MICROMUSIC NL HQ

Welcome to the website of the dutch headquarters of micromusic. For those who just got lost here and do not know where you’re at we got a small introduction to micromusic for you. And off course also some info on the dutch hq and what we do.

Micromusic is an internet community that builds on musicians and lovers of old computer-games, this combined with a "do-it-yourself" attitude in which gameboys, commodores and free music-software are more important than expensive equipment and loads of technical knowledge. Every 2 months new free songs, composed by artists all around the world, become available trough the website www.micromusic.net All members of micromusic.net are lovers of 8-bit music from gameboy-electro, pixeltechno, blitter breakcore and atari acid.
Micromusic is closely related to chipmusic or chiptunes, music composed on gamecomputers or for games music, if you want more exact info on this, check the infamous wikipedia for all the info you do or do not need: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_music
HISTORY
For the bigger cities and sometimes countries (like with Holland) in the world Micromusic is organised through a local Head Quarters.

NL-Hq started out as enschede-hq with poke 1,170 and Sjors of The C-men somewhere in 2002. They had been vj-ing for the micro-community around the world for some years by then. In 2003 they were joined by Jeroen aka Polar_b when they organised their first big microfestival, Microfest Holland 2003 (check the fotos and flyers in the archive).
In the following years we gradually developed in doing more and more events. Sjors left the hq after a succesfull US-tour to do more designer stuff than vj-ing.
In 2004 when Polar_b had lost his job and started organising stuff with poke even more!
Recently the two main groups of micro-artist in Holland, c-men & polar_b in Enschede and Video Home Training in Brabant, started working together more closely.
Since that moment enschede-hq changed into NL-hq, leaving the safe city of Enschede and slowly conquering Holland. By now we have taken over cities like Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Wageningen and many more.
NL-HQ focuses on organising micro-eventz around Holland working with many different partners and trying to bring new stuff to the public. This can be in the form of workshops, shows of the famous micromusic artist from all over the world or even in the form of complete festivals.

If you are interested in micromusic, please stay some longer or get in contact with us!