Soundbytes 4: Retrospective.

During the break between semesters, I headed down to Melbourne to see Australia's favourite chipmusic show, Soundbytes.

Soundbytes is run by Dpad productions, a small group, closely tied with Gameboy Australia. So far this is the 4th show to have been put on, and it has enjoyed moderate success outside the chipmusic world.
This post(http://dpadproductions.blogspot.com/2009/06/sounds-of-sb4.html) on the Dpad page has a pretty good outline of who was playing and what it is they do.

This video also showcases just a bit of what went on.

(Video recorded and edited by Little-Scale)

Personally I think the highlights for me were AstroZombies and Little-Scale, both of whom had cds that I immediately picked up at the show.

All up it was interesting to see the variation in how everyone performed, from Able Archer's approach of starting a track then jumping into the crowd to get everyone dancing(although he did play keyboard and guitar on a few tracks), to Little-Scale's use of an external controller and laptop to take care of what was coming out of his NES and Sega.