Tag: CHIPTUNES

Music is all around us. It drifts in and out of our lives, piped into elevators, blasted through the stereo systems of passing cars, and idly played on our MP3 players as we go about our day. But how engaged are we with it? For something as remarkable as music, it can easily become another part of the auditory static of the everyday. While some people may take for granted the music in video ...

As exciting and nostalgic as chiptune music can be, it's also a difficult genre to translate into live performance. Usually created with trackers and software sequencers, chiptunes are not easily played on traditional instruments. A new organ dubbed 'The Chipophone', though, helps 8-bit artists compose and perform in a more visceral manner, and may provide a new palate of sounds for musicians of ...

With the prevalence of digital music, we've stepped so far away from the physical realm that audio entertainment often seems like an abstraction (Perhaps why so many indie/hipster folk have tried to revive the vinyl LP). In light of that, programmer and artist Tristan Perich decided to bring back the physical -- well, sort of physical -- components of music-making with his "album" '1-bit ...