{"id":2017,"date":"2009-10-16T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T01:45:26","slug":"solipsistic-nation-no-163-a-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/solipsistic-nation-no-163-a-v\/","title":{"rendered":"solipsistic NATION No. 163: A\/V"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on solipsistic NATION<\/b> we\u2019ll talk with Amy Grill<\/a> about her documentary, Speaking in Code<\/a><\/i>. We\u2019ll also talk to Paul Owens<\/a>, the director of Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet<\/a><\/i>, a documentary about the Chiptunes movement. On the night of the debut of Berlin Calling<\/a><\/i> in Hollywood, director Hannes St\u00f6hr<\/a> shares his thoughts about his new movie. From the big screen to the pages of Big Up Magazine<\/a><\/i>, we\u2019ll talk to Katy\u00e1 Guseva<\/a> about bass driven music, art and culture and Big Up Magazine<\/i>\u2018s one year anniversary. We\u2019ll also talk to Graham St. John<\/a> about the newly launched Dancecult<\/a><\/i> journal. Finally, Fernando Fonseca<\/a>, the founder of the Public Spaces Lab<\/a>, shares with us his experiences at the Net Audio Festival<\/a> in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Code<\/i> Speaking in Code is an intimate account of people who are completely lost in music and is a heartbreaking and lighthearted documentary, it\u2019s a v\u00e9rit\u00e9 glimpse into the world of techno. Speaking in Code<\/i> stars Modeselektor<\/a>, Wighnomy Brothers<\/a>, Monolake<\/a>, Philip Sherburne<\/a>, David Day<\/a> and Amy Grill.<\/p>\n

Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet<\/i> 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, Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

Berlin Calling<\/i> is about electronic music composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner<\/a>), known as DJ Ickarus, is touring with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel<\/a>) from club to club around the globe and is about to release their biggest album to date. However, all of his plans are thrown out of kilter after Ickarus is submitted to the emergency ward of a psychiatric clinic high on drugs after a gig- A tragicomedy in Berlin of today. Berlin Calling<\/i> is directed by Hannes St\u00f6hr who has also directed One Day in Europe<\/a><\/i> (Berlinale 2005 in Official Competition) and Berlin is in Germany<\/a><\/i> (Berlinale 2001 Panorama Audience Award).<\/p>\n

Big Up Magazine<\/i> is a magazine dedicated to bass driven music, art, culture and people and celebrates its one year anniversary<\/a> October 24th at the Paradise Lounge<\/a> in San Francisco with Cyrus\/Random Trio<\/a>, Cluekid<\/a> featuring Aurorah, Kutz<\/a>, Samiyam<\/a> and Darkiside of Get Darker TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dancecult<\/i> is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture and has launched the 1.1 edition 1.1 published and available at http:\/\/dj.dancecult.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Net Audio Festival \u201909 took place from the 8th to the 11th of October and gathered the international netaudio community for a four-day music and conference festival in Berlin, under the title \u201cEast meets West.\u201d 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. Net Audio Festival \u201909 recalled pictures of hands reaching out to pull people from both sides up onto the Berlin wall. The event will took place at Maria, a venue situated immediately on the former Berlin \u2018death strip\u2019 once dividing the city and the world into eastern and western hemispheres.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the show! Join us again next week when we\u2019ll do it all over again. But completely different.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Mitch Vega<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n