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Deathray and most of the PIXELH8 programs are actually special cases, because the original version of those didn't work on flash carts--the only way to use them was on a PROM cart.

Just recently, nitro2k01 patched them to work on flash carts for a task other than corrupting your cart.

EDIT: Oh snap, you're the bomb jrasor!

That's a very good point. A lot of his thesis included hardware minimalism and subversion of form, hence the exposed point to point circuit, but I think it would be interesting if he made a third project that did include a generative/unique-per-play circuit.

Within "Chiptune" as an idiom, both as a subset of Demoscene and in contrast to it, I think it's also a question of artistic goals and what you really want to produce at the end of the day. I'm content with the idea of a widely available net-release MP3 album, paired with a limited production cartridge instead of a physical media recording. However, that does open another issue, which is how closely does the artist want the cartridge as an artifact to parallel a traditional recording meant to compliment or approximate it?

On a very basic level, the interactivity could include song-specific limited user-control; at a very basic level the music could remain unchanged, but perhaps the user has some sort of control over a visual routine. I think something even that simple could justify a software release, yet it wouldn't differ from the complimentary recording enough for them to be anathematically divergent. A more aggressive change could be user control of the arrangement, i.e. adding and removing "instruments" from the mix in real time. I think that "live remix" function could entertain a lot of end users, but it still wouldn't be completely divergent from a finalized recording. At an even more radical degree, entire songs or the entire "album" itself could contain generative algorithms, playing something unique with limited user input upon every execution, with no guarantee of resemblance to a recording.

I've been rambling, but my point is that there is a balance between attempting to express a specific work as both a recording and a piece of software, and it's a thing worth considering at length for an artist interested in doing something like that well.

How are you such a badass?

This is the part of the thread where we drink cheap bourbon ironically and reminisce about our post-blues period.

If I recall correctly, it's an acrylic spraypaint. I looked for the ingredients list, but so far I've only found the MSDS sheet.

Usually I see acetone as one of the solvents in acrylic spraypaint, so maybe this one isn't… it's probably oil-based, then.

regardless, I'm pretty sure it's a liquid base. If you're curious about how he got such clean fades, it's a mix of the quality of paint and the quality of his technique. Someone with a graffiti background picks up that kind of can control after a while.

It also helps to have the right effects caps…

They are the same, except everything is notationally transposed down by one line / three half steps.

So, the bottom line in a treble clef staff is E. On a bass clef, it is G.

As I said earlier, this is because it maintains accurate notation when you write in a grand staff:

I've never been a prodigious reader of sheet music, but I can do it now. When I was younger, I could barely do it at all, then one day when I was 17 or 18 it kind of clicked and I could read jazz notation (lead sheets) without too much trouble.

I actually had (and still have) a big hangup about it, one of my most traumatic memories from adolescence was being publicly ridiculed by a music teacher when I told her I couldn't read music. Oh well. Slow progress is better than no progress.

Maybe this will be a helpful way to think about it: I'm under the impression that the grand staff was developed because the way it lines up, all of the notes between each set of ledger lines end up corresponding relatively to each of the two, ergo if you were to play a pitch half an octave below the treble ledger or half an octave above the bass ledger, it would be written at the same point. You probably already know that if you're classically trained, though.