A MAZE. + Bleepstreet present: What the fuck are you playing?
Thu Oct6, 2011 - 22:00 - Chez Jacki - An der Schillingbrücke.
Bit Shifter, Anarchic Chic, Ben Butler + Mousepad, Computadora, DJ Storno, VJ Takosuke, VJ CineCitta
We like games. We like to play games. They are the thing for mankind. We are ready to mix realities. We are encouraged to love avatars! We are in the game even when we are not playing. We are exploring technology through playful interaction. Everything is getting touchable. Technology is our best friend. Sex with tech. Dreams come true. We are in god mode. Friends are gods. Cybergods in a new world. And the game never stops.
But what the fuck are we playing?
An der Schilling Brücke
(an der Spree)
map: http://bit.ly/9v6bvt
GPS: 52°30'33N 13°25'49E
http://www.chezjacki.com/
Entrance fee: 6 €
Nico Defawe is based at .HBC, Berlin. Before he came from Paris to Berlin he produced crazy hyperactive dance music and was touring worldwide with his tunes. After a long break Nico Defawe is back on stage with Anarchic chic and his dancing roboters!
Ben Butler & Mousepad is Joe Howe, currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has produced weird, complex, fun, synth-led music under a bunch of aliases, including GAY AGAINST YOU and GERMLIN. The last few years have seen Joe producing an album for MOMUS, working on an Opera in Berlin about WENDY CARLOS and rocking festivals, residencies and clubs through Europe, as well as remixing BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB, DEERHOOF, KLAXONS and THE CHAP (amongst others). As Ben Butler & Mousepad, he plays solo or in duo with Bastian Hagedorn on drums, under a proper prog-rock influence which doesn’t forget fun.
An electronic musician based in New York City, Bit Shifter explores high-impact, low-res music produced using primitive gear and synthesis as a deliberate aesthetic choice. Adopting a distillation of the less-is-more philosophy, Bit Shifter operates with a standard Nintendo Game Boy as a means of exploring the aesthetics of economy, pushing minimal hardware to its maximum.
He is also in it for the lolz.
Co-administrator of the 8bitpeoples collective & label, and co-founder & co-curator of the international Blip Festival event series now entering its 5th year, Bit Shifter has released music on Hymen, Astralwerks, Mirex, 555 Recordings, and Ketacore, and has logged over 180 performances worldwide.
Computadora is DJFW aka Herr Galatran and his intelligent happy computer. The sounds come from the chips of Commodore 64, Amiga & Atari XL/ST and the passion comes from the early computer demoscene fanaticism.
Herr Galatran originates from Madrid but is currently based in Berlin where he also works as Label Manager of Bleepstreet Records. Extensive performing throughout the years as part of various punk, hardcore/IDM, and electro-constellations has made him strong. The result of all these years experimenting with different computer platforms are dirty digital electro infected sessions that heated up clubs in Prague, Milano, Oslo, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, and Berlin.
He got the bleep! Since 2006, DJ Storno a.k.a. Thorsten S. Wiedemann is travelling the world of pixels.
His legendary "storno 8bit sessions" have brought top chiptune artists to Berlin. Associated with Bleepstreet Records, Storno is also artistic director of the A MAZE festival, celebrating the convergence of games, art and society since 2008, and including concepts such as the interdisciplinary talkshow "Games Culture Circle" and the club night "A MAZE Jump'n Run".
Jesse Scott is a new media artist, producer, coder, designer, visualist, curator, writer, and blogger.
Under various aliases like CineCitta and operating within several artist collectives, he produces work for live performance, for site-specific actions, for listening, for viewing, for reading… his work has spanned the domains of a/v performance, locative media, telematics, improvisational practice, urban projection, installation design, public workshops, and the written word.
