I make electronic music using a Nintendo Game Boy and the Little Sound DJ and Nanoloop homebrew software programs, alternating between semi-abstract, "serious" beat-driven songs, and shameless pop sweet enough to make you puke. bit.shifter.net
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News:
2007 02 25
Sperm Festival (Prague) (yes, "Sperm Festival"), SxSW (Austin), other shows in Newark, Philadelphia, and more.
Live shows:
2008 02 29 | Bit Shifter @ Bricks | Newark NJ US
[NEWARK NJ US] — Bit Shifter joins a diverse, hard-hitting lineup at Bricks, an art exhibition at Newark's Seed Gallery. With Scrap.EDX, Minimal: Impossible, Krinjah, Starkey and Vytear. $10.00, doors at 8:00, music starts at 10:00.
2008 02 29 • Friday • 08:00 p.m.
Bricks @ Seed Gallery
Seed Gallery | myspace.com/seedgallery
239 Washington St
Newark NJ 07102
US
$10.00
2008 03 08 | Bit Shifter @ Sperm Festival | Prague CZ
[PRAGUE CZECH REPUBLIC] — A contingent of 8bitpeoples delegates heads to the provocatively-named but regrettably nonsexual Sperm Festival in Prague. Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, Bubblyfish, Bud Melvin, Herbert Weixelbaum, Starpause, Stu and X|K rock the audio, No Carrier and noteNdo rip up your eyeballs.
2008 03 08 | Reformat The Planet Documentary Film World Premiere @ SxSW Film Festival | Austin TX US
[AUSTIN TX US] - Blip Festival: Reformat The Planet, 2 Player Productions' feature-length chipmusic documentary, will premiere in March as an official selection of the SxSW Film Festival. Features performances and interviews with chip-scene musicians, visualists, and organizers, including Coova, Peter Swimm, Hally, Random, Nullsleep, Bubblyfish, The Tank's Mike Rosenthal, Portalenz, Glomag, Mark DeNardo, Voltage Controlled, Bit Shifter, Bud Melvin, Neil Voss, and many others. Feast your eyes on the film's trailer:
2008 03 08 • Saturday • 10:00 p.m.
2008 03 10 • Monday • 12:00 noon
2008 03 13 • Thursday • 04:00 p.m. Reformat The Planet @ SxSW Film Festival
Dobie Theater
2021 Guadalupe Street
Austin TX 78705
US
2008 03 15 | 8bitpeoples Label Showcase @ SxSW Music Festival | Austin TX US
[AUSTIN TX US] - In the second stage of the one-two knockout, nine chipmusicians and one visualist invade Molotov Lounge for an 8bitpeoples label showcase event, as part of the official SxSW Music Festival programming. Anamanaguchi, Aonami, Bit Shifter, Mark DeNardo & Graffiti Monsters, Bud Melvin, Nullsleep, Tristan Perich, Receptors, and Tree Wave perform audio, with live handheld visuals all night by Voltage Controlled.
2008 03 15 • Saturday • 07:00 p.m.
8bitpeoples Label Showcase @ SxSW Music Festival
Molotov Lounge | molotovlounge.com
719 W 6th St
Austin TX 78701
US
21+
Who I Want to Meet:
People who are nerds on the outside and rockers on the inside, and people who are rockers on the outside and nerds on the inside.
I'd never heard such pristinely
produced bleeps until discovering Bit
Shifter. It was a great pleasure to
share the stage with you, Mr. man. And
hey! We have matching Gameboys! (Red)
Bit Shifter
"Transmode Virus / Bad Surge"
Live 2005 05 13 @ Nighttown, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
part of the Divide By Zero tour
video by: Stefan Wassenaar
check our new song www.myspace.com/thelistrixmusic ,, thx
"God's in his heaven. All's right with the world."
produced bleeps until discovering Bit
Shifter. It was a great pleasure to
share the stage with you, Mr. man. And
hey! We have matching Gameboys! (Red)
alike. I don't see it.