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The Blip Festival: Like Girl Talk and a Game Boy Had a Baby [Mods]
Gizmodo — ... atmospheric pieces, not to mention the workshops, screenings, and presentations that are included in the Festival. The documentary Reformat the Planet, which debuted earlier this year at South by Southwest, will be shown at the festival, and the trailer here does more than I could to describe how cool this is. The Blip Festival's tickets are $15 a night, and held at the Bell House (149 7th Street, Brooklyn). [New York Times, photograph by Richard Gin] ...

Blip Festival 2008 coverage
MAKE Magazine — ... musicians prefer to play on older consoles -- the more obscure and archaic, the better -- and can only produce a handful of notes, the range of styles and genres can be dizzying. For example, Graffiti Monsters cranks out punk-influenced chiptunes on Sony PlayStation Portables and Game Boys. Mr. Johnson, one of the earliest known chiptune performers, who goes by Nullsleep, describes his sound as leaning towards ambient electronica bordering on romantic pop. - Turning Game Boys Into Synthesizers Read more | Permalink | Comments ...