Category: Interviews

  • Announcing: PULSEWAVE///RIP

    Announcing: PULSEWAVE///RIP

    Credit: Emi Spicer

    Announcing a new archive project at TCTD, PULSEWAVE///RIP. 15 years ago today, I started the first of many many monthly chiptune events in NYC, leading to things like The Blip Festival and many sister events in cities throughout the world. After such a long time, a lot of the content has fallen off the internet. This project seeks to be a place to recap past events, collect missing content, and provide a place for curators, artists, and fans to write and interrogate memories and feelings from this community. Have a story? Let us know!

    We are kicking things off with the story of how Pulsewave started, and the entire first concert. These pages will be living documents, updated as new media comes to light. Enjoy the ride!

  • Bleepstreet videotalk: zet.

  • Soundcheck: Bubblyfish: The Art of Chiptune

    Soundcheck: Bubblyfish: The Art of Chiptune

    New York chiptune artist Haeyoung Kim makes 8-bit and experimental music under the name Bubblyfish. The classically-trained, Gameboy-wielding Kim has brought her live performance to places as varied as Comic-Con and The New Museum – and now, to Soundcheck’s live broadcast from the Re:Mix Lab at Chelsea Market.

    via Soundcheck: Bubblyfish: The Art of Chiptune – WNYC.

  • Vandalism News #56

    Legendary C64 diskmag VANDALISM NEWS gets the mandatory yearly release with a lot of inside information about the C64 demoscene and also a load of tunes by awesome artists like Johannes Bjerregaard, ne7 and Conrad, as well as graphics by Mermaid and Joe, two of my favourite pixel artists.

    Get it from CSDb

  • Interview – Pixelh8

    British chip musician Matthew Applegate, otherwise known as Pixelh8, graciously participated in a brief, six-question interview with me today, through which he manifests his continually evolving style and outlook on the remarkable world of 8-bit music.

    1. Though you got started with chip music pretty modestly with a bottle of milk spilled into an old Nintendo, you’re now an internationally-recognized chip musician with three full studio albums and a fourth in the works. What has been the driving force behind your constantly evolving style, which is usually quite structured but also very unique?
    “I have always simply wanted to do interesting things, I learned early on I didn’t want to be a famous musician on a major label, I wanted to have freedom above everything else. Freedom to sometimes to not make music and teach, to do workshops to study, get back to music when I was ready, not when a company wanted a new product. All of my heroes have evolved  over their careers Aphex twin, Schoenberg, John Cage I think you have  to eventually or you run the risk of boring yourself and the listeners if you don’t. I love chip tune music, I want it to stay and that is why I am prepared to evolve it, instead of serving up another album that  sounds a lot like my old one.”

    Read the full interview here.