NYC 8/21: Gameboy Performance Night @ The Tank

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spaceworks @ The Tank is proud to announce:

BLOCK ROCKING BITS
A diverse exploration of the Nintendo Game Boy as musical instrument
Thursday, Aug 21 ? 930pm sharp
spaceworks @ The Tank
432 W 42nd St between 9th&10th - nyc
trains to port auth / times sq / walk west
$7
http://www.thetanknyc.com/spaceworks/

INFO:
Block Rocking Bits is an event featuring leading practitioners in the
underground Game Boy music micromovement, all of whom utilize the Nintendo
Game Boy as principal musical instrument.  Chicago's Mark DeNardo joins New
York Game Boy musicians Nullsleep, Glomag, and Bit Shifter in a
diverse exploration of the game platform as a musical instrument.

Each of the artists featured makes use of independently-produced custom
software cartridges allowing the familiar handheld gaming device to be
repurposed into a sequencer / synthesizer, revealing the seemingly limited
platform to be an astonishingly robust musical tool.  Collectively, the
artists at Block Rocking Bits will provide a fascinating cross section of
the nascent Game Boy music movement, already proving itself to be rich and
varied, and drawing inspiration not only from video games and dance music
but also from folk traditions, experimental soundscape exploration, punk
rock, and other unexpected idioms.

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.mike rosenthal/
.home/ http://www.tempaural.net
.work/ http://www.temproductions.net
.play/ http://www.thetanknyc.com

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