http://chipmusic.org/forums/forum/4/bugs-and-requests/
this should probably go here?
1,138 Sep 23, 2010 12:24 pm
Re: any tips for hosting a chip night? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
PlainFlavored wrote:
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
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.
1,139 Sep 23, 2010 12:21 pm
Re: 8BITS (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
yeah, this is definitely rad.
1,140 Sep 23, 2010 12:19 pm
Re: Thematic Variation (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Diamonds & Dynamite wrote:
Sometimes, what I do is write 2 comepletly different songs in the same key, then fuse them together, to make a sort of song baby.
i've done this before too. if you have a few songs that just suck, it's great to be able to take the best parts from them and do something new with it.
1,141 Sep 22, 2010 6:15 pm
Re: any tips for hosting a chip night? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Esopus-dragon wrote:
I already like this thread. Throw in a Canadian chip musician, and I will definitely book my Megabusses!
awesome. any suggestions of who to ask?
1,142 Sep 22, 2010 4:22 pm
Re: any tips for hosting a chip night? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Lazerbeat wrote:
Very Slightly different topic but there may be a lot of useful info in here
awesome thread. so much good advice, thanks for posting the link.
Lazerbeat wrote:
I would also add being super professional and on the ball with regards to communication, get back to people asap. Try and raise some cash to pay partial travel costs for people who are like localISH you like the NY city crew and the Boston crowd or get adventurous and fly in AGM or UDA or IAYD or someone.
From the artists perspective if you can send them a proposal like
"Hey there, I will be able to pay $150 towards your travel costs and can put you up on a sofa for 2 nights. We have a crowd of 150 people and will be live streaming"
Or something like that people will go up to play I expect.
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.
Lazerbeat wrote:
I would work really hard on promoting it like a mother fucker. Poster it, flyer it, hit the colleges, the local radio stations, cafes, libraries, galleries and where else people who might be interested hang out. Offer free entry to anyone who can sell 5 tickets. Basically get as many people in your venue as possible. I would pay a fair amount of heed to Bleo, he seems to know the scene there.
Lastly, try and rent/borrow/steal/blag a decent sound system and get someone who knows how to run it make it sound awesome for chip.
Best of Luck!!!
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!
1,143 Sep 22, 2010 3:12 pm
Re: any tips for hosting a chip night? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
bleo wrote:
Also the Museum of Play is opening that huge video game exhibit sometime in the near future, that's a huge resource to tap into.
in researching this idea, i just found this -
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.
1,144 Sep 22, 2010 3:05 pm
Re: any tips for hosting a chip night? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
bleo wrote:
Since I'm local, I can give micro-specific inputs:
Rochester's a pretty forward thinking community, also big into the arts... also big into technology. I think starting a chip night could definitely fly. RIT crowd would jack off to this stuff... actually, they have some sort of electronic music AV club that you should probably tap into. xwd actually told me about it and is a student there. You should definitely get in touch w/ him.
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.
bleo wrote:
For years, I've thought about how chipmusic needs to infiltrate the only station that matters, WBER, but I've never done anything about it. It's a radio station that people still pay attention to to keep up with what's cool. Like MC 900 Ft. Jesus. HA!
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.
bleo wrote:
On the location side of things, a venue that gets a crowd regardless of the show is really important if you want to build this thing. ie, NOT the California Brew Haus. The 3 random Kodak maintenance dudes sitting in the bar aren't gonna care or help build the Rochester chip scene. You've played the Bug Jar a few times, I'm guessing that'd be a good spot.
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?
bleo wrote:
Also the Museum of Play is opening that huge video game exhibit sometime in the near future, that's a huge resource to tap into. shrimps/revengineers play the grand opening!?!?! You picking up what I'm putting down?
another amazing idea. i'm really going to look into this. maybe a performance / talk about chipmusic?
bleo wrote:
I've been THINKING about building up the Rochester chip scene for about 5 years now, so it's nice to see someone else on that wavelength and actually taking ACTION.
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.
