Blip Festival 2011: May 19-21: Chip Tune Mayhem
If you’ve never experienced the sound of a Game Boy being blasted through a PA while a world-class visual artist projects their work on a wall, now is the time to rectify that situation. The 2011 Blip Festival (Fifth Anniversary NYC Edition) starts this Thursday, May 19th. From May 19th—21st the international chip music scene will converge on New York City for presentations, tutorials, and shows from everyone who is allveryone in this gathering of the Chums of Chip.
Chip tune embraces the “audiovisual style of low-bit video games and home computers”—in other words, your Ataris, Nintendos, and Tandys of yore, transformed into earth-levelling music makers.
Act now to get a three-day festival pass (some still available, but pre-order only), or check the schedule and get a ticket(s) for your preferred night(s).
Can’t swing a flight to NYC since your last “incident”? WFMU will be webcasting the Blip festivities. The internet is killing music? Our collective colloquial ass it is!
If you can’t make it to NYC, don’t have an internet connection, and/or would prefer to see a festival in Tokyo, then bookmark, socially save, Facebook, tweet, digg, tumble, iCal, gCal, Evernote, Stickies, Post-It, flesh-carve, or whatever it is you do to remember your important URLs, and check back at: http://tokyo.blipfestival.org/. Soon. Ish.
If all else fails, buy a shirt, the DVD, the live recordings and BLAST IT like YOU are THERE. Play all materials at once for a truly immersive experience. Pour beer on your floor at least one day in advance for a more accurate olfactory and podiatrically-focused tactile experience. Your neighbors will thank you for your efforts.
