This is a radio segment from the show The Next Big Thing that aired sometime after the April 27, 2003 Game Boy Music Match, held at both Open Air Bar in Manhattan and Rhiz Bar Modern in Vienna, Austria and live streamed. I would upload the live stream itself, but it will require a bit of editing, so I will need some time to get to it.
Performing in NY were Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, glomag, Minusbaby and Mark Denardo (who was not present but loaned us his LSDJ cart to playback one of his tracks.)

Next Big Thing- Game Boy Music Match Segment 2003

New, unusual.  Hear songs and see performances by self-professed "musician" holding small white video game consoles.  All the rage.  Harsh, annoying. "This is gaoing to blaow ahp," says Mr. M. McLaren.  Exciting new movement.  You better tune in now.  Otherwise in ten years everyone will be trading stories, and then won't you feel left out.  Staring into your drink, wishing you had something to say. We've all been there. Now's your chance to change all of that.  Curious new music.  A startling and innovative step backwards in technology. What will they think of next.

Composer Chris Burke, aka glomag, helped create the sound of 80s horror, scoring such films as Splatter University (1984), The Toxic Avenger (1984), Blue Vengeance (1989), The Refrigerator (1991) and many others. Concurrently, he worked on set with some of the most creative talents in contemporary film and theater, including directors Robert Altman, Lucio Fulci, Enzo Castellari, theater wunderkind Peter Sellars and more.

	 

As studio-owner of Bong + Dern, Inc. in NYC, he wrote music and sound design for videogames and helped create an interactive remix of Bjork's I've Seen It All, directed by Floria Sigismundi and supporting the release of Lars Von Trier’s Dancer In The Dark. Here Chris also created the award-winning "talk show in game space", This Spartan Life (2005-2015). With upwards of 1.5M video views and likened to "a mashup of The Charlie Rose Show and the video game Doom" by Wired Magazine, TSL featured interviews with film directors, musicians and others, all while being attacked by other players in the online, multiplayer first-person shooter Halo. The series ran for 10 years and attracted the attention of countless mainstream media outlets, including Wired Magazine, The BBC, Reuters, Stuff Magazine, and BusinessWeek, and won Best Machinima Series at the 2005 and 2007 Machinima Festival.

			

Chris has nine music releases to date, ranging from the experimental Idioglossia (Mode Avant, 1990) to his electronic band Glorified Magnified's All Wave Super (Sire/Warner, 1994), through his releases as glomag by 8 Bit Peoples and his contributions to Astralwerks’ We Are The Operators chiptune tribute to Kraftwerk. His Pocket Calculator remix with the 8 Bit Operators of the Kraftwerk original, rose to number 17 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Dance Music Singles chart in 2007. He has collaborated with music producer Don Was and former Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello. Chris has performed all over Europe, Australia, the US and Canada.

Press contact: glomag00@gmail.com