Event:
Gameboy Music Club @ RoCA
Date: November
18, 2007, 2pm
Where: Rockland
Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Tickets: $10
at the door
Curators: Lynn
Stein and Peter Artin
Contact:
Exhibition Director, Lynn Stein,
845-358-0877, LynnStein@aol.com
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
