Meet the Hendrix of Game Boy: Video
Posted by TheCreatorsProject on Sunday, Jun 06, 2010
Sulumi is the Jimi Hendrix of 8-bit music: a calm iconoclast whose passion for innovation is exorcised on-stage in frenetic bursts of creative energy.
The Beijing-based electro-maestro is renowned for crafting low-bit soundscapes using circuit-bent Gameboys. But while his melodies hearken back to the tones of Mario and Luigi hopping toadstools, his sights are set on charting the future of electronic music.
“I don’t want to make the same music I made growing up,” Sulumi explained to us when we visited his Beijing studio. “I want to take something old and turn it new: something sexy, or violent.”
Meet Sulumi on our cousin site, The Creators Project — and see our documentary on this year’s Bent Festival.
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Zen_Albatross 3 months ago
Actually the Game Boys aren't circuit-bent at all. They're just running music software: http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/ http://www.nanoloop.com/node/13 Sulumi is definitely China's leading chiptune maestro though. Seeing him at Blip Fest '08 was a treat.
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