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reminds me again that i need to finish getting out of illinois.. left chicago, but now im in a 50 mile buffer zone with 0 hits on that map
edit: though its funny to see that theres someone in the town my brother lives in now

awww

who said i was praising attending shows?

still 350 miles from chicago (and i was moving that week)... well that would make it triple the audience when shadowtravel came through town this summer... last full chip gig in chicago i remember with around 50 people was late 2010

i loved playing with noise acts and they seemed to be where i got my best reactions usually.. a nice opportunity to lean into it and just make things extra nasty.. half the time they didn't even notice there was a game boy or nes in the setup, i was running thing through 2-3 distortion units, layering with sampled breaks off an esx-1..  things like that.. sometimes id do sets like that in front of chip crowds, but it wasnt that often and the reaction was usually far different
but back to the main topic.. i agree with whats been said about the scene being in a sort of spot inbetween being small enough to feel as close as it used to and big enough that you could find enough people locally that it made up for it..as the forums memberships really grew over the last few years, lots of people just stopped coming to the forums from the older group of artists, only popping in to post on rare occasions, but most of them are still around and making music.. CS for one ...like its a pretty small group of people from the original nanoloop forums still around talking online... nordloef, bit shifter, me, etc.. but then again that was about 10 years ago now, so its easy to see how people would get tired of it oafter wave after wave of people that they just have no hope of keeping track of to know who they are.. in 2007, 8bc actually felt like you pretty much knew 50-75% of all the members a little bit and that was great, but it wasnt going to stay around 500-800 people forever

feel free to try and claim most of my e.s.c. stuff sounded like it came from a video game (or 8cylinder, or timeheater or dj scotch egg or baseck, etc...).. there can be a distinction between using the same sound capabilities and actually making something SOUND like the songs in video games... fyi, square waves predate the game boy, they existed on synths from way back...