The exploration continues!
1 Sep 30, 2011 3:43 pm
Re: experimental music from very short C programs (34 replies, posted in General Discussion)
2 Mar 23, 2010 10:20 am
Re: Defining Computationally Minimal Art, or taking the "8" out of "8-bit" (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
School? No, I dropped out of the university many years ago. But I do have this inner urge of integrating everything I care about into some larger and deeper philosophical framework, and every now and then I feel a desire to share my ideas with the rest of the world. I don't want to attention-whore the academic world, but it would be great to inspire and influence some academic circles as well.
So, I need to do a PDF release in order to make it "official", "acceptable", "citable" and so on? Funny, I had also been pondering about this "PDF psychology". But I guess I'll want to do it the right way and put in some more references first. Some of my earlier texts (about the demoscene etc) might be worth PDFing as well. And it might also be easier to get search engines like Google Scholar notice them if I had some properly-formatted PDFs available (:
3 Mar 23, 2010 9:34 am
Re: Definition of Chiptune, chipmusic, 8-bit sound (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yeah, the cultural use of the term "8-bit" (meaning something like "the kind of stuff you would expect from machines with 8-bit data buses") is quite irritating, and that's why I tend to put it between quotation marks unless the usage is technically valid. And that's also why I've been looking for alternative terms.
But, into some nitpicking. There was no proper editor software in the very beginning, pioneers like Hubbard just used machine code monitors. Rob stated in an interview that he had no time for writing an editor, but I guess he had learned to like his monitor so much that he didn't really desire anything else. Also, it took some time before the term "tracker" was adopted from the "16-bit world" into the "8-bit world". Some people still think that only sample-based editors can be trackers, and some other people (like me) think that a tracker needs to have a "spreadsheet approach" (binding all the channels together instead of having separate pointers and orderlists per channel).
4 Mar 22, 2010 8:27 am
Topic: Defining Computationally Minimal Art, or taking the "8" out of "8-bit" (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I recently wrote an essay (a longish and quite a deep one) about the so-called "8-bit" esthetics in general.