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chiptunes on Good Game!

April 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

My husband, Sebastian (aka little-scale), was on the Australian ABC tv show, Good Game, tonight. He was interviewed as part of a feature on Australian chiptune music, together with Brisbane artist, Alex Yabsley (Dot.AY) and Sydneysider, Tom Gilmore (10K free men and their families).

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You can watch the episode online from the Good Game website.

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Adelaide Festival of Unpopular Music

March 22, 2009 · 1 Comment

As our favourite independent undeground venue in Adelaide, we of Hidden Village are proud to announce that we will be performing at the

Gallery De La Catessen once again!

Director, Luke Altmann writes of the festival that “April marks the end of the fourth year of musical activity at de la Catessen. To celebrate, a selection of musicians with a special emphasis on those working in Adelaide’s underground, experimental, and academic fields will present a series of concerts from April 12-23.

The performance schedule includes:
ALEKSANDR TSIBOULSKI & JACOB CORDOVER: Classical Guitars
DAVID KOTLOWY: prepared guitar, ruined piano, shakuhachi
ADE SUHARTO: dance
STEVEN KOTLOWY: bowed metallophones
DEREK PASCOE: saxophone
JASON SWEENEY with Tristan Louth-Robins: Panoptique Electrical
CHRISTIAN HAINES: technology
TRISTAN LOUTH-ROBINS: technology
MINIMAX featuring Luke Harrald (computers), Derek Pascoe (saxophone) and Chris Martin (piano)
BITCHES OF ZEUS, solo sets and trio by Daniel Varriccio, Patrick Saracino and Mourgos Grund
ADAM PAGE SOLO
HIDDEN VILLAGE

Hidden Village (little scale and cloud sparrow) have a substantial online following and are internationally recognised in the contemporary chiptune community. They are re-discoverers of common discarded and nostalgic electronic entertainment equipment such as atari, game-boy, and commodore-64, as well as inventors of the electro-acoustic laser and water instrument the toriton.

The closing concert of AFUM is one of Hidden Village’s major performances for 2009, and will feature a keyboard controlled walkman-melotron, singing bowls, and live VGA hacking.
- Luke Altmann, Gallery De La Catessen

Be there, or be somewhere else!
7:30, 23rd April 2009

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Sound Bytes, Melbourne

October 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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little-scale

With thanks to 10k for his dance beats and general sarcasm, to Derris-Kharlan for his post-exam guitar work, to Kristy for driving us, cleaning up after us and being a great host, to Cid for his wonderful early-morning chauffeuring and for being such a champ, a huge thanks to Celsius for getting us to Melbourne, organising the Sound Bytes event and doing a damn good job of it. Warmest thanks to little-scale for always having me there, and to all the other people that helped cart stuff, set gear up and stuck around to drink beer with us into the early hours.

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Dorkbot Adelaide – 15 October 2008

October 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Dorkbot Adelaide is proud to present !!NETBOT!! this Wednesday evening.

Presentations by:
Vinny Bhagat – networks FOR music
Martin Victory – networks AS music

Discussions by:
Hidden Village (brief Electrofringe report)
You! – if you have any ideas/ projects please feel free to bring them along to show the group or discuss them over a coffee and tim tam or two!

Date: Wednesday 15 October 2008 (THIS WEDNESDAY!!!)
Time: 7:30 – 9:30
Location: Schulz Building, University of Adelaide (off Kintore Avenue)
Its Free

Get involved, or get in touch:

Web: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotadelaide/
Email: dorkbotadelaide@dorkbot.org

Mailing List: http://dorkbot.org/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotadelaide‐blabber
RSS: feed://dorkbot.org/dorkbotadelaide/?feed=rss2

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Sound Bytes chiptune gig, Melbourne – 17 Oct 2008

October 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

We of Hidden Village will playing alongside Ten Thousand Free Men and Their Families, Derris-Kharlan and Slurry Beats as part of an all-chiptune gig in Melbourne this week.  If you happen to be in Melbourne, drop by and say hello – it should be fun!

Where: Bunker Lounge

When: 17 October

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Hidden Village at Electrofringe

October 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

We (Hidden Village – Lauren Sutter and Seb Tomczak) were fortunate to be able to give a workshop and presentation as part of This Is Not Art (TINA) / Electrofringe festivals in Newcastle, New South Wales last fortnight.  It was a fantastic festival in which we were humbled to take part.  From the plethora of artists, writers, musicians and electronic creatives, we left with plenty of inspiration and new ideas.

Topics we covered in the workshop included:

+ Things that we did during the workshop:
- circuit bending very cheap toys using pots, LDRs, capacitors and the human body
- a basic digital logic sequencing / synthesis demo
- introduction to little sound dj, a game boy music program written by Johan Kotlinksi
- the underclocking of game boys, as presented by Gieskes and first pioneered by Kbud

Things that we spoke about during the presentation:
- Music for Two Desklamps
- Atari Christmas Lights
- Black Dog, White Dog
- Imaginary Menagerie
- 24 Points of Articulation
- The Starmaker EP
- Sega Mega Drive Interfacing
- Sync Devices
- Printer Drum Machines
- Vectrex Interfacing
- Tape-o-tron
- Sega Master System
- Toriton (Water Music)

You can download our EP here.

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Thanks to everyone who came along.  And thanks to Seb for being such a wonderful person and an inspirational musician.

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