Hey nerds
I'll be in Vancouver BC at the end of this January, for the shortest, until September, for the longest, forever.
I realize that this must get asked a lot but I'm wondering whats going on around the area?
Is it Fighter X & co turfy turf?
Who does visuals?
Asif are we going to start cooking together?
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New York, NY
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Edmonton, Canada
From what I know, there are a lot of people doing their thing in Vancity, just no scene. 
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Also currently on the front page: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/3091/ … st-people/
Oregon is me, Mechlo, Spamtron, Ondoh, and the 2PP crew. Washington is McFiredrill, Circles/Electric Children, Ovenrake, and some other dudes. A few of us including myself casually dabble in viz.
The West Coast is pretty rich as far as chip goes, but people are scattered far apart and while many of us are great friends, we're pretty fragmented as a scene.
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lolusa
Turf-wise, the entire area is open game.
There really is no scene, but I believe we're all pretty familiar with each other by now.
As far as visuals go, I can not think of anyone who is a dedicated visual artist around these parts. I can't even think of any on the west coast...
I will be in Portland playing a weird-rave-thing that usually go over really well. Would love to have some viz there.
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Vancouver, BC
Hi J Y K, I'm in Vancouver. Short answer, afaik there's a surprising lack of scene here, but I'd love to be part of starting one so maybe we should talk. My thing is more software dev at the moment but I definitely do make chipmusic, just haven't shared much yet.
A related and popular scene is the dubstep scene although it's easy to get sick of dubstep here for lack of variety. There was some video-game/retro themed club night or something called Galaxion
http://videos.wittysparks.com/vid/374324590
but I never checked that out...
Wet Mango is playing a show here on Jan15 and they seem chip-influenced so I might look in to that...
If you're in to hardware hacking type nerdy stuff or arty stuff check
http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/
and
http://www.videoinstudios.com/
, there is some chiptune-related stuff popping up like arduino stuff, pd/max stuff, bending etc.
and btw, If you make chipmusic I am looking for people in Van to be victims/test users for my audiovisual tracker software so let me know if you're interested!! 
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BC has Norrin_Radd. That's all that Matters. (pun intended)
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IL, US
haha...wet mango is definitely chip, no need for the "influenced" 
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lolusa
e.s.c. wrote:
haha...wet mango is definitely chip, no need for the "influenced"
haha for real
I'll be there for sure
oh and JYK: looks like feb 19th. Reactionary is very solid with booking shows so there shouldn't be any issues.
Last edited by ovenrake (Dec 31, 2010 2:37 pm)
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New York, NY
Ovenrake: e-mail me and we'll discuss more
Spriteful: sorry dude I don't make music... ever. But I can try out the visual part?
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Victoria, BC, Canada
Yo Ovenrake, I moved to PDX last year and I've been trying to get my finger on some community pulse(wave). I heart graphics coding but, like, for clients - I've never actually done live viz. That said, I really wanna figure out what's blipping in and around pdx much like OP, meet some people... and I'd be mega-down for doing viz at a show. (sorry for the super old bump, if you even see this post.)
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lolusa
yeah man just hit me up on the PM here and we'll try to figure out something.
Thanks