<![CDATA[ChipMusic.org - Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7195/hi-we-are-squarewave-orchestra-we-play-chip-music-live/ Tue, 22 May 2012 22:50:45 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/108192/#p108192 kvee says:

Thanks for all the responses! :]
We're glad you like our project.

I've just finished uploading two videos recorded by our friend Carlos. These might interest you as they show a little bit of what's under the hood :]

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 22:50:45 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/108192/#p108192 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107821/#p107821 Jotie says:

Blows my mind

Ski or Die is fantastic

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:02:36 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107821/#p107821 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107807/#p107807 DataFix says:
BR1GHT PR1MATE wrote:

looks cool yo!

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 14:45:36 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107807/#p107807 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107721/#p107721 Cooshinator says:

Dang

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 23:13:48 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107721/#p107721 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107714/#p107714 SJSFC says:

Fantastic! You guys are awesome!

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 21:29:53 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107714/#p107714 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107713/#p107713 nordloef says:

Great stuff! And really cool that youre using your own software!

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 21:22:33 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107713/#p107713 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107710/#p107710 Auxcide says:

What Pr1me said. Loving it. I'll come back after I go through the rest of the videos.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 21:16:30 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107710/#p107710 <![CDATA[Re: Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107705/#p107705 BR1GHT PR1MATE says:

looks cool yo!

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 20:52:05 +0000 https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107705/#p107705 <![CDATA[Hi, we are Squarewave Orchestra, we play chip music live!]]> https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/107704/#p107704 kvee says:

Hi,
I'd like to tell you about our live chiptune project consisting of me (kvee) and nooly (of demoscene and Big Chipcompo fame). We call ourselves (the) Squarewave Orchestra and we play a mix of game music, chiptunes, d'n'b, ambient, or just generally electronic music live.

While we use prerendered backing tracks, we perform the bass and melody parts live using various vintage computers and consoles, using the actual machines' keyboards (where possible).

Nooly uses his Commodore 64C with retroskoi, whereas I use the ZX Spectrum 128 with its AY-3-8912 chip that I wrote my own controller program for, then some 386/486 PCs with OPL3 and also my own DOS program to control the chip. Lastly, I use one of my NTSC NES consoles with midines and once again some custom software that actually runs on the oldschool PC and then uses the gameport-MIDI cable :]
(I intend to release my software sometime in the future)


We think this is an interesting alternative to the usual DJ-style performances done on gameboys. Check it out if you're interested and let us know what you think :]

We played this live show as part of the Extra demoparty inside a neat arcade game museum. So instead of the usual backstage stuff, we were trying to beat each other's high score on Ms.PacMan (nooly won by 2k). We played for an audience of about 30.

(Bear in mind this was our first live show and we _do_ make mistakes here and there. We know about them, we're working on playing better :]]] )

Here's the whole YouTube playlist of our live show

(also, our page and also our facebook page)

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