Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Blip Festival 2007: Video Collection Teaser

    Blip Festival 2007: Video Collection Teaser from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.

    “Live performance video compilation featuring one track from each of the 32 performers at the second annual Blip Festival, held in New York NY in 2007, and curated and organized by 8bitpeoples and The Tank.

    The Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware – such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy – exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character as musical instruments and motion graphics workstations.

    In addition to the 32 videos, this collection features a bonus disc packed with interviews, music videos, photos, and more.

    The DVD will be available for purchase at this year’s Blip Festival (Dec 4 – Dec 7) and online following the conclusion of the event.
    blipfestival.org

    Produced, filmed, and edited by 2 Player Productions
    2playerproductions.com
    Music: “Retro Attivo (Jonkie Screw)” – The Hardliner”

  • SNDH Archive Updated

    MMM TARI
    MMM TARI

    The SNDH Atari ST music file archive has been updated to version 2.9.

    Complete list of new files available after the jump.
    THX AWOL (more…)

  • Cave Story Soundtrack Converted to Impulse Tracker

    Fun Looking, but Deadly Difficult
    Fun Looking, but Deadly Difficult

    Random reports on the 8BC forum:

    Coda wrote a program which enabled him to reverse the music from everyones favorite game Cave Story and output .it-files (Impulse Tracker modules)!

    This is very exciting news to me, since I’ve only previously found a soundtrack consisting of about half the tracks in shitty mp3 quality, and since it’s a lovely soundtrack (to a lovely game). It seems the stereo information was lost when converted to .it, but it’s still very enjoyable, and otherwise accurate. Perhaps Coda will figure out how to get the stereo information as well…

    Anyway, here’s the .rar with all songs: http://engramstudio.com/crap/cavestory_it.rar

    PS. And just in case you didn’t already know, .it-files are best played with XMplay if you are using Windows, and CocoModX if you’re using OSX.

    So listen, loop, remix, enjoy!

  • Mark Denardo relaunches Website

    New bodies for old. from flickr
    RRRRRRRARRRR. from flickr

    Brooklyn based chip/folk/etc artist Mark Denardo has launched his new website, with full lentgh tracks from his current release Graffiti Monsters. I helped worked on some of the rough demos for these tracks, but what they’ve become with his live band and in the studio are really great, and should be checked out.

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  • First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival

    Thanks to 8bitweapon who posted this heads up on 8bitcollective, we can bring you some old but fresh news :D

    First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
    As true as chip can get?

    “The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show. It was organized by Dick Moberg of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society.

    “Several people in the area had been producing music with their computers so I suggested we have a computer music concert.” said Dick Moberg, organizer of the feast. “John OK’d the idea and we went to work calling our friends and urging them to perform.”

    “The concert was finally held in one of the larger ballrooms of the Sheraton Hotel. Our borrowed sound system was set up and sound checks made for the recording. We opened the doors to the crowd outside to find several hundred more people than the room could hold. Many sat on the floors of the halls as the music filled the hotel.

    Hal Chamberlin had set up an oscilloscope that would project the waveform being played on a screen. The result was a fantastic synchronized light show!”

    The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show.

    You can listen to the music online or download the songs in MP3 format. The navigation sidebar to the right includes the album’s liner notes, which describe the event, the programmers, and the computers that created the music.

    Downloads, tracklist and more at the release’s website