July 2010
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The Nintendo Game Boy Is Now Old Enough To Drink
That’s right, folks. They sure do grow up quick, don’t they? Of course, it wouldn’t be proper for our good friend the DMG-01 — whose status as a retro icon was earned by setting innumerable milestones in portable gaming and even helping revive interest in chiptune music — to experience his 21st without having a huge party full of friends, booze and killer tunes.
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Saint-Saëns for Piano, Theremin And Microchip →
Yesterday on Motherboard: Hacker-musician Linus Åkesson is finding new ways to meld the worlds of classical music and 8-bit composition — Like with this lovely number, above: A duet of ‘The Swan’ from Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, with Åkesson providing piano accompaniment to the electronic crooning of a custom-built 8bit microcontroller.
Below: Famed virtuoso Clara Rockmore playing...
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Architect Composes 8-Bit Music With 3D Models →
Architect Aaron Willette is experimenting with an algorithm built in Grasshopper to generate sequenced chip music from the geographic properties of 3D models.
(via Nullsleep)
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Midnight Orphans: New & Unreleased Music From... →
Famous for his mind-meltingly elaborate progressive rock-style compositions, Staten Island’s Disasterpeace, aka Rich Vreeland, takes a different approach on Midnight Orphans, a collection of musical loose ends written between 2006 and 2010. Trading in frantic time signature changes and epic lo-fi orchestration for smoothed out downtempo electronica with nuggets of chiptune flavor, Vreeland...
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New 'This Spartan Life' Coming To Halo Waypoint →
Since 2003, virtual host Damien Lacedamien has been facilitating intellectual discourse from within the chaotic online multiplayer world of Halo with his machinima talk show, This Spartan Life. While keeping its trigger-happy denizens at bay, he’s managed to interview videogame industry notables and pop culture figures like Halo composer Marty O’Donnell and Sex Pistols manager...
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Playpowering The Future: Pirate Consoles & The... →
Tiny bagels and pots of hot coffee wait patiently on a fold-out table in a a small classroom on the southeast end of New York University campus. It’s an early Saturday morning in late June and most of NYU’s students are on Summer break. But for the group of artists, programmers, hackers and musicians about to gather around that breakfast table, the most important class of the year is about to...