Ninja 9000 - Katoku Pokus (Livestream Music Video)

Retro chiptunes are retro again? This is a internet livestream performance of the Ninja 9000 track “Katoku Pokus“ from the the “Bit Collapse“ EP released back in 2007: This live music video was performed in realtime during regular monthly livestreams, autumn 2023. I’m playing a physical electric violin, distorted with virtual guitar effect plugins, and a physical breath controller for virtual reed sounds. Also some digital scratching and itching just because. Background visuals are the longplay videos of 64 different C-64 videogames, playing through the whole game, time-compressed to the length of the song (so each game plays through the whole game in approximately 5 mins, depends a bit on how the longplay video did it, for some games they wait out the whole intro-credits, others go straight to gaming). All of these 64 games are layered on top of each other running simultaneously and either randomly or audio-reactively morphed into focus. I don’t know why I seem so preoccupied with something else while performing. Maybe I’m checking my email? (More likely there were some network issues ATM and I’m worrying about dropped frames, frames forever lost, that nobody even misses.) - - - Ninja 9000 is a chiptune electronic music sideproject of Ugress, a media art project by Gisle Martens Meyer. Official site ➡ ​​​ Mailinglist ➡ Listen to Ugress on Spotify ➡ Bandcamp ➡ ​​​ Youtube ➡ #screen #tv #livestream #ugress #music #musicvideo #vdmx #applemotion #vuo #ableton #ai #art #cinematronica #c64 #commodore #chiptune