Frankenstein, or the 8 Bit Prometheus
| Illustrator | Rudolfo |
| Publisher | Chili Com Carne, Thisco |
| Publisher Series | THISCOvery CCChannel |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Lisbon |
| First Printing | 2018-04-06 |
| Pages / Font | 140 pages |
| Notes | micro-literature, hyper-mashup, Sonic Belligeranza records 17th anniversary After having whistled quite a number of 8-bit versions of famous pop songs, and delighted his ears with chip-tune covers of black metal and classical music, Riccardo Balli thought it was about time to extend micro-music aesthetics to literature, and remix Mary Shelley's classic accordingly. Through some sort of low-resolution séance, the author evoked the spirit of corpse reviver Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834), credited for having inspired The Modern Prometheus. Aldini tells a compressed version of the original Frankenstein, 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 Bolognese scientist Luigi Galvani. Also from MIDIevil Bologna is DJ Balli's electronic music label Sonic Belligeranza, whose 17 years of existence (2000-2017) this volume celebrates with 17 texts that explore the multitude of contradictory sounds constituting the corpse of this Sonic Frankenstein. Send him an impulse from your Game-Boy! BLEEEEEEEEEEEP! |
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