1,145 Sep 22, 2010 12:45 pm
Topic: any tips for hosting a chip night? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
there isn't really a chip scene where i live but there's a lot of open minded people, a small experimental electronic scene, and a healthy punk / hardcore scene. i feel like a lot of people could get into chip music, but maybe they're not really aware of it.
so, i was thinking about doing a chip music night, with music and more, kind of patterned after stuff like 8static and other things like that. maybe do a screening of reformat the planet + some live chip acts? maybe do a tutorial on LSDJ or making NSF's before hand?
as you can see, i don't have the idea very fleshed out yet. i know a lot of you have been to (and organized) things like this in your cities, so i wanted to post here to find out what's good and what's bad when it comes to doing these kinds of shows. impart thy wisdom, please.
1,146 Sep 20, 2010 3:41 pm
Re: Chip Music Magazine (22 replies, posted in General Discussion)
irrlichtproject wrote:
and believe me, putting together something like this is an aweful lot of work, so i think you better go with annual releases.
and spread the work out too.
1,147 Sep 16, 2010 1:54 pm
Re: I ADDED A PSONE SCREEN TO MY NES. (20 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
also, i built a mixer to use with this NES -
it mixes 4 inputs, through four volume controls, down to a single mono 1/4 inch jack. works perfectly, looks great.
a lot of people build the mixers into the NES's themselves. i wanted to do it externally so that i could not only use it for other non-nes stuff but i could also use it to put effects on individual outputs of the NES.
1,148 Sep 16, 2010 12:42 pm
Re: I ADDED A PSONE SCREEN TO MY NES. (20 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
im loving the battery talk in this thread. this is going to be really helpful when i go to add a battery to this project.
i was planning on following the steps in this tutorial regarding batteries and replacing the power regulator the NES. i'd have to build a little video amp too, and i would probably take the audio off of the main outputs instead of the rf box.
1,149 Sep 15, 2010 8:15 pm
Re: Sabrepulse - Forget (intro question) (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Reteris wrote:
Why didn't you just message him? We are not Sabrepulse journalists.
i actually am.
1,150 Sep 14, 2010 6:28 pm
Re: 48 Hour Challenge [nickmaynard accepted] (223 replies, posted in Collaborations)
i love that my name is still in the thread title. haha.
1,151 Sep 14, 2010 5:14 pm
Re: I ADDED A PSONE SCREEN TO MY NES. (20 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
noisewaves wrote:
nickmaynard wrote:have you seen anamanaguchi's psone screen mod?
are both mods pretty easy?
is there a tut for the flip-up psone screen anywhere?
there aren't tutorials for either specifically, i don't think. i'm sure other people must have done my mod and anamanaguchi's mods before but i've never seen them.
to do something like this, you only need to consider two things. 1. the video signal (and audio, if you're going to use the psone's built in speakers like i did) and 2. the power.
1. this is as simple as it could possibly get. open the psone screen up and at the bottom of the main board, you'll see two little bundles of wires. check this picture -
socket #2, wire #1 is the composite video in. all you have to do is solder that wire to the video out of the NES. i soldered it to the underside of the RF box. then i soldered socket #2, wire #4 to the ground that was right next to the video thing underneath the RF box. that's all i did to get the video signal going, so easy.
2. this is a little trickier, depending on how you want to do it. right now, my screen has a different power source than the nes. i have two power cords coming out of my nintendo. this is something i will be changing soon, so i can't really offer advice yet on having them use the same power source.
if you don't mind them using separate power sources, here's how i did it. go to radio shack and buy one of their generic ac adapters. these usually have a little switch on them that let you change how many volts they are. make sure the one you buy has a setting for 7.5 volts.
these usually have different tips you can buy, so that they can fit different devices. you're going to need to buy the power jack that you'll mount on the NES also, so it doesn't matter what size you buy of either the tip or the jack, as long as you buy the same size.
so, drill a hole in the back of the nes, screw the power jack on. solder socket #1 wires #1 and #2 to the appropriate spots on that power jack.
on my NES, i have a power button that turns the screen on and off. this is just a simple switch that is in between the power jack and socket #1 wire #1. easy.
all of the necessary components are available at any radio shack. there's usually someone there that'll be smart enough to answer questions about this kind of stuff too.
if any of this was unclear, ask more questions!
1,152 Sep 14, 2010 1:42 pm
Re: I ADDED A PSONE SCREEN TO MY NES. (20 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
HPizzle wrote:
that is freakin sweet. do mine pls lol. if you made it so it flipped up/out thatd be amazing
have you seen anamanaguchi's psone screen mod?