JAPAN]
Tree Wave [DALLAS TX US]
Virt [NEW YORK NY US]
Oliver Wittchow [GERMANY]
Yes, Robot [SPAIN]


... with more to come so STAY TUNED.

i want this in an european city with lowcost connections :(

is that a reason to come to main#2 instead? :)

main has the data airlines festival which is almost as good.

if people had told me about the chiptune festival happening during main i would have had considered it more seriously attending. now its too short notice, already have local plans for halloween.

ryanair even does porto marseilles nowdays.

but but but... airplanes are the worst means of transport ever from the ecological point of view!!! :p

the web site is a total eye cancer. on the other hand i second ps, i want this in a european city :(

I absolutely hate websites that think that 8-bit = UGLY AND UNREADABLE!

They would do themselves a favor if they just designed a decent looking website which actually appear inviting to most people, and not just the die hard Gameboy music-freaks.

blip festival is filled with pretentious american hipsters anyway.

So come in Marseille for the MAIN#2 demoparty and Data Airlines Festival : anyway the Data site, the chipmusic festival is ready for shake your ears and body...

www.mainparty.net

Oh i have now a good reason to fly to NYC, Yeah !

but wait, there's more.. i'll add it when i get a schedule confirmation. :)

-phoenix, pretentious american hipster

These people have no idea what chip music is.

Okkie :DDDD

chiptunes united against bush! chiptunes vote obama in 2008!

Chiptunes don't vote
a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is a chiptune is... :)

phoenix: do you wear Nudies? :)

I didn't even read the whole first post, but for FUCK sake! IT'S BLEEPY BLOOPY 8 BIT MUSIC BECAUSE COMPUTERS COULDN'T PRODUCE ANYTHING ELSE BACK IN THE 80S!!!!

And I even kinda like chiptunes :(

Yes they could.

But nobody knew about it yet!

But even if it was all out of necessity, it still sounds cool. Although, a lot of those "chip musicians" make crappy songs. Nothing at all like the heavily melodic chip music of the 80s/90s.

Virt and nullslleep would be into the "melodic" guys I know from this list.
I somehow heard saskrotch was more into ripping videogames soundtracks and adding breakcore beats to it (but again, you decide.)

ripping videogame soundtracks and adding breakcore beats to it sounds fucking awesome.

doom: you're beeing a pretentious dick btw. jsyk.

Being a pretentious dick is perfectly ok if you're right (as in doom's case).

And being soooo retro and hip is completely laughable if the 'original' guys are still around.