twmac Posted November 27, 2007 If you happen to in New York or near New York in the during the coming weekend, or even if you know anyone in New York. THE BLIP FESTIVAL 2007 THURSDAY NOV 29TH - SUNDAY DEC 2ND. EYEBEAM - 540 WEST 21ST STREET (BTWN 10TH AND 11TH AVES) www.blipfestival.org The BLIP FESTIVAL 2007 is a four-day music and multimedia event, focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology and 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 of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world. The festival will host evening concerts on all 4 nights, as well as daytime workshops and screenings on Saturday and Sunday. For full schedule and lineup, check out the website: http://www.blipfestival.org/schedule.html To buy tickets for individual nights: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=TAN9 To buy festival passes: http://www.smarttix.com/package.aspx?showcode=BLI44 It has music that goes through the gamut of gabba, tecno, Drum and Bass, even a little folk accompanied by 8bit synthesizers and excessive amounts of gameboys. I went last year and it was genius, I got amazingly drunk and saw acts from Japan, Sweden, America, Canada and a few other more random places. If they are there again the pick were Moto Kick, Bit-Shifter, Bubbly fish, and Coova. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrestlevania Posted November 28, 2007 Oh to be a care-free, jet setting millionaire geek... Any word on podcasts/downloads this year? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
twmac Posted November 28, 2007 None at the moment. The line-up also seems to have a very different bunch, with most of the people from last year not making an appearance. The New York staple will be there who were all good, and it should at least be interesting who is doing their stuff this year. I really wish I wasn't in LA right now, I would love to go to New York for that festival again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scrobbs Posted November 29, 2007 Jesus fucking wept. I realise they want to be retro, but for the love of god, please, that website is just offensive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
