CLUB EVENT / Chip’s not cheap
Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum are old machines one would not expect to be capable of much. Definitely not of a phat funked-up thrashing, including noisy inserts, electric breaks and an-out of-control bass. A tiny chip intended for the most basic of vibrations that accompany simple games that used to be stored on audio cassettes (if you still remember) – that tiny chip and its limited range of sounds are the reasons and the means for the electro-musical and choreographic weirdness of micro- and chip-tunes, a weirdness that only needs the right touch to become surprisingly dynamic and easy on the ears. HAIP is featuring that right touch, one that has hacked chips and used many flaws to create the ultimate aesthetic pleasure.
AUDIO:
Alexander Støver alias Binärpilot
Binärpilot, photo http://binaerpilot.no
Binärpilot is a program that has found its mission in the destruction of popollution. An extremely funked-up but also hard chip-electro, freely available of course on the Internet at various web-based labels (microHertz). Extra recommended for robots and dance freaks.
Binärpilot/photo goma.blogsome.com
Anders Carlsson aka Goto80
GOTO80
Perhaps one of the wildest, most in-your-face, and most uncompromising chip-artists, composing for years within the demo scene. Who says pop, grindcore and jazz don’t mix with bleeps and lyrics? Expect serious dementia and chip abuse, an 8-bit shredder tasting of blood and caramel.
Luka Prinčič aka Nova deViator
Nova deViator, photo by MinuPlusForward
Roughly from 1999 to 2003, he works primarily with sound, its form, its generation of meaning, and the relevance of contexts to sound and music. In 2002, he starts putting an emphasis on the strong connection between the audible and the visual. In his later research it becomes apparent that he is interested in combination of the visual and the audible – and lately multimedia – within a formalist framework, where the visual, i.e. video, play an increasingly important role.
VIDEO:
Raquel Meyers
Raquel Meyers, photo José Morraja
Visual artist, animator, and video-hacker who creates her pieces and performances using low-bit computer aesthetics that flirt with glitch and video-noise. She exhibits and performs internationally, often with GOTO80, as they will be appearing at HAIP.
Raquel Meyers VJ SET
Rosa Menkman
Explorer of visual glitches, veejay, and artist who is creating fascinating abstract pieces as well as developing the theory and the manifesto of interdividual, of the fault, intermedia, and interpretation. Disfigurement and flaw in technology are immanent. And magnificent.
tongue.jpg, photo picnicnetwork.org/
My main interests have always revolved around inverting the default use of new media technologies, both hardware and software-wise. During my Video Vortex VJ set, I tried to make a collage of ways through which this can be accomplished within the video medium, focusing primarily on the concept of the glitch.
R▲▲S’ photostream via flickr/glitched roms
The English term ‘glitch’ means a malfunction or an error and is generally used to indicate a small defect within a technology. Some of the glitches I will show happened accidentally, while others are triggered on purpose. For me a glitch is a form of machine poetry; a way to vocalize the internal workings of a technology.
Rosa Menkman
C64 Petscii by R▲▲S via flickr
http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/
Delta Nu & Mina Fina
Mina Fina
With colour and moods it can create, Mina Fina (Mina Žabnikar) paints abstract colour landscapes, open structures of patterns and coloured surfaces – smoothly gliding colour images, unfinished short stories.
Delta Nu (Maja Smrekar) explores the fields of video, intermedia, and performing arts. As a veejay, she primarily creates reinterpretations of narrative/ready-made video iconography; at the present event, she will be designing 3-D computer graphics.
For Chip’s Not Cheap, Mina and Maja are preparing a crossover of fragmented two-dimensionality of computer graphics and three-dimensional stratifications of video landscapes.
Mina Fina VJ SET
Delta Nu VJ SET/ source: BrainTV/rcv: 10.95 - 11.7 GHz, snd: 5.8 GHz
