!!! PLEASE NOTE: NEW TIME SCHEDULE - AND FILM SCREENING WILL MOVE TO BIFFEN CINEMA IN NORDKRAFT, SEE BELOW !!!

The Saturday of the festival will include a day-time program from 13.00-17.00 (1pm-5pm) where film screenings, presentations and workshops will take place - see descriptions below. The daytime program is hosted in collaboration with Biffen Art Cinema, Nordkraft. This means that presentations and workshop will take place in Platform4, Rapsgade 4, 9000 Aalborg and the film screening in Biffen Art Cinema, Teglgårdsgade 1 (Nordkraft), 9000 Aalborg - see also www.biffen-aalborg.dk.

Please note that admission is free for this part of the festival - no ticket required! Everybody is welcome.

TAKE PART IN THE WORKSHOP: Have you ever wondered how to make 8bit visuals? Now you are invited to acquire (or improve) your low-tech visual skills in the workshop taking place at the Blip Festival Europe. Join Don Miller aka. NO CARRIER and other fellow curious souls in this interesting and laid-back workshop. Sign-up by sending your name and email to info@platform4.dk. Anyone can participate - no technical skills required, only curiosity.


• DAYTIME PROGRAM, SATURDAY JULY 25, 2009:

!!! NEW SCHEDULE AS OF JULY 21 !!!:
12.30 - doors open
13.00-14.00 - Presentation by Jacob Sikker Remin: Demonstration of the open source chiptune platform
14.00-15.00 - Workshop by NO CARRIER: How to make visuals using the Nintendo Entertainment System
15.30-17.00 - Film screening: ‘BLIP FESTIVAL: Reformat The Planet’ by Paul Owens (NOTE: SCREENING MOVED TO BIFFEN ART CINEMA, TEGLGÅRDSGADE 1 (NORDKRAFT), 9000 AALBORG - STILL FREE ENTRANCE)
17.00 - curfew (doors open again for music/visuals program at 20.00)


• DESCRIPTIONS
Film screening: BLIP FESTIVAL - Reformat The Planet (2008)
Directed by Paul Owens (running time 82 minutes) - see also IMDB.com entry.

‘Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet’ is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System are pushed in new directions with startling results. Using New York as a microcosm for a larger global movement, ‘Reformat the Planet’ maps out the genesis of the first annual Blip Festival, a four day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit video game consoles. With floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melodies, trailblazers of the ChipTune idiom descend upon Manhattan to pen a new chapter in the history of electronic music.

Workshop: How to make visuals using the Nintendo Entertainment SystemHosted by Don Miller aka. NO CARRIER, New York.

Creating 8-bit visuals on the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) by Don Miller (NO CARRIER)
Sick of just playing games with your NES? Breathe new life into your old system by using it for live visuals at electronic music shows! First, you will learn about the basics of NES graphics. Next, you will learn how to use (and modify) glitchNES and galleryNES - open source NES programs that make it easy to perform live with your Nintendo Entertainment System. Finally, an introduction to tools and software that will make it easier to write your own software.

Presentation: Demonstration of the open source chiptune platform
Hosted by Jacob Sikker Remin of Le Belle Indifference, Copenhagen.

Jacob Sikker Remin of 8bit band La Belle Indifference will give a work-in-progress presentation of his current work with building an open-source chip-tune production platform. He will ao. address the general challenge of bridging the open-source ideology and the chip-tunes community, while applying it to state of the art, open hardware - to create a new a decentralized compositional platform. Keywords include open communities, open design processes, open-source hardware and of course chip-tune music.