Church organs may be mechanically complicated and super old-school, but they share something in common with the earliest computer sound chips. In theory, and largely in practice, they produce very ...

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Chiptunes are the fantastic, bleeping musical renditions of the soundchips of retro consoles past. Performers of the art overwhelmingly favour the various flavours of Game Boy, though there are those ...

Chiptune Radio is a remix organization (producer? DJ? group? cottage industry?) that for at least a few years now has been releasing compilations of known music reconfigured on vintage-sounding 8-bit ...

Reformat the Planet, the documentary film examining both the annual Blip Festival and the community that it celebrates, has just been released as a 2 DVD set. With improved audio, supplementary ...

Haven't yet been introduced to the wonders that is the nascent chiptune scene? That's where Paul Owens' Reformat the Planet comes in, a documentary covering the growing 8-bit powered music style. The ...

In the middle of the noughties, there was an explosion in the online popularity of chiptune, the wonderfully evocative genre of electronic music based on the plinky, synthetic soundtracks of early ...

Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

Last week, I was in Boston to give a book reading, and after the event, I went to South Station to get a midnight bus back to New York. In the bus station, I heard an older woman, probably seventy, ...