jeffrey

I started this page for the URL. I'll probably get into doing more with this site in the future but for now check out myspace.com/johnnybeverly1989 and audiovideo.sevcom.com for noteNdo music + videos.
Cheers - Jeff
20'x20' bent mnpls 2oo7
Johnny Beverly 1989 + noteNdo are both the work of me, Jeff Donaldson, an audio+visual artist working with obsolete video game systems modified to produce sound + video art. For image galleries, go here . My YouTube channel is youtube.com/jb1989 . Cool Hunting did a nice interview that you can watch here . I did a video for my friend Bit Shifter. You can watch it here (but the quality suffers from all the compression); For some music projects, go here + here + here + here . THE PAST
10/22/2005 07:00 PM - The Tank @ Chashama
208 West 37th Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues)
New York NY, NY 10018
US
Cost:N/A
Description: The INTERNATIONAL CHIPTUNE RESISTANCE
Far-flung cells of a global 8-bit coalition converge upon New York City for an unprecedented mass deployment of high-volume, low-resolution beats, melodies, and tones. Game Boys, Nintendo Entertainment Systems, and other familiar & timeless video game consoles are pushed to unforseen limits by an international all-star array of musicians including
music:
M-.-n (Brussels Belgium) | discodirt.10pm.org
David Sugar (London UK) | www.davidsugar.com
Receptors (Roanoke Virginia US) | www.receptorsmusic.com
Hey Kid Nice Robot (Baltimore MD US) | www.the-never.net
OMAC (New York NY US) | www.webhole.com/omac
Bubblyfish (New York NY US) | www.bubblyfish.com
Glomag (New York NY US) | www.glomag.com
Nullsleep (New York NY US) | www.nullsleep.com
Bit Shifter (New York NY US) | www.bitshifter.cc
video:
Chika (New York NY US) | www.chiklet.com
Johnny Beverly 1989 :: noteNdo (Baltimore MD US) | audiovideo.sevcom.com
Ilan Katin (New York NY US)
Paris (New York NY US) | www.parisgraphics.com
Dan Winckler (New York NY US) | www.danwinckler.com
Related tactical agendas interweave as astonishing preliminary light is shed upon the highly classified project _We're The Operators,_ a forthcoming 8-bit Kraftwerk tribute compilation; and as focus is trained on the subversive game-engine talk show _This Spartan Life_ (http://www.thisspartanlife.com/), complete with random distribution of free propaganda materials. This is absolutely not a show to miss.
Join the INTERNATIONAL CHIPTUNE RESISTANCE!
01/20/2006 07:00 PM - MONKEYTOWN
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
US
Cost:N/A
Description: MONKEYTOWN – January 20th Crap-tops vs. Laptops
8-bit punks and 32-bit power computer users battle each other with feats of computer-generated beats in this evening of multimedia performance. With the hacked consoles of early Ataris and the low-res screens of Nintendo’s Gameboy, 8-bit artists will position homegrown audio works against artists using mightier 32-bit power computers equipped with processors so powerful they can conjure up an entire orchestra. Projections and other visual performance will underscore the audio works serving to highlight or blur the mechanics of their origin. While presenting opposing ends of the hi-fi/ lo-fi spectrum of sound production, this evening will also reveal crucial points of crossover between the crap-top and laptop camps. Sound generated by high or low end technologies may not be that obvious when the familiar “bleeps,” “blops” and “blips” of your first video game are recreated by powerful applications run on a sleek PowerBook and accompanied by the nostalgic “dirt style” animations made possible by thoroughly modern flash technology. Conversely, when a song played on a hacked gameboy has all the electronic depth of a B.Spears hit, can you tell Crap-top vs. Lap-top?
03/31/2006 09:30 PM - The Tank
279 Church St. Between Franklin and White
New York, NY 10013
US
Cost:$6
Description: PulseWaVe:
Low Bit Music Night is a monthly residency held at The Tank , a performing arts space located in Tribecca. The initial event is scheduled for March 31st, 2006 at 9:30pm and will feature musical performances by:
VIRT - Jake Kaufman is a professional game composer who has worked for huge mainstream video game projects for the Nintendo Gameboy and other platforms, as well in the Video Game music underground. A legend amongst his peers, he has founded and runs VGmix.com a tight-knit community of musicians and fans of Video Game music. This performance is his New York City Debut after relocating to the area to work for a game developer.
Bit Shifter - Gameboy Musician Josh Davis has made a name for himself outside the Chipmusic community by combining an infectious mix of playful pop punk stylings with hardstep techno beats. Working exclusively within the confines of two Nintendo Gameboys, he has rocked shows all over the Eastern U.S. and overseas, garnering recognition as one of the hottest U.S. chipmusic artists.
One Bit Music - "One Bit Music is a project by composer and artist Tristan Perch. Merging his interests in physical computing and electronic music, Perich programs and packages electronics in a standard CD jewel case. The device plays minimal glitch/dance music when headphones are plugged in." Low-fidelity sounds produce music that is both evocative and complex.
noteNdo - Providing the visuals throughout the night is johnny beverly 1989, a VJ shaking off the shackles of powerbook monoculturalism and projecting visuals entirely from circuitbent and modified game consoles.
