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Friday 09 September 2011
KINGS PLACE FESTIVAL 2011
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
www.kingsplace.co.uk
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presents
“Chiptunes: The Best of British”
with
Shirobon
gwEm
Henry Homesweet
der Warst VJ
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Game Boy technology is enjoying a new wave of popularity – on the dance floor! Innovative music-makers use vintage sound chips to produce a style of electronic music inspired by the sound of old computer consoles from the 8-bit era of video games. The technology may be outdated, but fast, fun, dance-tastic tunes made with Game Boys have been revolutionising the contemporary music industry all over the world. Here’s your chance to find out why! Red Orange presents the best chiptunes musicians from the UK: Shirobon, gwEm (substituting Sabrepulse) and Henry Homesweet.
der Warst (substituting LastKnight) add live visuals, mixing glitched video and images with circuit-bent hardware, retro games consoles and creative common hardware. Simon Schäfer’s mysterious sculptures throw out sound and light creating an intense hub of activity. Using old computers, found devices and out-dated technologies, Schäfer brings together low and high tech and re-assembles this into strangely morphing, other worldly machines and sculptures. His performances use a laboratory of rescued electronic hardware such as old and modified 1990s video editing hardware, game consoles and electronic instruments to produce sounds and images. Ultimately, Schäfer’s work highlights the pace at which our media, entertainment and communication worlds are changing and will continue to do so.
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Friday 09 September 11 7.30pm
St Pancras Room
Shirobon
£4.50 in advance. Book now here
Shirobon Game Boys, laptops, electonics
der Warst VJ
Michael Cordedda, aka Shirobon, discovered chiptunes when he was fifteen. This triggered his love for sound design and the production of electronic music. Now at the age of nineteen his passion is professional sound design, production and performance. Shirobon is currently working on a new release which will express a different side to his music. The album will retain some old chiptune elements while introducing a whole new exciting sound.
“This track is a banger, hits hard and can fight its way into the hardest of electro playlists. Just hit play and don’t think for a second you are about to hear the music for a Megaman game, you are about to hear some hard electro… that is of course with the right dosage of sick 8-bit leads” technocracymusic.blogspot.com
Friday 09 September 11 8.45pm
St Pancras Room
gwEm
£4.50 in advance. Book now here
gwEm Game Boys, laptops, electric guitar
der Warst VJ
With a career in 8bit music lasting more than 10 years and over two hundred gigs in at least twenty countries, few musicians in the 8bit scene can claim to be more seasoned than gwEm. His travels have taken him as far east as Japan, as far north as Norway, as far south as India, as far west as the United States and he has no plans of hanging up his trademark Flying V guitar anytime soon.
gwEm, known to his mother as Gareth Morris, creates his 8bit music using the maxYMiser software he wrote for the 1980s Atari ST homecomputer and talks excitedly about the artistic freedom the 8bit scene gives him. “8bit music gives me the carte blanche to explore any genre I want, while still remaining under the umbrella of the friendly chip music scene”. Certainly his extensive back catalogue of material bears this out, with drum’n’bass, punk, heavy metal, garage, electro, folk, house, grime, dad rock, happy hardcore and dubstep all present and correct.
gwEm’s releases can be found on a number of net and physical labels including Astralwerks, 8bitpeoples, micromusic, Shitkatapult and Muller. Collaborations with fellow London based artists, the folk musician Amy Sayer, grime MC Appljuic and (famously) jazz drummer/jungle MC Counter Reset have been more than fruitful.
Friday 09 September 11 10pm
St Pancras Room
Henry Homesweet
£4.50 in advance. Book now here
Henry Homesweet Game Boys, laptops, electronics
der Warst VJ
Henry Homesweet is a micromusic producer from the UK. He takes retro and vintage computer-game hardware and bends the audio into a modern context, composing and performing crunchy lo-fi psychedelic techno and electro straight from outdated consoles. His sounds are sometimes manipulated, often raw, and always dirty.
“Henry Homesweet’s music is more like progressive mature electro, and it’s incredibly intricate, interesting and mature.” Noize Makes Enemies
“Henry Homesweet is simply one of the most talented musicians I’ve come across in a long time.” Noize Makes Enemies
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Book now to avoid disappointment.