GATE w/ Animal Style, Bit Shifter, Bubblyfish, Cheap Dinosaurs, Glomag, noteNdo, & Nullsleep March 21, 2008

GATE
Animal Style | Bit Shifter | Bubblyfish | Cheap Dinosaurs | Glomag | noteNdo | Nullsleep
@ The Rotunda
4014 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

Worldwide high-intensity chiptune strikes continue unabated, in patterns that experts are terming "coordinated." This Friday night, Bubblyfish, Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, Glomag, Animal Style, and Cheap Dinosaurs conduct high-volume field tests at GATE, with noteNdo manning the high-intensity circuit-damage visuals. It all takes place at The Rotunda in Philadelphia. This show is free.

BUBBLYFISH: Haeyoung Kim relocated to the US from Korea in 1992. With a background in classical piano, she explores the territory of sounds and the cultural representation. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she has been creating "lo-fi" 8-bit sound works and minimal electronic compositions. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Haeyoung's work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including The American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, New Museum, Lincoln Center Walter Reed Theater, and also heard on "Spinning On Air", WNYC Radio as well as Spongefork Radio on the web.

BIT SHIFTER explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive soundset traditionally reserved for video game sound effects and background music, all done on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possible by Oliver Wittchow and Johan Kotlinski's respective home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, Bit Shifter's music adopts and subverts the playfulness inherent in the familiar Game Boy soundset, repurposing it into the service of novel idioms.

NULLSLEEP is Jeremiah Johnson. Nullsleep uses Game Boys and NES consoles to create conceptually unique music that blends subversive hardware hacking with powerful melodic pop. In 1999, together with friend Mike Hanlon from Detroit, he cofounded the 8bitpeoples: a collective of artists interested in the audio/video aesthetics of early computers and videogames. In the time since, Nullsleep has released a number of recordings through 8bitpeoples, his most recent work focusing on music created with the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System platforms. His constant push for new ways to force the most out of yesterday's machines and the unparalleled romantic chiptune intensity embodied in his music have gained him notice worldwide. Whether thrashing away on a keyboard hooked up to a Game Boy like an electric guitar or rocking hacked NES cartridges, Nullsleep consistently demonstrates his passion for pushing the limits of both the hardware and the heart.

GLOMAG makes 8 Bit music using Nintendo gameboys. He has performed live in the US and Europe and has several releases available, including the recent Astralwerks CD of Kraftwerk covers, "8 Bit Operators", which features his version of "Pocket Calculator". He has been featured in articles in Wired Magazine and Art Forum and his music is a major part of the award winning internet series "This Spartan Life" which he also writes and directs.

ANIMAL STYLE: Joey Mariano has been making electronic music since the year 2000. Trained as a jazz guitarist, Joey first gained critical acclaim with his band Rerun. Recently, under the alias Animal Style, he has been writing chiptune music on programs like Nanoloop, LSDJ, and famitracker. Creator of the GBC foot adaptor, he continues to innovate the live performance of chiptune music through improvisation and creativity.

CHEAP DINOSAURS: Dino, a veteran of the indie rock scene, first gained recognition as a chiptune virtuoso with his his band Chromelodeon - integrating chrunchy melodies, huge orchestration, and gameboy tracker music. Recently, his projects include the video game cover band Sprite Slowdown. Want to hear ripping keyboards? Want to hear the most ridiculous gameboy tracker programming? Listen to Dino's solo work~! Let cheap dinosaurs invade your file permissions.

NOTENDO: Jeff Donaldson (noteNdo) uses modified video game consoles to produce live visuals. You may have seen him as the theoretical house VJ for Pulsewave or maybe at Craptops vs. Laptops? In the words of Avant-Pop Pocket, "It is unanticipated art, don't you think?" Jeff also plays in Wzt Hearts and makes lots of noise.

http://filefreakout.com/animal-style/
http://bit.shifter.net/
http://www.bubblyfish.com/
http://www.myspace.com/cheapdinosaurs/
http://www.glomag.com/
http://www.nullsleep.com/
http://audiovideo.sevcom.com/rom.html

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