05/08/2006 08:00 PM - Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
US
Cost:N/A
Description: Curated by interdisciplinary artist duo LoVid, Flipped Chips includes single channel videos as well as presentations by artists from around the world who custom make their own hardware video instruments.
Dan Sandin, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Matthew Schlanger, Steve Beck, Jim Wiseman, and Bill Etra represent a generation of pioneers who explored video and moving image synthesis. These artists developed hardware instruments as technological advancements in an era of idealism and utopian views of communication, where video and television were regarded as the ultimate new creative medium, able to elicit widespread cultural and social change.
Tonight their work will be shown alongside that of a new generation of artists returning to hardware-based video instruments, like Billy Roisz (NTSC), noteNdo, Jon Satrom, Paul Slocum, Karl Klomp, Cory Arcangel and Paper Rad, and LoVid. Departing from their predecessors, the latter set approaches technology with personal and global nostalgia as well as a romantic infatuation with the media-generating object. Inspired by noise, extreme music, glitch and hacker culture, as well as the fragility, unpredictability, and limitations of technology, they choose to work with decades-old electronic components for personal aesthetic reasons and as a reaction to the dominance of technology and media in mainstream culture.
Event Information
05/16/2006 08:00 PM - Copy Cat 3rd Floor/3rd Door - Cex vs Screwbus, Ecstatic Sunshine, Woods, Racoo-ooo-oon.
1511 Guilford
Baltimore, 21201
US
Cost:N/A
06/03/2006 08:00 PM - Big House Party w/ Plans Plans
Baltimore, MD 21201
US
Cost:N/A 09/23/2006 09:00 PM - the tank
279 Church Street between Franklin and White
NYC, NY
US
Cost:$5?
Description:the monthly chip tune showcase @ the tank goes on!
noteNdo will be providing the visuals for this amazing line up ::
Bit Shifter
minusbaby ( 8 Bit Peoples )
Ali Morimoto (Kobe, Japan)
+
Dual Famicom DJ set by Nullsleep !
11/30/2006 09:00 PM - Jeff Donaldson + Christopher Willits @ Floristree
405 W. Franklin St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21212
US
Cost:N/A
Description:Details to come.
12/01/2006 08:00 PM - noteNdo @ BLIP FEST '06
The Tank @ 15 Nassau St.
New York, New York 10005
US
Cost:$10
Description:THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools. Familiar devices are pushed in new directions with startling results — Nintendo Entertainment Systems and Game Boys roaring with futuristic floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melody, art-damaged Sega hardware generating fluctuating and abstracted video patterns — and that's only the beginning. An exploration of the chiptune idiom and its close relatives, the Blip Festival is the biggest and most comprehensive event in the history of the form, and will include daily workshops, art installations, and nightly music performances boasting an international roster larger and more far-reaching than any previous event of its kind. Small sounds at large scales pushed to the limit at high volumes — the Blip Festival is an unprecedented event that is not to be missed.
http://www.blipfestival.org/
12/02/2006 08:00 PM - noteNdo @ BLIP FEST '06
The Tank @ 15 Nassau St.
New York, New York 10005
US
Cost:$10
Description:THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools. Familiar devices are pushed in new directions with startling results — Nintendo Entertainment Systems and Game Boys roaring with futuristic floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melody, art-damaged Sega hardware generating fluctuating and abstracted video patterns — and that's only the beginning. An exploration of the chiptune idiom and its close relatives, the Blip Festival is the biggest and most comprehensive event in the history of the form, and will include daily workshops, art installations, and nightly music performances boasting an international roster larger and more far-reaching than any previous event of its kind. Small sounds at large scales pushed to the limit at high volumes — the Blip Festival is an unprecedented event that is not to be missed.
http://www.blipfestival.org/
12/09/2006 08:00 PM - noteNdo @ EYEBEAM
540 W 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York 10011
US
Cost:N/A
Description:La Superette is an annual event, an art sale held usually around the holiday season in December. We organize a temporary store where artists sell functional art in multiples at affordable prices. In addition to the sale we usually schedule musical performances as well as puppet shows, and video screenings to run throughout the day. The project is conceived and organized as a place for artists to meet and collaborate on a specific project. We publish a catalog zine, which distributes contact information of all participating artists, host a web catalog on this site, and produce a video catalog which is screened at the event. La Superette 2005 included more than 100 artists and attracted thousands of visitors and shoppers.
http://www.lasuperette.org/call.php
12/10/2006 09:00 PM - screwbus + Elmapi + Matterlink @ WHAM CITY
Baltimore, Maryland
US
Cost:N/A
Description:Elmapi (Paris) + Screwbus (Baltimore) + Matterlink (Paris/DC) @ Wham City 04/14/2007 08:00 PM - The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, California 90007
US
Cost:N/A
Description:www.panoramainhollywood.org 04/20/2007 07:30 PM - Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408
US
Cost:N/A
Description:www.intermediaarts.org 04/27/2007 07:30 PM - EYEBEAM Atelier
540 W 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York 10011
US
Cost:N/A
Description:http://bentfestival.org/?q=bentny ..