I/O Chip Music: The 10 Year Anniversary Show… Also, The 10 Year Anniversary Zine

It’s been a while since I’m dusted off my chiptune historian credentials, but here goes: the contemporary chiptune scene in North America… like oh so many other music scenes… was founded here in the Big Apple.
For almost two decades, there have been countless chip shows, mostly isolated. Though a few would end up become a series of shows; one was even a full-bore festival, the Blip Festival of course.
Yet they’ve all come & gone; many chip showcases across the globe have the DNA of Blip Fest coursing through it, yet the Blip Festival proper only ran from 2006 to 2012. Which is sad, yet hardly surprising, at least to anyone familiar with the difficulties involved in both running music shows, along with supporting the community that surrounds them in NYC.
Hence why I must one again recommend the Death By Audio documentary, Goodnight Brooklyn. But back to chiptunes: despite all the logistics, despite all the headaches, only one showcase has managed to stick around and tough it out. Only one has managed to be smart, flexible, and above all else, maintain a spotless track record of being awesome.
And that’s I/O Chip Music, which celebrates an entire decade of running show in NYC (also Philly, also Tokyo). And what better way to mark the occasion than a zine produced by Jessen Jurado, I/O’s primary creative force, and Caroline Voagen Nelson, a designer + longtime supporter of I/O?



Gets yours tonight, cuz there’s another I/O TONIGHT, at Pine Box Shop: 12 Grattan St, Brooklyn, New York 11206.
Included in the line-up is… and you’re not going to believe this… easily one of the biggest female influences in the scene, across the board: Bubblyfish! This is her, what, first show in three years I think?
Originally published at blog.attractmo.de.

