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