Event: Gameboy Music Club @ RoCA
Date: November 18, 2007, 2pm
Where: Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Curators: Lynn Stein and Peter Artin
Donkey Kong, Tetris, Super Mario Brothers, The Legend of Zelda, and yes, even PONG. On Sunday, November 18th, 2007, RoCA will be hosting an afternoon of the coolest music trend in geek culture today, The Game Boy Music Club, a concert created with and inspired by those old games that we obsessed over for thousands of hours locked in our bedrooms.
Artists with names like Bit Shifter, Bubblyfish, Glomag, and Nullsleep create pop music out of our 1980's computer trash. Blocky, pixilated video game visuals straight from the mid 1980's light up the RoCA Gallery walls, created by artist Jeff Donaldson aka noteNdo.
Some artists choose to transform the noise into experimental and futuristic sound, while others leave the "bleeps" and "bloops" of video games unchanged. It becomes "more about the music itself and not the idea of using a Game Boy," says Haeyoung Kim a.k.a. Bubblyfish. Gameboy musicians perform bobbing their heads while staring at tiny laptop screens as if picking up email, but by the time the rave-up music starts pumping, the walls begin to shake, whatever thought the audience may have had about the music being just kiddy toy's "bleeps" and "bloops" vanishes. This is seriously cool.
Who would've guessed that staying inside on a beautiful day to play video games would become a cultural event!
Links: Harris
:: BIT SHIFTER ::
glomag
Cool Hunting Video: 8-Bit v2: noteNdo
www.bubblyfish.com
Nullsleep | 8bitpeoples
