As you may have spotted via his American Elf site, Offworld’s Monster Mii and Superf*ckers Review creator James Kochalka has just released his latest Superstar album, Digital Elf, this time with a twist: all 15 songs were composed and performed on his Game Boy Advance in Nanoloop.
This isn’t quite your usual chiptune affair, though: if you recall his Offworld-original sexy holiday song for Monster Mii Zex, or his Superf*ckers theme song, you’ll know exactly what to expect.
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Anamanaguchi, New York’s preeminent NES Rock Quartet is on tour, and the media blitz is in full force. First is the above video from the acerbic pre-NPR pupii-hosted Bleep Bloop (via) and also in print with this feature at The Village Voice. This tour culminations at acclaimed geekgasm PAX, held the first weekend in September. If you cannot see them live, perhaps you can download a ROM of their direct ancestor, Comix Zone for the Sega Genesis.
Rock on, Jimmy Dean.
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Hot on the heels of its release for the iPhone, Nightradio has posted a tutorial that shows off some of its sound design abilities, as well as the multi-touch interface.
I’ve been playing around adding some pseudo random features to Nijuu.There are already several commands that enable you to modify instrument parameters from within the sequence data but I wanted to expand that to give you the ability to modify other play-back parameters. This led to me adding commands that specify the RAM address of internal Nijuu variables so that they were exposed to real-time manipulation. This in turn led me to see if I could figure out a reasonable way to feed random numbers to these parameters and then expand that by giving the random numbers a range minimum/maximum value to make them more “useful”.I use inverted commas around “useful” as that description is still pretty debatable.
“Existing as a subculture within the larger chipmusic ghetto can have interesting side effects. The multi artist collective AY Riders, many whom operate in Eastern European countries like Poland and Russia, have developed a strange divergent chip culture, platypus like, around the ZX Spectrum computer.”
