Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Little Scale on: All 4-bit waveforms with 512 samples

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    I wrote a patch that will generate and then play all possible 4-bit waveforms that have 512 samples. After a little refinement, I plan to leave the patch running for an extended period of time.

    More:

  • Scrubs Helping Scrubs: Dauragon interviewed for NPR

    haynie_story1Parris Haynie writes Chiptunes music under the pseudonym Dauragon C. Mikado, a name inspired from the main villain in the Playstation 2 game, The Bouncer. In his room, Haynie says, he creates his hip hop infused Chiptunes songs using a program called Nanoloop. He presses the buttons on the clearly aged game boy to form patterns of notes in the program and the small speakers output this.

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    Read the interview here:

    You can also grab his split with E.S.C and big-chip, Bitches, out on kittenrock now.


  • Datapop at SXSW

    By all account it looks like a fun show. Some youtube videos have appeared online:

    And there is this spazztasically positive impression of IAYD:

    IAYD set was not the griddy, tailored fare you might expect from a the duo of hacked GameBoy casings he spent his set thumbing: It was a roaring, hideous, infectious, mindless, rapturous, caveman technosplosion that sent us all into fits. If chiptunery ever seemed cold or inhuman, IAYDs set flipped it right into hot and downright alien

    -The Phoenix

  • Micromusic March Update

    rockin’ new tunez presented and approved by the QFS:

    Storm                    by Kyotosapian
    SUPER MARIO PSYCHEDELIC  by KODEK
    Sh6w                     by Dr. von Pnok
    Connect.                 by CS
    dr. sleepgood 2          by pocketmaster
    Barefoot Mailman         by stochastc
    Valentine’s Day Acid     by Jellica
    Jj                       by .sylCMYK

    Also a number of events have been added to the list.