Opening at .HBC

“We’re just at the beginning of game music.”

Art Director, conference coordinator, and game consultant living and working around the world. She recently founded Track-Record.net, a novel platform around merging good music with good games.

What if you could change yourself into somebody else? And what if that someone was an illustrated character with all the fancy accessories you have always wanted? Pick a handdrawn moustache, an electric guitar or cover yourself completely with great animated accessories!

This duo results from a crossover of all possible sorts of multimedia. They are not German, they are Myspace and Commodore – they are Jump’n Run. They talk in 8bit, they see 256 colors, they hear in stereo.

Julian Oliver is a New Zealand-born artist, game developer and lecturer.

“In times of a further and further diversifying media
consumption, computer games are an important additional
platform for music.”

Head of the degree program Music and Media Art as well as professor for sound design and media theory at the University of Arts in Bern.

‘A Battre’ is an invitation to play ‘Tekken 3’ via a physical drum-set. The drum kit is the interface and each drum controls an action on screen.

“We are all Guitar Heroes and YouTube is the new
MTV. Games are music platforms, and playing music
is a game.”

The complex sound programming of Don Atari Electro aka STU allows the arranging of soundscapes that are more digitally harsh than any other electro available. Raquel Meyers, accompanying VJ from HOMEMADE collectif, Visual Berlin, MicroBCN, Lightrhythm visuals and Bleepstreet Records, is the perfect match.