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It's been five years since 8bit Klubben held the first Mikrodisko in Copenhagen. Now we return in collaboration with Strøm, bringing the best in chiptune, 8bit, skweee and skwugg.

8GB (AR)
KODEK (LV)
KeFF (FI)
DKSTR (FI)
La Belle Indifference (DK)
Mobb Beep (DK)
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https://www.facebook.com/events/211697628959887/
http://stromcph.dk/

Basement, Enghavevej 42,
1674 Copenhagen V.

Cost: 70 Bananas
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8GB (AR) - http://soundcloud.com/8gb

8GB is an audiovisual producer and DJ from Buenos Aires, Argentina, making music since 1994 and performing it live since 2004. The project came out from Akira's activities both visual and musical and his fixation with old computer hardware restrictions exploited for maximal creative output, as well as his relation to the computer arts underground of the early 90s.

His early influences of Chicago House, classic Electro and Detroit Techno can be heard today in his sets and productions, which are loaded with rhythmic bass-driven, house-inspired, futuristic tunes that flirt with his inherent latin influences.

Live, he performs as an audiovisual set, with super-synchronized visuals that go with the music and with a minimal, non-linear narrative that delivers a live cinema experience.

KODEK (LV) - http://soundcloud.com/kodek

Kodek’s own scant description could be a mimicry of language spoken by hooligans from Clockwork Orange – “makeing koolio cheap ba$$$ muzeks and ruineing awesomeeoo lable “dexandzeshitty reckordz” lil john mp3>8e”.

Experiencing him on-stage could re-inforce the impression that there are some mental similarities between his attitude and that of the men in Anthony Burgess novel. In more normal language one can tell that Kodek is a young producer from Madona in Latvia and has over the years developed his own lo-fi/gameboy/8-bit breakbeat enveloped in a trashy visual universe with cheap consumerist, pornographic and political collages. If one thinks the resurgent cassette tapes is a regressive format, think of Kodek’s label Dexinthecity that is issuing music on floppy disks.

KeFF (FI) - http://soundcloud.com/kephf

DKSTR (FI) - http://soundcloud.com/dkstr

La Belle Indifference (DK) - http://www.myspace.com/blissfullymediocre

Mobb Beep (DK) - http://www.myspace.com/mobbbeep

Visuals by Max Beta (DK)

hej chippers,
check out my open source chippy hardware project: CHEAP, FAT and OPEN (CFO)

CHEAP, FAT and OPEN (CFO) is an open source synthesizer, mixed with a stylophone, a gameboy, a circuit bent toy, and then some software too...

here's a feature list of the current build:
- monophonic sound via 12bit DAC
- stylophone input (can be overridden by CV / analog input)
- pitch bend / expression control via body switch (can be overridden by CV / analog input)
- CFO is programmed in arduino programming language. cpu: atmega328.
- custom tracker software is available for programming arpeggios / instruments. tracker software is programmed in processing.
- midi in via (programming) FFT-USB cable is possible (although not implemented in code)
- sync+data send+receive via infrared connection possible (limited support in code)
- op amp with bass boost + distortion
- 16x2 character LCD displays
- 16 LEDs for step sequencer
- rotary encoder + navigation buttons for general UI

its been around for a while now, but it never seems quite there, so i've been postponing going official with it.

but in the spirit of open source "release early, release often", i am now throwing this project out there. even if it not really there yet. basically i need a lot of code cleaning, eagle PCB layout cleaning before i can put the source code files out there, and i need some serious documentation polishing before i can release the kit.

CFO is based off my thesis project i did at CIID, which i introduced at blip! scandinavia 2009 (although not close to finished at the time). my thesis ended up in a working prototype (ver 0.1), which i have now refined more, added software, better hardware etc.

the project has been somewhat delayed by the fact that i got a daughter 10 months ago , but recently got kicked to life again, when the slovenian data art festival MFRU and the norwegian PIKSEL festival invited me to do CFO workshops. MFRU even funded production of new PCBs. so CFO is now ver 0.2.

you can see documentation from the workshop, and much more about the project at this wiki: http://wiki.8bitklubben.dk/index.php/CFO

i am trying to set up a more descriptive and less cluttered website here: http://8bitklubben.dk/project/CFO/

i am really trying to land somewhere in between a performance instrument with chip tune inspiration and a platform for musical exploration. that is something for the coders and hackers who wants to program synths and sounds, but does not want to start from scratch with the hardware and/or code, and something for musicians who wants a portable performance instrument that does chiptune tricks.

at some point in the future (not too far away) i hope to reach version 1.0 -- that would be a hardware build which is error free with software which has some minor updates to the current one -- and once i am there, it is the plan to release this as a kit.