Europe in 8 Bits is a documentary that explores the world of chip music, a new musical trend that is growing exponentially throughout Europe. The stars of this musical movement reveal to us how to reuse old videogames hardware like Nintendo’s GameBoy and the Commodore 64 to turn them into a tool capable of creating a new sound, a modern tempo and an innovative musical style. This is a new way of interpreting music performed by a great many artists who show their skills in turning these limited machines designed for leisure in the 80’s into surprising musical instruments and graphical tools. In short, it’s an attempt to present this musical universe to a wider audience that is not aware of these new ways of making music, which raise passion and make an impact on alternative societies
