Location: Chicago Cultural Center
Bands: Super 8 Bit Brothers, Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, and visuals MF Chicago
Cost: FREE!
Drinks: Flasked?
Things I missed to be there: Happy Salmon at Permaent Records
Reason for going: I was told we would be able to hear videogame music and play videogames
"This song is about the three best things in the world: Girls, time travel, and super string theory."
Rocking out on a hotwired Gameboy, New York's Nullsleep can't help but to look like a petulant, hyperactive kid at an airport.
This is the opening salvo of a four-part series of videogame themed shows sponsored by Art of Play Chicago, which brings the Ohm Multimedia Series to the Cultural Center and aims to transform the tourism center across the street into an indoor playground with a revolving set of toys ranging from board games to videogames to model planes, trains, and automobiles. The Cultural Center may seem like an odd place for this but you can tell that the audience, a weird assemblage of nerds, ravers, programmers, circuit bending noise musicians, and tweaker high school kids in Mindless Self Indulgence t-shirts, are all happy to be inside and well-hidden away from the sun on this hot Saturday afternoon.
"If you can, I'd like to see you buy some shirts or cds, because I'm back in school and, well, books on time travel are really expensive. Also, I've got one smll t-shirt left, so if anyone wants it, you've all got half an hour to shrink down and buy it."
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