Blip Festival 2009

Day 2 – Backers Show

lazerbeat — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:49:53 +0000

Photo by Marjorie Becker

Music is kind of weird, people play gigs, often well, sometimes very well. Every now and then, the stars align or fate intervenes or maybe it’s just the right crowd in the right place with the right band but something utterly remarkable happens. I wasn’t in that theater in Paris when [...]

Slides fom NO CARRIER’s Open Source VJ Solutions workshop

Blip Festival — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:25:27 +0000

Open Source Solutions For Live Visuals

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Day 2 Report

lazerbeat — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:43:18 +0000

Day 2

Disasterpeace/Enso Any fan of Pause Music should be familiar with Disasterpeace. Kind of an interesting choice for Blip given how incredibly intricate and progressive his music is. I wasn’t sure how well it would translate to a live setting. The answer is not badly at all but I couldn’t help feeling the empty drum kit [...]

Day 1 Report

lazerbeat — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:00:23 +0000

The Bell House is a great venue. I have absolutely no idea why but I had it in my head that it was a hotel. Not true. It’s a big, old warehouse, I think from the 1920s. The entrance is through a fairly large open room which doubles as a bar and a cafe. There [...]

Day 2 video

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:58:47 +0000

Day 2 video, more coming soon! Video by BOSTON8BIT.

This post was submitted by Chris Mahoney.

This Week’s Blips

Blip Festival — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:22:00 +0000

Blip recaps by Bomb Guts http://bit.ly/4Aga95 #blip09 # More Blip recaps on 2D-X http://bit.ly/6Sfk3D #blip09 # Blip Festival photos by @suidroot http://bit.ly/5Kzlg9 #blip09 #

It’s over..

TCTD — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:13:06 +0000

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But we are just getting started. Take a look at some of these youtubes from this years festival.

Gaijin Games/Robotube Battle of the Brand Gamejam caught on camera

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:09:27 +0000

We checked in with Gaijin Games and Robotube throughout the night as they completed their game.

You can catch the clips, including the epic moment of completion, here.

These were orginially broadcast live on our Blip liveblog, which you can see here.

This post was submitted by Anthony.

Whats going on Saturday? Its the last day, sucka!

Blip Festival — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:12:18 +0000

Workshops! Screenings!

1:00pm Film Screening – Reformat the Planet 1.5 and Curated Music Videos from 2 Player Productions * Location: Main Room, The Bell House * Price: Free

Shot by 2 Player Productions, the same crew behind the Blip Festival DVDs, the 40-minute Reformat the Planet 1.5 covers New York City’s Pulsewave concerts, “the growth of the [...]

Thursday Performance Highlights

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:04:04 +0000

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How’s this for user-generated, motherbitches? We’ve got videos of last night’s Failotron, Chromix, Minusbaby, Je Deviens DJ et 3 Jours, and Albino Ghost Monkey up on our blog!

Check ‘em here!

This post was submitted by Anthony.

This Week’s Blips

Blip Festival — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:22:00 +0000

Brooklyn Courier's 24/7 blog wrote about @blipfestival http://bit.ly/7BCPfO #blip09 # Last day to enter: Hey NYC! The Blip Festival is coming Dec 17-19 http://bit.ly/blip09 RT this to win 2 festival passes #blip09 @hypem # On the Blip Blog: Blip Talk with Bit Shifter: http://blipfestival.org/2009/blog/12/17/bliptalk-with-bit-shifter/ #blip09 # Little-Scale's Babycastles/CDM party recap: http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/12/babycastles-cdm-handmade-music-wrap-up.html #blip09 # The Blip Festival is in Time [...]

Whats going on Friday?

Blip Festival — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:05:28 +0000

minusbabies.. in 3-d!

1pm-3pm Film Screening – Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet – $5

‘Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet’ is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and [...]

Eat Rabbit with viz by Rosa Menkman

Blip Festival — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:00 +0000

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Failotron Live!

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:43:56 +0000

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Failotron live! More live coverage at http://www.bytejacker.com

This post was submitted by Anthony.

BATTLE OF THE BRANDS is ROCKIN’!

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:41:06 +0000

Hey fans of game-inspired music and music-inspired games! We Gaijin & Robotube dudes are rocking our “build-a-game-in-a-day” challenge over in the corner of the lounge! Swing by if you’re interested in witnessing total dominance!

We’ve got the base gameplay mostly implemented and are moving on to integrating Glomag’s rockin’ score/sound effects!

This post was submitted [...]

