11月29日から12月2日にかけてNYで行われるChiptuneの祭典 「Blip Festival」に参加します。

去年のBlipではportalenzのブチ切れ気味のLIVE映像がMTVのサイトで流れたり、
どこだかのプレスから「イベントでいちばん狂ってたのはコイツら」という
名誉を頂いたりしましたが、僕は知名度も人脈もほとんど無く、あるのは
自分の曲への自信というかプライドだけなので(Chiptuneに関してはね)、
そういうモノを総てぶっつけて彼らに負けないくらい出し切ろうと思います。
折角アメリカ迄行くんだからなぁ、まぁ遠出する際はいつも真面目にやってるんだけど、
今回はちょっと真面目にやんないと(笑)。気合入れて頑張ります。
(でも気合入れてやる時って、大体お客の反応は腕組み状態だったりするんだよな…(笑))

メンツは8bitpeoples組は勿論去年に引き続きVirt(！)やAnamanaguchi、
何故かHallyさん(笑)、SaskrotchやSablepulseも出演する様です。
Chibi-Techちゃんや米のBSKリスナーも遊びに来るそうでかなり楽しみ。
遠出してLIVEする利点って、先ず宣伝出来る事なんだけど、色んな人に
触れ合えるってのもあるんだよな。持論。
宿泊はSaskrotch、Postal_m@rket、NoCarrierらと共に一週間程Bit Shifterの家に。
(Annonymouseの部屋に泊めさせてもらう予定もあったんだけど、
「週末だけ可、平日はちょっと…」との事だったので泣く泣く断念)

楽しんで/アピールして/人と触れ合って来ます。

あ、四日間開催されるんだけど、勿論四日全日程LIVEやるんじゃないです。
BSKの出演は12/1(土)の23:20からです。


Are You Ready for Blip Festival?

Manhattan art space The Tank and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event taking place in New York City November 29 - December 2, 2007. Focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology and featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world, the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world.

The festival will host evening concerts on all 4 nights. Each night's concert will cost $10 and include 8 musical acts and a variety of live visualists. Tickets will be available online starting in early November and will also be available at the door. Festival passes will also be available for sale in early November.

In addition to concerts there will also be daytime workshops and screenings on Saturday and Sunday. A complete schedule of those events is forthcoming.

Please get excited now.


LINEUP:
6955 (Japan)
8GB (Argentina)
Alex Mauer (Philadelphia, PA)
Anamanaguchi (New York, NY)
Bit Shifter (New York, NY)
Blasterhead (Japan)
Bodenständig 2000 (Germany)
Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou (Japan)
Bubblyfish (New York, NY)
The Depreciation Guild (New York, NY)
Firebrand Boy(Scotland)
Gijs Gieskes (Netherlands)
Glomag (New York, NY)
gwEm (United Kingdom)
Hally (Japan)
Huoratron (Finland)
kiken.corporation (visuals) (Argentina)
Lo-bat. (Belgium)

Loud Objects (New York, NY)
Mark DeNardo (New York, NY)
Markus Schrodt (Austria)
minusbaby (New York, NY)
Neil Voss (New York, NY)
No Carrier (visuals) (Philadelphia, PA)
noteNdo (visuals) (Baltimore, MD)
nrGiga (Italy)
Nullsleep (New York, NY)
Otro (visuals) (France)
Paza (Sweden)
Postal_M@rket (Italy)
Rugar (Sweden)
Sabrepulse (Scotland)
Saskrotch (Chicago, IL)
Tree Wave (Dallas, TX)
Virt (New York, NY)
Voltage Controlled (visuals) (New York, NY)
Yes, Robot (Spain)
+ more to be confirmed


Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou (or B.S.K.), with headquarters in Fukuoka Japan, is a one-man hardcore techno & chiptune assault unit, bridging blistering breakcore influences with a bittersweet chiptune melodicism, punctuating the result with vocal calls-to-arms, routinely triggering dancefloor riots and audience stage invasions. B.S.K. has logged intense gig activity throughout Asia, including the Chipstock Japan Festival 2007 in Osaka and Fukuoka, the 798 Art Festival in Beijing, and at countless gigs organized by Fukuoka's dangerous Tsuji Techno crew. The Blip Festival 2007 marks B.S.K.'s United States debut.


[Blip Festival 2007]
http://www.blipfestival.org/index.html
[MySpace] (BSKのChiptune demoアリ)
http://www.myspace.com/blipfestival

Blip Festival 2006のサマを収録したDVD映像。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcRAPOVxxo