“Fr@nkenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus” book

11 Aprile 2020
TITLE: Fr@nkenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus
FORMAT: BOOK
PRICE: 15€


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published by Chili Com Carne and Thisco.
140p. b/w with illustrations and photographs. Full color cover.
IN ENGLISH.
Cover art, illustrations & design by Rudolfo.
Book by dj Balli.

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1818 First edition of Mary Shelley’s classic: Frankenstein.

2018 Frankenstein gone mad: the many horrifying uses of technology, such as Web 2.0 that encourages you to give your time and personal information up to faceless IT companies or worse… This book is a mashup of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, videogames and Internet culture, of chiptune music, galvinism, taffelmuzik, real life accounts of ’90s gabber rave parties in Italy and a celebration of Bologna’s finest weirdo label SONIC BELLIGERANZA, whose 17 years of existence (2000-2017) this volume celebrates with 17 texts.

The author, having whistled countless 8-bit versions of famous pop songs and delighted his ears with chip-tune covers of black metal songs and classical music, now extends micro-music aesthetics to literature with this remix of Mary Shelley’s classic.

Through some sort of low-resolution séance, the author evokes the spirit of corpse reviver Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834), credited with having inspired The Modern Prometheus. Aldini tells a compressed version of the original Frankenstein story, exposing its language to retro-gaming jargon and simplifying the plot as if it were an arcade game. The aforementioned 18th-century electrifier was the nephew of eminent scientist Luigi Galvani, who lived in MIDIevil Bologna just like the author of this new classic.

Send him an impulse from your Game-Boy! BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!

 

ABOUT THIS BOOK

DATACIDE, magazine for noise & politics

DANCE CULT about the Italian (and different) version of this book

– “I’ve enjoyed Balli’s Frankenstein book so far – that guy is a total lunatic, which I appreciate” Heikki Rönkkö (http://www.heikkironkko.com/) by mail

– “The Frankenstein book was an incredibly detailed work, well reasearched and written – the only negative for me was that I didn’t know enough about a lot of the subject matter to be able to fully immerse myself in it. I appreciated it hugely, however, because of the obvious enthusiasm with which it was written and the in-depth knowledge of the writer about his subject, his passion. In one sense it was like reading a fanzine of the old times, with personal writings, reviews, interviews, etc. – and as a fanzine writer myself it certainly struck a chord with me” pStan (http://www.batcow.co.uk/pumf/pumf.htm) by mail

"THE 8 BIT PROMETHEUS" CD

AND IF YOU WANNA EXPERIENCE A LOW-RESOLUTION SEANCE BY YOURSELF, GET ALSO YOUR COPY OF “THE 8 BIIT PROMETHEUS” cd

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published by Urbsounds and Mfz records also available on digital format, but cd makes it more retro doesn’it? Price 10 euro.