totally. the kind of shows i'm thinking about setting up would be my band (or me alone), some bigger chip act from out of town, and then a local non-chip band. i want to put great chip music in front of people who've never heard of it before.

Having a draw that extends beyond just chipmusic is important. Some people just don't know or care, so the more you offer the more people you get in the door.

edit: aynglush

He's two Canadians for the price of one!

deadbeatblast is awesome, he does great visuals, too and has lighting that he could bring along.  Plus he's a two for one, because he's friends with Starpilot and could bring him along without increasing his travel costs.

Three tips:

1. Book me
2. Guarantee me a large sum of money
3. Don't give this deal to anybody else.

awesome. any suggestions of who to ask?

I already like this thread. Throw in a Canadian chip musician, and I will definitely book my Megabusses!

Great call.  Megabus goes from NYC to Rochester w/ only ONE stop in between (Syracuse).

Work the megabusses and such on the invite tip!

And don't forget crossing the border.  Sometimes it's 10 mins, sometimes over an hour or more.  Longest for me has been an hour but i know Battle Lava got hit with a 4 hr. wait coming over via bus in July. Different route but still...

awesome thread. so much good advice, thanks for posting the link.

i'm going to talk to a friend of mine who books shows about how much we could guarantee for these kinds of shows. if the show is good, bands can may a few hundred bucks here. i had never considered proposals like that either. very good idea.

i have a fairly good sized network of people that would help promote a show/event like this. and i have a decent relationship with some newspaper people too. and you're right, a good sound system / sound guy can make or break a show like this. i would definitely pick someone specifically for the event.

thank you for the input!

You folks are only a 3 hour drive from here (plus traffic), if you get some good shows coming I'd love to come down and see them, keep me informed!

Yeah, the chegheads.  Here's a money idea for a special event: once that exhibit opens, we organize a special chip music event at the museum, bring in David Viens of Plogue fame (I've already talked to him about this) and a chipmusic heavyweight.  This would strategically work best a little bit after there's already been a few local chip shows and a subsequent buzz around the city. 

As for WBER, I agree that a chip music show would be tough to pitch at this point in the game.  But if we could get our own shit or even like some Anamanaguchi or Bud Melvin getting sporadic play (test song?), that would be a huge victory.

As for the Bug Jar idea, I'm 100% IN.  OK, well, not 100%... my wife and I are expecting a baby to magically show up at our house any day now so the month of October is shot for me.  I'll def be ready to go in November.  If you get me some possible dates, I'll see what I can do about getting a bigger act to come to town.... 

Maybe we should switch this over to PM???

in researching this idea, i just found this -

http://www.icheg.org/

apparently, rochester is home to the internation center for the history of electronic games? wow.

"At more than 22,500 items and growing, the ICHEG collection is the largest and most comprehensive public collection of electronic games and game-related historical materials in the United States and one of the largest in the world." browse their collection online here - http://www.museumofplay.org/collections … ex.php?m=4

i will definitely be emailing these people ASAP. if you read their blog, they definitely seem like the kind of people that would dig chiptune stuff and find a lot of cultural significance in it as well.

i don't know if rochester could support a monthly thing, at least not yet, but i definitely agree with your assessment of the city and of the RIT crowd. i think there's a lot of people here that could really get into chip music, but they just haven't been exposed to it yet.

a band mate of mine is a recent RIT grad and is on staff there currently. i'll ask him about this electronic music AV club. it sounds pretty rad. also, i had no idea xwd is in rochester. that's awesome.

this is an excellent idea. my girlfriend used to host a show there, years ago. i just asked her about that and she says it's hard to get a specialty show like this approved over there, especially if some unknown was hosting it, like me.

but that's no reason not to try! i'll talk about it more with her tonight and email them.

the bug jar is a great venue for certain kinds of shows. people go there to dance to electronic stuff already so i would think people would flip over a dancey poppy gameboy set. if you wanted to do other stuff, in addition to the show, like an LSDJ lecture or film screening, then it's not the best place.

a place like boulder coffee would probably be into this but i've had weird dealings with them in the past.  i think the ideal venue for this kind of a show/night would be a place called the flying squirrel (weird name, cool place). they would be totally into screening documentaries on weird electronic music and doing shows where people play video game stuff.

i have friends that have booked there before as well, so that might be the best choice for this kind of a night. also, i'm buds with the dude who books the shows at the bug jar, and i would love to try to set up a chip show there. how about my band + your band + some bigger name that we could somehow talk into coming there?

another amazing idea. i'm really going to look into this. maybe a performance / talk about chipmusic?

yeah, thanks! rochester's obviously not the same kind of city as philly, boston, or new york, but i feel like we could get something going here, and i'd like to give it a shot.