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August 8, 2011
9pm FREE & ALL AGES open mixer!
Portland, Oregon USA

Backspace Cafe
115 NW 5th

Come jam with us and show off your stuff.

Inspired by “conversations, late night jam sessions, and months of headphone composition and production, Jesse Garcia, Elias Foley and an evolving cast of engineers, players, technicians and producers took these ideas and have been expanding upon them using ensemble based improvisation and collaborative development. Other notable founding members are Doug Smith, one of the founding members of Pink Martini, and Kranky recording artist Tim Gray (aka Ethernet).

Our goal is to support upcoming independent producers in an atmosphere of experimentation and co-creation that will encourage production of electronic music using affordable battery-powered instruments.

Battery powered music production is an expansion set for the well-established genre of chiptune. As for how this differs from chiptune…well chiptune was a genre built around that pulse wave sound of the 8 bit chips in the earlier gaming systems, handhelds and PCs. Battery powered music welcomes this rich classic sounds and also invites the polyphony of voices available in bent instruments/toys & the newer 16 bit battery-powered musical systems. We are interested in innovations in battery power, rechargeable technologies.

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Monday, June 27 · 9:00pm - 11:00pm
   
Backspace
511 NW Couch
Portland, Oregon

Battery Powered Music is a bimonthly meetup of battery powered music makers.

Battery Powered Music hosts Greightbit tonight. A talented bender, and Gameboy modder in the thick of the chiptune music movement. Just back from Blip Fest NYC 2011, he comes to kick it with us tonight, throw down some jams and join the fracus.

Check out his work and his shop here - http://www.greightbit.com/

Inspired by “conversations, late night jam sessions, and months of headphone composition and production, Jesse Garcia, Elias Foley and an evolving cast of engineers, players, technicians and producers took these ideas and have been expanding upon them using ensemble based improvisation and collaborative development. Other notable founding members are Doug Smith, one of the founding members of Pink Martini, and Kranky recording artist Tim Gray (aka Ethernet).”

With goals of supporting “upcoming independent producers” in “an atmosphere of experimentation and co-creation” that will “encourage production of electronic music using affordable battery-powered instruments,”

get a taste of the sounds at http://soundcloud.com/tamarack/sets/bpmarchive

Plus for all you electro-engineers or circuit-bent hobbyists, it gets geekier:
Battery powered music production is an expansion set for the well-established genre of HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune" chiptune. As for how this differs from chiptune…well chiptune was a genre built around that pulse wave sound of the 8 bit chips in the earlier gaming systems, handhelds and PCs. Battery powered music welcomes this rich classic sounds and also invites the polyphony of voices available in bent instruments/toys & the newer 16 bit battery-powered musical systems. We are interested in innovations in battery power, rechargeable technologies.

More chippity tastiness!

LISTEN - http://daddylonglegspdx.podomatic.com/e … 7_17-07_00
DOWNLOAD - http://daddylonglegspdx.podomatic.com/

Esben Kramer - My Girlfriend's more into HipHop
Mark Pritchard - Wind It Up
HLTRSKLTR - 8 Bit Lover
LV & Quattra 330 - Hylo
Dibiase - Skullcrack
USK - Cheap Jungle
Tapes - Skankless Tascam
Mouthless - Space Face Riddim
Blangk - Chip Dub
Coova & little-scale - Standing Alone
Daddy Longlegs - S3RP3N7
Maddest Kings Alive - persuadertron
Miramichi - Select, Start
Daddy Longlegs - Spamson (Delilah Mix)