50 Jan 6, 2014 12:03 pm
Topic: Goto80 - cйbзя-tсaя (18 replies, posted in Releases)
My new album cйbзя-tсaя (aka Cyber Tsar) has 61 minutes of unreleased, rare or criminal music. It's a CD packed in a floppy disk with design by Raquel Meyers. Get a copy by paypalling 12 euros to [email protected] or mail [email protected] if you don't use the service of the devil.
http://goto80.com/blog/goto80-c%D0%B9b% … a%D1%8F-cd
51 Aug 15, 2013 8:10 am
Re: International Teletext Art Festival (8 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
and e.g http://hackaday.com/2013/07/07/raspberr … -teletext/
afaik the hardware is cheaper but can't handle all the features of teletext. peter kwan's custom hardware can, though.
for example, we live-converted the signal of a video camera into teletext, put the teletext in transparent mode on the tv, and filmed it. luxury video feedback! http://goto80.com/blog/datagarden-teletext-installation
52 Aug 14, 2013 8:21 pm
Re: International Teletext Art Festival (8 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Teletext is digital so no problem to use it in digital tv (but understandable marketing strategy to avoid the teletext wrath). There are diy solutions. We've used vbit for performances and installation. There's a cheaper option for the raspberry pi.
53 Jul 10, 2013 9:30 pm
Re: Upcoming Releases (617 replies, posted in Releases)
Sounds perfect, Steve!
54 May 16, 2013 9:08 am
Re: What happened to the musician ______? (118 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Links to ???-stuff: http://chipflip.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/%E2%96%BA/ including his new stuff under the name Fade Runner.
55 May 14, 2013 8:36 pm
Re: What happened to the musician ______? (118 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Jotie wrote:
I"m looking into DMG plantlife, M-.-N, Chantal Goret and Lo-bat. 4 Belgians I didn't know existed because they kind of stopped / switched before I got into music outside of breakcore until Sycamore's spreadsheet came up :oops:
Lo-Bat seems to have stopped. Marc is twittering from Berlin. Plantlife had an arthouse show a few years ago but is non-activE. Chantal Goret not a clue
Chantal Goret lives in Liege and is building his own synthesizer. Marc is in Berlin, seems to work mostly with Arduino these days. Lo-Bat is still in Brussels afaik, and has been making comics ever since he quit chipmusic.
DMG Plantlife though, I have no idea. Been looking for him myself. Forgot his real name.
Peer is another very talented Belgian that was always a bit off the radar.
56 May 8, 2013 3:01 pm
Re: Best tracker for chip music workshop? (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
ui, maybe the history chapter in my thesis (http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s … id=1662548) could help + have a look at chipflip.wordpress.com/timeline. In my thesis there's lots of references to other places where u can look too. If u're looking for more regional history perhaps Akira could help with that. Good luck!
57 May 6, 2013 10:00 pm
Re: Best tracker for chip music workshop? (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I recommend that you ask the people some questions before you plan too much of the workshop. Like what they would like to do, and what kind of knowledge they have of computers and music. And that might make it easier to choose the "right" tracker.
Personally, I find it very hard to teach trackers to complete n00bs. But I've only tried with stupid C64-software and LSDj... If I'd do a chip/tracker workshop today, I'd do it with Renoise because I think it might be easier to explain, and feels relevant to more people.
58 Apr 18, 2013 1:51 pm
Re: one rasterline tracker (13 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
actually, it's possible in 64x mode.
59 Apr 3, 2013 1:10 pm
Re: Classical Chip (25 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Rob Hubbard's Delta song is pretty much a cover of Philip Glass' Cojones-Zatziki.
...so also feel like mentioning Tristan Perich in that minimalist chip tradition.
Sascha Müller made some classical works on LSDj.
And http://www.yoavgal.com/bitbybit.html (more like chip opera)
But imo Linus Åkessons Reverberations is pretty outstanding...
60 Feb 6, 2013 11:08 pm
Re: software vs hardware - time to move on? (71 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Good stuff, Ilkae. There is room for debate though, because I think that the chipscene is entering a new phase. Hardware purism was sort of the center of the scene for the past decade or so. And now it's wearing off now. There's much less drama. So I'm curious about what will happen next. Personally, I don't think that the hardware/software dichotomy will be around as much.
61 Feb 6, 2013 10:43 pm
Re: Is outhere any chipmusic list? (11 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This should have some of the stuff you're looking for:
http://chipflip.wordpress.com/timeline
It's a timeline and basically stops at 2005.
62 Feb 5, 2013 6:03 pm
Re: software vs hardware - time to move on? (71 replies, posted in General Discussion)
ZE PHUTURE MANGO
63 Feb 5, 2013 6:01 pm
Re: software vs hardware - time to move on? (71 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yeah, I agree with egr. Maybe we can go past what chipmusic IS and WAS, and move on to what it WILL BE? Given that we cannot always know how a song was made, then what is more relevant? Or, what will be most relevant to most music/tech people in the future? My guess is that the hardware/software discussion won't really be part of that.
What if ornamentation will be the most important part of the chip genre in the future? Perhaps we are more computer literate in the future as a culture, and can appreciate this sort of 'code craft'?
Maybe timbre will be irrelevant for chipstyle in 20 years, because analogue synthesizers will have taken back the bleepz. Perhaps its all about the step-sequency tracker style, since all other sequencers are generative?
(hm)
64 Feb 5, 2013 11:30 am
Re: software vs hardware - time to move on? (71 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It's pretty obvious that we still distinguish between hardware and software. Just see how many times we mention it in just this thread. Nothing wrong with it, of course - it's kind of intuitive - and yet it is so tricky to use it when you broaden the discussions to include different platforms (emulators, soundchip keyboards, VST/DAW) and interfaces (qwerty, mouse, piano roll, MIDI, circuitboards). Maybe this is just boring scientific crap, that is better discussed somewhere else though...
If you emphasize process (like egr does) then you can claim that anything made with a certain technology is chipmusic. But if you emphasize results (like trash80 does) then process and technology becomes quite irrelevant. I like how Danimal sort of goes inbetween, and mentions specific quirks and techniques that actually make a difference to both process and results. And how people perceive it, too. I'd argue that most of those characteristics are on the level of interface, rather than platform. Atleast that's the conclusion I made from the interviews I did for my thesis.
LFT put this very elegantly in a presentation he made. He said that it's about frequency. When you push a soundchip fast enough, at some point it doesn't really sound like chipmusic anymore. Like the C64-demo above. That tool was the most thought-provoking and maximalistik C64-music tool ever. But there was almost no interest for it. That kind of thing can happen to any platform, or even genre like e.s.c says.