Nullsleep is an electronic musician based in Tucson, AZ who produces high-concept / low-tech rave anthems for the end of the world. Employing outdated soundchips alongside bleeding edge hardware, he has spent the past 20 years reimagining a technological history of electronic music and mutating the genre-defining sounds in his own productions. PLUR in the face of mass extinction.
Dreamy, Dancey, Digital. Cass Cuttlefish is the sleepy cephalopod girl who not only makes chill chiptune beats, but who also runs the collective A Bit of Chiptune.
The Super Guitar Bros aren’t actually brothers - They’re bros!
Sam and Steve combine their love of video game music with their passion for acoustic/classical guitar to bring you a one of a kind musical experience.
Sometimes chill. Sometimes intense. Always super!
The Triforce Quartet is a traditional string quartet that plays video game music. It began innocently as a short Zelda medley for an encore of a recital in early 2007, but the video of using traditional string quartet instruments to play video game music gained viral popularity later that summer. Thanks to this, cellist Chad Schwartz was able to combine his love for video games, along with years of classical training, to arrange a variety of video game themes that even non-gamers can enjoy. The four members of the Triforce Quartet take audience members on an unforgettable musical journey.
"We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here"
A live cinema + music + sound collage performance piece for MAGFest
Does technology help connect people? Or does it replace them? As the tools of one age become the masters of the next, it’s precisely the gaming community that knows the Metaverse existed long before its recent corporate rebranding. In "We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here," live cinema artist SUE-C and metamedia group Negativland collage the last century’s worth of technology — the one now being resold back to us as our future. But from Sensorama to Oculus, from Second Life to PlayStation Home, from I Love Bees to Twitter — there’s only so much gamification that the real world is ever going to allow.
Since 1980, the multimedia collective known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text. Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland re-arrange these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and "culture jamming" (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement. Their art and media interventions pose both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, ownership, propaganda, power, and perception in the United States of America. Their work is now referenced and taught in many college courses in the US, has been written about and cited in over 150 books and legal journals, and their favorite video game is Katamari Damacy.
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SUE-C is a projectionist, engineer and educator working at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. She has created handmade videos and live media performances, taught college level courses and workshops, and traveled extensively in the USA and internationally since 1999. Her work blends technology, photography, video and everyday objects into an improvisational animation “instrument” using her own custom software and live cameras. Working in tandem with musicians, “her camera is equipped like a microscope, turning the scrap store objects into a visual equivalent of ASMR.” (From The Wire, November 2021). When not performing, teaching, parenting or making NFTs she is usually trying to finish a stack of books while petting one of five cats.
Tovaun "Aeoxis" Anthony of Washington D.C. is a video game enthusiast, anime aficionado, and martial arts devotee who expresses his fandom and creativity by blending Metal, EDM, Jazz, and Hip Hop to take you on a journey through the world’s familiar and unfamiliar auditory spectrums!
Aeoxis weaponizes the musical and theatrical to take you on a sonic rollercoaster that will leave your spirit in a state of elation!
nmlstyl’s new project layers DX synth tones, Juno 106/60 patches, Linn Drums and loud guitars. somewhere bewteen synthwave, postrock, new wave and vaporwave the new collection of songs are an instrumental departure from previous chip music textures. repetitions, ear-worms, and emoting are favored over complexities, perfection and technological feats. backing up j03y on guitar will be d1n0 l10n3tt1 [synth], r0b mart1n0 [drums] and j3ff h1ltner [bass + aux percussion].
Lacey Johnson is a newcomer in the VGM Community, but is already making waves. The ""Keytar Kween"" produces Video Game covers on her YouTube channel where she is the sole musician, arranger, and engineer. Her exuberance is infectious, and it’s easy to see why so many people enjoy her music. Lacey has shown the world how cool the keytar can be and is thrilled to bring her live show to MAGFest!
