He gets profiled in New Scientist:
How did you get into this music?
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When I realised that you could emulate old machines on a PC and learn what was going on inside them, I went back to the older sounds. I’ve designed instruments for pop stars. I reprogrammed Game Boys for UK artist Damon Albarn, for example, turning them into real musical instruments.
And a photo spread on cnet.
While I maintain that he tends to over-arcane the creation of and over-emphasize in importance in “the chiptune scene”, the concert sounds really cool, and I look forward to what music is released from it.
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The comments on that article made me chuckle.
Nice Ringtones!!!!!!!!!!
Haha yea! I guess new scientist isnt up to the standards of the music coverage in say, scientific american.
Without wanting to sound bitter, he might be a good programmer, and I have respect for that, but his own compostional skills are pretty lacking…like a sub-Sabrepulse stream of anti-subtlety. Why, oh why, did they not get Jammer or Stu or Jeroen Tel or YMCK or Rushjet1 or anyone else to participate in that ancient computer project?
I mean how fucking dope would Gorillaz have sounded if Jellica was supplying the backing? Enough said.
his firmware sucks balls
also he gives the WORST interviews of anyone in chip. He never mentions anyone but himself and couple mediocre artists that used his lame program. I bought that shit when it cane out and was amazed at it’s non-usefulness. He’s never mentioned Wittchow or Kotlinski. MUDDY GB BLOWS the pixlh8 firmware away and it’s free. pixlh8 awful awful in every way
This just goes to prove that it isn’t what you know, it’s who you blow. As Stevens stated, PixleH8 is a a mediocre composer at best. But his “breakthroughs” in chiptune technologies put his sorry ass on the radar and now he’s getting all the corprate shit nuggets for it.
I just noticed he said he doesn’t listen to any chiptune music. You can fucking tell. Hopefully the example tune they gave will scare people off, it sounds like a ‘my first Fruity Loops’ thing.
not sure what to make of this… obviously it a good thing for the scene though, and a great opportunity for him. one might have thought rolemodel or tao would have more to say on the science angle.
Well said, gwEm!
Why does Pixelh8 hate pixels?
Because they represent freedom.