Results tagged “blipfestival”

Reformat the Planet, a documentary that debuted at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, delves into that youthful ingenuity by exploring the underground music scene known as ChipTunes, which focuses on taking old, outdated gaming devices, most notably the Nintendo Gameboy and NES, and creating something wholly new and different from what existed before. Possibly as an affront to the 32 and 64-bit technology that we see today, these musicians employ a very punk aesthetic of taking what seems to be a very limited set of tools and expounding upon them to create layers and layers of sound that our-10-year-old brains could never have dreamed would be produced by our little game consoles.