Blip Festival
| Location(s) | New York City, Aalborg, Tokyo |
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| Years active | 2006 - present |
| Genre | Chiptune |
| Website | http://www.blipfestival.org |
The Blip Festival is a festival that celebrates chiptune music with musical performances, workshops, and screenings of movies. It has been held annually since 2006 in New York City. In recent years, there have been international versions of Blip Festival held in Europe (Blip Festival Europe) and Asia (Blip Festival Tokyo). The festival is curated and organized by 8bitpeoples, one of the foremost labels in the chiptune scene, as well as local arts organization The Tank. The New York festival (referred to simply as Blip Festival) has switched venues several times, beginning in 2006 at 15 Nassau Street in Manhattan, then moving to Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2007, and then being held in Brooklyn at the Bell House in 2008 and 2009.
The festival was the subject of a documentary film, Reformat the Planet, made by 2 Player Productions. The documentary was an official selection of the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival, and was shown on Pitchfork.tv.[1]
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[edit] Blip Festival Europe
The Blip Festival Europe was held in Aalborg, Denmark on July 24 to 25, 2009.[2] The festival included Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, Hally, Binärpilot, Bodenständig 2000, Bu Bu Kitty Fuckers and more.
[edit] Blip Festival Tokyo
The Blip Festival Tokyo was held for the first time on September 4–5, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan at Koenji High.[3] Artists slated to play include Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, YMCK, Saitone,Hally, Quarta330, Stu, Hip Tanaka, and more.
[edit] Past lineups
[edit] 2011 lineup
- Anamanaguchi
- BEASTMODE
- Bit Shifter
- Bubblyfish
- Chipzel
- cTrix
- enso
- exileFaker
- 4mat
- Henry Homesweet
- Knife City
- Raquel Meyers
- minusbaby
- M7Kenji
- NNNNNNNNNN
- NO CARRIER
- Noisewaves
- Nullsleep
- Party Time! Hexcellent!
- Tristan Perich
- Ralp
- Stagediver
- Starscream
- Peter Swimm
- Talk To Animals
- Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families
- Ultrasyd
- vade
- visualicious
- Wet Mango
- Zen Albatross
[edit] 2009 lineup
- Albino Ghost Monkey
- Bit Shifter
- Bubblyfish
- Patric Catani
- Chromix
- The C-Men(visuals)
- Disasterpeace
- Eat Rabbit
- enso(visuals)
- failotron
- Fighter X
- glomag
- The Hunters (music and visuals)
- I, Cactus
- The J. Arthur Keenes Band
- Je Deviens DJ en Trois Jours
- Jean Y. Kim
- Leeni
- little-scale
- Rosa Menkman (visuals)
- minusbaby
- NO CARRIER(visuals)
- Nullsleep
- outpt(visuals)
- Paris(visuals)
- Psilodump
- Rainbowdragoneyes
- Silent Requiem
- Starscream
- David Sugar
- tRasH cAn maN
- VBLANK(visuals)
[edit] 2008 lineup
- Anamanaguchi
- Animal Style
- Bit Shifter
- Bubblyfish
- Cheap Dinosaurs
- Cow'p
- Dubmood
- Entter (visuals)
- Glomag
- Graffiti Monsters
- IAYD
- Ikuma
- Jellica
- Lissajou
- Low-Gain
- m-.-n
- Meneo
- minusbaby
- Mr. Spastic
- NO CARRIER (visuals)
- nordloef
- noteNdo (visuals)
- Nullsleep
- Paris Treantafeles (visuals)
- Role Model
- Sidabitball
- Starscream
- Stu
- Sulumi
- Syphus
- The C-Men (visuals)
- Tonylight
- Trash80
- Unicorn Dream Attack
- USK
- VBLANK (visuals)
- zabutom
[edit] 2007 lineup
- 6955
- 8GB
- Alex Mauer
- Anamanaguchi
- Bit Shifter
- Bodenständig 2000
- Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou
- Crazy Q
- Firebrand Boy
- Gijs Gieskes
- gwEm
- Lo-bat.
- Mark DeNardo
- Markus Schrodt
- minusbaby
- No Carrier (visuals)
- noteNdo- (visuals)
- Nullsleep
- Oliver Wittchow
- Otro (visuals)
- Paza Rahm
- Postal_M@rket
- Rugar
- Sabrepulse
- Saskrotch
- Tree Wave
- Virt
- Yes, Robot
[edit] 2006 lineup
- Anamanaguchi
- Goto80
- Receptors
- Starpause
- Touchboy
- Tugboat
- Virt
- x|k
- Bit Shifter
- Coova
- Mark DeNardo
- Pepino
- Quarta330
- Rabato
- Random
- Herbert Weixelbaum
- Cory Arcangel
- Aonami
- Covox
- Crazy Q
- The Depreciation Guild
- Hally
- Kplecraft
- Bud Melvin
- Nullsleep
- Bubblyfish
- Glomag
- Tristan Perich
- Portalenz
- Saitone
- Jeroen Tel
- Neil Voss
- YMCK
- C-Men (visuals)
- C-TRL Labs (visuals)
- noteNdo (visuals)
- Voltage Controlled (visuals)
- Dan Winckler (visuals)
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