Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Blip Festival Workshops Announced

    Gowanus Uwanna
    Gowanus Uwanna

    12 06 • Saturday
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    12:00 noon – Surrealtime 2: 8-bit Demo Show with Andy Voss
    • Phoenix (MindCandy DVD, Hornet PC demo archive) returns to showcase the latest and greatest demos on Atari 8-bit, C64, Vic-20, ZX Spectrum, and more. New this year will be demos made on homebrew 8-bit hardware and the DTV joystick, delving a little into the “circuit bending” phenomenon.  You’ll be amazed by the visual effects and music that can be wrestled out of primitive hardware.
    1:00 p.m. – 2A03 Workshop :: Crash Course in FamiTracker with Baron Knoxburry
    • A one hour adventure through FamiTracker’s abilities to program the Nintendo Entertainment System’s 2a03 audio chip.  Baron Knoxburry shall expound upon the qualities and limitations of each voice, how to build instruments, explore all the effects commands, and try to maintain an open forum for discussion in the process.  And for anyone who thinks they know it all already — there will be a one hour competition starting 10 minutes before this workshop begins, so you can compete with the Baron of Knoxburry as he tries to teach a class! These fresh tracks, programmed within an hour, will be played back during the final 10 minutes so we can hear a variety of different styles.
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  • Gijs Gieskes’ “strobovj”

    strobovj from Gijs on Vimeo.

    Lazy Journalism Tips #24

    “Its like City of the Lost Children, except they found the children, and they are all at the nintendo store.”

    More info.

  • Blip Festival Schedule Announced

    Nullsleep till Brooklyn
    Nullsleep till Brooklyn

    And TCTD will be there day by day, live blogging the audio bacchanalia. More after the jump!
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  • MSSIAH C64 MIDI SID Software cartridge Appeared

    Those who have been in lascivious expectation of the release date of this super hyped C64 music software, wait no more: Today, the MSSIAH software is available for purchase from the MSSIAH website in exchange for 49.95 hard earned Euros.

    Pay attention, though:

    Control your C64 through MIDI
    Control your C64 through MIDI

    “Incoming orders that are preordered are prioritized. Cartridge availability for non-preorder customers is extremely limited!
    Unfortunately we need to restrict orders to
    1 Cartridge per customer! (even for preorders!)”

    So if you didn’t pre-order, you best hurry before they are sold out.

    This is a good choice for those who want to use a C64 in their MIDI rig, however, I hope they fixed the serious issues from P64, since besides a quite useless Wave Player module (plays 4-bit samples, why not 8-bit samples after code for such a thing is widely available?), this is pretty much Prophet64 with a MIDI IN plug bolted on.

  • Quarta330 Live In Tokyo

    THX Nitro2k1
    “Half an hour of crunchy 8-bit deepness from Japan’s Game Boy dubstep wizard.

    Japanese musician Quarta330, promoter of Tokyo’s Lo-Bit Playground party, twisted plenty of heads on the dubstep scene last year with his immense 8-bit refix of Kode9’s towering 9 Samurai track. He recently performed at Tokyo’s Back To Chill night alongside other Japanese artists such as Goth Trad and T2R, armed with nothing more than two Game Boys, an interface and some effects pedals. Hosted both here and on Laurent Fintoni’s blog, the set has a few jumpy levels and even a little technical down-time midway through; but don’t let that put you off — along with the essential styles currently blasting out of the Jahtari camp, this really is some of the heaviest, most off-the-hook 8-bit music out there at the moment.”

    Nab it: