I’m lucky enough to live on a street with some semblance of community, and thanks to the Big Lunch initiative, have enjoyed a couple of great street parties, the first of which I debuted a laptop DJ set and performed some music on my GBA Micro (using Nanoloop 2).

Last year saw us without a PA due to a complaint about noise from the previous party (thanks to the samba band no doubt – their inescapable volume could wake the dead). This caused the council to slap a requirement for a music license on us at the last minute, so we opted for a law abiding acoustic performance by the magnificent Mason-Dixon Line Power Grab, delighting with guitar, banjo and songs about evil babies.

This year however sees the street organised. Licence planned, BBQs arising from the winter slumber and beer on tap from an actual bar. There will be live, amplified music, street games and food aplenty. Hell yeah.

This year also sees me return with my GBA Micro, accompanied by a GameBoy and a Nintendo DS, assisted by a Korg Monotron and the Korg Kaos Mini KP.

I call it my Nintendo Orchestra, even if it is a misnomer – i’ll be performing music on these Japanese gaming gizmos one console at a time. Using all three at once would be an unsynchronised cacophany, or at least lead to some Steve Reich style phasing loops.

So, that’ll be a GBA Micro with Nanoloop 2; a 1st generation GameBoy with LSDJ; and a Nintendo DS with Korg’s DS10 (and possibly some randomised sequences from Glitch). All performing some freshly composed stuff written for the day.

With the Monotron and Kaos filtering and effecting, should be a lot of fun.