Toothless Chandelier presents International Chiptune Resistance

Thu, Jun 1
6:00pm-9:00pm
donations for the traveling musicians are appreciated

Low-bit tactical specialists equipped solely with Nintendo Game Boys
and NES consoles operate as a highly dangerous mobile chiptune
assault unit. Enter a romscape, of familiar beeps, clicks, and bits
of obsolete game hardware, repurposed into arresting laser-guided
installations and low-res, hard-hitting precision rhythms -- all
delivered at high volume from standard issue handhelds and home
gaming consoles. The machines are small, the sound is gigantic, the
scope is worldwide, the advance is unstoppable. Prepare your defenses.

visual art by
NULLSLEEP
FLIGHT404
x|k
CAMERON SOREN

music by
BIT SHIFTER
NULLSLEEP
x|k

BIT SHIFTER (NYC, 555 recordings) explores high-energy low-bit music
composed and performed on the Nintendo Game Boy, in service of a
sound both beat-heavy and melodic. Tagged by Rolling Stone as a "Game
Boy hero," Bit Shifter's music adopts an innocently familiar
soundset, redirecting it into the service of novel and visceral new
idioms, all on a pocket-sized console. The result: giant sounds from
small machines. www.bitshifter.cc/

NULLSLEEP (NYC) uses Game Boys and NES consoles to create
conceptually unique music that blends subversive hardware hacking
with powerful melodic pop. In 1999, together with friend Mike Hanlon
from Detroit, he cofounded the 8bitpeoples: a collective of artists
interested in the audio/video aesthetics of early computers and
videogames. His visual art approaches similar territory, capturing
those fleeting moments where New York meets Nintendo. Have you seen
the flying goombas hanging out with the pigeons lately? Oh, and watch
out for those giant flesh eating plants that pop out of the green
sewer pipes. Nullsleep consistently demonstrates his passion for
pushing the limits of both the hardware and the heart. http://
www.nullsleep.com

x|k, as well, will be providing visuals and audio for the night's
performance. Presumably, he'll be using his MIDINES creation also
used by such (glitch/hard) core heroes as Bogdan Raczynski and
Venetian Snares. MIDINES is a hardware / cartridge interface (game)
that enables MIDI control of the 8bit NES sound chip. Midines allows
the 8bit NES to join the ranks along side other retro gear in the
professional MIDI recording studio. NesFX is a retro graphic
visualization that is seeded by the incoming MIDI sound data, and is
included with Midines. Version 1.1.0 features 256 samples (accessible
in two keyboard banks) featuring TR707,TR808,TR909,LINN,Amen+other
breaks, stabs, and essential chip battlz. www.wayfar.net/
0xf00000_overview.php

FLIGHT404 is the title under which the co-founder and Creative
Director at the Barbarian Group, Robert Hodgin, houses his narrative
and visual experiments. He will be providing visuals for BitShifter's
set. Using the freeware java compiler, Processing, (http://
www.processing.org), all of the presented visuals will be rendered
live (no prerecorded film loops or pre-processed effects). Live audio
analysis from BitShifter's performance combined with a live webcam
input augments the effects. Most of the work will be done through a
MIDI drumpad which has been programmed to allow the control of camera
angles, colors, effects and transitions. Prepare to be amazed by
awesome beauty. www.flight404.com

CAMERON SOREN is a video/installation artist and student at the San
Francisco Art Institute. In essentially his own words, he will be
presenting big sceneries on the computer made out of cut outs and
pieces of old Nintendo games. He takes villages from Zelda style
games and adds graffiti, changes the words around when the characters
are having a conversation so they change their dialogues, and cutup
clipart wall installation fuckwithery. It's pretty big. His cellphone
blog is at www.flickr.com/photos/forcequit

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MIGHTY pushes aside the party and aims to promote the access to and
appreciation of San Francisco's art, culture, and art culture via its
new mighty gallery, TOOTHLESS CHANDELIER. The nature of a music venue
in concert with a gallery gives artists, both visual and audible, a
chance to intersect for a most visceral nightlife experience.
toothless chandelier encourages artists to feel limitless and express
their perception of the indomitable, the omnipotent, or the
courageous through murals, installations, couture, and video. While
remaining an indefatigable location for dancing and drinking, Mighty
wants to create a vibrant space for exhibitions, installations,
digital works, murals, photography, sculpture, lectures, and colossal
collaborative happenings on behalf of San Francisco's tenacious and
talented artists. The gallery will have daytime hours for the public,
to engage the community and see whom Mighty champions and which
creative champions champion Mighty.

Venue:

Toothless Chandelier: A Mighty Gallery
550 Utah st
San Francisco
415-626-7001
http://www.mighty119.com

at 15th and utah streets, parallel to 15th and potrero.

Additional Info:

415-626-7036
http://www.mighty119.com