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Chicago Chiptune Fest: 8 musicians for 8 bits
Author: tapirA on October 18 2007 Viewed 694 times. 1 person liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Calling for Chicago-based chiptune artists! Looking to put on a 2 day chiptune fest sometime in the cold winter or spring in Chicago. It'll be at the University of Chicago, we can pay $50 per artist. Looking for 8 artists for participation. Reply on this blog. Don't PM me, because the message will get lost.
Seeking diverse performers using anything from circuit bent instruments, C64, NES, gameboy, Atari, etc.
Rule is no laptops, sowwy. Lappies are cool, but we don't want them for this event.
We've had shows ranging in attendance from 30 to 300. We've put on such acts as:
The Lightbox Orchestra
EKG
The Books
Cerberus Shoal
Zs
The Animal Collective
Flockterkit
Single Unit
Aa
Mahjongg
Forbes Graham
Lay All Over It
TEN-TON
Chris Corsano
Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core
Seductive Sprigs
E*rock
Superargo
Evan Saathof
Animal Collective
Xiu Xiu
The Books
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Bobby Birdman
Yacht
Nudge
Erik Lynd
The Extreme Animals
Spires That In the Sunset Rise
Oto
Artificial Lover
Crippled Insectual
Forking With My Asshole
Digital Penetration
Health & Beauty
Volta Do Mar
Gays In the Military
Bobby Birdman
DAT Politics
kevin blechdom
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10/19/07
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j_chot
kevin blechdom doen't make chiptunes, does she?
I think if chiptunners could just sync up their stuff with a drum machine, they would get stale not as quick.
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djugel
There's this crazy guy Billy you might wanna talk to ... he left a comment on my band's myspace (Chandeliers).... he makes very Atari 2600ish stuff.
10/19/07
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tapirA
thanks! i'll try to find him on your page. i hope this idea will work out.
also, if anyone's from the midwest, i'll try to find additional funding somewhere for transportation + you can crash at my place.
oh, and this will be free show and open to public. nobody's into this idea? bad idea?
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jarvis
not necessarily a bad idea, i just don't think there's a ton of chiptune love in chicago. it's kinda like what happy hardcore was to the rave scene: the people that are into it are really into it, the people that are not are really not.
edited: Oct 20 2007
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xik
tapirA said: "thanks! i'll try to find him on your page. i hope this idea will work out.
also, if anyone's from the midwest, i'll try to find additional funding somewhere for transportation + you can crash at my place.
oh, and this will be free show and open to public. nobody's into this idea? bad idea?"
You need to post on some different sites, like VORC.org, Micromusic, 2a03, lemon64, nesdev asking for players. It wouldn't hurt to ask on EFNET #8bitpeoples, best if you just email artists directly. I know theres people involved out in the midwest its just tough to get in touch, Memblers is in Indiana and would be a great guy to get in contact with, did the solar wars soundtrack (nsf) and builds all his own nes hardware, his contact nfo is at the top of link . Hes one of the nesdev admins.
I'm not sure where yuppster / handheld is located these days, last I herd was in chicago, but might be worth trying to track down. link
10/20/07
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tapirA
Billy is AWESOME
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