Author: Peter Swimm

  • Amiga Music Programs 1986-1995

    sidmonJohan Kotlinski (he of LSDJ fame) wrote a extensive overview of Amiga Music programs for a college course.  It ahs now been translated to english and posted on chipflip:

    As it was written for a technoculture-course at university, there is a relatively extensive historiography of the early demoscene and how it evolved from cracking. This means that the specific Amiga software part starts only half-way through the text. It starts with describing the brief birth of Amiga-trackers in the commercial sphere: Soundtracker didn’t sell well but was reverse engineered and appropriated in the demoscene. It became the dominant software on Amiga, and set standards still used in contemporary trackers such as Renoise.

    via  CHIPFLIP.

  • Disasterpeace – Counter of the Cumulus

    via Nerd Music

  • TCTD tweets from 2009-08-20

    • Chipsounds is in the Preset Stage http://bit.ly/w2mTw #
    • In case you missed it, The Shaping Reality Demo from 8BP has been covered on Offworld. #
    • Wood + C64 + Flash Drive = Quiet Works for Cell & C64 Via http://bit.ly/17tEzu #
    • History of the Single Channel Echo.. sorta: http://bit.ly/39CE5E #
    • NES Tracker Proposal. Is something that require dev funding really viable for Tracker Software? http://tinyurl.com/lafo49 #
    • While we are on the NES.. it'd be cool if No Carrier and Loopy worked on the PowerPak NSF player, adding channel mutes, and visualizers?Pr-T #
    • Ok now I'm worried: #

  • Kind of Bloop is out!

    backgroundAfter its release to kickstarter contributors earlier this week, Kind of Bloop is finally out. In case you missed it, This latest high profile chip tribute record finds some of the best composers in the scene performing tracks from Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. While not a fan of this era of Miles Davis myself (Pangea!!), its kinda interesting to see the outsides world perspective to this “new to them” chipmusic phenomena.

    Time.com wrote (!)

    Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. It’s technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Who knows how the trumpet player spent his free time? He may have seen a video game, or even picked up a controller. But it’s a pretty safe bet that he never stormed Bowser’s castle or paused to appreciate the “piku-piku” sound that Mario made when he went down a tunnel.

    Maybe its years after reading articles that “don’t get it” but I found this article pretty fair and informative. Anything that avoids the character meats genre formula of writing can’t be a bad thing right? Here is looking forward to fresh takes on whats becoming a familiar concept.

  • minusbaby and VBLANK’s video for “Left”

    From “Left” [8BP101] • 8bitpeoples.com
    Music by minusbaby • minusbaby.com
    Video by VBLANK • waitforvblank.com

    From “Cadê o Pescador?” (Audio/Video installation @ Multiplicidade, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil • 2009)

    This set is all from 3 chips: each a Parallax 8x32A micro-controller with the signal going out through a raw resistor network controlled live via hacked Nintendo 64 controllers.

    Recorded on August 18th, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was going to be 21 minutes long, but the video recorder burned out while recording that test.