What The Math?

HEY CARDIFF!

GET PIXELATED!

What the Math? Presents a mini festival full of huge music made by small machines. Taking vintage gaming hardware and bending/beating/coding them into submission to create lo-fi, homegrown electronic music, we invite a diverse line up of UK based artists to show us exactly how much sound can pour from every chip. With genres ranging from straight retro videogame music to post-rock influenced pop, DnB, house, bass and seapunk, the chipmusic scene bubbles with a creative energy flowing off the forums, tumblrs, gif-sets, and vines onto the stage. We couldn’t be more excited!

Headlining the event we are proud to invite TDK aka Mark Knight, a veteran performer on the chipmusic/demoscene. TDK’s music gushes with melody, fizzing highs and deep bass led by live violin, providing a lively contrast to the driving electronics.
TDK is joined by Shefield’s Harleylikesmusic, Cardiff’s own Alone, xCriticalStrikex, The Virus Empire, Infotoxin, Sky Pope, King Keytan, Whitely, J3wel and CFGK24.

Alongside JellyBear, Alone and Chemical X and Kepler we are proud to have Swansea based electronic master Byzanite join us on Saturday night of Hub!

JellyBear will be playing as part of our Chip stage at Hub Festival. We can't wait to see what he gets up to with his fantastic blend of modern production and squarewaves.

JellyBear is the alias of Jack Farrow, twenty year old experimental producer currently living in Cardiff. After studying music from an early age playing the piano JellyBear moved on to writing chiptune influenced music in 2008 taking inspiration from Sabrepulse, Philter, nsrrenard and many other chip artists.

 Hey, Listen!

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Find JellyBear on Bandcamp: http://jellybear.bandcamp.com/album/hey-jellybear

We are stoked to announce What the Math? and JC Ents are teaming up for a night of chips and beats as part of the epic HUB Festival in Cardiff! Whoop!

Going to be showing peeps how to build one of these soon (info to come). Little Scale's SN76489 chip synth (with MIDI input via USB or DIN). Cheap chip toness.

Hell yeah we were! Last week (bit slow) our Retro Party was featured on s4c programme Y Lle. Which is damn cool. Its a great overview of the games, the music and the noise. Sadly the crew didn't stay long enough to catch the HFTGB cause a sweaty pit of bodies writhing to the Tetris theme. You really had to have been there for that. You can catch up for the next 30 days or so here (there are English subtitles for you non-Welsh speakers) Y Lle Episode 19

Here is what it looks like if you take screenshots of the catch up player (bless you cmd shift 4)

<3 <3 <3 to all our artists. The night was RAD. Video evidence:

Cardiff Retro Party 29th April 2013 @ 10 Feet Tall

Our final Party Profile! Not long now... Monday is so close! Tommy Creep

What do you get if you mix dirty basslines, Alice Cooper's on-stage-persona (we all know the Wayne's World routine) and two innocent young 1989 Game Boys? Only Tommy Creep knows as he shreds through our purest chip-tune set of the night. Feel the horror-chip necromancer tingle your dancing bones or close your eyes and pray for Zombies Ate My Neighbourhood carts to rain from the ceiling.