Sound Performance

Play Boys with a Game Boy

22 Nov 2003

Monthly series in which the boundaries between music and art are explored.

Curated by Alex Cecchetti

Featuring Oliver Wittchow, COVOX, Lo-Bat and Myfanwy Ashmore.

Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ are two softwares designed to transform the famous Nintendo Game Boy into a small, hand-held music workstation. That means that over 100 million people, approximately the number of Game Boy's sold, are now potentially electronic musicians. These softwares are not supported by Nintendo company who after the sucess of Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, are working on their own music device.

Oliver Wittchow started his project with his own students at Hamburg art school, called Nanoloop, consisting of a software synthesizer and sequencer for the Nintendo Game Boy. After that, many musicians and artists began using the program to play techno, house, and experimental music. For Smart Project Space, he is going to show how it all started, programming, in real time, on the game boy itself, with just 3 lines of BASIC code. And then how it will evolve, presenting a new software for smartphones and performing minimal house music on a cellphone.


Free admission.