BlipTalk with tRasH cAn maN

TCTD — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:30:02 +0000

Sprung from the fascination of raw, hard waveform synthesis, chip tune artist tRasH cAn maN started out in 2001 with but a single Nintendo Game Boy running the software LSDj. In his music he seems to cram the very last drop of juice from heavily stressed chip as ecstatic beats are mixed with quasi intellectual [...]

Whats Going on Thursday

Blip Festival — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:25 +0000

Welcome to Day 1 of the Blip Festival! Here is whats on tap for today!

8:00 Silent Requiem With visuals by Jean Y. Kim 8:40 failotron With visuals by Paris 9:20 Leeni With visuals by VBLANK 10:00 minusbaby With visuals by Enso 10:40 Chromix With visuals by The C-Men 11:20 Je Deviens DJ en 3 Jours With visuals by NO CARRIER [...]

Blip Open Mic Report

lazerbeat — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:33:09 +0000

more pics:

It’s about 7:52 am on, I think, Thursday the 17th of December, although I could be out by at least a couple of days either way. I woke up a few minutes ago feeling like I had been dry humped by an angry rhino in my sleep.

Last night was the pre-festival open mic event, [...]

BlipTalk with BIT SHIFTER

TCTD — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:12:27 +0000

New York City’s Bit Shifter weighs in with a blitzkrieg strike of semiautomatic pixel fire, delivered from a twin Nintendo Game Boy assault rig. Exemplifying a bracing distillation of the less-is-more philosophy, Bit Shifter embraces limitations and eschews overstated indulgences in favor of the streamlined environments of the Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ home-brew Game [...]

BlipTalk with Failotron

TCTD — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:25:59 +0000

Drawing influences from Joy Division to Talk Talk and A Silver Mt. Zion, Áron Birtalan creates cinematic, brooding music for movies, for installations, for fun.

As for Blip 2009, in alliance with Starscream drummer George Stroud, Áron delivers half an hour of lo-tek landscapes and intense sonic explosions, only for the sake of making teenage girls [...]

BLIP YOUR OWN ADVENTURE Winner Annouced

Jenn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:04:29 +0000

A huge thanks to everyone that submitted videos to the BLIP YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FAN VIDEO CONTEST. Our grand prize winner is Rich Greco! He will be joining the fervent folks at Blip Festival and his video “Bright Lights” will screen with Reformat the Planet 1.5 on Saturday 12/18. Extra thanks for Plogue for donating [...]

Pre-Blip Festival Events on 12/16: Handmade Chip Music & Blip Festival Open Mic

Jenn — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:22:40 +0000

Can’t wait to experience The Blip Festival? Check out our official pre-Blip parties on Wednesday, December 16th !

Babycastles Arcade Kickoff Party feat. Handmade Chiptunes Night Free, 6:00PM – 8:30P Silent Barn, 915 Wyckoff Street (Brooklyn)

Babycastles teams up with Handmade Music Night for the inaugural opening of a permanent indie games arcade in Brooklyn.

This opening celebrates Adam Atomic’s [...]

BlipTalk with Photographer Marjorie Becker

Jenn — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:03:07 +0000

Most of the vibrant photos you see flashing across the front of blipfestival.org were taken by this year’s official Blip photographer and blogger, Marjorie Becker. Since she will be enduring the entirety of Blip Festival with her camera in hand, we took a minute to get to know her.

Blip: Before you got into [...]

BlipTalk with Eat Rabbit

TCTD — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:00:40 +0000

EAT RABBIT EAT DIETETIC BUT MOVES ELECTRIC ON TONIC MUSIC.

HE DANCE GENETIC ON ELECTRONIC RYTHMS AND DIABOLIC LEADS.

BIP BIP DOES THE KEYBOARD BOOM BOOM

DO THE LOUD SPEAKERS AND THE MAGNETIC ATTRACTION BRING US IN A MUSICAL SPIRAL LEADED BY EAT RABBIT.

Blip: Before you got into making chip music, what type of music or art where [...]

The Blip Festival Warmup-Workout Airs on WFMU’s Sound and Safe with DJ Trent

Jenn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:14:30 +0000

On Monday December 14th from 8 – 11pm, WFMU’s DJ Trent gears up for this coming weekend’s Blip Festival with a visit from some of the folks behind the massive 3-day explosion of old-style video game sounds. Patric Catani, Peter Swimm, Je Deviens DJ En Trois Jour, and C-Men exploit the deepest, brightest sights and [...]