PIXEL SOUNDS @ CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE
Workshops | Saturday 5 April, 1-5pm
Performance | Saturday 5 April, 7pm
TICKETS
Performance | $10 Adults & $8 Conc
Workshop | Free, limited spaces. Bookings can be made for the workshops by calling Box Office on 4645 4100
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After the success of C-A-C’s Chip Music festival in 2013, Pixel Sounds is back in 2014 to dish up another dose of blips, bleeps and 8-bit squelch. Come down in the afternoon and learn how to create and play music on your GameBoy. Learn how to transform cheap electronic toys into usable musical instruments through the art of circuit bending. Then join us for a night of performances by some of the finest local and international purveyors of chip tune.
Artists include:
Sabrepulse (UK)
The J. Arthur Keenes Band (Can)
godinpants
men64
Victory Road
Gameboy Music Workshop
All the artists performing will lend hand in getting you to learn the basics of creating music on a Nintendo Gameboy with the software Little Sound DJ. You will learn the controls and be walked through creating a short loop. There is a limited amount of provided equipment so get in early or if you have your own Gameboy or LSDJ Cartridge and headphones bring them along or feel free to watch.
Introduction to Circuit Bending
Circuit bending is “the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within low voltage electronic devices such as battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.”
Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly used within chip music and the nice chaps from men64 would like to show you how they do it.