yay!
mark your calendars, blip! festival is coming to europe:


Rising from the ashes of antiquated computers and forgotten video
consoles comes the audio/visual onslaught that is *Blip Festival:
Europe*. The North American Festival, presented by Manhattan arts
organization THE TANK and NYC artist collective 8BITPEOPLES, has rocked
New York City for the past three years with over one hundred performer
and thousands of attendees. Now, in collaboration with the good people
of Platform4, they are assembling some of the best performers in the
world in Aalborg, Denmark on July 24 & 25.

Over the course of two thrilling days expect your senses to be pummeled
by some of the hottest emerging voices in a movement that showcases
artists creating live music and visuals on classic hardware like the
Nintendo Entertainment System, the Commodore 64, The Nintendo Game Boy
and the venerable Atari ST. Continuing the Blip Festival's goal of
highlighting the global Chip Music phenomenon and its related
disciplines, Blip Festival: Europe's mission is showcasing genre-defying
stuntmen pushing hardware beyond the limits of anything conceived by
their original designers. Selected from a cross section of the world's
most engaging live musicians and visualists, the evening slate of
concerts enclose community focused daytime film screenings,
presentations, and workshops that showcase what might be the worlds
first open source art movement. The goal of the festival is the same as
earlier incarnations, to inform and to rock, to push this nascent scene
beyond its underground roots and into its rightful place as one of the
worlds most exciting and dynamic electronic music movements.


MUSIC


Bit Shifter [US] - Nullsleep [US] - Hally [JP]
Binärpilot [NO] - Bodenständig 2000 [DE] - Bu Bu Kitty Fuckers
[DK] - cheap dinosaurs [US] - glomag [US] - GOTO80 [SE] - La Belle
Indifference [DK] - minusbaby [US] - Rabato [ES] - Random [SE] -
RECEPTORS [US] - Saskrotch [US]


VISUALS


The C-Men [NL] - NO CARRIER [US] - Paris [US] - Raquel Meyers [ES]

more info: http://europe.blipfestival.org/
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